CLOTA AUDITIONS
FOR LANDMARK MUSICAL
The Community Light Opera and Theater Association has announced Friday and Saturday, May 20 and 21 as tryout dates for "Guys And Dolls," a glittering jewel in the crown of American musical theater since its Broadway début in 1950. All sessions will take place at CLOTA's Center Stage, 1425 N. Inyo.The Friday auditions begin at 6:00 p.m. and will focus on speaking roles and dancing roles; the Saturday session, starting at noon, will be for speaking roles and singing roles. Production Director Elena Vitale says auditioners should attend on both days, as line readings will be conducted at both sessions. Those auditioning for singing roles are expected to sing a brief number of their choice and to bring piano accompaniment sheet music for that number.
Auditioners will be trying for 2 female and 7 male principal roles, some of which do not require solo vocals. Vitale and her musical staff will also be casting a 4-to-6-girl singing-dancing chorus and a small male chorus.
"Guys And Dolls" offers a rogue’s gallery of rambunctious hustlers and gangsters, plus their anything-but-frail female counterparts, created by 1930s short-story master Damon Runyon. In more recent decades, many musical-theater fans have been introduced to the show’s rollicking script and unforgettable tunes by the 1955 film version that starred Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra as fast-talking, high-rolling gamblers.
The panoply of vivid characters also includes Sarah Brown, an upright but uptight "mission doll" out to reform the evildoers of Time Square, and Adelaide, a chronically ill nightclub performer whose condition is induced by the fact that she's been engaged to the same man for 14 years.
Performance dates are set for July 28, 29 and30, August 5, 6, 7, 11, 12 and 13. Perusal script copies have been placed with Red Rock Books and the Kern County Library. For more information, leave a callback request on the CLOTA hotline: 760-446-2411.
