The Chatham Community Players will hold open auditions for the musical, CABARET, book by Joe Masteroff with music/lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb, based on the Play by John Van Druten and Stories by Christopher Isherwood.
The production runs May 4 – 19, 2012 at the Chatham Playhouse. Jeffrey Fiorello directs, Jill Finnerty is Musical Director and Megan Ferentinos, the Choreographer. Rehearsal to begin during the last week of February.
Auditions will be held on Thursday, February 16 and Thursday, February 23 at 7pm at The Chatham Playhouse, 23 North Passaic Ave., Chatham. Please prepare a song (in the style of the show), and bring sheet music in the appropriate key. An Accompanist will be provided. Come prepared to dance. Headshots and resumes are not required but gladly received.
The Chatham Players have an open call casting policy. ALL roles are open, none are precast, and everyone is encouraged to audition. Any questions please call Leslie Reagoso at (973) 769-3886 or email her at lesliereagoso@yahoo.com.
Synopsis:
Cabaret is a musical based on book by Joe Masteroff, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb. The 1966 Broadway production became a hit and spawned a 1972 film as well as numerous subsequent productions. Cabaret is based on John Van Druten’s 1951 play I Am a Camera, which in turn was adapted from a novel Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. Set in 1931 Berlin as the Nazis are rising to power, it focuses on nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub and revolves around the 19 year-old English cabaret performer Sally Bowles and her relationship with young American writer Cliff Bradshaw. A sub-plot involves the doomed romance between German boarding house owner Fraulein Schneider and her elderly suitor Herr Shultz, a Jewish fruit vendor. Overseeing the action is the Master of Ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub which serves as a constant metaphor for the tenuous and threatening state of late Weimar Germany throughout the show.
Character Breakdown (9 Women, 10 Men):
Kit Kat Girls: (18-30) Girls who perform alongside Sally and the MC at the Kit Kat Klub. All sexually very free. All must be able to sing dance and act. All double into other scenes.
Kit Kat Boys: (18-30) Cabaret Boys at the Kit Kat Klub. Also very sexually free. All must sing dance and act. All double into other scenes.
Other Roles:
JOURNEY WEST WITH "THE GRAPES OF WRATH" - MARCH 2-17 2012 Thursday, 19 January 2012
The Chatham Community Players enter their 90th year of producing local theater with the literary classic and Tony Award winning play, "THE GRAPES OF WRATH" by Frank Galati, from the novel by John Steinbeck. Frank Licato from directs.
“THE GRAPES OF WRATH,” a story about the devastating impact of the Great Depression, is striking similar notes and themes to today’s economic climate. Surviving the drought of the 1930s Dust Bowl only to see their home repossessed by the bank, the Joad family embark on a agonizing & heartbreaking trek from Oklahoma to California, intending to restart their lives as migrant farm workers. Their arrival in this “promised land,” however, brings its own test of the human spirit. "This is, overall, a thrilling theatrical achievement that gets its power from the still sharp relevance of its human message..." - New York Post.
Director Frank Licato added "We have a tendency to think of the story as a historical document, but nothing could be further from the truth. It remains at the heart of who we are as society, and questions what our priorities are. Some of these questions are just as pragmatic today as they were then; certainly for migrant workers, but Steinbeck, like any great artist, uses the specific to depict the universal. This is no museum piece and I hope that we can surround the Joads’ story with elements which challenge the audience to see beyond the familiar trappings of the period and to look at the images that reflect back at us today."
The large and talented cast includes actors from all around New Jersey. The Joad family consists of Dale Monroe as Tom, Debbie Bernstein as Ma, Tom Hodge as Pa, Arnold Buchiane as Grandpa, Jeslyn Wheeless as Grandma, Amanda Prieto as Rose of Sharon, Thom Wolfe as Al, Ian McGonigle as Noah, Jacqueline Pothier and Bridget McGarry share the role of Ruthie, Jaron Cole as Winfield, Steve Gabe as Uncle John. Other in the cast include Jeff Maschi as Rev Jim Casy, Scott Tyler as Connie, Anna McCabe as Aggie Wainwright and comprising the Ensemble are Frank Bläeuer, Victor Gallo, Rory Hoban, Charlotte Jusinski, Shanna Levine Phelps, Diane Lotti, Chip Prestera, Theo Errig and Liz Royce.
Box Office Information – Online Ticketing
Performance dates are March 2, 3, 9, 10, 16 and 17 at 8PM and March 11 at 3PM. All performances are at the Chatham Playhouse, 23 North Passaic Avenue, in Chatham.
Tickets are $20 for adults and $18 for youth/senior. To purchase tickets online, visit our Ticketleap affiliate. The service is available 24 hours a day, and tickets can be purchased online up until three hours prior to curtain on the day of a performance. The box office will begin accepting phone reservations on February 24 at (973) 635-7363. For information regarding box office hours, please call the box office number listed above.
Adapted for the stage by Frank Galati, "The Grapes of Wrath" premiered at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, and later transferred to the West End and Broadway. There it was nominated for eight Tony Awards, winning two for Best Direction and Best Play. Frank Rich of "The New York Times" declared the play "... majestic... leaves one feeling that the generosity of spirit Steinbeck saw in a brutal country is not so much lost as waiting once more to be found." Known for his sympathetic humor and keen social perception, John Steinbeck wrote "The Grapes of Wrath" in 1939 after seeing the devastation that blanked the country during the Great Depression. The novel won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and was a cornerstone to the Nobel Prize in Literature he was awarded in 1962.
Jersey Voices Seeking One Acts for 2012 Festival Wednesday, 17 January 2007The Chatham Community Players is seeking original, one-act plays, short musicals and/or original dance pieces, written by New Jersey authors, for Jersey Voices' 18th Annual Production.
Last year's festival produced six original pieces and one dancd piece, selected from over 130 submitted works.
Play submissions of any genre, style and length up to 20 minutes running time will be accepted through March 15, 2012. Selected pieces will be performed in our black box theater in Chatham in July and August.
Email submissions to:
jerseyvoices@chathamplayers.org.