[SDS] It Only Takes A Minute

Sat Mar 31 18:53:17 EDT 2018

Hi everyone!

Because of the recent snow days, GBM 3 has now gone digital! Please look
through the attached minutes for some very important information!

*Highlights:*

1. We need ushers! Sign up here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdpUQKH-8hhGYs9xXQlv1bN7JDgA4xx7hqEv_KzJ4C5jbQdOQ/viewform>
!
2. Need a graduation cord? Tell us here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerQl6EKQ5MkPBLV8Zz82eDq8Kh_4mQ-0GM1YRU26_WxIkSYg/viewform>
!
3. Broadway show trip sign ups to see *Carousel* open on Wednesday, April
4th at 2:00pm! Sign up here
<https://stevens.campuslabs.com/engage/actioncenter/organization/stevens-dramatic-society/forms/Form/173214/334797/projectbuilderpages/pages>
!

*Other information included in the minutes:*
Dorm Storming
Faculty Comp Tickets
Show Shirts
Food with the Cast
Cast Party

Once again, details about all of the above are located in the minutes.
Please let me know if you have any questions!

Love,
Julia

P.S. See below for a message from Bethany regarding summer theatre
opportunities:

Dear Actors,

DeBaun offers a summer theatre season for those of you in town and
interested:

Summer Acting Workshop:

   - Open and free of charge to all Stevens actors
   - Interview required if you haven't worked with Bethany Reeves (so you
   know what you're getting into!)
   - Two evenings/week, roughly 7-10, from Tuesday 4/29 through Scene
   Presentations on July 6 & 7. Specific evenings tba.
   - The Workshop offers training and practice in various tools for
   building acting capacity and skills. There are *many* techniques and
   methods out there, and what is covered in the Workshop changes somewhat
   from summer to summer. In other words, for those of you who are Workshop
   alumni, some material will be new.
   - Scene selections are primarily (but not exclusively) drawn from plays
   dating from the early modern period (i.e. Ibsen, Chekhov) to the present
   day.

The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams

Auditions for the "The Glass Menagerie" will be held on Tuesday evening April
17 at DeBaun. More on auditions further down.

This classic & beloved tragi-comic drama receives new productions regularly
around the country and on Broadway, most recently in productions featuring
Sally Field and Cherry Jones. "Menagerie" spurred a revolution in
American acting style at its premiere in 1945, and launched the career of
one of America's greatest playwrights, Tennessee Williams.

Auditions are open to all Stevens actors who will be available for all/most
of the rehearsal period: Tuesday May 29 through the two performances on July
13 & 14.

Most rehearsals will be on 2-3 weekday evenings per week from roughly 7-10pm,
and on weekends. Tech week will, of course, be "all in" after regular day
job hours.

"The Glass Menagerie" will be produced by Carl Russell, with direction by
Bethany Reeves and lighting design by Shawna Hawkins.

*TECH*: Please contact Shawna with interest in other tech positions, at
scathey at stevens.edu.

*CASTING FOR THE GLASS MENAGERIE: the roles of Laura, Tom, & Jim are open.*

Auditions will be held on Tuesday evening April 17 at DeBaun.

*PLEASE CONTACT BETHANY REEVES FOR SIDES AND AN APPOINTMENT* if you are
interested in auditioning. We need to know how many people to plan for, as
an additional date may be required.

*ACTORS WITH DAY JOBS WILL BE FAVORED FOR TUESDAY EVENING SLOTS.*  If need
be, some daytime auditions may be scheduled for current students, probably
the afternoon of Wednesday 4/18 (location TBA).

Very generally, alumni actors tend to be favored for the summer DeBaun
productions, as student actors are favored for the Shakespeare plays.
However, current students are welcome and encouraged to audition.

*THE PLAY:* is set in a small, Depression-era St. Louis tenement apartment.
Faded Southern belle Amanda Wingfield has struggled to raise her two
children in semi-genteel poverty since being abandoned by her husband
some 15 years prior. At this point, fraught relationships and pressures
both internal and external make the family's future security ever more
precarious.

*ROLES:*

*Amanda Wingfield *will be played by Bethany Reeves.

*Laura Wingfield, about 24, can read older*: Tennessee Williams writes,
"Amanda [Laura & Tom's mother], having failed to establish contact with
reality, continues to live vitally in her illusions, but Laura's situation
is even graver. A childhood illness has left her crippled, one leg slightly
shorter than the other, and held in a brace. This defect need not be more
than suggested on the stage. Stemming from this, Laura's separation
increases till she is like a piece of her own glass collection, too
exquisitely fragile to move from the shelf."

*Tom Wingfield, 22ish in memory/30s-50s looking back: *As this is a memory
play narrated by an older Tom, who is recalling the events precipitating
his leaving home years prior, the actor may be older and is frequently so
cast. Either way can work. Williams writes: "A poet with a job in a
warehouse. His nature is not remorseless, but to escape from a trap he has
to act without pity." Tom's love for his family is challenged both by his
yearning for adventure and freedom and by his exasperation with his
well-meaning but smothering mother. As the family's primary breadwinner, he
is in a difficult and stifling position.

*Jim O'Connor, about 24, can read older*: Williams writes that Tom is "a
nice, ordinary young man," and an emissary from an outside world that the
Wingfield family is cut off from. However, that brief description belies a
role that dominates a solid chunk of the play and whose casting
significantly affects what the play has to say. Jim was the quintessential
"high school hero" - smart, athletic, artistic, popular - an all-around
star. But six years later he's stuck in a dead-end job in a warehouse,
trying to regain the momentum of his teen years through night school
classes and determined good spirits. The extent to which his optimism may
have become a facade (even to himself) is an open question, as is the
genesis of his impulses towards Laura.

Dr. Bethany Reeves
Director, Stevens Choir & DeBaun PAC Voice Studio
Music Program Coordinator, DeBaun Performing Arts Center
Stage Director/Teacher, DeBaun Shakespeare & Summer Theatre Projects
Stevens Institute of Technology

-- 
*Julia Cahn*

Stevens Institute of Technology
Engineering Management 2019
Stevens Dramatic Society | Vice President
McKinsey & Company | Enterprise Architecture Intern
(845) 642-4532
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