[SDS] DeBaun Summer Production - PROOF - Audition Information! PLEASE READ

[Ayse Akin]

Dear SDSers,


I am informed by the excellent Mr. C. Russell that it is not uncommon for
Stevens actors to miss out on auditions because they didn't read audition
announcements.


So - HEAR YE, HEAR YE -


Details on auditions (*which are NEXT WEEK*) for this summer's production
at DeBaun, PROOF, can be found below. We precast last year's GHOSTS for
various reasons. This year we are NOT pre-casting, we are auditioning. All
roles are open.


*Please make an appointment with Bethany Reeves, and contact her for sides,
if interested (breeves at stevens.edu <breeves at stevens.edu>). *


By the way, we'll be offering another acting class, like last year, during
the same time frame.


Cheers,

BR
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*From:* Bethany Reeves <breeves at stevens.edu>
*Sent:* Wednesday, February 15, 2017 2:29 PM
*To:* members at lists.tapnjalpha.org
*Subject:* [Members] Auditions for DeBaun PAC's PROOF: Feb 28/March 1


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Dear Theatre Colleagues!


*Auditions are hereby announced for DeBaun PAC's second annual summer
theatre production, David Auburn's PROOF.* PROOF won the 2001 Pulitzer
Prize for drama and Tony Award for Best Play.


Rehearsals will begin right after Memorial Day (May 29), and will continue
on weekends and selected weeknights until the performances on Friday July
14 & Saturday July 15.


Auditions will be held in DeBaun on:


- Tuesday evening Feb. 28, 6:45-8:50 (*please come early if possible* - the
theatre is otherwise booked starting at 9. Please note that persons with
day jobs will be called in first)


- Wednesday afternoon March 1, 2:00-5:00


TIMES DON'T WORK FOR YOU? - if you wish to audition but are unable to make
either of these times, please contact Bethany Reeves (breeves at stevens.edu) to
set up an alternative time as soon as possible. We would like to have all
members of the core production team present at all auditions if we can.


Core production team:

   - Producer: Carl Russell
   - Director: Bethany Reeves
   - Lighting Design & Stage Manager: Shawna (Cathey) Hawkins

Additional production team:

   - Sets, Costumes, Sound, Props: please contact Shawna if interested (
   scathey at stevens.edu)
   - Assistant Director: please contact Bethany if interested (
   breeves at stevens.edu)


*Roles *(the central character is Catherine. However, all four roles are
sizable and meaty):


*Catherine, 20s* - a highly intelligent, sensitive, troubled young woman,
daughter to Robert, a once-famous mathematician. Her father's death just
one week prior to the play's opening has ended the several years she spent
caring for him (and doing high level math of her own?) during his decline
into madness.


*Hal, 20s*: an academic mathematician, formerly a graduate student of
Robert's. In the course of examining Robert's papers after the
latter's death, Hal becomes involved with Catherine. He faces a difficult
situation when she gives him keys to a drawer containing a brilliant proof.


*Claire, a few years older than Catherine*: Catherine's older sister, an
efficient, smart New York professional woman who flies back to Chicago for
her father's funeral and presses Catherine to make the choices she thinks
are right. Claire shouldered the financial burden of Robert's illness, and
now fears her sister may be falling victim to the same madness that claimed
their father.


*Robert, Claire & Catherine's father* *(we will consider aging a younger
actor depending on auditions. He must simply read old enough to be father
to his eldest daughter)*: a top-flight mathematician, and
caring father, who loses his mind late in life. Robert is seen (sane and
less so) in flashbacks, and in post-death scenes with Catherine.


A note on casting policy: in contrast to the school-year Shakespeare
Projects, alumni (including 2017 graduates) are given some preference in
the summer plays. Undergraduates may however be cast, just as alumni may be
in the Shakespeare, and are encouraged to audition.


Please contact Bethany Reeves for audition sides
(breeves at stevens.edu). A modern
monologue, preferably serious, will be welcome if you have one, but you may
also be asked to read from the play.

*It's of course best to know the play before auditioning*. Online resources
include the movie (which sticks pretty close to the stage script and
features good performances - Amazon has it), some YouTube action, and the
full script in pdf:  http://my.fit.edu/~lperdiga/proof.pdf​​

PS - as was the case last year, an acting course will run
concurrently during most of the rehearsal period for PROOF (acting course
final scene presentations will be on July 7 & 8).



Dr. Bethany Reeves
Director, Stevens Choir & DeBaun PAC Voice Studio
Music Program Coordinator, DeBaun Performing Arts Center
Stevens Institute of Technology

Ayse Akin
Stevens Institute of Technology
Computer Science Co-op 2019
Stevens Dramatic Society, Vice President
Sigma Delta Tau - Delta Nu Chapter, Assistant New Member Educator
Stevens Women in Computer Science, Public Relations
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