Auditions for the Tracy Performing Arts Foundation’s 2009- 2010 Theatre Season:
Date: Saturday, July 18th from 8:00 AM until 12:00 PM and again from 1:00 PM until 5:00 PM. Auditioners may either come during open casting or make an appointment. To make an appointment, send an email to theatre@tracyperformingartsfoundation.org and include the following information:
Callbacks by invitation only on Mon. July 20th in the evening.
Location: Platinum Conference Center & Banquet Facilities 902 Central Avenue, Suite 305, Tracy, CA 95376
Note: Those auditioning should bring a photo showing their face, be prepared for light movement and either cold read or deliver a one or two minute monologue. Vocal auditions please bring sheet music in your key (no transposing will be provided) or appropriate accompaniment CD in your key of either an up-tempo or ballad selection. Accompanist is provided. No tapes or acapella. All productions will be performed at the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts in Tracy, CA. ALL ROLES OPEN. Ethnically diverse casting is desired. Adults and children are encouraged to audition.
Tracy: Our Town, USA (Sept. 2009 on the Main Stage) – This will be a vocal/acting audition. This annually revised historic production is a locally written musical chronicling different aspects of Tracy’s history. Each year Evelyn Tolbert writes new material to feature a different focus of community history. This year’s production features a diverse cast featuring the contributions of women in the history of the community. Roles are available for men AND women of diverse ethnic backgrounds.
The Sound of Music (Oct. 16 – 18 in the Studio Theatre) – This will be a vocal/acting audition. Based on the memoirs of Maria Von Trapp, this classic Rodgers & Hammerstein production chronicles the journey of a young postulate as she leaves the convent to governess the Von Trapp children. Finding the home to be strictly disciplined and stifling, the plucky governess introduces the children to music, joy and creativity. When Captain Von Trapp, the children’s father, is summoned to serve in the Navy of the Third Reich – he refuses and the family must flee to the mountains of Switzerland on foot in the middle of the night.
The Diary of Anne Frank (Nov. 13 – 15 on the Studio Theatre Stage) – This is an acting only audition. This year we celebrate what would have been Anne Frank’s 80th birthday. This classic piece of Pulitzer Prize winning literature was adapted to a Tony Award winning stage production in 1955. Spanning a two year period in Nazi occupied Amsterdam, 13 year old Anne Frank captures her experiences, feelings and fears as she lives in hiding in an attic of a factory with her sister, her parents, three members of another family and an old dentist.
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SPRING LIVE SERIES Auditions: Sat. October 17th with Callbacks by invitation only on Mon. Oct 19th in the evening. All of the following selections are non-vocal and will be performed on the Studio Theatre Stage.
Boesman and Lena (Jan. 15 – 17, 2010), Love Letters (Feb. 19 – 21, 2010), Willie & Esther (Mar. 19 – 21, 2010), Laundry & Bourbon and Lone Star (Apr. 17 – 19, 2010 on the Studio Theatre Stage)
