Wasatch Theatre Company and the Utah Association of Regional Theatres
(U-ART) are holding auditions for the annual Page-to-Stage Festival (including
their 10th Annual Shorts-Shorts program), which highlights the playwriting
process from first draft to production.
Six original shorts by local playwrights have been selected for production,
so many actors of all ages and backgrounds are needed. Several local theatres
(including Around the Globe Theatre, Avalon Isle, Babcock Readers, Holladay
Arts, People Productions, Proletariat Theatre, and Pygmalion Theatre) will be
involved in directing and producing the event.
Running on alternating nights with the shorts program will be an evening of
original plays based on Aesop’s Fables that will feature a troupe of actors
playing multiple roles working with one director (Mark Fossen). Actors are
needed for this production as well. We are also looking for people to
participate in staged readings and a cabaret that will follow the Saturday
evening performances.
Auditions will be held Wednesday, July 7th, 7:00 –
9:00 p.m. and Saturday, July 10, 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. in Studio A at the Rose
Wagner (138 West 300 South).
Those auditioning will be asked to read from provided scripts. For more
information, call Wasatch Theatre Company at (801) 446-5657.
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The Dark Horse Company Theatre is holding auditions for The Great American
Trailer Park Musical.
Time slots are 12:00-3:00PM. Each slot is 5 min.
*Prepare 32 bars of a
song in the style of the show
*Please Bring current headshot and
resume
Email Ginger at
gbmel@hotmail.com to
reserve your slot
Callbacks will be later that day at 4PM
--There will
be dancing
*Rehearsals start August 16th. Show runs September 17th-Oct.
3rd.
Rehearsals will take place in Salt Lake City--performances at the Park
City Egyptian Theatre.
Plot Summary:
Small town
1980s Florida, in a trailer park called Armadillo Acres. The story centers
around a love triangle between Norbert, Jeannie, & Pippi.
The show
includes adult themes and language.
The music is country/western
gospel/rockabilly.
Characters:
The Love Triangle
and The Villian
JEANNIE GARSTECKI, 35-45 years old. Jeannie has llived in
a trailer at Armadillo Acres for 20 years with her husband and high-school
sweetheart, Norbert. A faded beauty, she was 17 when she married, 18 when her
son was born and 23 when he got kidnapped. Thant, coupled with a really bad
perm, has turned her into an agoraphobic. She hasn't left her trailer in all
these years, and the man she loves is drifting further and further away and
she's determined to get him back...that is if she could manage to get out of the
trailer to do it...
NORBERT GARSTECKI, 35-45 years old. Jeannie's husband
Norbert collects tolls for a living and tries to be as good a husband as one can
be to an agoraphobic. A former high-school football star, he has rugged good
looks marred by fatigue and the stress of his difficult marriage. He is a simple
man who desperately wishes his wife could get our of the trailer, but he's not
equipped with the emotional or intellectual tools to help her do it. He has
never loved or slept with a woman other than Jeannie.That is until he
meets...
PIPPI, 28-35 years old. Pippi is a striking beauty with a great
body and a taste for clothing that shows it off. Up to this point, Pippi's life
has been about surviving. She is a professional stripper who has gotten by on
her looks and talents for dancing and petty theft. She means no harm and is
ready to stop making bad choices and start making changes, but first she has to
get lost in a hick-town trailer park in North Florida so she won't be found by
her last bad choice...
DUKE, 24-28 years old. Duke is Pippi's obsessive,
possesive and excessive Magic-Marker-sniffing boyfirend; "ex"-boyfriend
according to Pippi. Not so, according to Duke. Not the brightest guy south of
the Mason-Dixon Line, Duke leaves a trail of disaster in his wake wherever he
goes. His road trip to Starke is no exception and his arrival at the trailer
park is full of surprises - even for a group of people who have had their share
of excitement...
"The Girls"
BETTY, 38-50 Betty attended high
school with Norbert and Jeannie Garstecki and has lived at Armadillo Acres for
just as long. She now runs a leasing office and makes it her business to know
everything about everybody who passes through the trailer park. Theough a
self-proclaimed "bad-ass," Betty is really a mother hen to the denizens of the
treailer park. Of all "The Girls," Betty is the most grounded, earthy and
dry.
LENOLEUM "LIN", 30;s So-named because her mother gave birth to her
on the kitchen floor. Linoleum has a husband on deathe row at the Florida State
Prison. His fate is an electric chair that doesn't work properly unless most of
the town's electrilcity is tkurned off. So Lin watches everyone's lights and
appliances very closely in the hopes that she can keep the chair on the fritz.
Sometimes self-absorbed and sEometimes just a smar-ass, she hints at a wild,
rock -an-roll past and is the fieriest of "The Girls."
DONNA "PICKLES",
17 years old. A newlywed, Donna is called "Pickles" because she is perpetually
hysterically pregnant - that is , she's so convinced she should be pregnant
she's exhibiting symptoms. Her husband is a lot fancier than she is, as he is
from the big city of Jacksonville. His parents haven't been very supportive of
his marital choice, so Pickles is desperate to give her husband a family of his
own - even if she has to fake it. The dimmest of "The Girls, " Pickle is airy,
sweet and blissfully ignorant.
List of Songs in Great American Trailer
Park
More shows with Country/Western inspired scores
This Side of the
Tracks (The Girls, Jeannie, Norbert, Pippi)
One Step Closer (Jeannie,
Norbert, The Girls)
The Buck Stops Here (Pippi)
It Doesn't Take a Genius
(The Girls, Norbert, Pippi, Jeannie)
Owner of My Heart (Jeannie,
Norbert)
Great American TV Show (The Girls, Pippi, Norbert)
Flushed Down
the Pipes (Jeannie, The Girls)
Storm's A-Brewin' (Company)
Road Kill
(Duke, The Girls)
But He's Mine/It's Never Easy (Pippi, Norbert,
Jeannie)
That's Why I Love My Man (The Girls)
Panic (Jeannie, Tina,
Pippi)
Finale - Make Like a Nail (Company)
Directed by: Christopher
Glade
Music Direction: J.D. Dumas
Choreographer: Willie
Richardson
Producer: Daniel T Simons
Company Manager: Ginger Bess
Set
Designer: Jennifer Stapley Taylor
Costumer: TBA
Links:
http://trailerparkmusical.betsykelso.com/ ______________________________________________________________________________________
