[Capdist-auditions] Open Auditions for THE EXPLORER'S CLUB at Schenectady Civic Players

[jwmhickman at nycap.rr.com]

Schenectady Civic Players
12 South Church Street, Schenectady, NY 12305

Open auditions for . . .
The EXPLORERS Club
By Nell Benjamin
Directed by Mark Stephens 

-- Tuesday, November 10, and Thursday, November 12 – 

At 7:30 pm at Schenectady Civic Players, 12 S. Church St., Schenectady. Sign-up beginning at 7 pm. Roles for 8 men and 1 woman.

(Performance dates --- January 29 through February 7, 2016)

London, 1879. The prestigious Explorers Club is in crisis: their acting president wants to admit a woman, and their bartender is terrible. True, this female candidate is brilliant, beautiful, and has discovered a legendary Lost City, but the decision to let in a woman could shake the very foundation of the British Empire. Grab your safety goggles for some very mad science involving deadly cobras, irate Irishmen and the occasional airship.

Cast: These characters can be cast from any age range between 20 and 60. The Irish Assassin has half a paragraph of dialog that will need an Irish accent. The rest of the cast, except Luigi, will require an English accent.

Lucius Fretway: botanist/man of science, president pro tempore of Explorers
Club, second banana to Harry Percy , timid in life but passionate about plants
and Phyllida Spotte-Hume. He pines for her romantically. Will he end up her
best friend instead?

Phyllida Spotte—Hume: daring explorer and anthropologist, the object of desire
of both Lucius Fretway and Harry Percy. This actress will also portray Countess
Glamorgan, Phyllida’s twin.

Harry Percy: intrepid explorer, robust and manly, full of himself (sees himself
as the group’s alpha male), president of Explorers club, more surface than depth
to his character

Luigi: tribesman from lost city of Pahatlabong, ideally shirtless and painted
blue, speaks Pahatalabong and broken English, physical comedy required.

Professor Cope: herpetologist, carries a (fake) snake during the show,
unassuming, best friends with Professor Walling, methodical and linear in his
thought process.

Professor Sloane: archeo-theologist, sarcastic and prim in manner, the oldest of
the five club members, disdainful of women

Professor Walling: zoologist, carries a (fake) guinea pig for much of the show,
bumbling and good natured, best friends with Professor Cope, becomes emotional
when misfortune befalls his guinea pig

Sir Bernard Humphries: private secretary to Queen Victoria, career politician,
puffed up and officious.

Beebe: explorer, ‘lost’ companion of Percy, tells a hellish tale of his
abandonment among angry Tibetan monks (also plays Irish Assassin)

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