AUDITION INFORMATION

Audition Information

For audition information, call (480) 461-7170 Auditions are held in the Green Room of the Theatre Outback, Room 2. Auditions are open to ALL College students, staff and faculty regardless of experience! Auditions are normally Cold Reading and Monologues.

Mainstage Season:

The Overcoat

by Nikolai Gogol (English Adaptation by Tom Lanter & Frank S. Torok)
Directed by Kevin Dressler

Auditions: August 26 & 27; 3-5 P.M. & 7-9 P.M.; room TH2

Description: In this delightful rendition of the famous Russian work, the story’s creator, Nikolai Gogol, guides the audience through his captivating plot of a struggling copy clerk, Akaky Akakievich-- who wants a new overcoat—for protection against the harsh, St. Petersburg winters. This simple storyline transforms into a warmly funny, yet moving, piece where actors play multiple roles filled with mime, fantasy, and the soaring music of Tchaikovsky. This show is not to be missed by the entire family!

Blood Wedding

by Federico Garcia Lorca (English adaptation by )
Directed by Mace Archer

Auditions: October 14 & 15; 3-5 P.M. & 7-9 P.M.; room TH2

Description: In this highly symbolic and deeply passionate play, The Mother character has lost in feuds with other families and is barren of all her men except her youngest son, The Bridegroom. She arranges for him a wedding with The Bride, who is loved by young Leonardo. Leonardo arrives at the wedding with the intent to follow his passion and kidnap The Bride. The Bridegroom refuses to relent on his passion and fearlessly pursues The Bride and Leonardo to a tumultuous conclusion.

The Great White Hope

by Howard Slacker
Directed by Randy Messersmith

Auditions: December 9 & 10; 3-5 P.M. & 7-9 P.M.; room TH2

Description: Theatre gets no better than being the winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award. This is an epic story of a tragic hero, cheated, degraded, and at last brutally beaten. Mr. Sackler uses his hero, a figure based on the first Black heavyweight champion of the world, Jack Johnson, as a symbol with enormous scope and range. The story picks up on the Johnson storyline soon after the Australian day in 1908 when Johnson whipped Tommy Burns and then takes his trade to Havana in 1915, when Jess Willard, the Great White Hope, attempts to even to score for White society.

To Gillian on her 37th Birthday

by Michael Brady
Directed by Joe Martinez

Auditions: March 3 & 4; 3-5 P.M. & 7-9 P.M.; room TH2

Description: Though To Gillian begins as a simple dramatization of its hero's obsessive mourning and loss, it gradually expands to become a richer form of family drama. To Gillian is peppered with sharp, evenhanded observations about the tenuous ties that connect husbands and wives and parents and children. It is a play that sends a ghost flying out of heaven, but its appeal derives from a keen sensitivity to life for those of us here on earth.

Stagedoor Players Production: TBA

Auditions: February 10 & 11; 3-5 P.M. & 7-9 P.M.; room TH2

Description: Stagedoor Players is the student run club that supports the mission of the department. This production will be a scholarship fundraiser for deserving theatre students, and it is our hope that you will mark this play on your calendar and support the endeavor of these young artists.

Please contact Lyn Dutson for comments or corrections email phone: 480-461-7165