Monday, November 27, 2006

HotCity Theatre Company Auditions

HotCity Theatre Company announces auditions for the first two Mainstage
productions of its 2007 Season and for the 2007 Greenhouse Series:

General Auditions:
What: Bring a single one to two minute monologue.
Where: Centene Center for the Arts, 3547 Olive Street
When: Saturday, December 16, 9-11am equity, 11-3pm non-equity
How: To schedule an audition please email your request to
charper@siue.edu, or
call 314-606-0855 on Saturday, November 25th from 3:00-5:00pm, with your
preferred time. You will be assigned the nearest available time to your
request and contacted with this information.

The Greenhouse:

The Lamentable Tragedie of Doctor Fausta
adapted by Bob Koerner and Rachel Jackson from the play by
Christopher Marlowe
Director TBA
Performs Feb 23-March 4
Rehearsals begin Feb 5
Callbacks - Sunday, January 7th 12:00-4:00

11 Hills of San Francisco, by Tim J. Lord,
Directed by Michael Jokerst
Performs March 9-18
Rehearsals begin Feb 19
Callbacks - Saturday, January 6th 12:00-4:00

The Mainstage:

A Clockwork Orange
Adapted by Brad Baker from the novel by Anthony Burgess
Directed by Jason Cannon
Performs April 19 – May 5
Rehearsals begin March 26
Callbacks - Saturday, January 13th 12;00-4:00
**Please note that actors must be at least 18 in order to audition
for this
show. This show contains extreme violence, graphic sexual
situations, rape,
partial and/or total nudity, scenes of torture and brutality. **

Say You Love Satan
by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Directed by Michael Jokerst
Performs July 12-28
Begins Rehearsal June 18
Callbacks - January 14th 12:00-4:00

Mainstage #1
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
directed by JASON CANNON

**Please note that actors must be at least 18 in order to audition
for this
show. This show contains extreme violence, graphic sexual
situations, rape,
partial and/or total nudity, scenes of torture and brutality.

Ages are estimates: All age groups are encouraged to audition.

Please note that the director is actively seeking a diverse cast.
All roles
can be filled by any ethnicity.

ACTOR 1: male, 18-30. Plays ALEX. This part requires intense
combat/violence, raping, partial-total nudity.

ACTOR 2: male, 18-35. Plays PETE, PEDOFIL, BALDY, JOE, CAMERAMAN.
This part
requires intense combat/violence, raping.

ACTOR 3: female, 18-35. Plays GEORGIE, MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR,
LEN. This
part requires intense combat/violence, raping.

ACTOR 4: male, 18-35. Plays DIM, BIG JEW, ORDERLY, RICK. This part
requires
intense combat/violence, raping.

ACTOR 5: female, 18-35. Plays WAITRESS 1, BILLYBOY, POLICEMAN 2,
ZOPHAR, DR
BRANOM. This part requires intense combat/violence, partial nudity,
singing.

ACTOR 6: female, 18-30. Plays WAITRESS 2, GIRL, DOCTOR, NURSE,/
SEDUCTRESS,
PETE’S WIFE. This part requires partial-total nudity, being forcibly/
sexually
molested, and singing.

ACTOR 7: male, 40-60. Plays TEACHER JACK, LEO, F. ALEXANDER, PR
DELTOID,
CHAPLAIN, JOJOHN, REPORTER. This part requires intense combat/violence.

ACTOR 8: male, 40-60. Play DRUNK, BILLYBOY’S DROOG 1, POLICEMAN 1,
FATHER,
HEADWARDER, OLD MAN 1, BULLY. This part requires intense combat/
violence.

ACTOR 9: female, 40-60. Plays BILLYBOY’S DROOG 2, F. ALEXANDER’S WIFE,
MOTHER, OLD WOMAN, GOVERNOR, DR BRODSKY, REPORTER. This part
requires intense
combat/violence, partial nudity, being raped.

Mainstage #2
SAY YOU LOVE SATAN
Directed by Michael Jokerst

Andrew: male, 25, a gay average guy, thinks to much, slave of guilt,
student of
Dostoevsky’s writing

Bernadette: female, 27, his friend and former cult member, goes to gay
clubs a lot, wonders why she can’t find a guy, comic character, very
neurotic

Jack: male, 33, the Devil’s son, flawless hotty, a nice guy

Jerrod: male, Andrew’s on-again, off-again boyfriend, goodness
personified,
kind of boring

Chad: male, 25, ex-boyfriend of the damned

Raphael: male, a seraphim, looks 25 but of course, is immortal, also an
ex-boyfriend of the damned

Martin: male, a.k.a. Druidic Cult Martin

A Gay Bouncer (obviously)
Greenhouse #2
11 HILLS OF SAN FRANCISCO
Directed by Michael Jokerst

Nick: male, 20, bi-sexual, poet, intense, charismatic, transplanted
Midwesterner

the Girl: 20ish, mysterious, vulnerable, attractive, actor must have
vocal range and excel at poetry recitation

Joan: female, 30ish, strong, independent, sexual, flirtatious (Sam on
Sex in
the City), beat generation

Louis: 40-50, male, closeted gay, married to woman, college
professor, needy,
frustrated writer, unstable

Terrence: male, a 30ish Jack Kerouac type, gay, a poet, self-promoter,
charismatic, attractive, manipulator, best friend of Joan -- sort of
a Will and
Grace relationship, Beat generation