DurantCom Weekly Audition News & Notices

Published: Mon, 08/18/14

A Christmas Carol (role of Scrooge) pay $475.00 – Hale Centre Theatre
In our annual retelling of the classic Charles Dickens tale, visits from three ghosts help Scrooge to see the light and change his ways. This wonderful, optimistic Christmas message shows us that, the human spirit is capable of renewal and its hopeful message has earned a place of honor in the hearts of generations. Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit, and the lively carolers will put you in the perfect holiday mood!
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Night Watch – Fountain Hills Theater
Unable to sleep, Elaine Wheeler paces the living room of her Manhattan townhouse. Her husband tries to comfort her, but when he steps away for a moment Elaine screams as she sees (or believes she sees) the body of a dead man in the window across the way. The police are called, but find nothing. Elaine's terror grows when she sees still another body—this time a woman's—but by now her husband and the police are skeptical and the play charges towards its riveting and chilling climax.
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THE PALACE – Scottsdale Community College
BARRY, a manager of a five-star hotel, struggles to maintain the property after the new owner, an eccentric Texas Longhorn billionaire, replaces the staff with a motley crew from a local hole-­in­-the-­wall motel.
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Dial M for Murder – Ghostlight Theatre
Ex-tennis pro Tony Wendice decides to murder his wife for her money and because she had an affair the year before. He blackmails an old college associate to strangle her, but when things go wrong he sees another way to turn events to his advantage.
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Dixie Swim Club – Mesa Encore Theatre – Black Box on Brown
Five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina's Outer Banks to catch up, laugh and meddle in each other's lives.
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Noises Off – Chandler-Gilbert Community College Performing Arts Department
This popular, hilarious comedy has often been called the funniest farce ever written. Critics call the play "spectacularly funny" and "a festival of delirium". Noises Off is a play within a play. It is about an ambitious director and his troupe of mediocre actors. The cast and crew are putting together a silly bedroom comedy titled, Nothing On - a single-set farce in which lovers frolic, doors slam, clothes are tossed away and embarrassing hi-jinks ensue. The show is done in three crazy acts.
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DREAMGIRLS – Desert Foothills Theater
DREAMGIRLS is about the PRICE of FAME for one group and the impact it has on family and friendships during the historic Motown Era in the music industry. An opportunistic show business promoter sets the career of a female trio of black singers soaring as 1960s Motown music becomes popular with both white and black audiences.
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Arsenic and Old Lace – Paradise Valley Community College
A timeless and classic hit both on Broadway and in the West End. Arsenic and Old Lace is the amusing story of two charming and innocent elderly ladies who decide that by poisoning their poor, lonely lodgers and burying the bodies in their cellar, they are saving these unfortunates from the sorrows of this world - however, not everybody shares their views! This is one of the world’s most widely acclaimed comedy hits!
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