Lauren Mill Playhouse Holds Final Auditions for COMPANY, 3/13
By: BWW News Desk Mar. 13, 2010
Laurel Mill Playhouse announces auditions for Company which will take place on Thursday, March 11at 7:00pm and on Saturday March 13 at 10am. Eight women and six men are needed. Actors may audition bringing sheet music for the accompanist that will be provided. Sixteen bars of a ballad or up tempo song will be requested. Company will open on May 21 and run through Sunday, June 13. Performances will run on Friday and Saturday evenings with two selected Sunday matinees.
The clashing sounds and pulsing rhythms of New York City underscore this landmark "concept" show, considered by many to have inaugurated the modern era of musical theatre. "Company" follows our anti-hero bachelor Robert as he makes his way through a series of encounters with April (the stewardess), Kathy (the girl who's going to marry someone else), Marta (the "peculiar" one), as well as with his married friends.
On the night of his 35th birthday, confirmed bachelor Robert contemplates his unmarried state. In vignette after hilarious vignette, we are introduced to "those good and crazy people," his married friends, as Robert weighs the pros and cons of married life. In the end, he realizes being alone is "alone, not alive."
Character BreakdownAMY A frantic, neurotic, loving woman
APRIL A girlfriend of Robert - a flight attendant; a bit air-headed, but adorable
DAVID Jenny's husband, relaxed, in control
HARRY Sarah's husband - an alcoholic in self-denial
JENNY Quietly manipulative, simultaneously square and wise
JOANNE Acerbic, funny, demanding
KATHY A girlfriend of Robert - sweet and very much in need of love
LARRY Joanne's husband, stoic and centered
MARTA A girlfriend of Robert - an intensely "with-it" woman
PAUL Amy's fiancé - coolly loving to Amy's neurotic nature
PETER Susan's husband - the perfect husband and ex-husband
ROBERT An observer, seemingly happy, but with a hidden pain
SARAH Crisply critical, karate-learning over-eater
SUSAN
A delicate southern belle
Company
Book by George Furth
Music by Stephen Sondheim
Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Producer - Maureen Rogers
Laurel Mill Playhouse is located at 508 Main Street in historic Laurel. Contact Maureen Rogers at maureencrogers@gmail.com or 301-452-2557. For additional information visit www.laurelmillplayhouse.org
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