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Auditions for "Avenue Q". Manoa Valley Theatre, Dec. 13 and 14
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Auditions! |
by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty
Performance Run Commitment: March 3-April 17, 2011
| When: | Monday, December 13, 7:00pm Tuesday, December 14, 7:00pm |
| Where: | Manoa Valley Theatre |
| Guest Director | Guest Musical Director | Puppetry Consultant |
| Bree Bumatai | Megan Mount | Pam Arciero of Sesame Street |
About the show
Big
dreams and a tiny bank account plague a bright-eyed college grad who
discovers that the only New York neighborhood in his price range is
Avenue Q. The neighbors there are a little whacky, including an
out-of-work comedian, his therapist fiancée, a good-hearted slacker and
his investment banker roommate with a secret, an Internet addict, and a
cute kindergarten teaching assistant. Together, our grad and his
newfound friends struggle to find jobs, dates, and their ever-elusive
purpose in life.
Auditions
The show is performed by a cast of three men and four women. Due to the mature nature of the play, no one under 18yrs old will be allowed to audition.
All performers manipulate puppets and create puppet characters.
Auditions will be comprised of singing, basic puppetry, movement, and
reading from the script. Reading the play in advance is strongly
recommended.
singing: 16 bars of a prepared song that displays your vocal ability. Each auditionee will be asked to sing their prepared audition piece once in
their regular voice and once in a character voice. It is permissible to
sing a song from the show. An accompanist will be provided. No a
capella or karaoke singing. Please bring music in your own key.
puppetry: basic puppetry techniques will be taught
their regular voice and once in a character voice. It is permissible to
sing a song from the show. An accompanist will be provided. No a
capella or karaoke singing. Please bring music in your own key.
puppetry: basic puppetry techniques will be taught
Puppet Characters
Princeton - tenor, a fresh-faced kid just out of college
Kate Monster - mezzo, a kindergarten teaching assistance, a bit older than Princeton
Nicky - tenor, a bit of a slacker, who lives with Rod.
Rod - tenor, a Republican investment banker with a secret.
Trekkie Monster - tenor, a reclusive creature obsessed by the Internet.
Lucy - alto, a vixenish vamp with a dangerous edge.
The Bad Idea Bears (2) - two snuggly, cute teddy-bear types.
Mrs. T - ancient, Kate's boss.
Kate Monster - mezzo, a kindergarten teaching assistance, a bit older than Princeton
Nicky - tenor, a bit of a slacker, who lives with Rod.
Rod - tenor, a Republican investment banker with a secret.
Trekkie Monster - tenor, a reclusive creature obsessed by the Internet.
Lucy - alto, a vixenish vamp with a dangerous edge.
The Bad Idea Bears (2) - two snuggly, cute teddy-bear types.
Mrs. T - ancient, Kate's boss.
Human Characters
Brian - tenor, a laid-back guy married to Christmas Eve.
Christmas Eve - mezzo, a therapist who moved here from Japan. Speaks with a subtle Japanese dialect.
Gary Coleman - alto, Yes, that Gary Coleman. He lives on the Avenue, too. He's the superintendent.
Additional puppeteersChristmas Eve - mezzo, a therapist who moved here from Japan. Speaks with a subtle Japanese dialect.
Gary Coleman - alto, Yes, that Gary Coleman. He lives on the Avenue, too. He's the superintendent.
Two persons will be cast as backstage puppeteers.
Production Schedule
| rehearsals | December 16 & 17, January 3-March 2 |
| previews | February 27, March 1 & 2 |
| public opening | Thursday, March 3 |
| performance run commitment | March 3 - April 17 (35 performances): Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 3pm and 8pm, and Sundays at 4pm. |
Performances will be held at Manoa Valley Theatre. Rehearsals will be
held at Iolani School. The rehearsal schedule will generally be Mondays
through Fridays from 6:30 to 9:30 pm, and Saturdays and Sundays as
necessary. Cast members will uniformly receive an honorarium to help
defray the out-of-pocket expenses associated with volunteerism and
participation in this production. This honorarium is not an offer of
employment.
About The Directors
Bree Bumatai (Guest Director) has
been in theatre both locally and on the mainland for over forty years.
In that time, she has served as producer, director, actress, and stage
manager for hundreds of productions. She has received Po'okela awards
for directing the MVT productions of I Hate Hamlet, Song of Singapore (2002), and Frost/Nixon. Bree also occasionally can be seen onstage. Some of her past roles include Lucy in Dracula, Rizzo in Grease, Piglet in Winnie The Pooh, and Ellen Pazinski, when she played opposite Ray Bumatai in MVT's Over the Tavern in 2004. Her most recent role was as Dinah Grayson in The Dixie Swim Club at MVT. She has received excellence in acting Po'okela awards for her performances of Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Constance in the The Constant Wife, both among her most prized roles. By day, Bree is the Associate Producer at Manoa Valley Theatre.
Megan Mount (Guest Musical Director) made her debut as Music Director for Army Ccommunity Theatre's production of Children of Eden.
She is an accomplished singer/actor having performed in numerous
productions with ACT, DHT, HOT, Hawaii Theatre, and Ohi'a Productions.
She has been seen recently in productions of Shout!, Peter Pan, Les Miserables, Meet Me In St. Louis
and Sweeney Todd. She is a member of Hawaii Opera Theatre's May Zenke
Orvis Opera Studio and has participated in opera programs in Salzburg,
Austria and with Opera Studio Nederland in Amsterdam. She was a 2008
National Finalist in the National Society of Arts and Letters Voice
Competition in Bloomington, Indiana. Megan received her BM degree in
Vocal Performance from UH-Manoa where she presently teaches private
voice and Class Voice I and II. Megan is also the soprano soloist at
First Presbyterian Church.
Pam Arciero (Puppetry Consultant)
is a puppeteer and voice-over artist who is best known in the Muppet
world for her role on Sesame Street as Oscar the Grouch's girlfriend,
Grundgetta. She has been a principal puppeteer on Sesame Street for 25
years, performing numerous characters. She is the Artistic Director of
the National Puppetry Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center,
and has worked on many adult and children's programs including Blue's
Clues Blue's Room, Chappell's Show, Allegra's Window, The Wubbulous
World of Dr. Seuss, TV Funhouse, Eureeka's Castle and The Great Space
Coaster. A multi-talented theatre artist, she has performed in
commercials and films, directed for the stage and television, and taught
for the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, the University of Hawaii,
California State University, Fresno, Sesame Street International and
the University of Connecticut. She holds and Undergraduate Degree in
Drama and Dance from the University of Hawaii and a Master's Degree in
Puppetry from the University of Connecticut.
Script Perusals and More Information
Scripts are available for perusal on premises at
the Manoa Valley Theatre business office, 2833 East Manoa Road, between
9:30 am and 5:00 pm, Mondays through Fridays. For more information
please call MVT at 988-6131.
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