MAME - Lakewood Theatre Company Non Equity Auditions

Lakewood Theatre Company will be having open auditions for the musical Mame on SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26 and MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2014. Call
503-635-3901 to reserve an audition slot.

Mame is directed by Jeffrey Stocker. The musical director is Darcy White.

The director is casting 20 parts (ages 20s-60s). These include 10 featured characters (4 male and 6 females 20s-60s) plus an ensemble of 10 (5 men and 5 women ages 20-40) who play various roles. All ethnicities are encouraged to audition. All roles are open for audition and all receive remuneration. For a breakdown of roles, please
click here.

Audition Location: Lakewood Theatre Company at Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State Street in Lake Oswego.

Materials Needed: Please bring a resume, a current head shot, and prepare a Broadway song in the correct key for your voice (no contemporary, pop, rock, Andrew Lloyd Webber or Sondheim). An accompanist will be provided. Please, no recorded music or a cappella singing. You may also be asked to sing additional material from the score at the audition. Note: actors auditioning for Young Patrick are requested to schedule appointments for the morning ofOctober 26.

Performance Schedule: Mame opens May 1, 2014 and continues through June 14, 2014. Performances are Thurs-Sat at 7:30 PM, Sundays at 2:00 and 7:00 PM, one Saturday at 2:00 PM and two Wednesday evening performances at7:30 PM. Lakewood Theatre Company features an intimate 220-seat theatre located at Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State Street in Lake Oswego.

About the play: Mame is a highly successful Broadway musical, based on the novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis. It originally opened at the Winter Garden Theater in New York City in 1966 with Angela Lansbury, and ran for 1,508 performances. It was nominated for 9 Tony Awards, winning 4. The musical's book was written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee and was adapted from their play Auntie Mame, based on Dennis' novel. The musical score for Mame (both music and lyrics) was written by Jerry Herman, who also wrote the scores for Hello, Dolly! and La Cage aux Folles.

The story: The plot revolves around eccentric Mame Dennis, whose madcap life is disrupted when her deceased brother's son Patrick is entrusted to her care. Rather than bow to convention, Mame introduces the boy to her free-wheeling lifestyle, instilling in him her favorite credo - Life is a banquet, and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death. Mame eventually meets and marries Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, a southern aristocrat with a Georgia plantation called Peckerwood. Young Patrick goes off to boarding school, and Mame and Beau travel the world on an endless honeymoon. The honeymoon ends when Beau falls off an Alp, and Mame returns home to find Patrick engaged to an empty-headed debutante. Mame brings Patrick to his senses in time, and introduces him to the woman who will eventually become his wife.

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About Lakewood Theatre Company

62 Years of Live Theatre: Founded as a not-for-profit organization in 1952, Lakewood Theatre Company is a theatre dedicated to the study and presentation of drama in all its forms; the training and development of actors; and the creation, maintenance and operation of a theatre in which to present plays and other forms of entertainment. Lakewood Theatre Company is the oldest continually operated, not-for-profit theatre company in the Portland Metropolitan area. It annually provides more than 400 theatre artists the opportunity to learn and display their craft and attracts more than 40,000 people to its shows.

- 62nd Season -

Productions in the 2014-15 season are underwritten, in part, by

The Regional Arts & Culture Council and the Work for Art Program

The Oregon Arts Commission

The National Endowment for the Arts

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