Alley Theatre Holds Auditions for 2014 Oskar and the Big Bully Battle! School Tour
WHAT
The Alley Theatre will hold open auditions for the 2014 Oskar and the Big Bully Battle! School Tour on Tuesday, December 3, 2013, at the Alley Theatre. Auditions will be by appointment only.
Oskar and the Big Bully Battle! is a 43-minute children’s touring production depicting the roles and types of bullying behaviors to K-5 students. It is a comedy with a serious message. Rehearsals begin January 27, 2014. Tour dates are during school hours (early morning to early afternoon) February 17 - March 28, 2014, with a few weekend or evening performances. There will be a maximum of 13 performances per week.
To obtain an audition appointment, email contact information, headshot and resume to oskar@alleytheatre.org. Actors will be provided sides for the auditions. No phone calls please.
REQUIREMENTS FOR ACTORS
This is a non-union educational tour. To be eligible for casting, actors may not be members of Actors’ Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA or AGMA. All actors auditioning must be at least 18 years old, live within a 50-mile radius of downtown Houston, be available for weekday and/or weekend rehearsals and a few weekend performances and have a valid driver’s license. All actors must be physically adept. Experience with improvisation, clowning and foley artistry a plus. Actors of all ethnicities encouraged to audition.
WHEN
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
4-9 p.m.
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
WHERE
Alley Theatre
615 Texas Ave.
Houston, TX 77002
FOR MORE INFORMATION
For more information, email oskar@alleytheatre.org.
CHARACTER BREAKDOWN
Oskar: 10-year-old boy. He is very dramatic and he has a lively imagination. He gets bored very easily and is perhaps ADHD. He is very physical and throws himself into each moment.
Man: Plays multiple characters ranging from 10 years old to adult.
· Frank: 10-year-old boy. Friends with Oskar usually. Dramatic. He listens to opera. Likes math but is perhaps not good at it. Diligent with an active imagination and often imagines he’s a fire truck; constantly writing interesting stories in his head.
· Principal: good intentioned and “tweedy.”
· Menacing Kid: a figment of Mom’s imagination conjured by Mom.
Woman: Plays multiple characters ranging from 10 years old to adult.
· Beth: 10-year-old girl, physical and self-assured. She is friends with Oskar.
· Mom: Oskar’s good conscience takes the form of his mother. She is really inside his head.
Mrs. Hooligan: A teacher at the school. Tired but good intentioned. She wears sweaters that depict the current holiday they are celebrating and is the kind of teacher who wears pumpkin earrings at Thanksgiving.
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