8/5/2010-8/9/2010

Ridgewood Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company

presents auditions for

PATIENCE or BUNTHORNE'S BRIDE

PATIENCE was the 6th operatic collaboration of Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert. Patience satirized the "aesthetic craze" of the 1870's and 80's, when the output of poets, composers, painters and designers of all kinds was indeed prolific but, some argued, empty and self-indulgent.

Auditions for principal roles and chorus will be held at the Community Church of Glen Rock (one block east of Maple Avenue on Rock Road), 2nd floor Room 205, Glen Rock, New Jersey on Thursday August 5 and Monday august 9, 2010 from 7:00 pm tp 9:30 pm. Please arrive within the first hour if possible. Be prepared to either sing a song from the show or a piece that best shows your vocal quality. Please bring your music if not singing a piece from PATIENCE. An accompanist will be provided.

Principal Roles:

Colonel Calverley (bass-baritone)

Major Murgatroyd (baritone)

The Duke of Dunstable (tenor)

Reginald Bunthorne (baritone)

Archibald Grosvenor (baritone)

Lady Angela (mezzo-soprano)

Lady Saphir (mezzo-soprano or soprano)

Lady Ella (soprano)

Lady Jane (contralto)

Patience, a dairy maid (soprano)

Chorus of Rapturous Maidens and Officers of the Dragoon Guards

If you have a conflict with these dates, please contact Carol Ciancia at 201-651-7729 or cciancia1@verizon.net   Persons interested in back stage activities are also welcome to stop by or contact us. for further information, call 973-423-0300 or visit our website www.RidgewoodGandS.com

9/26/2010-9/28/2010

Studio Players is holding OPEN Auditions for:

THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL

Audition Dates:  Sun. Sept. 26^th at 6:00pm &Tues. Sept. 28^th at 7:30pm

There's a new tenant at Armadillo Acres and she's wreaking havoc all over Florida's most exclusive trailer park. This campy, caustic musical fable has everything from strippers to crazy ex-boyfriends to Costco. When Pippi, the stripper on the run, comes between agoraphobic housewife Jeannie and her tollbooth collector husband—the “Storm’s A Brewin’” and it ain’t your run of the mill hurricane.

Directed by Amy Fox, Music Directors Darren Gage and Tristian Luysterburg, Stage Manager Judi Liebert

CAST

(all roles are major as this is an ensemble cast)

Jeannie Garstecki (female, 25-45) A 20 year resident of Armadillos Acres; a beautiful and smart girl who married her high school sweetheart; became a mother at 17; after a devastating personal loss is now an agoraphobic who hasn't left her trailer in years. As her husband drifts further away, she finds the strength and determination to get him back.

Norbert Garstecki (male, 25-45) Jeannie's husband; a toll collector; former high school football star who's current state now reflects the stress of his marriage to an agoraphobic.  While he tries to be a good husband he hasn't got the emotional or intellectual tools to help his wife change.  He has always been faithful, until he meets a beautiful stripper.

Pippi (Female 18-35) A beauty with a great body; a professional stripper; a survivor who has always gotten by on her looks and talent; fleeing from some bad choices and a bad relationship Pippi comes to Armadillo Acres to try to make some changes in her life. (Show requires this character to perform a strip tease down to bra & panties)

Duke (male, 18-28) Pippi's obsessive, possessive, Magic Marker sniffing boyfriend; not the brightest guy south of the Mason Dixon line; leaves a trail of disaster in his wake and his arrival at the trailer park is full of surprises.