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Ghostlight
Theatre Ensemble names Musical Director
The
Longest Running Off-Broadway Show!
The Fantasticks
by Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt
Directed by Patrick Braillard
Musical
Direction by Timothy D. Turner
Production
by Ghostlight Theatre Ensemble of Orlando, Florida
auditions in September,
information below! 4 adult
males & 3 adult females needed
Performances
on September 29, 30, October 1, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 @ 8 p.m. // October 2, 9,
16 @ 2:00 p.m.
All Performances at Central Florida
Performing Arts Alliance Studio Theatre (Click
for Map)
"The Fantasticks” is a well-known and beloved musical, which opened Off-Broadway in May 1960 and ran until January 2002 with 17,162 performances at the Sullivan Street Playhouse. The final show was sold out for months in advance and came down with bravoes and tears.
The story is of true love between a boy and the girl
next door who searches the world and fines that there is no better place for
love than their own backyard. Love, feuding fathers, a bandit, a mute and a happy
ending are all the ingredients for romance, mystery and adventure. It is no
wonder “The Fantasticks” has continued to entertain audiences across the globe.
"The Fantasticks" is the longest-running legitimate show in any category in American theatre history. The day it opened, a nationwide civil defense drill took place, Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy won the Indiana Presidential Primary and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama was awarded to a musical, "Florello!", by George Abbott, Jerome Weidman, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick.
"The Fantasticks’" standing in the Guinness Book of World Records is surpassed only by Agatha Christie’s "The Mousetrap", which opened in London in 1952. However, in 1974, "The Mousetrap" moved from the Ambassador Theatre to the St. Martins, and so The Fantasticks is the world’s longest running show of any category still running in its original theatre.
There have been more than 8,228 productions of the show in the United States in over 2,000 cities and towns. It has played in all 50 states, plus Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia.
The state with the most productions is New York, with 589, followed by California with 551. The state with the least productions is Nevada, which has only had 18. Other states with many productions are Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, and Illinois.
"The Fantasticks" has had 453 productions in 69 counties and has been produced 191 times in Canada, 48 in Germany and 38 in Australia. In Scandinavia, 43 productions include 1 each year since 1962, when it won an award as that year’s Outstanding New Theatrical Piece.
Japan has seen 9 productions, New Zealand 7, Saudi
Arabia 5, Czechoslovakia 4 and Israel 3. It has played in Afghanistan, Iran and
Iraq. There have been recent productions in such cities as Dublin, Milan,
Budapest, Port of Spain, Bangkok and Beijing.
The Narrator (El Gallo) Steven Lane
The Boy (Matt) Robert
Berliner
The Boy’s Mother (Hucklebee) Julianne Snyder
The Girl (Louisa) Karla
Sue Schultz
The Girl’s Mother (Bellomy) Cara Moccia
The Actor (Henry) Ron
Weaver
The Man Who Dies (Mortimer) Veit “Yung” Nguyen
The Mute Lora
“Dorothy” Massey
Please
prepare a monologue and two contrasting musical selections (16 bars each) and
bring sheet music in your key. An
accompanist will be provided. See Preparation Notes below for more
information.
September
1
6 - 11 p.m. Studio
Theatre Rehearsal Room of Orlando, FL (click for map)
PAID roles (percentage of box office)
Call or email for an appointment
Ghostlight
Theatre Ensemble audition information (407) 443-7437 or brandoleo@ghostlightonstage.com
Rehearsals will begin the week of
September 12, and will most likely be in the evenings from 7-10:30 p.m.
The show will open September 29,
with tech rehearsals on the 27th and 28th.
The show will run three weekends,
closing on October 16.
Performances will be Thursdays
through Saturdays @ 8pm, and Sundays @ 2 p.m.
Roles Needed: All roles now cast.
Matt (The Boy): An innocent young man. Baritone/Tenor: A-High G
Louisa (The Girl): A romantic idealist. Soprano: B-High B
Hucklebee (The Boy's Father or Mother): Former navy man, meticulous gardener.
Baritone: A-High F Sharp
Bellomy (The Girl's Father or Mother): A merchant, also a picky
gardener. Baritone: A-High F Sharp
El Gallo (The Narrator): A rakish, handsome gallant. Baritone: A Flat-High G
Henry (The Actor or Actress): An aging, over the top thespian.
Non-singing
Mortimer (The Man or Woman who dies): Henry's goofy sidekick. Non-singing
The Mute: A speechless presence
who watches, acts as a wall and so on. Male or Female. Non-singing
Preparation Notes
Lovers, Fathers/Mothers, El
Gallo: Please prepare a one minute comedic monologue and two contrasting
songs (16 bars each).
Henry/Mortimer: Please prepare
a one minute comedic monologue.
The mute: Please prepare a
silent scene that demonstrates your physical prowess.
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To hear a
brief clip in Windows Media format from a specific song click on the song
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Overture
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Orchestra |
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El Gallo, Luisa, Matt, Hucklebee, Bellomy |
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Luisa |
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Metaphor
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Matt, Luisa |
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Hucklebee, Bellomy |
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El Gallo, Hucklebee, Bellomy |
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Matt, Luisa |
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Company |
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Happy Ending |
Company |
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Matt, Luisa, Hucklebee, Bellomy |
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Matt, El Gallo |
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Hucklebee, Bellomy |
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El Gallo, Luisa, Company |
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Matt, Luisa |
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Abductions |
El Gallo, Hucklebee, Bellomy |
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El Gallo |
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Timothy
D. Turner
has been performing professionally for 27 years in professional &
commercial productions, on stage and screen, with celebrities such as Shirley
Jones, Rita Marino & Marvin Hamlisch and groups like Canadian Brass &
the King’s Singers. He has directed and
produced theatre, cabarets, stage shows, concerts and film for more than 20
years throughout the continental United States and Europe. “The Fantastics” marks his 2nd
production with Ghostlight Theatre Ensemble and this show marks his 44th
production in the area since his relocation to Central Florida in 2001. He holds a BM in Performance from Millikin
University and works as a director, performer, performance coach, clinician,
producer, composer, community organizer and writer. Currently, he resides in Longwood, Florida
just north of Orlando, but he travels extensively as a working professional.
