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Welcome to ACT's audition listing headquarters. No experience is necessary to audition.Age ranges listed below are approximations. For non-musical auditions, all audition material is provided at auditions. For musical auditions, please prepare 16 bars of music and bring your sheet music to the audition in the key in which you will sing. We will provide an accompanist. No one may sing along to a CD or other recording.

All roles are available to anyone in the community.

Mainstage Season
35below Season
The Autumn Players' Reader's Theatre Showcase Series
SCRIPT CHECKOUT POLICIES FOR MAINSTAGE & 35below PRODUCTIONS

 

On the Mainstage

Noises Off

Auditions: Sunday, April 18 and Monday, April 19 from 7:00-9:00 pm
Production Dates: July 2-18, 2010

Actors are asked to prepare a 30 second monologue, preferably in standard British dialect AND perform a 15 second act of athleticism or agility indicative of current level of fitness.

Roles:

  • Lloyd Dallas: The director of the play, Nothing On. 
  • Dotty Otley: A late-middle-aged actress. Forgetful. Dating Garry, though she attempts to make him jealous by meeting with Fred.
  • Garry Lejeune: A stuttering actor, easily fired up, repeatedly tries to attack Fred after believing that Dotty was cheating on him with Fred. Speech affectations disappear onstage but are ever-present offstage. Always is stuttering and completing sentences with, "you know..." Dating Dotty.
  • Frederick Fellows: An actor with a serious fear of violence and blood. Gets nosebleeds easily. Often questions the meaning of his lines and moves. Blames himself often for things going wrong.
  • Belinda Blair: Cheerful and sensible, a reliable actress. She may have feelings for Fred.
  • Poppy Norton-Taylor: Assistant Stage Manager. Emotional and over-sensitive, and jealous of Brooke, whom she understudies. One-third of a Lloyd-Poppy-Brooke love triangle.
  • Selsdon Mowbray: An elderly alcoholic actor who hides his liquor nearby.
  • Timothy Allgood: Stage Manager. Understudies Selsdon and Freddy.
  • Brooke Ashton: A young inexperienced actress from London. Pays no attention to other performers, neither in performance nor backstage. She rarely takes stage direction, and continues performing regardless of any other action onstage.  One-third of a Lloyd–Poppy–Brooke love triangle.

 

Directed by: Josh Batenhorst

The Story: Called the funniest farce ever written, Noises Off depicts the onstage and backstage antics of a fifth-rate acting troupe touring in an awful sex farce called Nothing On . The curtain opens on the dress rehearsal of the first act of Nothing On the night before it opens and with things not going well. The second act shows us what's happening backstage during the first act of Nothing On, after the show has been running a month. The third act takes us back to the first act of Nothing On yet again, after two months of touring. It is, deliciously so, a disaster.

 

35below

Auditions for 35below performances are complete for this season.

The Autumn Players' Reader's Theatre Showcase Series

(Audition will be held in ACT's 35below unless stated otherwise. The first two days of all performances are in 35below; the final day will be at the Reuter Center.)

A Trip to Bountiful

Auditions: Monday, April 19, 2010, 11-3pm.
Production Dates: May 7-9, 2010.
Seeking: Seeking: The characters appearing in this play are the following: one mature woman, one younger woman, one young woman, one mature man, one younger man, two men of indeterminate age.

Written by: Horton Foote Directed by: Anita Chapman

The Sunshine Boys

Auditions: Tuesday, June 22, 11-3pm.
Production Dates: July 9-11.
Seeking: TBA

Written by: Neil Simon; directed by Beth Ely

Script Check Out

Asheville Community Theatre makes scripts available for study prior to auditions. In order to ensure that scripts are properly managed and available for production, the following policies are strictly enforced.

      • Scripts owned by ACT are available for check-out for a 7 day period. Scripts must be returned within those 7 days or a late fee of $10 will be charged.
      • One week before auditions, scripts may only be checked out for a 24 hour period.
      • Each person checking out a script must leave a $10 refundable deposit or a major credit card number.
      • Each person checking out a script must fill out a script check out card with name, address and phone number.

Scripts are available for check out Tuesday- Friday

between the hours of 10 am and 4 pm at the ACT Box Office.

For additional information please contact us at:
(828) 254-1320
35 East Walnut Street
Asheville, NC 28801-2909

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