[Capdist-auditions] SLOC Auditions for the Regional Premiere of Bright Star

[Schenectady Light Opera Info]

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Music, Book and Story by Steve Martin
Music, Lyrics and Story by Edie Brickell

Director MICHAEL CAMELO
Music Director ADRIENNE SHERMAN
Choreographer EMILY FULLER
Producer AMY CLARK

Bright Star is inspired by a true story and is an uplifting theatrical
journey taking place in the American South in the 1920s and 1940s.
Featuring a Grammy-nominated bluegrass score by Steven Martin and Edie
Brickell, Bright Star tells a powerful tale of love, redemption, and human
connection.

Bright Star is presented by special arrangement with Theatrical Rights
Worldwide (TRW).

*Audition Dates and Times:*
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 and Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 7:00 pm
(Sign-in begins at 6:30pm)
Call Backs (by invitation): Friday February 21, 2020 at 7:00 pm

*Location:*
Schenectady Light Opera Company’s Education Building
418 Liberty Street, Schenectady, NY 12305  (Free parking available in the
city-owned parking lots on both sides of Liberty Street)

*Performance Dates:*
May 8, 9, 14, 15 & 16, 2020 at 8 pm
May 10, 16 & 17, 2020 at 2 pm
Mandatory Double Tech on Sunday May 3, 2020 and Tech Week Rehearsals May
4-7, 2020

*Rehearsals:*
Read Through (Tentatively) February 23, 2020 at 2 pm
Rehearsals will be Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 7 to 10pm and
Sundays from 2 to 5 pm.

*Audition Requirements:*
·         Prepare 32 measures of a song in the style of the show. Consider
the range of the role you wish to be considered for.
·         Bring your own marked sheet music in the appropriate key for the
accompanist. Accompanist will be provided, please no acapella singing.
·         Actors and Actresses of ALL ethnicities are encouraged to
audition.
·         Please bring an updated resume and headshot if you have one (not
required)
·         Please be prepared to provide all potential conflicts from the
read through date until closing.
·         Actors should be prepared to read from the script, these readings
will be provided at auditions.
·         Please bring appropriate clothing/shoes for a dance call during
auditions, everyone will participate to the best of their ability at the
dance audition.
·         ALL roles are available, we ask that all people who are
auditioning be 16 years or older.

Any questions? Please contact Producer Amy Clark at aclark at bhbl.org or
Director Michael Camelo at m.camelo at aol.com

Opportunities for featured casting in the ensemble, the ensemble may be
asked to play instruments during the production (not required) Ages listed
below are suggested/looking to play – not required.

*Available Roles:*

*Alice Murphy* – plays both 16-17 and 36-37. Alice at age 36-37 is an
editor of a southern literary magazine; intelligent, attractive,
professional – but with an air of melancholy. Young Alice at age 16-17 is
rebellious, high-spirited, and adventurous – looking to break out of
small-town life and experience the world. She must be very strong singer
and comfortable in folk and bluegrass styles.

*Billy Cane* – a young (17-25) soldier returning home from WWII; an
aspiring young writer; fresh, open, optimistic, charming, and a little
naïve.

*Daddy Cane *– (45-65) Billy’s father. A widower. Spry, good looking. Kind
hearted, if a bit lonely.

*Margo Crawford* – (17-25) a small-town bookstore owner; a childhood friend
of Billy’s who now harbors romantic feelings towards him; a natural beauty
with a keen intellect.

*Max *– (17-25) a customer at Margo’s bookstore, at first, he has a crush
on Margo, but later becomes Edna’s beau.

*Florence *– (17-25) an employee at Margo’s bookstore and a childhood
friend of both Billy and Margo.

*Edna *– (25-35) an employee at Margo’s bookstore.

*Daryl Ames *– (30-65) An assistant at a literary magazine. Funny, with a
dry and officious sense of humor. Insecure, and perhaps a bit socially
awkward, but endearing and innately likeable.

*Lucy Grant* – (25-35) A junior editor at a literary magazine. An
ambitious, professional young “modern” career woman of the 1940’s. Strong,
forthright and provocative with a sharp sense of humor.

*Mama Murphy* – (45-65) Alice’s mother. A caretaker to her family and her
rural community. A warm, loving, sensible woman. Hardworking, with great
inner strength and compassion.

*Daddy Murphy* – (45-65) Alice’s father; an authoritative and a stern
disciplinarian; devoutly religious, hard-working, a poor but proud farmer.

*Mayor Josiah Dobbs* – (45-65) the Mayor of Zebulon; a political and
financial powerbroker – distinguished, an imposing and controlling
presence; has a genuine interest in protecting his son’s future and his
family name, but in doing so, is ultimately pushed to a point of extreme
and irrevocable cruelty.

*Jimmy Ray Dobbs* – plays both age 18-20 and 38-40. Jimmy Ray in his early
20s in flashbacks is Mayor Dobbs’ son and young Alice’s beau; handsome,
boyishly charming, well-built and intelligent; from a family of wealth and
power and is being groomed by his father for a similar future in the family
business; an independent thinker who is not afraid to stand up to his
father for what he believes in; he has a sense of personal responsibility
and morality as well as a deep reserve of passion and emotion. The same
actor will also play an adult Jimmy Ray at age 38-40.

*Stanford *– (45-65) Loyal assistant to Mayor Josiah Dobbs

*Dr. Norquist* – (30-65) The local family doctor in Zebulon

*Government Clerk* – (35-45) A clerk at the Office of Records in Raleigh

*Well-Dressed Woman *– (35-45) A woman living in Raleigh.
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