The Audition Phase

That's the phase we're in right now at Playhouse on Park with our third season rapidly approaching. Last Wednesday we held open auditions for "Enemy of the People" on stage at Playhouse on Park October 12th through October 30th.

Actors arrived at the playhouse before their scheduled audition to fill out our audition form. They returned that form along with their head shot and resume to the front desk and waited to be called.

For past auditions, I was the one at the front desk greeting the hopefuls, however this time I walked people in to the theatre for their audition, introduced them and handed their information to the director, Kyle Fabel who then introduced the actor to Darlene Zoller, Artistic Director and Dawn Loveland, Director of Education. Darlene used her laptop to take notes on each audition. Dawn served as a reader.

Actors young and old came prepared with audition sides or a monologue. Some stood in place reading the character side they chose. Others moved about the stage as though they were speaking to the other character.

The audition phase continues with open auditions for all the shows in our third season on August 29th and August 31st from 5:00 - 11:00pm both days. Actors will audition in front of the directors for all our shows this season. In five minutes actors will have the option of performing any combination of monologue or song. A pianist will be on hand. Call 860-523-5900 x 10 to schedule your audition time, but hurry slots are filling up fast.