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| AUDITION NOTICE: CALENDAR GIRLS 3pm May 16th The Old Church Theatre, Okotoks Auditions will be a cold read. The director would like to have the opportunity to sit with the core ladies to hear voices together. Those interested in Chris, Annie, Cora, Jessie, Celia, Ruth and Marie should plan on staying a little longer (5pm at the latest) so that she can have you read various parts to find the best fit. These ladies must also be brave souls who are aware that they will be part of carefully posed and slightly exposed scenes. Those auditioning for Cora, Jessie, Celia, Annie and Marie should also know that they will sing two verses of "Jerusalem." Participants auditioning for these roles will be asked to sing "Oh Canada" as a means of determining range. Those interested in John, Rod, Lawrence, Lady Cravenshire, Elaine and Liam can plan on shorter read times. (30-45 minutes) Please see below for the list of characters: CHRIS - You want Chris at your party. She will talk to people she doesn’t know, and things to say to all silences and generate laughter. Without Chris in her life, Annie would be better behaved, her life less fun. The two of them are like naughty schoolgirls. ANNIE - Annie will join in mischief but is at heart more conformist and less confrontational than Chris. After Chris has put a waiter’s back up in the restaurant, Annie will go in and pour calm. The mischievousness Chris elicits saves Annie from being a saint. She has enough edge to be interesting, and enough salt not to be too sweet. CORA - Cora’s past is the most eclectic, her horizons broadened by having gone to college. She is the joker in the pack, but never plays the fool. Her wit is deadpan. It raises laughter in others, but rarely in herself. Her relationship with her daughter is more akin to that between Chris and Annie. Cora doesn’t need to sing like a diva but must be able to sing well enough to start the show with Jerusalem and sing the snatches of other songs required. JESSIE - Get on the right side of Jessie as a teacher and she’ll be the teacher you remember for life. Get on the wrong side and you will regret every waking hour. A lover of life, Jessie doesn’t bother with cosmetics — her elixir of life is bravery. Jessie goes on rollercoasters. Her husband has been with her a long time and is rarely surprised by her actions. Jessie bothers about grammar and will correct stallholders regarding their abuse of the apostrophe “s”. CELIA - The fact that Celia is in the WI is the greatest justification of its existence. A woman more at home in a department store than a church hall, she may be slightly younger than Chris or the same age, but she always feels like she’s drifted in from another world. Which she has. She is particularly enamoured of Jessie, and despite the fact Jessie has very little time for most Celias of this world, there is a rebelliousness in Celia to which Jessie responds. It’s what sets Celia apart from the vapid materialism of her peer group and made her defect. RUTH - Ruth is eager to please but not a rag doll, and despite being Marie’s right-hand woman she is desperate to be the cartilage in the spine of the WI and keep everyone happy. She has spine herself — if she was too wet, no-one would want her around. But they do, and they feel protective of her because they sense there is something better in Ruth than her life is letting out. They are proved right. MARIE - Marie has gradually built the current ‘Marie’ around herself over the years as a defence mechanism. The WI is a trophy to her, which justifies her entire existence. There is a lingering part of Marie that would love to be on that calendar. JOHN - John is a human sunflower. Not a saint. Not a hero. Just the kind of man you’d want in your car when crossing America. When he dies it feels like someone somewhere turned a light off. ROD - You have to be a certain kind of guy to stick with Chris and Rod loves it. He can give back what he gets, and has a deadpan humour which has always made Chris laugh. He drinks a lot but never so much as to have a problem. He would work every hour to make his shop a success. And John was his mate, even though the relationship was originally channelled through their wives. LAWRENCE - Hesitant without being nerdy, Lawrence is a shy young man with enough wit to make a joke and enough spirit to turn up at the WI hall in the first place. When he arranges the shots he is close to female nudity but sees only the photo. LADY CRAVENSHIRE - Lady Cravenshire really doesn’t mean to be so patronizing. But the WI girls seem from another world. The world of her estate workers. ELAINE - Elaine really doesn’t mean to be so patronizing. But Jessie seems from another world. The world of her gran. LIAM - Liam would like to be directing other things than photoshoots for washing powders. He’s not so unprofessional as to let it show, but we can sense a slight weariness at having to deal with these women. For Liam, this photoshoot is a job. And not the job he wanted. | |
| Contact: | Dewdney Players Group Theatre Tracy Wyman Phone: 4038617503 |
| Details: | Location: Old Church Theatre (RPAC) |
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