AUDITIONS ANNOUNCED FOR THEATRE ASPEN
REPERTORY SEASON AUDITIONS BEGIN
Audition dates for the 2014
Theatre Aspen season were announced today. Auditions for Aspen and Denver actors will be held Saturday, March 8th in Denver, and Sunday, March 9th, in Aspen. Denver auditions will be held at the Denver Center Academy/Tramway Building 1101 13th Street, 3rd Floor, from 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Aspen calls will take place in the Red Brick Arts Center at 110 E. Hallam Street in Aspen, from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Additional auditions will be held in New York in February and March.
Theatre Aspen’s summer lineup at the Hurst Theatre will open with the musical comedy The Full Monty, running in repertory with the musical Little Women, and a brand new comedy by Sandy Rustin called The Cottage.
Carbonell Award winner and Theatre Aspen favorite Mark Martino will direct and choreograph The Full Monty, running June 24th through August 16th. With a book by five-time Tony Award winner and Pulitzer Prize nominee Terrence McNally (Ragtime, Master Class) and music and lyrics by David Yazbek (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), the musical comedy opened on Broadway in 2001, garnering ten Tony Award and twelve Drama Desk nominations.
The musical Little Women, based on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott, plays July 2nd through August 16th with a book by Allan Knee, music by Jason Howland and lyrics by Mindi Dickstein. Executive Artistic Director Paige Price will direct.
Opening July 24th and running through August 15th is The Cottage, a farce inspired by the works of Noel Coward and set in the 1920s English countryside. Written by
Sandy Rustin, his tale of sex, betrayal and true love unfolds when Sylvia Van Kipness exposes her love affair to her husband and her lover's wife. A surprising web of secrets unravels in this hilarious-and-almost-murderous-romantic comedy.
Rustin, whose Rated P for Parenthood premiered at the West Side Theatre in New York City, appeared at Theatre Aspen in Crimes of the Heart, and has appeared on stage and screen and can regularly be seen at Upright Citizen’s Brigade in “Gravid Water,” (Best Improv Show – Time Out, NY). Her scripted series, Overbooked is in production with Nickelodeon's new network, Nick Mom. Don Stephenson, currently on Broadway in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is on board to direct. Stephenson has appeared in seven Broadway shows and is set to direct a star-studdedTitanic this February at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall.
Season passes will go on sale in early February. Productions take place in the Hurst Theatre in Rio Grande Park and will be underwritten by season sponsor ANB Bank, with the generous support of Nancy Wall and Chuck Wall, Jim and Brenda Grusecki, The City of Aspen and The Aspen Club and Spa.
For more information, including character breakdowns and audition requirements, please visit
www.theatreaspen.org or email the theatre for an appointment at
compmgr@theatreaspen.org. Equity actors receive preference for audition slots.
Media sponsors include The Aspen Times, Aspen Daily News, Aspen Public Radio, KSPN/KNFO, KUUR/KSNO and Aspen Sojourner.
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Theatre Aspen (Aspen Non-Profit Business of the Year in 2012) was awarded the “Outstanding Regional Theatre” Henry Award in Denver in 2009 and Alison Luff (Wicked) won a Best Supporting Actress Denver Post Ovation Award for her work as Olive in Theatre Aspen’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Recent Ovation nominees include Joan Hess,
Beth Malone, Aaron Rhyne, Julia Foran and Sandy Duncan.
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