ASM needed

Hello all! We are looking for one more ASM for Failure: a Love Story. If you're interested and available, please email Nicki at nshaw1@ric.edu

Thanks!

Failure Rehearsal Schedule 9/8-9/10

 Hi everyone,

Below is the Rehearsal schedule for Failure from 9/8-9/10. If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to Abby (amedeiros_3150@email.ric.edu).

Avery & Marcos are not called this week. 

Note for Stephen: I will be collecting noise making objects this week with some designers. I haven’t called you for rehearsal this week because I don’t want you to have nothing to do, but you are welcome to come and observe whenever you’d like.

End of week: Block Scenes 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 (without the Gramophone Team)

Tuesday	Goal: Block Scenes 2+3 7-8pm Developing clock chorus physicality, voices etc 8-8:30 start blocking Sc 2, (catch up the additional clocks) 8:30-8:40 break 8:40-9:15 finish Sc 2   9:15 - 10 Block Sc 3	Call: 7:00 - 8:00pm- Suri, Ariana, Owen, Antonio, Willem & Ashley called 8:00-8:30   Add Sam, Ali, Miles, Roby 9:00 Add Kayla 9:15 Ali released  10:00 All released
Wednesday ** ALL dance students (Avery, Marcos, Ali, Miles, Roby) will be absent, this is pre-approved ** Unlikely that we will touch Mortimer Mortimer’s song in this rehearsal	Goal: block Scenes 4+7 7-8pm Block Sc. 4 with Harold and Owen 8-8:30 Start Scene 7  8:30-8:40 break 8:40-10 Complete Scene 7 (if there’s time we can go back and fill in the end of scene 6 leading into 7) With any additional time, begin to generate physical vocabulary for swimming	Call: 7:00 - Harold, Owen, Ashley 8:00 - Add Briana, Sam, Antonio, Harold, Ariana, Suri, Willem **no Miles or Roby
Thursday	Goal: Block Sc. 5 and develop swimming material 7-8 Scenework Nelly/Mortimer, JJ/Mortimer, JN/Mortimer 8-8:30  Start blocking Sc 5, incorporating animals & chorus 8:30-8:40 Break  8:40-9:30 Finish Blocking sc. 5 9:30-10:00 continue to explore the physicality of Jenny June’s swimming scene	Call: 7:00 - Briana, Sam, Harold, Kayla 8:00 - Add Miles, Roby, Ariana, Ali           8:30 Kayla is released  10:00 All released

Weekly Schedule: 9/6 - 9/12

SUNDAY, 9/6

 - Failure rehearsal cancelled

MONDAY, 9/7
College closed - Happy Labor Day!

TUESDAY, 9/8

6:00-9:30pm - Dance 216: rehearsal for MINI concert

7:00-10:00pm - Failure rehearsal

WEDNESDAY, 9/9

6:00-9:30pm - Dance 116: rehearsal for MINI concert

7:00-10:00pm - Failure rehearsal

THURSDAY, 9/10

6:00-9:30pm - Dance 116: rehearsal for MINI concert

7:00-10:00pm - Failure rehearsal

FRIDAY, 9/11

3:00pm - Failure production meeting (Zoom)

Failure: A Love Story Cast List

 Hi everyone,

Thank you all for your work during auditions and callbacks. You all have such amazing talent!

 Cast List:
Mortimer - Sam Deady
Gerty - Ali DaSilva
Jenny June - Briana Lawrence
Nelly - Kayla Botelho
John N - Harold Trafford
Gramophone - Avery Kuznar
Musician - Marcos Mendoza-Cabrera
Foley Artist - Stephen Addiss

CHORUS:
(note: in addition to the roles listed below, the chorus will serve as "world builders" in the play)

Henry Fail - Willem Conley
Marietta Fail - Ashley Ouellette
Gerty's Clock - Suri Nguyen
Pal - Owen Walsh
Mae - Ariana Montanaro
December - Miles Mailloux
Grantland Rice - Antonio Ross
Johnny Weismuller - Robert Goulet Jr.

Thank you all again for your hard work. Reminder that rehearsals begin tonight at 7:00. Also, if anyone in the cast is available today from 2:00-4:00, you can stop by the costume shop for fittings. If you have any questions or concerns please reach out to Abby Medeiros (amedeiros_3150@email.ric.edu).

Thank you,

Abigail Medeiros

Theatre 178, 278, 378, 478

If you are enrolled in THTR 178, 278, 378, or 478 there are no 7:00pm meetings this week! 

Please just attend the Theatre & Dance Welcome Meeting on Friday at 1:00pm in Sapinsley Hall!

Questions? Please email Casey Seymour Kim (jwalrad1@ric.edu). Thanks!

Callback List for Failure: A Love Story

 Great job to everyone who auditioned today! Thank you for your efforts and willingness to be creative and have fun.

Below is the list for callbacks. They will be taking place tomorrow, Monday 8/31 from 7:00-10:00 with a possibility of ending earlier.

Callback List

Miles Mailloux
Ashley Ouellette
Erin Rausch
Lily Mis
Liliana Varela
Antonio Ross
Laura Donnelly
Sam Deady
Brandon Soriano
Stephen Addiss
Avery Kuznar
Ali DaSilva
Nolan Tripp
Owen Walsh
Willem Conley
Briana Lawrence
Kayla Botelho
Harold Trafford
Leilani Lavallee
Suri Nguyen
Robert Goulet
Sandra Louis
Ariana Montanaro
Marcos Mendoza Cabrera
Adam Combs

 Please familiarize yourselves with the script and come dressed to move. Also note you may be asked to sing a short piece or play an instrument. If you play an instrument and you have your own please feel free to bring it with you.

Thank you all again for auditioning today, you each did an amazing job!

Have a great night,

Abigail Medeiros

Welcome Back! Weekly Schedule: 8/30-9/4

Welcome Back, Theatre & Dance!!

SUNDAY, 8/30

1:00-6:00pm - Auditions for Failure: A Love Story

        *Please see this post for more details!

MONDAY, 8/31
1st Day of Classes!

6:00-9:30pm - Dance 116: rehearsal for MINI concert

7:00-10:00pm - Callbacks for Failure: A Love Story

TUESDAY, 9/1

6:00-9:30pm - Dance 216: rehearsal for MINI concert

7:00-10:00pm - Failure 1st rehearsal

WEDNESDAY, 9/2

6:00-9:30pm - Dance 116: rehearsal for MINI concert

7:00-10:00pm - Failure rehearsal

THURSDAY, 9/3

6:00-9:30pm - Dance 116: rehearsal for MINI concert

7:00-10:00pm - Failure rehearsal

FRIDAY, 9/4

1:00pm - Welcome Back Meeting (Sapinsley Hall)

        *All Theatre and Dance Majors and Minors should attend!

Reminders -

Meeting will now be in Sapinsley at 1:00pm!!

Theatre & Dance Welcome Meeting!

Please plan to join us in the Forman Theatre at 12pm on Friday, September 4th!!

We will be welcoming new students, reviewing all upcoming events, fielding your questions, and setting expectations for the coming semester.

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Theatre Auditions!

If you have not signed up to audition for Failure: A Love Story, please do so using this Callboard post! 

Auditions are this Sunday!

Connections Course Offered -- LARP Focus!

 Dr. Janice Okoomian here.  I want to tell you about my exciting new course that will run this fall (and also hopefully in Spring 2027).  It's called "Debating Gender Issues through Role-Playing Games," (GEND 263) and it meets Tuesdays and Thursdays 10-11:50.

If you haven't yet taken your Connections course in GenEd, this course might be for you!  This course uses an exciting new approach to education called Reacting to the Past. Reacting courses consist of elaborate LARP (live action role-playing) games set in the past in which each of you will be assigned a role — many of the roles are real historical figures, while others are fictionalized. 

During the semester, we will play two games that focus on gender issues such as voting rights, sexual freedom, the plight of working-class women, equity in the arts, and more.

The first game, "Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the 'New Woman'", is set in New York.  There are two factions: suffrage and labor, and then there are lots of bohemians who are living in Greenwich Village — artists, journalists, teachers, feminists, radicals of various stripes, wealthy socialites — and they have to choose between suffrage and labor.  We'll be reading sources from the period to help you understand the issues, and then you will all write a speech to deliver in character.  There's also a session that is a "salon" where you can do performances, again in character.

The second game is about the Guerilla Girls, a feminist activist group, formed in the 1980s, that calls out the art world (this is the fine art world) about its sexism in playful and humorous ways.

I think these games are an incredibly fun way to learn about history and gender issues, and I hope as many of you will join in as possible.

Please feel free to email me if you have any questions or if you have trouble enrolling.

I hope to see some of you this fall!

Auditions for Failure: A Love Story

A bit about the show & auditions from Director Anna Basile:

Auditions for Failure: A Love Story

A clock shop in 1920’s Chicago. A river: of life, of death, and of time. And three sisters, each swimming against the currents of memory, love, and ambition. 

The play itself: 

Kind of a wild romp! A piece of absurd poetry plopped onstage! Failure is a script jam-packed with dense language, and expansive in its opportunities for innovative staging. 

The five principal characters will each be played by a designated actor, and a chorus will be tasked with playing many different parts with the help of puppets and shadow play and more. Two actors will be responsible for performing live foley (think radio play or practical sound effects) and another two will perform as the Gramophone and its accompanist, bringing to life the musical component of the show. 

What to expect in auditions: 

Come dressed ready to move; this is an ensemble heavy show whose engine is high-energy, embodied storytelling. ***Actors with mobility aids or access needs of any kind should not feel discouraged from auditioning. I firmly believe that all bodies are compelling messengers of story and deserving of accommodation.  

Actors will audition in groups, using pieces of text from the show (printouts provided day of). You need not be memorized, I prefer that you focus on showcasing your comprehension and facility with language. Be straight up goofy with it. Silly voices, added sound effects, mimed sequences, all of it yes please!

There will be a short portion of the audition when we will generate material as a group. I will provide a prompt and ask the group to create a vignette. Nothing polished, nothing complete, low stakes environment. I am looking for: playfulness, teamwork, and an openness to failing without hiding and with a sense of humor. 

Characters, briefly

NELLY FAIL, the youngest

JENNY JUNE FAIL, the middlest

GERTRUDE FAIL, the eldest

JOHN N. FAIL, the brother

MORTIMER MORTIMER, the lover

Auditions are August 30th starting at 1:00. Please use the Audition Sign Up Sheet to confirm your timeslot and fill out the Audition Form.

If you have any questions regarding the show or auditions, please reach out to Abby Medeiros (amedeiros_3150@email.ric.edu)

Thank you!