Undergraduate
Invitation to Playhouse Jr. Auditions
Saint Michael's Playhouse Children's Theater Company
Contact Information:
Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
Actors of all ages are invited to audition for the upcoming season of Playhouse Jr, the Children's Theater Company at Saint Michael's Playhouse. The 2009 productions are CINDERELLA and A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD.
Auditions, open to the public, will be held Sunday, May 31, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the McCarthy Arts Center on the campus of Saint Michael's College.
Playhouse Jr is directed and choreographed by Equity professional, Marc Tumminelli, with musical direction by Catherine Gaylord. The cast may include actors from Saint Michael's College and the Greater Burlington area. Playhouse Jr has been a big crowd pleaser, with more than 1,500 audience members attending a production in 2008.
For an audition appointment, e-mail playhousejunior@gmail.com and prepare an up-tempo musical theater song and bring a photo and a performance resume, if possible. Actors of all ages and skill levels are encouraged to attend. Accompanist will be provided. Walk-ins will be seen if time permits.
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CINDERELLA
Performance dates:
Saturday, June 20, 10 a.m.
Sunday, June 21, 10 a.m. and 12 noon
Saturday, June 27, 10 a.m.
Seeking six women, three men, four children: Cinderella, Stepmother, Stepsisters, Fairy Godmother, Prince, King, Queen, Prince's Steward, mice.
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A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD
Performance dates:
Friday, July 3, 11 a.m.
Sunday, July 5, 10 a.m. and 12 noon
Seeking two women, three men: Man 1 (Frog), Man 2 (Toad), Man 3 (Bird, Snail, Lizard, Father Frog, Mole), Woman 1 (Bird, Turtle, Squirrel, Mother Frog, Mole), Woman 2 (Bird, Mouse, Squirrel, Young Frog, Mole)
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Director Marc Tumminelli, creator of a youth theater program in New York, has acted in a number of Saint Michael's Playhouse productions, including Brighton Beach Memoirs. His New York City credits include Gypsy staring Patti LuPone, Lost In Yonkers, Torch Song Trilogy, Oklahoma, Oliver!, Shenandoah, The Dresser, Rags, Crazy For You, Bring Back Birdie and Pippin starring Rosie O'Donnell and Ben Vereen, and more. His film/TV credits include HBO's The Sopranos and A Beautiful Mind.
Saint Michael's Playhouse is Greater Burlington's professional summer theater, celebrating live theater, nationally renowned Equity actors, and a Professional Theater Internship Program for college students in the heart of Northern Vermont's liveliest community. From its humble beginnings in 1947, Saint Michael's Playhouse has blossomed into an eight-week theater season housed in one of Vermont's finest theater venues, Saint Michael's McCarthy Arts Center. As the area's only professional summer theater, Saint Michael's Playhouse features stellar talent from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theaters nationwide, hiring actors and stage managers who are members of Actor's Equity Association - the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. Each season approximately 15,000 theatergoers experience the unparalleled opportunity to see live, professional New York-caliber theater, produced and presented right here in Vermont. More information is available at www.saintmichaelsplayhouse.org.
Buff Lindau, Public Relations
802.654.2536
blindau@smcvt.edu
Actors of all ages are invited to audition for the upcoming season of Playhouse Jr, the Children's Theater Company at Saint Michael's Playhouse. The 2009 productions are CINDERELLA and A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD. Auditions, open to the public, will be held Sunday, May 31, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the McCarthy Arts Center on the campus of Saint Michael's College.
Playhouse Jr is directed and choreographed by Equity professional, Marc Tumminelli, with musical direction by Catherine Gaylord. The cast may include actors from Saint Michael's College and the Greater Burlington area. Playhouse Jr has been a big crowd pleaser, with more than 1,500 audience members attending a production in 2008.
For an audition appointment, e-mail playhousejunior@gmail.com and prepare an up-tempo musical theater song and bring a photo and a performance resume, if possible. Actors of all ages and skill levels are encouraged to attend. Accompanist will be provided. Walk-ins will be seen if time permits.
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CINDERELLA
Performance dates:
Saturday, June 20, 10 a.m.
Sunday, June 21, 10 a.m. and 12 noon
Saturday, June 27, 10 a.m.
Seeking six women, three men, four children: Cinderella, Stepmother, Stepsisters, Fairy Godmother, Prince, King, Queen, Prince's Steward, mice.
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A YEAR WITH FROG AND TOAD
Performance dates:
Friday, July 3, 11 a.m.
Sunday, July 5, 10 a.m. and 12 noon
Seeking two women, three men: Man 1 (Frog), Man 2 (Toad), Man 3 (Bird, Snail, Lizard, Father Frog, Mole), Woman 1 (Bird, Turtle, Squirrel, Mother Frog, Mole), Woman 2 (Bird, Mouse, Squirrel, Young Frog, Mole)
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Director Marc Tumminelli, creator of a youth theater program in New York, has acted in a number of Saint Michael's Playhouse productions, including Brighton Beach Memoirs. His New York City credits include Gypsy staring Patti LuPone, Lost In Yonkers, Torch Song Trilogy, Oklahoma, Oliver!, Shenandoah, The Dresser, Rags, Crazy For You, Bring Back Birdie and Pippin starring Rosie O'Donnell and Ben Vereen, and more. His film/TV credits include HBO's The Sopranos and A Beautiful Mind.
Saint Michael's Playhouse is Greater Burlington's professional summer theater, celebrating live theater, nationally renowned Equity actors, and a Professional Theater Internship Program for college students in the heart of Northern Vermont's liveliest community. From its humble beginnings in 1947, Saint Michael's Playhouse has blossomed into an eight-week theater season housed in one of Vermont's finest theater venues, Saint Michael's McCarthy Arts Center. As the area's only professional summer theater, Saint Michael's Playhouse features stellar talent from Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theaters nationwide, hiring actors and stage managers who are members of Actor's Equity Association - the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. Each season approximately 15,000 theatergoers experience the unparalleled opportunity to see live, professional New York-caliber theater, produced and presented right here in Vermont. More information is available at www.saintmichaelsplayhouse.org.
