Auditions & Workshops
* Auditions! Auditions! Auditions! *
Backstage Theatre seeks actors and actresses for its summer production of "The Drunkard" - a turn-of-the-century melodrama.
Auditions will be held at the the Breckenridge Theatre, 121 South Ridge Street, Breckenridge on:
Saturday, May 2, 2009
11am - 3pm
by appointment only
"The Drunkard" is one of the most produced plays in The Backstage Theatre's 35 year
history.
In this new adaptation (written by Backstage Theatre artistic director Christopher
Willard), Edward Middleton is a young temperance leader led on a wild fall from grace by
Lawyer Cribbs, a dishonest solicitor bent on destroying Middleton to gain possession of his
inheritance and to win the hand of the innocent and beautiful Mary Warren.
It's the stuff of
classic "boo/hiss" melodrama given a hysterically goofy and sweetly affecting spin.
The show is helmed by guest director Rick Bernstein, Co-Artistic Director of Miners Alley Theatre in Golden.
"The Drunkard" will begin rehearsals in June, 2009. Rehearsals will primarily be weekends,
but there is some flexibility with schedules of the actors.
Performances are alternating weekends beginning July 16 thru August 16, 2009. All positions are paid.
To be cast...
- LAWYER CRIBBS (30's to 60's): corrupt solicitor with designs on young Mary and the Middleton estate
- EDWARD MIDDLETON (20's to 30's): temperance leader who is seduced by the evils of Demon Drink
- MARY WARREN (20's to 30's): innocent and beautiful heroine who finds herself torn between love and duty
- WIDOW WARREN (40's to 60's): Mary's hypochondriac mother, always ailing and apt to complain about it
- BERTIE HUBBARD (20's to 40's): Cribbs' lackey - female - also plays a variety of other roles in the show
Those auditioning will be asked to cold-read from the script. No advance perusal scripts are available. No previous acting experience is required.