Durant Casting - Weekly Audition News & Notices

Published: Mon, 07/29/19

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Breakfast with Mugabe
We are invited to eavesdrop on the volcanic conversations between Robert Mugabe, controversial president of Zimbabwe, and his psychiatrist as he seeks help. He is being haunted by a vengeful spirit, the ghost of a former revolutionary comrade turned potential rival. In this suspenseful historical thriller we explore whether or not Mugabe is a monster …
Trouble in Mind
As the 1950’s draw to a close, a newly integrated theatre company prepares to open a progressive but misguided new play on Broadway. This troubled production of a fictional anti-lynching play will feature renowned actress Wileta Mayer. She has the opportunity to become the first leading lady of color on the Great White Way, but …
Unexpected Guest
Molly, a middle school dance teacher ventures home with an older man (Dan) after a night of drinking. A night of passion is immediately crushed, and tensions rise when Dan’s wife (Francis) and daughter (Emily) happen to be home. What follows is a story about individuals confronting their biggest struggles in life, and the path …
Simon’s Party
A theater director still haunted by decisions from long ago goes through great lengths to recreate a pivotal moment from his past using music and theater in an unconventional way.
Annie Get Your Gun
Annie Oakley is a poor but spirited and happy country girl,  who lives by her native sharp shooting quickly makes her the star of Buffalo Bills Wild West Show where she meets and falls in love with expert rifleman Frank Butler.  Unfortunately the tough outspoken Annie is not Frank’s idea of what a wife should …
41st annual Celebration of Christmas
Celebration of Christmas plays to over 50,000 people each December in our 3500 seat auditorium.  This Broadway-style musical features a 40 piece live orchestra; a cast of 300 actors/singers/dancers; live animals; and state-of-the-art technical elements.  Because of the size of the cast there are multiple choreographers who create spectacular dance numbers – including broadway, swing, …
Title To Be Announced Aug 1
Due to legal restrictions, we’re not allowed to release the title of our Fall production until Aug 1. However, we can tell you it will be “spooky” and will feature a family that’s known by all! This is a FULL 2 hour production and not a 1 hour JR version. We recommend the ages for …
Sketch Comedy and Improvisation
Here we “grow” again!  The Early Bird Special Sketch Comedy and Improvisation group is obsessed with having fun. Our shows consist of original comedy sketches and improvisation.  Each show is complete with costumes, props, and sound production.
Brick Cave Film Festival
Brick Cave Media is seeking an outgoing, enthusiastic individual to act as the spokesperson in promoting the 2019 Brick Cave Film Festival. The spokesperson will make media appearances and record audio and video promotion of the festival to filmmakers and attendees.     
Aunt Rita’s Promotes HIV & STI Testing
Aunt Rita’s Foundation (non-profit) and Great Scott Productions are producing a video designed to promote HIV and STD testing.  The Male Lead will first pepper his mechanic with many questions about his car repair, because he cares about his car.  Switch scenes to the Male Lead in a doctor’s exam room where he is viewing …
Bacon Bits Improv Troupe Auditions
Laughing Pig Theatre’s resident Improv Troupe, Bacon Bits, is seeking new membership of all experience levels. The troupe is dedicated to learning from and teaching each other new formats and styles to create high quality monthly shows.
Frozen Jr.
Frozen JR. is based on the 2018 Broadway musical, and brings Elsa, Anna, and the magical land of Arendelle to life, onstage. The show features all of the memorable songs from the animated film, with music and lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, plus five new songs written for the Broadway production.  A story of …
A Nice Family Christmas
It’s Christmas Eve, and a young newspaper reporter on the brink of being fired has been assigned a last-chance story about a typical family Christmas – his family’s Christmas. He goes home to his recently widowed mother, his crazy uncle, his eccentric grandmother, and his battling siblings and their neurotic spouses, who provide no shortage …
I’ll Eat You Last: A chat with Sue Mengers
For more than 20 years, Sue Mengers’ clients were the biggest names in show business: Barbra Streisand, Faye Dunaway, Burt Reynolds, Ali MacGraw, Gene Hackman, Cher, Candice Bergen, Ryan O’Neal, Nick Nolte, Mike Nichols, Gore Vidal, Bob Fosse…If her clients were the talk of the town, she was the town, and her dinner parties were …
Kunstler
African-American, female law student battles William Kunstler. Famous for defending the Chicago Seven, the Catonsville Nine, and his involvement at Attica and Wounded Knee, the radical attorney and civil rights activist William Kunstler had an outsize personality and a tremendous appetite for life. In this two-character play, tensions flare when he arrives on a college …
A Streetcar Named Desire
Explosive, passionate, and heartrending, A Streetcar Named Desire is modern American theatre at its best. When fading Southern belle Blanche DuBois arrives on the doorstep of her sister Stella’s apartment building in New Orleans, she is unwittingly entering a lion’s den. Wounded by romantic abuses, loss, and dangerous mistakes, Blanche prefers her world kept in dim, flattering …