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We understand that the beginning of the school year can be hectic, so we have extended the application deadline for our Fall Marketing Internship to allow students a little more time to get settled. All applications must now be received by Friday, September 10, 2010. A small stipend will be provided.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier is seeking a qualified and enthusiastic Marketing/PR Intern for at least a 10 week period between September and early December, 2010. The complete description and application procedure is below.
Please forward this information to your most promising graduates, encouraging them to take advantage of this rare opportunity to get hands-on marketing experience at a renowned Chicago theater and recipient of the Regional Theatre Tony Award.
Interns receive one-on-one mentoring from Marketing Department staff, their own phone extension and CST email account, complimentary tickets to all Chicago Shakespeare performances, free tickets to other Chicago theaters through “industry” offers, and much more! CST interns gain invaluable insight and substantive experience in the overarching strategy of marketing and publicizing a season of diverse programming.
A full internship description is included below or can be found on CST’s website.
Sincerely,
Alida Szabo
Director of Audience Development
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Fall 2010 Marketing/PR Internship
Regional Theatre Tony Award recipient Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST) is currently accepting Marketing/PR internship applications for Fall 2010. A small stipend will be provided.
CST’s Marketing/PR internship offers a rich and challenging experience for qualified college students, graduates and young professionals who are actively pursuing careers in professional theater administration. Marketing/PR interns are entrusted with a great deal of responsibility and have the opportunity to play an integral role in the Theater’s Marketing Department.
Applications must be received by Friday, September 10, 2010.
The Marketing Department is charged with the development and execution of strategic plans to promote the institutional image and attract attendance to the plays and related programs produced by the Theater. Marketing interns must work a minimum of 25 hours per week for 10 weeks between September and early December. In addition to a small stipend, interns receive one-on-one mentoring from Marketing Department staff, their own phone extension and CST email account, complimentary tickets to all Chicago Shakespeare performances, free tickets to other Chicago theaters through “industry” offers, and much more!
Desired Skills and Experience
Minimum two years undergraduate education or equivilent experience in arts administration, direct marketing, communications, public relations and/or journalism
Effective communication skills, both written and verbal
Self-starter, multi-task oriented, and computer literate
Experience in sales, promotions, or media desirable
Website maintenance, Tessitura and/or e-marketing skills a plus
Internship Responsibilities
Assist in execution of promotions, direct mail and e-marketing projects
Update mailing lists
Maintain press clip and photo archives
Assemble press kits
Assist planning/hosting special events and openings
Assist maintaining customer service response system
Conduct research for press releases
Application Process
Please submit a cover letter stating your specific interest(s) and availability, a current CV or resume and two letters of academic or professional reference. If you wish to receive college credit for this internship, please include an outline of your school’s requirements for both the intern (you) and internship site (Chicago Shakespeare).
Applications must be received by Friday, September 10, 2010.
Please send all application materials via email to:
marketingintern@chicagoshakes.com
or by mail to:
Marketing Internship
Chicago Shakespeare Theater on Navy Pier
800 East Grand Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
(no phone calls, please)
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CABARET CALLBACKS
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Emily Lowe 106
Ernst/Cliff 2:30
Paul Tiesler
John Bahrenberg
Keith Pinault
John Ball
Parks Middleton
Ben Pike
Colgan McNeil
Cliff 3:00
Paul Tiesler
Ben Pike
Colgan McNeil
+ Sally 3:30
Danielle DeMatteo
Natalie Fabian
Kira Christoforidis
Alexa Kleiman
Kate Davis
Erika Santosuosso
Laura Duell
Michelle Cutolo
Georgia Andre
Allie Rightmeyer
Kost/Schneider/Schultz
5:30
Kim Hughes
Natalie Fabian
Jacqueline Higgins
Amelia Kreski
Erika Santosuosso
Eliza Hill
Katie Hoffman
Stefanie Harris
Shira Rose Berk
Kimberly Rogers
Ian Poake
James McGowan
Rich Traub
Dance* 6:30
Danielle DeMatteo
Natalie Fabian
Kira Christoforidis
Alexa Kleiman
Kate Davis
Erika Santosuosso
Laura Duell
Allie Rightmeyer
Georgia Andre
Michelle Cutolo
Shira Rose Berk
Gina Ventura
Abeni Mason-Draffen
Chelsea Frati
Dani Letsche
Dana Irwin
Sami O’Keefer
Julia Rothwell
Katie Hoffman
Kristin Nemecek
Jamie Cook
Emcee 8:00
Max Baudisch
James Monahan
Yuekun “William” Wu
Ryan Smith
Shira Rose Berk
*Lowe 108 will be available for personal warm-ups before the 6:30 call. Please wear form-fitting dance attire and heeled character shoes.
Please note, there are roles for which we are not calling back, so even if you’re not called back, you may still be cast.
Please show up promptly and be prepared to sing, read, or move when asked.
Thanks!
CALLBACKS FOR AWAKE AND SING!
MYRON BERGER
Michael Guess, Max Lehman, Benjamin Pike, Rich Traub
BESSIE BERGER
Chelsea Frati, Sarah Klein, Amelia Kreski, Ali Phillips, Alex Rose, Mary St. Angelo, Kathryn Turley, Gina Ventura
JACOB
Michael Guess, Keith Pinault, Michael Quattrone, Paul Tiesler
HENNIE BERGER
Shanna Brown, Maria Camilo, Laura Duell, Chelsea Frati, Lauryn Hamel, Megan Heverin, Eliza Hill, Alexa Kleiman, Kristin Nemecek, Taylor Phillips, Allie Rightmeyer, Chelsea Whitfield
RALPH BERGER
John Ball, Max Baudisch, Brian Danner, Sean Doonan, Colgan McNeil, Benjamin Pike, Erik Patton, Keith Pinault
SCHLOSSER
To be selected from among those called back
MOE AXELROD
John Bahrenberg, Adam Griffith, Ian Poake, Michael Quattrone, Christian Titus, Christopher Wentworth
UNCLE MORTY
Adam Griffith, Patrick Harman, Devin Michelson, Michael Quattrone, Rich Traub, Christopher Wentworth
SAM FEINSCHREIBER
Chris Balestriere, Patrick Harman, Max Lehman
Sunday, 2 May 2010
Emily Lowe 110
11 a.m.-12 noon Jacob, Sam, Ralph, Bessie, Myron
12:00-12:45 p.m. Moe, Ralph, Morty, Bessie
12:45-1:30 Ralph, Myron, Hennie, Jacob, Bessie
1:30-2:00 Moe and Hennie
2:00-2:30 Ralph and Jacob
Thanks to all who auditioned. The quality of your work continues to grow. I was impressed!
Jim Kolb
CALLBACKS for INTIMATIONS FOR SAXOPHONE
Sunday, May 2, 1 – 6 p.m.
Place: Emily Lowe Room 106
1-1:30 DANCER
Colgan McNeil
Adam Griffith
Ben Pike
William Wu
Michael Guess
Michael Quattrone
1:30-2:00 WOMAN WITH BOOK
Alex Rose
Kathryn Turley
Chelsie Tuttle
Megan Heverin
Stephanie Harris
Shanna Brown
Mary St. Angelo
Kati Delaney
Chelsea Frati
Amelia Kreski
Ashley Medeiro
2:00-5:00 LILY
Allie Rightmeyer
Maria Camilo
Lauryn Hamel
Chelsea Whitfield
Erika Santosuosso
Kristin Nemecek
Bailey Libby
Georgia Andre
2:00-3:00 MRS. LETHE and LILY
Same as WOMAN WITH BOOK
3:00-4:45 GILLY
Keith Pinault
John Ball
Paul Tiesler
Christian Titus
Pat Harman
Rich Traub
Adam Griffith
Ian Poake
4:15-5:15 BILLIE and MILLIE
Michael Guess
Stephanie Harris
John Bahrenberg
Lauryn Hamel
Max Baudisch
Erika Santosuosso
John Ball
Laura Duell
Adam Griffith
Bailey Libby
Pat Harman
Bionca Olimpio
5:15-6:00 JOSEPH KARTNER
Ben Pike
Michael Quattrone
Ian Poake
Christian Titus
Christopher Wentworth
Rich Traub
Thank you, everybody. The quality of your work is very impressive. It shows how much the students in the department have grown in focus, talent and preparation. Because you are not on this list, does not mean I am no longer considering you. Sides are being sent out via the department email that you should read over and prepare for the callbacks
Peter
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WE STILL NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR OPEN HOUSE ON SUNDAY APRIL 25th IN THE BLACK BOX. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR ALL SHIFTS. JUST SHOW UP AND YOUR NAME WILL BE ADDED TO THE LIST FOR ACTIVITY GRANT CREDIT. SHIFTS AT 9:45, 10:45 AND 11:45.
THANKS,
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Audition sign up sheets are available in the Drama office for those students in Student Projects who need to sign up for early time slots. See Angela.
The sheets will be posted for general sign up on Thursday.
Those interested in auditioning for CABARET (and all BFAs as they must audition for every show) must sign up for a slot on Wednesday or Thursday and plan to be available for a Dance Call on Friday. Anyone unavailable for Friday must note that clearly on their audition sheets.
Peter is now asking for SAXOPHONE that rather than doing two contrasting one minute monologues, you do ONE one-minute monologue and do that piece two contrasting ways.
From Peter: “I am less interested in your doing funny, serious, character, etc. monologues. It’s not the content I want to see but HOW you do the piece, what physical adjustments you use. Therefore, if you want, you could cut the piece you are doing for AWAKE AND SING down to one minute and do that again two different ways.”
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We have a summer employment opportunity:
http://www.hofstra.edu/StudentAffairs/StudentServices/stdemp/stdemp_current_jobs.cfm
scroll to Orientation Aide, posted 4.19.10
We need students to create and act in situational skits about parent-student issues. We would love to have our drama students apply.
Best,
Branka
_________________________
Branka Kristic
Director, Parent and Family Programs
Division of Student Affairs
200 Phillips Hall
128 Hofstra University
Hempstead NY 11549
p: (516) 463-7055
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A sign up sheet is available in the office for Proctors for Auditions.
Shifts are available each day. Production students are urged to volunteer for callbacks.
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The Cultural Arts Playhouse is auditioning actors, singers, and dancers of all sizes and ethnicities for a new production of the Rocky Horror Show.
Please prepare 16 bars of a Glam Rock or Punk Rock song and be ready to dance. (Seeking strong dancers)
The concept of this summer is a whole new version created by the director/choreographer. It was performed in Westchester with a NY cast and was very successful.
Open Auditions will be held Monday April 26th, and callbacks will be Tues April 27th at 8pm at the Cultural Arts Playhouse 625 Old Country Rd, Plainview, NY
Director/Choreographer: Eddie Carignan
Assistant/Stage Manager: Danielle Coutieri
Producer: Bruce Grossman
The show will be opening on Saturday June 19, 2010 and will run every Saturday at Midnight until August 28, 2010 with a possibility of some added Friday shows.
Character Break-Down
+Brad Majors: male, 20s, strong comedic rock baritone, an attractive 1970s nerd type,
+Janet Weiss: female, 20s, rock soprano or high belter, Brad’s fiancé, sorority girl, uptight and controlling, masking her dominatrix desires;
+Frank N’ Furter: male, 20s-30s, glam rock baritone, transvestite alien from the planet Transsexual who idolizes David Bowie
+Riff Raff: male, 20s- 30s, High Rock Tenor, servant to Frank, physically odd, calculating;
+Magenta: female, 20s-30s, High Rock Belter, sexy servant of Frank and sister to Riff Raff
+Eddie/Dr. Scott: male or female, 20s-50s, Rock Belter or Rock Baritone, Eddie is a half male/ half female mistake creation of Frank, Dr. Scott is a disabled professor at Denton High, must be a very comedic actor/actress;
+Columbia: female, 20s-30s, alto or soprano, Frank’s first creation, a brat, think Stefanie Tanner from Full House, must be a proficient tapper;
+Narrator: male, 30s-50s, no singing, mysterious sense of humor, all-knowing energy, is more involved in the show than the movie version
+Glitter Kids (Dancers): 2 male, 2 female, excellent dancers with extremely unique energy, need not sing, but must dance and pantomime very well
+Usherettes: 3 male or female, think the Supremes in drag makeup, distinct personalities, must hold harmonies very well, move well, lead the callbacks and preshow.
NOTE: Production is heavily influenced by glam rock era of the 1970s, seeking singers who can sing that type of music very well and have comedic skills. Director is seeking unique types for this show and some replacements for another upcoming production in NYC in the Fall, please do not feel the need to follow the movie version.
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Join Oracle Theatre, Inc. on Monday, May 3rd 7:30pm at Dixon Place
America is preparing for entry into the first World War. In the fields of Omaha, Nebraska, Captain Ferguson is training his men for the future of modern warfare. He hopes to bring destruction to the Kaiser,
using….large hydrogen-filled balloons manned by soldiers in hanging wicker baskets.
CAPTAIN FERGUSON’S SCHOOL FOR BALLOON WARFARE
A play by Isaac Rathbone
Featuring David Nelson
Directed by Philip Emeott
Monday May 3rd at 7:30-8:30pm
Dixon Place
161A Chrystie Street (between Rivington and Delancey)
Subways: F,V to 2nd Ave; J,M,Z to Bowery; B, D to Grand St.
Tickets: $15 general, $12 students/seniors available at www.ovationtix.com
Join us before and after the show at the Dixon Place Theatre Lounge for drinks!
(All Lounge proceeds directly sustain the Dixon Place mission to support artists developing new works of performance)
Costume by Raquel Zarin
Sound Design by Zach Williamson
Assistant Directed by Amy Henault
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Spring Admitted Students Day
Saturday, April 10
The Spiegel Theater
Slots available at:
9:45
10:45
11:45
Sign up sheet in the Drama office
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AUDITIONS FOR FALL DRAMA PROGRAM PRODUCTIONS OF
INTIMATIONS FOR SAXOPHONE, AWAKE AND SING! and CABARET
Auditions are scheduled for April 28, 29, and 30 from 6:00 PM until 10:00 pm. Callbacks will be May 1 and 2 times TBA.
PLEASE READ ALL REQUIREMENTS CAREFULLY. YOU ARE BEING ASKED TO PREPARE SPECIFIC AUDITIONS FOR EACH PIECE. YOUR AUDITIONS WILL BE TIMED SO YOU MUST STAY WITHIN TIME LIMITS!
Auditions for INTIMATIONS FOR SAXOPHONE
The production will use masks and actors will double and triple, playing a variety of characters. Women’s roles include a French maid; a tough cook; an older, domineering mother; a haughty middle aged female English intellectual; et al. Men’s roles include a mature novelist; a compassionate, but conventional husband; a train conductor; an upper class heavy social drinker; a violin playing gypsy et al.
The production is currently planned for 6 men and 6 women to play about 30 roles. One male actor must be (or learn to be) an exceptional dancer. The one major role (not masked) is Lily, a 20-year old girl at the beginning who ages and matures anywhere from five to ten years and about whom the play revolves.
PREPARE TWO ONE-MINUTE (OR SHORTER) MODERN MONOLOGUES and do them in extremely contrasting ways. Try to find vocal and physical characteristics different from your own. These can be funny, grotesque, intense, Give your impulses free rein. Stretch and exaggerate the believable.
INTIMATIONS FOR SAXOPHONE is by Sophie Treadwell, the author of MACHINAL. The play portrays a young woman’s dreamlike quest for maturity, sexual fulfillment and self-realization in a clueless, alienated and ingrown world. Written in 1934 by one of America’s first major female playwrights and produced only once in 2005, INTIMATIONS FOR SAXOPHONE was hailed by many leading theatrical figures of the period as an artistic breakthrough. Robert Edmond Jones, the foremost stage designer of the time, called it “the germ of a new theatrical idiom … a bold step into a new dimension, full of power.”
Auditions for AWAKE AND SING!
PREPARE ONE TWO-MINUTE REALISTIC, SERIOUS MONOLOGUE from an American playwright—preferably someone from the 20s or 30s, although it could also be from Arthur Miller.
All of the characters in Awake and Sing! share a fundamental activity: a struggle for life amidst petty conditions.
BESSIE BERGER, as she herself states, is not only the mother in this home but also the father. She is constantly arranging and taking care of her family. She loves life, likes to laugh, has great resourcefulness and enjoys living from day to day. A high degree of energy accounts for her quick exasperation at ineptitude. She is a shrewd judge of realistic qualities in people in the sense of being able to gauge quickly their effectiveness. In her eyes all of the people in the house are equal. She is naive and quick in emotional response. She is afraid of utter poverty. She is proper according to her own standards, which are fairly close to those of most middle-class families. She knows that when one lives in the jungle one must look out for the wild life.
MYRON, her husband, is a born follower. He would like to be a leader. He would like to make a million dollars. He is not sad or ever depressed. Life is an even sweet event to him, but the “old days” were sweeter yet. He has a dignified sense of himself. He likes people. He likes everything. But he is heartbroken without being aware of it.
HENNIE is a girl who has had few friends, male or female. She is proud of her body. She won’t ask favors. She travels alone. She is fatalistic about being trapped, but will escape if possible. She is self-reliant in the best sense. Till the day she dies she will be faithful to a loved man. She inherits her mother’s sense of humor and energy.
RALPH is a boy with a clean spirit. He wants to know, wants to learn. He is ardent, he is romantic, he is sensitive. He is naïve too. He is trying to find why so much dirt must be cleared away before it is possible to “get to first base.”
JACOB, too, is trying to find a right path for himself and the others. He is aware of justice, of dignity. He is an observer of the others, compares their activities with his real and ideal sense of life. This produces a reflective nature. In this home he is a constant boarder. He is a sentimental idealist with no power to turn ideal to action. With physical facts-such as housework-he putters. But as a barber he demonstrates the flair of an artist. He is an old Jew with living eyes in his tired face.
UNCLE MORTY is a successful American business man with five good senses. Something sinister comes out of the fact that the lives of others seldom touch him deeply. He holds to his own line of life. When he is generous he wants others to be aware of it. He is pleased by attention—a rich relative to the BERGER family. He is a shrewd judge of material values. He will die unmarried. Two and two make four, never five with him. He can blink in the sun for hours, a fat tomcat. Tickle him, he laughs. He lives in a penthouse with a real Japanese butler to serve him. He sleeps with dress models, but not from his own showrooms. He plays cards for hours on end. He smokes expensive cigars. He sees every Mickey Mouse cartoon that appears. He is a 32-degree Mason. He is really deeply intolerant finally.
MOE AXELROD lost a leg in the war. He seldom forgets that fact. He has killed two men in extra-martial activity. He is mordant, bitter. Life has taught him a disbelief in everything, but he will fight his way through. He seldom shows his feelings: fights against his own sensitivity. He has been everywhere and seen everything. All he wants is HENNIE. He is very proud. He scorns the inability of others to make their way in life, but he likes people for whatever good qualities they possess. His passionate outbursts come from a strong but contained emotional mechanism.
SAM FEINSCHREIBER wants to find a home. He is a lonely man, a foreigner in a strange land, hypersensitive about this fact, conditioned by the humiliation of not making his way alone. He has a sense of others laughing at him. At night he gets up and sits alone in the dark. He hears acutely all the small sounds of life. He might have been a poet in another time and place. He approaches his wife as if he were always offering her a delicate flower. Life is a high chill wind weaving itself around his head.
SCHLOSSER, the janitor, is an overworked German whose wife ran away with another man and left him with a young daughter who in turn ran away and joined a burlesque show as chorus girl. The man suffers rheumatic pains. He has lost his identity twenty years before.
AUDITIONS for CABARET
ANYONE INTERESTED IN AUDITIONING FOR CABARET MUST SIGN UP FOR PRELIMINARY AUDITIONS ON WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY AND BE AVAILABLE FOR DANCE CALL ON FRIDAY.
PREPARE 32 BARS OF A MUSICAL THEATER SONG WITH SHEET MUSIC. Accompanist will be provided. Please do not sing anything from CABARET. Everyone will be asked to learn a basic movement routine on Friday. Actors called back for Sally and most ensemble will be asked to learn a more rigorous routine.
CAST NEEDS
MEN:
EMCEE Singing Role
CLIFFORD BRADSHAW Singing Role
HERR SCHULTZ Needs to look older Singing Role
ERNST LUDWIG
WOMEN:
FRAULEIN SCHNEIDER Needs to look older Singing Role
FRAULEIN KOST Singing Role
SALLY BOWLES Singing Role
ENSEMBLE:
These roles will come out of the ensemble…
MAX
BOBBY
VICTOR
TAXI MAN
GERMAN SAILORS
NAZI GUARDS
CUSTOMS OFFICER/MAITRE D’
KIT KAT KLUB WAITERS
TELEPHONE GIRL
TWO LADIES
KIT KAT KLUB GIRLS
GORILLA (Yep…a gorilla)
SPECIAL NEEDS:
The production calls for women who play Tenor Sax, Trombone, Drums, Piano, and/or Accordion, however the director is interested in men or women who play instruments of any kind.
NOTE: BFAs are required to audition for all productions.
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