Director: Igor Goldin, Musical Director: Jeffrey Campos, Choreographer: Keith Andrews, Casting director: Robin Carus, Producer: Heather Siobhan Curran.

AEA Auditions by appointment at The Gallery Players
Tuesday, August 5th from 7-9 pm
Wednesday, August 6th from 7-9 pm

OPEN CALL (AEA and non-AEA)
Friday Sept. 5th from 7-9 pm (sign in begins at 6:30 pm AEA priority)

Callbacks
Monday Sept. 8th (evening)

Rehearses: Sept. 20th -Oct. 17th 2008 evenings and weekends
Performs: Oct. 18th -Nov. 9th 2008 (16 perfs)

Seeking 9 women/9 men. All roles open. For high school age characters, seeking actors who play the age range not actual students.

SUBMISSIONS for AEA actors only: To be considered for an appt. please e-mail your headshot and resume to lylicasting@gmail.com.

TO PREPARE: 16 bars of your best rock/pop song from 1980’s preferred. Please bring sheet music in your key (no lead sheets). Please have second song choice available. You will sing with an accompanist. Dance audition will take place at callbacks.

All play high school age range except the two adult characters (Jackie and Eddie) as noted.

ROSALIND DUKE - RANGE F# below Middle C - Top space E (and should have a little bottom to the quality.) Mezzo Soprano. A high school senior - studious always plays everything safe until she dresses as a frat dude named “Corey.” She transforms from scared to invincible, then ultimately to honest and open. She is smart and funny – and can quickly change back and forth between being a guy and a girl.

CELIA DUKE - RANGE F# below Middle C to G above staff. Soprano/Mezzo Soprano. Rosalind’s cousin and best friend. Also a high school senior, she is feisty and clever, if not too book smart. She knows she’s adorable and uses it. She has to play an alter ego at the mall, a Madonna-wannabe named LaDonna. Has a saucy edge.

ORLANDO BATEMAN - RANGE 2 Bs below Middle C - A above middle C (Falsetto) Tenor. A senior varsity wrestler with the soul of a poet. Think Troy Bolton or Jake Ryan.

OLIVER BATEMAN - RANGE E below middle C - E above Middle C. Tenor/Baritone. Orlando’s resentful 19-year—old brother. and truancy officer at the high school. Villain of the piece who gets a makeover and becomes beautiful both inside and out.

TOUCHTONE - RANGE B below middle C to E (F#) above middle C. Tenor/Baritone. The very horny high school geek. Think Anthony Michael Hall in Sixteen Candles.

AUDREY SHEPHERD - RANGE A below middle C - E above middle C. Mezzo Soprano/Alto. Senior. The Queen Bee. Gorgeous. Full of herself. Insufferable rich bully. Secretly more vulnerable than anyone else in the story.

PHIL LIPSCHITZ - RANGE C below Middle C - G above middle C. Tenor. A senior, a work-study employee at “Hot Dog on a Stick,” very sweet and naïve. Realizes he’s gay.

SYLVIE FELDMAN – RANGE G below middle C - E above middle C. Mezzo Soprano/Alto. Phil’s best friend, a senior, also work-study at “Hot Dog on a Stick,” desperately in love with Phil. Comedienne who can play heartbreak.

JACKIE WEST - RANGE F# below Middle C - top line F. Plays 30’s-40’s. Mezzo Soprano. The befuddled narrator and lead singer of “The Seven Stages of Man,” the onstage band. She is one of two adults in the show – Rocks out. Needs excellent comic timing. Combination Pat Benatar, Cyndi Lauper and Megan Mullally.

EDDIE VAN BEETHOVEN - RANGE E below Middle C - B below middle C. Tenor. Jackie’s lead guitarist who keeps her on track. The other adult in the show – plays 20s – 40s. Surfer dude.

FEMALE CHORUS (All play high school age range) seeking all vocal ranges
Girl in neckbrace
2 cheerleader types
Goth girl

MALE CHORUS (All play high school age range) seeking all vocal ranges
Foreign Exchange Student
Vulnerable Freshman
2 jocks

All ethnicities are encouraged to audition. Equity/Non-Equity. No Pay. (AEA members receive travel stipend)

Book and Lyrics by Sammy Buck
Music by Daniel Acquisto
October 18 - November 2, 2008
Limited engagement!

Producer: Heather Siobhan Curran/The Gallery Players
Director: Igor Goldin
Choreographer: Keith Andrews
Musical Director: Jeffrey Campos
Casting: Robin Carus
Assoc. Producer: Marissa Rosenblum

All the world’s a mall in this totally awesome mix of Shakespeare and John Hughes.

It’s 1985 and the brand new Arden Mall is hosting a high school dance. Bookworm babe Rosalind wants to go with varsity wrestler Orlando, but she’s never had the guts to talk to him. Rosalind disguises herself as a frat dude named Corey and learns Orlando’s true feelings for her. But things get tricky when “Corey” complicates the lives of three other couples at Arden. Rosalind will do anything to get Orlando, even if it means showing up at the dance as both herself and Corey.

In a show filled with memorable tunes, a hip sense of humor, pure joy and a huge heart, it all works out in Like You Like It!

Buy tickets to Like You Like It.

Producers: Lara Terrell & Tom Wojtunik for The Gallery Players
Director: Seth Soloway
Production Stage Manager: Jodi Witherell
Assistant Director: Stefanie Horowitz
Assistant Stage Manager: DaVonne Bacchus
Set Designer: Stephen K. Dobay
Costume Designer: Danielle Schembre
Lighting Designer: Tony Galaska
Sound Designer: Ned Thorne

Steve Martin, the renowned comic actor and author provides a wild satire adapted from the classic German play about Louise and Theo Markes, a couple whose conservative existence is shattered when Louise’s bloomers fall down in public. Though she pulls them up quickly, he thinks the incident will cost him his job as a government clerk. Louise’s momentary display does not result in the feared scandal but it does attract two infatuated men, each of whom wants to rent the spare room in the Markes’ home. Oblivious of their amorous objectives, Theo splits the room between them, happy to collect rent from both the foppish poet and the whiny hypochondriac.

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Casting: July 2008

Rehearsals August 16-Sept. 12th for 4 weeks (evenings and weekends)

Run: Sept. 13-28 2008 12 perfs. (Thursday thru Sunday)

Stipend Pay.

Seeking:

The right individuals will possess a theater background, attention to detail, the ability to prioritize, and will be creative thinkers with excellent people skills. Most work will take place evenings and weekends.

Production Stage Manager (AEA or Non-AEA) qualified well organized individual with a professional attitude to run rehearsals and show rehearses evenings and weekends 8/16-9/28/2008. PSM will also run light and sound boards and oversee assistant stage manager. Ability to prioritize, work with a group and rehearse/perform under AEA showcase code rules a must. Will also oversee tracking of props, prepare and distribute rehearsal and performance reports.

To be considered for this position please e-mail your resume, an informative cover letter and two references that we can call to galleryup2008@gmail.com. Please indicate in the subject line that you are applying for the production stage manager position.

Auditions by appointment (AEA only)
Tuesday, July 8th 7-9 pm
Wednesday, July 9th 7-9 pm

Open Call (AEA and non-AEA)
Monday, July 14- 7-9 pm (sign in begins at 6:30 pm AEA priority)
Wednesday, July 16- 7-9 pm (sign in begins at 6:30 pm AEA priority)

Callbacks
Thursday, July 17- evening
Saturday, July 19- daytime

Rehearses: August 16-Sept. 12th 2008 evenings and weekends

Performs: Sept. 13-28 2008 (12 perfs)

Seeking 5 men/ 2 women. All roles open.

SUBMISSIONS: AEA members only to be considered for an appt. please e-mail your headshot and resume to upcasting2008@gmail.com.

TO PREPARE: For Open Call please prepare 1-minute comic monologue. Sides will be made available for appointments and callbacks.

This fast paced farce requires strong actors with excellent timing and physical comedy. All ethnicities are encouraged to audition.

SEEKING:

Louise Maske: (Female) plays 20’s -early 30’s, Theo’s wife. Extremely pretty, an absolute siren that would stop all conversation upon entering a room. Shy and well mannered, knows her place in society, Louise is the only person in the play who does not understand how beautiful she is and what power that gives her, works hard to be the perfect housewife. Actress must be comfortable in underwear (period underwear) and with comic sexual situations.

Theo Maske: (Male) plays 20’s- early 30’s. A burly muscular bear, physically Stanley Kowalski, but emotionally not quite as much of a brute. A “by the book”government worker who knows his place in society and his place in the household. Expects to be the lord of the manner with his doting wife. Despises controversy, obsessed with his public image and that of his family, seeks the ultimate blue collar existence.

Gertrude Deuter: (Female) plays 30’s-late 40’s, a bookish, old maid type. A busybody determined to live vicariously through Louise.

Frank Versati: (Male) plays Mid 20’s-30’s, an elegant gentleman with dashing good looks, as white collar as Theo is blue. A poet with an eloquent manner of speech, extremely bold and full of himself, Versati has never met anyone he felt he could not out smart.

Benjamin Cohen: (Male) plays Mid 20’s- 30’s, older looking then Versati and extremely undesirable. Sickly and extremely thin, asthmatic, his obsession with his failing physical condition consumes his life.

Klinglehoff: (Male) An elderly man whom old age has been less then kind to. Bumbling and lost.

The King: (Male) plays 40’s-60’s. Tall and slender, regal in every way. His appearance must cause him to look completely out of place in the Maske household. Eloquent speaker.

All ethnicities are encouraged to audition. Equity/Non-Equity No Pay. (AEA members receive travel stipend)

This is not a job with salary and benefits but it should also not take up a ton of your time. We will provide a stipend, theater tickets, a great atmosphere and the knowledge that you are helping to create great theater in Brooklyn.

Please send cover letter, resume and a press release writing sample to Katie Adams at prgalleryplayers@yahoo.com.

TheatreSports™ season has ended. Performances will resume with the opening of The Gallery Players 42nd season in September 2008. See you then!

Ticket are $8 and are available at the door (cash only)

“Kooks on the loose” The New York Times
“A favorite with young audiences” New York Post
“It’s great family entertainment.” New York Newsday
“An innovative approach to children’s theater” Big Apple Parents’ Paper

If interested please e-mail letter of interest and/or resume with HOUSE MANAGER in the subject line to volunteer(at)galleryplayers.com.