AUDITIONS: GENERAL AUDITIONS FOR SPRING SHOWS: NOVEMBER 16th 7:00pm – 10:00pm
We are just entering November and it is time to hold auditions for our Spring 2022 productions! In the Spring we have a number of opportunities for majors, minors and non-majors. We are presenting two mainstage productions (Sweat and Imaginary Invalid) and two readings (Collective Rage and The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told). All students are invited to audition. You do NOT have to be a major to audition. In other words, bring your friends! If you are a student with a performance emphasis, you are required to audition. COVID protocols are in effect so please prepare accordingly. If you have questions, please contact Jerry Jay Cranford at jjcranford@ksu.edu.
If you are interested in working crew in any capacity, please contact Ben Stark at benstark@ksu.edu.
Complete scripts for most productions are located in the Digital Script Archive via CANVAS. If you do not have access to the archive, please email Shannon at sbskelton@ksu.edu with you K-State email.
Please see the below details for auditions:
*November 16th – 7-10pm Open Audition, Chapman Theatre
*More details to come regarding monologues for open audition!
November 17th – 7-10pm Callbacks, Sweat (location TBD)
November 18th – 7-10pm Callbacks, The Imaginary Invalid (location TBD)
Performance Dates:
Sweat – performance dates Feb. 3-6, 10-13
Collective Rage (reading) – performance dates Feb. 18-19
The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told (reading) – performance dates March 24-25
Imaginary Invalid – performance dates April 21-24, 28-May 1
Breakdowns . . . .
SWEAT – Character list
EVAN – African American man, 40’s, parole officer
CHRIS – African American man, 21 & 29, ambitious, factory worker
BRUCE – African American man, 40’s, drug user, factory worker
CYNTHIA – African American woman, 45 & 53, ambitious factory worker, friend of Tracey & Jess
STAN – White man of German descent, 45 & 53, bar tender, former factory worker
JASON – White man of German descent, 21 & 29, factory worker
TRACEY – White woman of German descent, factory worker, friend of Tracey and Jessie
JESSIE – Italian-American woman, 40’s, factory worker
OSCAR – Colombian-American, 21 & 29, ambitious, bar busser/bar tender
THE IMAGINARY INVALID by Moliere
Adapted and directed by David Mackay
CALLBACKS for THE IMAGINARY INVALID: November 18th 7:30 – 9:30
Rehearsals Start FEBRUARY 27th
Performances: April 21st – April 24th, April 28th – May 1st.
Students in ELISIR D’AMORE may be considered to be cast.
Students in SPRING DANCE CONCERT ’22 will not be considered to be cast
Brief Summary
This is an adaptation of an old play. The play will be set in present day. Argan is cheap and suffers from severe hypochondria. Argan decides to get their child, Angel, romantically involved with a doctor, Dr. Sam Diaforus so that they can have free health care. Angel, however, is in love with someone else, Celeste. When Angel refuses, Argan gives them four days to agree to the relationship or be kicked out of the house. The comic engines rev high as Celeste, Toinette, Argan’s personal healthcare aid, and Argan’s sibling Breslin, all try to change Argan’s mind. Eventually, while feigning to be dead, Argan discovers that their new spouse, Beline, is only in it for the money, but Angel truly loves them. Argan consents to the relationship between Angel and Celeste. Breslin convinces Argan to become a doctor and treat themselves.
Character Breakdown: Any race, age, gender identification, or physical ability can and should play these roles With. a few exceptions, characters are written with the “they, them, their” pronoun. These pronouns may change depending on the casting.
ARGAN: (they, them) A serious hypochondriac. Most of their money goes to treating their fake health issues. They are also very cheap. So cheap that they arrange for their child to be involved with a doctor so they can have free health care.
TOINETTE: (she, her) underpaid professional healthcare aid. Smart ass with a sharp tongue.
ANGEL: (they, them) Argan’s eldest child. Late teens/early twenties. Madly in love with Celeste
BELINE: (they, them) Argan’s second marriage. Beline’s third, possible fourth marriage, if you include that weekend in Vegas. They tend to inherit a lot of money when their spouse dies.
MR. BONNEFOY: (he, him) A slimy lawyer, having an affair with Beline.
CELESTE: (they, them) In love with Angelica. Works in a phone repair clinic
DR DIAFORUS: (he, him) A very expensive doctor. Uncle to Dr. Sam Diaforus
DR. SAM DIAFORUS: (they, them) Not the sharpest scalpel on the operating table
LOU: (they, them) Argan’s youngest child.
BRESLIN: (they, them) Argan’s sibling
APOTHECARY: (they, them) a strange person with an assortment of large syringes.
DR: PURGEON: (they, them) Argan’s favorite doctor.
ALEXA: (she, her) Voice in an Amazon Echo.
Collective Rage by Jen Silverman
A Reading Directed by Morgan Boyer
Betty is rich; Betty is lonely; Betty’s busy working on her truck; Betty wants to talk about love, but Betty needs to hit something. And Betty keeps using a small hand mirror to stare into parts of herself she’s never examined. Five different women named Betty collide at the intersection of anger, sex, and the “thea-tah.”
Character Breakdown
BETTY BOOP 1 – Femme, white, rich, uptight, fueled by secret rage
BETTY BOOP 2 – Femme, white, rich, uptight but coming undone, secretly obsessed with porn
BETTY BOOP 3 – Femme, Latina, charismatic and pretty, kind of a know-it-all
BETTY BOOP 4 – Butch lesbian, any ethnicity, great tattoos, gently melancholic, is too often ignored
BETTY BOOP 5 – Butch lesbian, any ethnicity, great tattoos, just out of prison, owns a hole-in-the-wall boxing gym
The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told by Paul Rudnick
A Reading Directed by Jerry Jay Cranford
A stage manager, headset and prompt book at hand, brings the house lights to half, then dark, and cues the creation of the world. Throughout the play, she’s in control of everything. In other words, she’s either God, or she thinks she is. Act One recounts the major episodes of the Old Testament, only with a twist: Instead of Adam and Eve, our lead characters are Adam and Steve, and Jane and Mabel, a lesbian couple with whom they decide to start civilization (procreation proves to be a provocative challenge) . . . Act Two jumps to modern day Manhattan. Adam and Steve are together again, and Steve is HIV positive. It’s Christmas Eve, and Jane is nine months pregnant. .
This piece deals with LGBTQI themes through adult language and humor. In his review, Ben Brantley of the New York Times said, “there’s reverence in Mr. Rudnick’s irreverence, an earnest warmth beneath the frivolity” and “Line by line, Mr. Rudnick may be the funniest writer for the
stage in the United States today…”.
This is a script-in-hand reading with performances on March 25 and 26 only.
Rehearsals are 7-10pm March 6-10 and March 21-24.
CHARACTERS
Stage Manager/Reader (God)
Adam
Steve
Jane
Mabel
Miriam, Babe, Mom 2, Peggy, Virgin Mary, Rabbi Sharon
Cheryl, Fluffy, Mom 1, Ftatateeta
Latecomer, Rhino, Dad 2, Pharaoh, Kevin
Father Joseph, Dad 1, Brad, Trey