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"Blithe Spirit" Audition Information

Hello Theatre Majors and Minors -- 

In this Post are:

--Logistical information and links to the Audition Sign-Up Sheet and the Audition Application.

--Character Descriptions for the characters in Blithe Spirit

--Audition Monologues to choose from for next Sunday's auditions

AUDITION LOGISTICS:

Sunday, April 28, 2024 beginning at 2pm in the BABS/Billie Ann Burrill Studio

Sign Up for a 5-minute slot here.

Complete this audition form here (and don't forget to press "send").

If you have any trouble accessing either form, please email me at casey.seymourkim@gmail.com.

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS (The playing ages given below are approximate):

Charles Condomine – 38-45 A successful novelist and socialite, Charles is charming, witty, turns every situation to his advantage and doesn’t seem overly concerned by any turn of events. RP English accent, 1937 upper middle class. 

Ruth Condomine – 33-40 Ruth is practical, has a no-nonsense approach and is blunt to the point of rudeness. She is the impeccable English hostess. RP English accent, 1937 upper middle class. 

Elvira Condomine – 26-33 The ‘Blithe Spirit’ of the title, Elvira is delightful, passionate, carefree and fun. She is also morally questionable, manipulative and petulant. There is an ethereal quality to her and a 1920’s feel. RP English accent. 

Madame Arcati – 50+ Madame Arcati is wildly eccentric but astute, with a physicality belying her appearance. She is an effusive, robust countrywoman. 

Dr George Bradman – 28-65 A kindly doctor who can be seriously boring about his medical research. Dr Bradman is a joker who is skeptical about the occult.  

Mrs Violet Bradman – 25-60 Violet frequently puts her foot in it and is somewhat silly and excitable. She is a well-meaning person. 

Edith – 18+ Edith is an inexperienced and nervous maid who does everything in a flurry. She is naïve and simple. 

AUDITION MONOLOGUES (please choose 1 to present):

RUTH: You really are very sweet. And a little naive, too -- because you imagine that I mind about Elvira being more physically attractive than I am. You're not necessarily being old-fashioned in your view of female psychology -- just a bit didactic. Yes, it's didactic to attribute to one type the defects of another type. For instance, because you know perfectly well that Elvira would mind terribly if you found another woman more attractive physically than she was, it doesn't necessarily follow that I should. Elvira was a more physical person than I. I'm certain of that. It's all a question of degree. I know you love me; but not the wildest stretch of imagination could describe it as the first fine careless rapture. Nor would I want it to be -- Good God, no. We're neither of us adolescent, Charles; we've neither of us led exactly prim lives, have we? And we've both been married before. Careless rapture at this stage would be incongruous and embarrassing. 

RUTH: I've been making polite conversation all through dinner last night and breakfast and lunch today -- and it's been a nightmare and I'm not going to do it any more. I don't like Elvira any more than she likes me, and what's more, I'm certain that I never could have, dead or alive. If, since her untimely arrival here the other evening, she had shown the slightest sign of good manners, the slightest sign of breeding, I might have felt differently towards her, but all she has done is try to make mischief between us and have private jokes with you against me.  I am now going up to my room and I shall have my dinner on a tray. You and she can have the house to yourselves and joke and gossip with each other to your heart's content. The first thing in the morning I am going up to London to interview the Psychical Research Society, and if they fail me I shall go straight tot he Archbishop of Canterbury!

CHARLES: When I was a little boy an aunt of mine used to come and stay with us. She imagined that she was a medium and used to go off into the most elaborate trances after dinner. My mother was fascinated by it. She naturally disliked my aunt and loved making a fool of her. Oh, sometimes my aunt didn't do so badly. On one occasion when we were all sitting round in the pitch dark with my mother groping her way through Chaminade at the piano, my aunt suddenly gave a shrill scream and said that she saw a small black dog by my chair. Then someone switched on the lights and sure enough there it was. It was obviously a stray that had come in from the street. But I must say I took off my hat to Auntie for producing it, or rather for utilizing it. Even Mother was a bit shaken... That dog lived with us for years. 

ELVIRA. I sat there, on the other side, just longing for you day after day. I did really. All through your affair with that brassy-looking woman in the South of France I went on loving you and thinking truly of you. Then you married Ruth and even then I forgave you and tried to understand because all the time I believed deep inside that you really loved me best . . . that's why I put myself down for a return visit and had to fill in all those forms and wait about in drafty passages for hours. If only you'd died before you met Ruth, everything might have been all right. She's absolutely ruined you. I hadn't been in the house a day before I realized that. Your books aren't a quarter as good as they used to be, either. 

MADAME ARCATI: I first discovered that I had these extra-ordinary powers when I was quite tiny.  My mother was a medium before me, you know, and so I had every opportunity of starting on the ground floor, as you might say. I had my first trance when I was four years old and my first ectoplasmic mani- festation when I was five and a half. What an exciting day that was! I shall never forget it. Of course the manifestation itself was quite small and of very short duration, but, for a child of my tender years, it was most gratifying. My mother was so pleased. I cannot foretell the future -- certainly not. I disapprove of fortune tellers most strongly.

MRS. BRADMAN: That happens sometimes, you know. Everything seems to go wrong at once. Exactly as though there were some evil forces at work. I remember once when George and I went away for a fortnight's holiday, not long after we were married, we were dogged by bad luck from beginning to end. The weather was vile. George sprained his ankle-- and I caught a cold and had to stay in bed for two days and to crown everything the lamp fell over in the sitting room and set fire to the treatise George had written on hyperplasia of the abdominal glands. It was dreadful. He had to write it all over again, every single word.

DR. BRADMAN: Nothing to worry about, Mrs Condomine -- ­it's only a slight strain. He made a good deal of fuss when I examined it. Men are much worse patients than women, you know­, particularly highly ­strung men like your husband. As a matter of fact I wanted to talk to you about that: I'm afraid he's been overworking lately. He's in rather a nervous condition -- ­nothing serious, you understand­- but I know the symptoms. Of course the shock of his fall might have something to do with it, but I certainly should advise a complete rest for a couple of weeks. In cases like that a change of atmosphere can work wonders. There's nothing to be unduly alarmed about, but he demonstrates a certain inability to focus his eyes on the person he is talking to, ­a few rather marked irrelevancies in his conversation... He suddenly shouted, 'What are you doing in the bathroom?' and then a little later, while I was writing him a prescription, he suddenly said, 'For God's sake behave yourself!' Oh, I am not in the least perturbed about it really, ­but I do think a rest and a change would be a good idea. 

THTR 091 -- Seniors Video Submissions

Hello Graduating Seniors!

For your 091 meeting with Bill and Casey:

Performance concentrators: please upload one monologue to the padlet page and be prepared to do one monologue that Bill and Casey choose from your portfolio.

Musical Theatre concentrators: please upload one monologue and one song to the padlet page and be prepared to do one monologue that Bill and Casey choose from your portfolio.

Thank you and we'll see you soon!

Fall Production Announcement!

We are happy to announce the first production of the Fall 2024-2025 Season:

Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward

directed by Casey Seymour Kim

Blithe Spirit? What's That?

Blithe Spirit is a comedy-of-manners -- a style of comedy that is designed to lampoon the behavior, actions, fashions, priorities of the social classes (usually the upper class). It relies on witty language, ironic tone, and ridiculous circumstances. Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde are the playwrights most commonly associated with this genre (although American examples of this genre include the movies My Man Godfrey, The Graduate, and many Woody Allen films). 

RIC has not done a comedy-of-manners in almost a decade!

And Bonus: Blithe Spirit has ghosts!

Wait -- ghosts? What's this play about?

Blithe Spirit concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant Madame Arcati to his house to conduct a seance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his willful and temperamental first wife, Elvira, after the seance. Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles' marriage to his second wife, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost.

Anyhow. There are 7 characters: 5 female-identified, 2 male-identified. If you want more information, you can check out the Wiki Page here. 

What about Auditions? 

Over the weekend I (Casey) will post character descriptions and monologues for auditioners to present at auditions on April 28.  Auditioners may choose to present 1-2 pieces.

I do not expect the monologues to be memorized, but do try to be very familiar with them so that you can make acting choices/look up from the page. Do NOT read these monologues off your phone at the audition. 

(I will have printed out monologues available upstairs in the MTD main office, as well as at the audition itself.)

and Performance Dates?

We do not yet have official performance dates for this production. Rehearsals for the Fall show usually begin the week before classes start, and the production runs around the first weekend in October.

More soon--now go see Cry-Baby!

THTR 091 -- Upload Videos to this Padlet Link

ALL SUBMISSIONS FOR THEATRE 091 SHOULD BE UPLOADED TO:

THIS PADLET LINK: 

https://padlet.com/caseyseymourkim/thtr-091-spring-2024-ih1wljxi62q725j9

(to upload, click on the small plus sign on the lower righthand corner of the Padlet Page.)

Please submit your material by Wednesday evening before your Friday scheduled appointment with 

Bill and Casey.

Thank you!

Casey SK and Bill W

Performance and Design Opportunities

Rebecca Maxfield (director of Macbeth) has reached out letting us know about some opportunities with Head Trick Theatre. 

Rebecca said that Head Trick is looking for a few design positions (costume and sound for July, lighting for July and November) and let us know about their upcoming auditions. If you are interested or would like more information about any of the design positions, please reach out to Rebecca directly at 

rebecca.a.maxfield@gmail.com

For audition and show information please see the links below. 

Head Trick 2024 Season

Head Trick Audition Information 

Theatre 091 Schedule

 THTR 091 Schedule

FRIDAY April 19th Billie Ann Burrill Movement/Rehearsal space

1:00     Keyanna Mulvey

1:10     Bailey Oliveira

1:20     Nyah Price

1:30     Emma McKay

1:40     Wilmarie Castillo

1:50     Matt Macy

2:00     Mariana Villa Jaramillo

2:10     BREAK

2:20     Ella Redding

2:30     Molly Dunlop

2:40     Terry Johnson Green

2:50     Cal Ouellette

3:00     Molly McCrone

3:10     Nico DeCarvalho

3:20     Brandon Soriano

FRIDAY, April 26th Billie Ann Burrill Movement/Rehearsal space

1:00     Ashley Aldarondo

1:10     Kayla Botelho

1:20     Madaline Brown

1:30     Steven Cere

1:40     Katherine Culhane

1:50     Gianna DaSilva

2:00     Korina Daniels

2:10     BREAK

2:20     Jasson DeLeon

2:30     Rebecca DeVivo

2:40     Colleen Farrell

2:50     Jeffrey Gonzalez

3:00     Andrew Leger

3:10     Deanna Irizarry

3:20     Shawn T. Simmons

FRIDAY, May 3rd Billie Ann Burrill Movement/Rehearsal space

1:30     Isabella McElroy

1:40     Aida Menacho Aliaga

1:50     Amaya Moniz

2:00     Sam Wright

2:10     Caleigh Pearce

2:20     BREAK

2:30     Marcos Pimental

2:40     Derek Rivera

2:50     Abigail Saccone

3:00     Elizabeth Seastrom

3:10     Nayeli Vasquez

3:20     Eliza Vecchiarelli

Audition Opportunity

New Bedford Festival Theatre announces a call for submissions for the production of NUNSENSE. NON-AEA performers can submit from Tuesday, April 2 through Tuesday, April 16, 2024. In person callbacks will be held April 20, 2024.

Please prepare a short song in the style of the show.
NUNSENSE - Rehearsals will run from July 15 - August 8, Mon-Fri 6-10 pm, Sat 9-5. Performances will run from August 9 - August 18, 2024 at the Steeple Playhouse in New Bedford.
Housing will not be provided for this contract. This is a stipend-paying gig!
Nunsense is an all-female show. NBFT encourages female-presenting performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages to attend. Must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.
Email casting@nbfestivaltheatre.com to submit or for more details.

NUNSENSE
Director - Elizabeth Bettencourt
Choreographer - Brooklyn Toli
Music Director - Jameson Ward
Producing Artistic Director - Elizabeth Bettencourt
Character Breakdown -
SISTER MARY REGINA, MOTHER SUPERIOR: Female, 40's-60’s (Range: B3-F5)
A feisty overweight Sophie Tucker-type who can't resist the spotlight.
SISTER MARY HUBERT, MISTRESS OF NOVICES: Female, Mid 30’s-50’s (Range: G3-F5)
The second in command, she is always competing with the Mother Superior.
SISTER ROBERT ANNE: Female, Mid 20’s-30's (Range: G3-D5)
A streetwise character from Brooklyn. A constant source of aggravation for the Mother Superior.
SISTER MARY AMNESIA: Female, Late 20's-30’s (Range: Db4-C6)
This nun lost her memory after a crucifix fell on her head. She is very sweet.
SISTER MARY LEO: Female, Early/Mid 20’s-30’s (Range: G#3-G5)
The novice, who has entered the convent with the firm desire to become the first nun ballerina.
Nunsense is a hilarious spoof about the misadventures of five nuns trying to manage a fundraiser. Sadly, the rest of the sisterhood died from botulism after eating vichyssoise prepared by Sister Julia Child of God. Thus, the remaining nuns – ballet-loving Sister Leo, street-wise Sister Robert Anne, befuddled Sister Mary Amnesia, the Mother Superior Sister Regina, and mistress of the novices Sister Mary Hubert – stage a talent show in order to raise the money to bury their dearly departed. 

Applications to Direct on the Growing Stage Next Year

 Applications to direct on the Growing Stage next year are now available!

If you are interested in directing a Growing Stage production, please see this link for an application.

Application forms with your resume, potential show choices, and letter of intent are due by Friday, April 12. 

Email the materials to Taylor Santoro at tsantoro@ric.edu, using the subject heading: 

RIC GS DIRECTOR APPLICATION

As there is a limited budget, Growing Stage shows should have smaller casts and not rely heavily on spectacle.

Thank you and if you have any questions about Growing Stage you may contact Casey at casey.seymourkim@gmail.com.

Job Opportunity: Camp Micah

I am an assistant director at Camp Micah, an overnight summer camp located in Maine. We are looking for someone to join our theatre program this summer as a technical theatre director! I wanted to extend this opportunity to students in your program if you think they would be interested. It is a residential position with all food and housing included, so it is a great job for a college student who loves working with kids and has a passion for theatre! I would be happy to share more information with you or any students who are interested. Feel free to call or email me if you have any questions.

Thank you!

Josh Seidman

508-361-3175

josh@campmicah.com