LAPC Theatre has announced audition dates for our two fall productions: Marcia Kash's FOR THIS MOMENT ALONE, a post WWII drama, which centers around a Jewish family coping with the aftermath of the horrors of the holocaust, and CABARET, the Tony Award-winning musical by Kander & Ebb. While both shows will hold auditions in the Temporary Performing Arts tent (PAC 4400), both will be performed in the the Dow Arena Theatre in the newly-renovated Performing Arts Building on the hill.

FOR THIS MOMENT ALONE, directed by Valorie Grear
Wed & Thurs - August 20 & 21 6:30 – 9:00 PM Fri - August 22 1-4 PM
Open Auditions in temporary theater tent PAC 4000 at the corner of Mason Ave & Olympic Dr. PERFORMANCES: October 24-Nov 2

Character Breakdown:
JOE AARON (early 50’s) - The patriarch of a Jewish family in Toronto, Canada, 1948. He is widowed, with two sons; one is a talented musician and the other a freedom fighter in Palestine. He feels guilty about the death of his wife, Hannah, and is passionate about relieving suffering of others. He is a kind, generous man of great principle and conviction.
BERTHA AARON (mid 50’s) - Joe’s unmarried sister. She came to live with his family after Joe’s wife died. Very motherly. One can determine her mood by the assortment of baked goods she prepares. She is faced with a difficult decision when a love from her past reappears.
NORMAN AARON (age 19) - He’s a brilliant young violinist with a temperament to match - “a genius.” He has an upcoming audition within a week at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York.
RUTH GOLDFARB (age 24) - Joe’s niece by marriage. - “a slip of a thing, quietly pretty.” Tortured by the loss of her family during the war, Ruth at last finds hope in the anticipation of being reunited with her brother.
YOUNG MAN/FREDDIE (age 25) - He has survived Auschwitz and appears at the train station in Toronto, to be united with the Goldfarb family. Tortured by nightmares, he remains emotionally secluded, and is haunted by the atrocities he experienced during the war.
SOL (50’s) - Joe’s neighbor and longtime friend, “a stocky, salt of the earth type.” He and his wife Ada provide many moments of humor in the play.
ADA (50’s) - Joe’s wife. Very close to Bertha. She and her husband Sol sometimes help out in the store, as well as, offer advice and support.

Copy of the script is available online at: faculty.piercecollege.edu/grearvl/

CABARET, directed by Gene Putnam, choreographed by Denise Gibson with Bonnie Lavin Hughes and Anthony Anthony Powell, Musical Direction by James Domine

AUDITION DATES:
Open auditions will be held in PAC 4400 (Tent structure located on lower campus) on
Sept. 2, and 3., from 6:30-9:30 pm.
Performances: December 5-14

NOTE: The leads will only be cast at these auditions. 

KIT KAT GIRLS and other Cabaret dancers will audition on Saturday Sept. 13 in the Dance Studio located on Pierce Campus in the North Gym, from 12:30-3:30pm.

AUDITION NOTES:
It is very important that you are well prepared for the audition process. You should also acquire a copy of the most recent CD of the Show (1998 version) and /or listen to excerpts from that version or the present version on U-tube. The staff would prefer that you sing a selection from the Show, but you may also select a song from another show that shows your vocal potential. In either case select a song written in your key. There will be no transposing. An accompanist will be provided. Also you will be interviewed about your schedule, possible conflicts and degree of commitment to the Show.
In addition, you will be asked to do a dance combination to see how well you can move. Please wear clothes that you can move in. Women in tights and short skirts and rehearsal shoes, men need to be in dress shirts, long pants, and rehearsal or dress shoes. No shorts, tee shirts, or tennis shoes.

Character Breakdown: Emcee - Dynamic, singer, dancer, female impersonator, leering,
ghoulish, flamboyant figure. The all-seeing, all- knowing one.
Sally Bowles - Pretentious, not-going-anywhere 19 year old cabaret singer, 
headlining British singer at the KKK.
Cliff Bradshaw - American, erudite and sincere writer, traveling thru Berlin. bisexual
Fraulein Schneider A very proper landlady who runs a boarding house Sally and Cliff live in. 
Herr Schultz - A Jewish fruit selling suitor of Fraulein Schneider (NOTE: Open to casting younger actors mid thirties to fifties for the above two roles)
Fraulein Kost - An enterprising prostitute tenant in Frau Schneider's Rooming House
Ernst Ludwig - A covert operator with charm 
Max - Owner of the Kit Kat Klub
Kit Kat Klub Cabaret Girls: (NOTE: All are dancers)Rosie, Lulu, Frenchie, Texas, Fritzie, Helga, Greta, Maria

Cabaret Boys: (NOTE: All are dancers) Bobby, Victor, Hans, Herman, Felix, Sailor #1
(Fraulein Kost’s Sailors) Sailor #2, Maitre D’, Bartender
2 - Ernst’s Nazi Body Guards at Kit Kat Klub