AUDITIONS

Thornton Wilder One Act Plays

AUDITIONS FOR
One Act Play Festival
Celebrating
​Thornton WIlder

Thursday, January 16th at 6:30-8pm
& Sun., January 19th at 5-6:30pm

Directed by Heather Ferris, Erin Hodge & Walker Kapral

Show Dates:
​February 28 & 29 at 7:30pm
& March 1 at 2pm 

​Auditions are held at Harvester 56 Theater:
​56 Harvester Ave., Batavia, NY 14020.

Synopsis of each play:

Queens of France
1 man and 3 women
In this one act set in New Orleans in 1869, a charlatan of a lawyer preys on vulnerable women, convincing each one that she is a legitimate descendant of the long-lost Dauphin.  He tells each woman that she is the rightful Queen of France.  Each woman, inspired by visions of wealth, palaces, and power, responds in her own fashion to the ridiculous lawyer’s claims.
Love and How to Cure It
2 men (19-25 and 40+) and 2 women (15-19* and 30+)
This one act play is set in SoHo, London on the stage of the Tivoli Palace of Music in April 1895.  The young man is in love with the teenage dancer.  The teenage dancer doesn’t like the young man and thinks he might be stalking her.  She fears he might want to kill her.  The young man doesn’t plan on killing her, but is planning on killing himself because the girl has rejected him.  The girl’s aunt, an actress and singer, and a male comedian try to cure the young man, and at the same time, teach him what true love really means.
Such Things Only Happen In Books
3 men and 1 woman
This one act revolves around a lordly novelist, his wife, their doctor, and a visiting stranger who get caught up in a murder mystery in a haunted house.  The novelist loves lecturing his wife about how there are no plots in life.  Of course, what the novelist doesn’t know is that his wife is cheating on him with their doctor.  The doctor reveals not only their infidelity but a whole series of jailbreaks, murders, and buried treasure all of which have taken place in the novelists own home.
 
If you are interested in singing during the show, please prepare to sing the “Razzle Dazzle” piece (Download sheet music and accompaniment below).  Please note that we are looking for this to be more cabaret-style and less like the character from “Chicago.”   

*Additionally, for the role of the teenage girl in Love and How to Cure It, we are looking for a girl with dance experience (pointe or ballet preferred, but any dance will be considered).  Please come prepared to dance to the first minute and five seconds of  “Swan Lake” music HERE.

Love's Labour's Lost by shakespeare

Auditions for
Shakespeare in Springtime
Love's Labour's Lost

Sat., January 18th at 2-4pm
& Sun., January 19th at 7-9pm

Directed by Anthony Baldwin-Giambrone

Show Dates:
​March 27 & 28 at 7:30pm
& March 29 at 2pm 

​Auditions are held at Harvester 56 Theater:
​56 Harvester Ave., Batavia, NY 14020.


One of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies that follows the King of Navarre and three of his companions as they attempt to swear off the company of women as for three years as they focus on studying and fasting. All of this becomes an impossibility as they become infatuated with the Princess of France and her beguiling court.

Nothing to prepare ahead of audition.

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