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Feb. 28, 2006 -- No. 107 |
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Applications for outdoor drama auditions
due March 9 at UNC-Chapel Hill
CHAPEL HILL — Interested actors, singers, dancers and theater technicians need to apply soon to seek summer jobs through the nation's largest combined audition for outdoor historical dramas. Applications are due by March 9, each with a $30 nonrefundable fee.
The auditions, on March 18 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will be a major recruiting tool for 14 dramas from across the country, said Scott Parker, director of the Institute of Outdoor Drama, a UNC public service agency.
"Outdoor historical dramas are wonderful opportunities to learn professional theater practices," he said. "Those include the discipline required for long-running productions, maintaining the freshness of a performance night after night, and mounting a high-quality operation for a wide cross section of the American public."
About 300 jobs available through the auditions will last nine to 12 weeks, June through August, and are open to anyone 18 years or older with theater experience. Shows range from the drama "Texas" in Canyon, Texas, to North Carolina’s "The Lost Colony" on Roanoke Island and "Unto These Hills" in Cherokee. The latter two are the nation’s oldest outdoor dramas.
Actors and singers must communicate emotion clearly and, because most productions do not use microphones or vocal reinforcement, project their voices with ease and versatility. Auditions will require each actor to deliver a one-minute monologue; each singer, a prepared number no longer than a minute. Dancers will follow a choreographer in combinations using modern, ballet and folk styles. Actors may offer a different one-minute monologue at call-back auditions.
All auditions and call-backs will be completed that day.
Technicians will be interviewed. Besides performers, theatres need stunt and combat professionals, pyrotechnicians, horseback riders and staff skilled in design, installation and maintenance of equipment for sound, voice reinforcement, special effects and lighting.
Applications, instructions and directions may be obtained on the institute's Web site at http://www.unc.edu/depts/outdoor/ or by sending a self-addressed, business-size, stamped envelope to Auditions Coordinator, Institute of Outdoor Drama, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 3240, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27599-3240.
For more information, call the institute from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST weekdays at 919-962-1328 or e-mail outdoor@unc.edu.
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CAPTION: A dancer performs during the 2005 National Outdoor Drama Auditions in Chapel Hill.
CAPTION: An actor performs during the 2005 National Outdoor Drama Auditions in Chapel Hill.
Contact: Scott Parker, 919-962-1328, outdoor@unc.edu
