LITTLE WOMEN - North Texas Performing Arts Non Equity Auditions

Auditioning for

Little Women the Broadway Musical

Auditioning Grades 6-12

November 9, 12 at Fairview Youth Theatre

November 29, December 3 at North Texas Performing Arts - Plano

Produced nationally and internationally, Little Women has been praised by critics for its ambition in adapting such a well-known story for the stage. This timeless, captivating story is brought to life in this glorious musical filled with personal discovery, heartache, hope and everlasting love. The original production starred the unparalleled Sutton Foster, who received Tony, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominations for her performance.

Based on Louisa May Alcott's life, Little Women follows the adventures of sisters, Jo, Meg, Beth and Amy March. Jo is trying to sell her stories for publication, but the publishers are not interested - her friend, Professor Bhaer, tells her that she has to do better and write more from herself. Begrudgingly taking this advice, Jo weaves the story of herself and her sisters and their experience growing up in Civil War America.

Directed by Cibby Bowden in Fairview

Cibby Bowden is thrilled to be the new Managing Director of NTPA - Fairview. She joins us after working as Theatre Production Manager, Resident Director and Acting Instructor at Katy Visual and Performing Arts Center in Katy, TX. Previously she worked as Theatre Director at Faith West Academy also in Katy. Director credits include; Wait Until Dark, Fiddler on the Roof, The Music Man, Oklahoma!, Once Upon A Mattress, A Christmas Carol, Annie Get Your Gun, Oliver Twist, Willy Wonka, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, The Boy Friend, HONK, Legally Blonde, High School Musical 1 and 2, The Wizard of Oz, Shrek and Xanadu. She has also appeared in many of KVPAC's Encore Players productions including Joanne in Sondheim's Company, Mistress Paige in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Betty Meeks in The Foreigner, Mrs. Trotsky in All in the Timing and Effy in The Spitfire Grill. In her twenties, Cibby worked as an actress in Hollywood and can be seen (in re-runs!) on Full House, Cheers, Married With Children, Night Court, Star Trek the Next Generation, Days of our Lives and several films including Ghostbusters 2 and Maid to Order.

Directed by Cassidy Crown Confer in Plano

Cassidy has been a director with NTPA since 2005. She is also an actor herself in the DFW metroplex but taking a small hiatus till her little star, Keaton Gail, grows up a little more. Some of her credits include, The Sound of Music with Garland Summer, Of Mice and Men & Ten Nights in a Barroom with ICT Mainstage, Beauty and the Beast & Footloose with Garland Civic, the regional premier of Legally Blonde and The Boxer at the Fringe Festival in New York. Cassidy holds a degree in opera performance from Baylor University where she studied abroad & performed in the ruins of Pompeii Italy! She is so thankful to have PCT as her long lasting extended family. But of course, would not be where she is today without the loving support of her husband and family.

Little Women Fun Facts

• Little Women, with book by Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindi Dickstein and music by Jason Howland, is based on Louisa May Alcott's class novel of the same name. Believed to be semiautobiographical, it is considered one of the most widely read novels of all time.
• Little Women opened at the Virginia Theatre on Broadway on January 23, 2005
• The Broadway production received a Tony Award nomination for Sutton Foster as Jo for Best Actress in a Musical.

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