[Capdist-auditions] Albany Civic Theater announces auditions for Alabama Story

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*Alabama Story*

By Kenneth Jones

Directed by Barbara Davis

*Audition Dates & Times:*

Monday, Monday, September 9 and Tuesday, September 10, 2019

6:30PM sign in; 7:00PM audition start??

 *Audition Location:*

Albany Civic Theater

235 Second Avenue

Albany NY  12206

 *Performance Dates:*

Friday, November 1-Sunday, November 17, 2019

 *About the show:*  In 1959 Alabama, segregationist Senator E.W. Higgins
wants a controversial children’s picture book — about a white rabbit who
marries a black rabbit — purged from the state library, but librarian Emily
Wheelock Reed refuses, putting both of their worlds at risk in a time of
extraordinary social change. While Reed spars with Higgins, a parallel
story of childhood friends reunited in adulthood reflects the political and
personal tensions swirling in Montgomery, a city known as both the Cradle
of the Confederacy and the Cradle of Civil Rights. Famed illustrator Garth
Williams (“Little House on the Prairie,” “Charlotte’s Web”) is conjured as
narrator and participant in the fact-inspired, highly theatrical drama
about tests of character in “the Deep South of the Imagination.”

 *Available Roles*

Garth Williams, 40s to 60s, white narrator.  A famous American illustrator
of children’s books.  Humane storyteller at ease with sincerity and
sentiment, yet capable of a waspish comic remark.  He also assumes the role
of OTHERS, including an 80 year old “Old School” Southern politician, a
liberal Montgomery reporter, a Florida newspaper columnist and a menacing
local citizen.

Senator E.W. Higgins, 40s to 60s, a white Alabama State Senator.  Implacable
in his belief in the traditions of the South.  A charismatic bully given to
speechifying and posturing but can be a cool and calculating game player
when on the attack.  Passionate and desperate but rarely showing the latter.
Welcomes the spotlight.

Emily Wheelock Reed, 50s, white State Librarian of Alabama.  Raised in
Indiana and more Midwestern than Southern.  Businesslike, unsentimental,
excellent at her job and rare to show her weaknesses in public.  Also 98
percent unflappable.  Prefers to avoid the spotlight.

Thomas Franklin, mid 20s to early 30s, white reference librarian, assistant
to Emily Reed.  An Alabama native.  Fiercely loyal.  Type-A personality at
work, but hiding a secret or two.  Dryly funny.

Lily Whitfield, 30s, a white woman from small-town Alabama privilege.
A  Southern
belle, with some wear around the edges.  Sheltered, still living in her
ancestral home.  Impulsive.

Joshua Moore, 30s, a middle-class African American man who left Alabama
when he was following a childhood trauma that involved Lily’s family.  Upwardly
mobile and confident, but aware of the limits of the Jim Crow South.

Auditions will involve cold readings from the script.  Any questions,
contact Barbara Davis at bdd1101gmail.com or 518-573-0980.
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