WHEN: Monday, August 25 & 26, 2008
TIME:
7:00 - 10:00 p.m. - both nights
CALLBACKS: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
WHERE: The Guild
Theater - 2828 35th Street (35th & B'way) - Sacramento, CA
NEED: Union and non-union
African-American Actors ages 18 - 70, Singers, and Dancers. Specifically seeking a 13- 14 year old male for Solomon's
Storefront.
ALL PERFORMERS, PLEASE BRING 2 HEADSHOTS & RESUMES
ACTORS - Please prepare two contrasting monologues
(e.g. comedy, serious; classical, contemporary) - 5 minutes total time for both monologues. You may also be asked to do cold
readings from the script.
VOCALISTS - Please bring sheet music and come prepared to sing 16 bars of a song. An instrumental
recording to accompany singers or singing A capella may be allowed however, sheet music is preferable.
DANCERS will
be auditioned at a later date.
NEED: Union and non-union African-American Actors ages 18 - 70, Singers,
and Dancers. Specifically seeking a 13- 14 year old male for Solomon's Storefront.
ALL PERFORMERS, PLEASE BRING
2 HEADSHOTS & RESUMES
ACTORS - Please prepare two contrasting monologues (e.g. comedy, serious; classical, contemporary)
- 5 minutes total time for both monologues. You may also be asked to do cold readings from the script.
VOCALISTS -
Please bring sheet music and come prepared to sing 16 bars of a song. An instrumental recording to accompany singers or singing
A capella may be allowed however, sheet music is preferable.
DANCERS will be auditioned at a later date.
PLAY SYNOPSIS' & CHARACTER BREAKDOWN
SOLOMON'S STOREFRONT
Set
in the 1960s, amidst the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, Solomon a local storeowner in Chicago, has lost everything
that is important to him. His wife has passed away and his only daughter is on drugs. As his past and present collide he strugggles
to make sense of his life, to make peace with himself, and prove that his life has had meaning and purpose. He finds worth
in his young neighbor Tyler Parker, a 12 year old boy who is seeking to define himself and his budding manhood in a house
filled with women and a neighborhood full of bullies. The father/son relationship grows between the two of them as one struggles
to say goodbye to the life he has known and the other struggles to find his place in a life that is just beginning to emerge.
All Actors are African-American.
- Solomon Turner - A 65 year old male
- Tyler Paker - A 13 year old
boy that Solomon mentors
- Leroy Jenkins - Solomon's friend, 64 years old
- Orphelia Parker - Tyler's
Grandmother, 68 years old
- Dorethea Turner - Solomon's daughter who is addicted to heroin.
- Young Solomon
- Solomon as a young man - 20's - appears in flashbacks
- Carmen Turner - Solomon's deceased wife - 20s - appears
in flashbacks - must sing.
LEGACY
Images Theater Company presents their original musical LEGACY, a collection
of vignettes, poetry and prose that honors and celebrates the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the accomplishments
of African-Americans. Presented as an ensemble theater production, LEGACY weaves together an exciting journey through history
as it invites the audience to move with the cast from the past to the present, remembering the struggles, celebrating our
progress as a people and country, while reminding us that regardless of ethnicity, we need to keep pressing forward together,
in order to keep Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream alive.
LEGACY requires an ensemble
cast of 7 - 9 African-American Actors. All must act, sing and move well.
LEGACY requires an ensemble cast
of 7 - 9 African-American Actors. All must act, sing and move well.
