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Auditions for A Little Night Music by MAD, Aug 7 & 9

Auditions for A Little Night Music by MAD, Aug 7 & 9

MAD Theater announce auditions for:
Goddard’s Music and Drama Club, MAD Theater announce auditions for:
A Little Night Music
by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler
based on Ingmar Bergman’s Smiles of a Summer Night
Directed by Randy Barth

Auditions: August 7 & 9, 2023
7pm each night. Callbacks will be August 12.

Performances: November 3 – 19, 2023; Friday and Saturday evenings; Sunday matinees

Location: Goddard Space Flight Center’s MAD Theater.

Update: due to a rights issue, the show will be Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music.

The MAD Board has selected Stephen Sondheim’s Company as its 2023 Fall Show. We’ve applied for the rights and should hear soon. (On the off chance that it is denied, we will apply for A Little Night Music instead.) Auditions will be held August 7 and 9 from 7:00-9:00 and callbacks August 12 from 1:00-3:00 at the Goddard Visitor’s Center, so you will not need badges to attend. The Visitor’s Center is located just to the left of the Goddard Main Gate off ICESat Road. Audition materials are being made available in MAD’s member services area, https://madtheaterarchive.org/mem. Contact director Randy Barth (Randy.Barth@comcast.net) if you need the password. Eight performances are planned for the Rec Center Nov. 3-19 (Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees). Auditions favor members (employees, civil service retirees, and immediate families, plus those approved for non-voting member status), but guests may be selected if there are unfilled openings. Contact Randy if you have questions about your membership status or eligibility. All races, ethnicities, and orientations are welcome.

Tickets: TBD

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Auditions for The 39 Steps by Upstage Artists, Jun 30 & Jul 1

Auditions for The 39 Steps by Upstage Artists, Jun 30 & Jul 1

Upstage Artists announce auditions for:
The 39 Steps
Adapted by Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan
Directed By Rick Bergmann

Auditions: June 30 and July 1, 2023

Performances: September 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24, 2023

Location: Upstage Artists, performing at the Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville MD, 20705

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of four), an onstage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers, and some good old-fashioned romance!

For more information and to register for auditions, click here.

Auditions for Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical by 2nd Star Productions at the Bowie Playhouse, Jun 19-20

Auditions for Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical by 2nd Star Productions at the Bowie Playhouse, Jun 19-20

2nd Star Productions at the Bowie Playhouse announces auditions for:
Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical
Book by Dennis Kelly
Songs by Tim Minchin
Director: Angela Germanos
Music Directors: Sarah Mitchell & Joseph Simon
Choreographer: Rosslyn Burrs
Producers: Katie Riegel & Laura Fisher

June 19 & 20, 2023

Location: 2nd Star Productions at the Bowie Playhouse

Matilda is a little girl with astonishing wit, intelligence and psychokinetic powers. She’s unloved by her cruel parents but impresses her schoolteacher Miss Honey. During her first term at school, the two forge a bond as Miss Honey begins to recognize and appreciate Matilda’s extraordinary personality. Matilda’s school life isn’t completely smooth sailing, however – the school’s mean headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, hates children and just loves to punish those who don’t abide by her rules. But Matilda has courage and cleverness in equal amounts, and could be the school pupils’ saving grace!

Performances: September 15 – October 14, 2023; Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays and Sundays at 2pm

For more information click here.

Auditions for The Absence of a Cello by the Bowie Community Theatre, May 2-3

Auditions for The Absence of a Cello by the Bowie Community Theatre, May 2-3

Bowie Community Theatre announces auditions for:
The Absence of a Cello
by Ira Wallach
directed by Ilene Chalmers

May 2 & 3, 2023

Location: Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse

As Martin Gottfried describes: “It is about a physicist who needs money so badly he turns to the $60,000-a-year job offered by a big corporation. He wants the job, but does the company want him? Mr. Personnel is sent to find out. What seems to be starting out as a shopworn target—individuality versus conformity—turns out to be an ingeniously conceived comical discussion of honesty and truth. After being coached by a gray-flanneled collegiate on how to be what every company wants, the scientist is prepared to confront the enemy (after quickly trading in his rolled-up trousers and flapping shirt for a neat brown suit)…He hides the cello he plays with pick-up quartets, he hides the medieval history books his wife writes, he hides all but the acceptable three liquor bottles. He hides, in fact, everything that he and his wife are. And hauls out the television set…What follows is a literately comical playaround with industrial conformity that for sheer humor is, well, wonderfully adult.”

Performances: July 21 – August 13, 2023

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Auditions for Merrily We Roll Along at Greenbelt Arts Center, Apr 23-25

Auditions for Merrily We Roll Along at Greenbelt Arts Center, Apr 23-25

Greenbelt Arts Center announces auditions for:
The Greenbelt Arts Center Presents:
Merrily We Roll Along
music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
book by George Furth
directed by Roy Hammond
music directed by Joe Biddle
choreography by Rikki Howie Lacewell

April 23 – 25, 2023

Auditions: Sun. Apr. 23, Mon. Apr. 24, and Tues. Apr. 25 at 7:00 pm. Callbacks, if needed, will be Wed. Apr. 26 at 7:00 pm.

Performances: July 21 – August 12, 2023

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

The show tells the story of how three friends’ lives and friendship change over 20 years; it focuses particularly on Franklin Shepard, a talented composer of musicals who, over those 20 years, abandons his friends and songwriting career to become a producer of Hollywood movies. Like the play on which it is based, the show’s story moves backward in time. It begins in 1976 at the friends’ lowest moment and ends in 1957, at their youthful best.

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