First Presbyterian Theater 08-09 Auditions

It’s A Wonderful Life    based on the Frank Capra film—director Thom Hofrichter

George Bailey learns how important one man can be, and how many lives each of us touches on this earth in a moving adaptation of the classic movie.  This is a perfect piece of theater to put everyone in the holiday spirit.  Rated: G.

AUDITION:     Saturday, September 27, 1 pm—readings from the script

PERFORMS:    December 4, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 2008

NEEDED:        approximately 25 roles for all ages 6-80

 

Boiling Pot             by Evan Joiner and Kobi Libii

Boiling Pot is a docudrama exploring the ways race continues to affect American life.  FPT is proud to present this timely work which is told through interwoven monologues performed by playwrights, Evan Joiner and Kobi Libii.  It premiered at Yale University before moving to the prestigious International New York Fringe Festival.  Rated R, for language and subject matter.

AUDITION:     NO AUDITION           PERFORMS:    January 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 2009

NEEDED:        This show will be performed by the playwrights.

 

Macbeth       by William Shakespeare—director Thom Hofrichter

"Something wicked this way comes" to First Presbyterian Theater to commemorate the 200 birthday of Abraham Lincoln, as Macbeth was his favorite play.  Certainly, the Bard’s examination of this power-couple’s ambition is as relevant today as it was in Lincoln's day, or when it was written, over 400 years ago.  Rated: PG, for violence.

AUDITION:     November 8, 1-4 pm (sign up for 1 hour slot)

CALLBACK:               Saturday, November 15. 1 pm—readings of what is handed on November 8

PERFORMS:    Feb. 19, 20, 21, 27, 28, March 1, 6, 7, 2008

NEEDED:        20-25 men and women, 16 years old and above

 

The Rabbit Hole   by David Lindsay-Abaire–director Thom Hofrichter

Winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this story of a family’s grief after the loss of a child is potent, poignant, and powerful theater.  It is a satisfyingly strange combination of loss tempered by a movement toward healing, seasoned with the unique wit of one of America’s finest young playwrights, who, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer, “offers no easy answers.  This is one smart play.”  Rated:  PG13, for adult language.

AUDITION:     Saturday, February 7 at 1 pm—readings from the script

PERFORMS:    April 16, 17, 18, 24, 25, 26, May 1, 2, 2009

NEEDED:        1 M (teens), 1 M (ages 25-45), 2W (ages 25-45), 1W (ages 50-70)

 

The Underpants    by Steve Martin—director Joel D. Scribner

The renowned comic actor provides a wild satire adapted from a classic German play about a couple whose conservative existence is shattered when the wife’s bloomers fall down in public.  While never missing a laugh, it examines how celebrity is created, and then sought after by society.  Called “gleefully silly” by Variety, this bawdy, laugh out-loud farce is a “wild, and crazy” ride.  Rated:  PG, for bawdy humor.

AUDITION:     Saturday, April 4, 1 pm—readings from the script

PERFORMS:    June 4, 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 2009

NEEDED:        4 M (ages 25-75), 2 W (ages 20-50)