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GENERAL AUDITION - BLUE BRIDGE REPERTORY THEATRE - VICTORIA , BC
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Audition day 1: 11/24/2013
City: Victoria BC

Audition day 2: 11/26/2013
City: Victoria BC

Audition day 3: 11/28/2013
City: Vancouver BC

Artistic Director or casting person in attendance: Brian Richmond
Deadline to submit: 11/15/2013
Email applications to: talent at bluebridgetheatre.ca
Contact name: Matthew McLaren
Contact email: talent at bluebridgetheatre.ca
Contact phone: N/A
Engager website: www.bluebridgetheatre.ca
Link to detailed casting information: www.bluebridgetheatre.ca

Additional information:
Actors and Stage Managers interested in being considered for BBRT's upcoming productions of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Mercedes Batiz-Benet's adaptation  and Ken Mitchell's and Humphrey and the Dumptrucks'Cruel Tears (Lagrimas Crueles), should submit their resumes to:

Additional information:

Vancouver Auditions-Granville Island Cultural Society -
Equity ONLY

Victoria Auditions-Roxy Theatre - Equity and Non-Equity.

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Director - Brian Richmond

Rehearsals start; January 21, 2014
Previews; February 11, 12
Opens: February 13
Closes:February 23
Hold Over Option:March 2

Prepare a 1-2 minute contemporary monologue.


CHARACTERS

Amanda Wingfield: 40 to 55 - A faded Southern belle abandoned by her husband who is trying to raise her two children under harsh financial conditions.

Laura Wingfield: 18 to 20 - Amanda's daughter and Tom's older sister. A childhood illness has left her with a limp, and she has a mental fragility and an inferiority complex that have isolated her from the outside world. She has created a world of her own symbolized by her collection of glass figurines.

Tom Wingfield: 20 to 26 - Amanda's son and Laura's younger brother. Tom works at a shoe warehouse to support his family but is frustrated by his job and aspires to be a poet. He struggles to write and he escapes from reality through nightly excursions, apparently to the movies but also to local bars.

Jim O'Conner: 20 to 27 - An old high school acquaintance of Tom and Laura. Jim was a popular athlete and actor during his days at Soldan High School. Subsequent years have been less kind to Jim, however, and by the time of the play's action he is working as a shipping clerk at the same shoe warehouse as Tom.

Cruel Tears/Lagrimas Crueles by Ken Mitchell and Humphrey and the Dumptrucks, Adapted by Mercedes Batiz-Benet  
Director - Brian Richmond

Rehearsals start; April 8, 2014
Previews;April 29,30
Opens: May 1
Closes: May 11
Hold Over Option: May 18

CHARACTERS

Juan Ramirez: 30's to 40's - A Mexican truck driver. Sings and possibly plays guitar in the style of Johnny Cash. Fluent Spanish a necessity. 

Kathy Jensen: - late teens early 20's. A Texas university student and daughter of the trucking company where Juan works. Sings in the style of Emmy Lou Harris or Linda Ronstad. Suspects her widowed father is hiding something about her lineage.

Juan (Jack) Deal: 30's to 40's. 'Best' friend to Juan Ramirez. Mixed blood American. Mother likely Mexican. Speaks perfect Spanish reluctantly. Sings in the Texan and Norteno talking Blues style.

Flora Deal: 30's to 40's. Jack's wife who has seen it all. She can wail a country song in the best old country tradition.

Earl Jensen: 50's to 60's. A tough man in charge of other tough men whose only love is his daughter.

Ricky Yates: 20's. The preety boy at Jensen's Trucking. Confident, cocky he's able to sing and play in a barn burning style. Speaks Spanish fluently when called upon.

Roy Carter: 30's to 40's. Not terribly bright but absolutely adorable, Debbie Lou Belinsky is his Beatrice. Sings sadly. Speaks broken Spanish.

Debbie Lou Belinsky: 30's to 40's. The server at the bar where all the truckers hang out, she has seen it all and is beginning to wonder whether Roy is not her best and only option.

Policeman and Filthy Phil: 30's to 40's. Filthy Phil is the main role here - a man who never met an obsenity in either English or Spanish that he didn't find perpetually hilarious.

Vocal Chorus: Any age. Either Mexiacn or American. Three musician/singers who are highly skilled in the playing and singing of the popular music that existed in the border towns between Mexico and the U.S. in the 1970's.

Chorus: 20's. Two dancer/mimes of mixed gender and ethnicity.

The ability to speak and sing Spanish will be required in some roles and desirable in others.

Please be prepared to sing and dance. An accompanist will be provided (please provide sheet music). If you play an instrument, you are encouraged to bring it with you.

Prepare a 1-2 minute contemporary monologue.

Resumes and headshots should be submitted to Matthew McLaren at talent at bluebridgetheatre.ca.  No phone calls please. We are sorry, but due to the anticipated volume of requests, we will not be able to see everyone and encourage applicants and their agents to make themselves aware of the casting needs for each project.

Equity members will be seen first at all open audition calls. Equity members cast in this production will be engaged under an Equity form of contract. CAEA members: please bring your membership card to the audition.
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