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Auditions for After Aida

Fri, 16 Feb 2001, 09:09 pm
Walter Plinge6 posts in thread
The Graduate Dramatic Society presents Julian Mitchell's wonderfully funny and clever play-with-music, "After Aida", opening in June at the Dolphin Theatre, U.W.A.

Five actors and five opera singers will join forces tell the story of the writing of Verdi's masterpiece, "Otello".

AUDITIONS will be held on Sunday March 18th at the Bradley Studio, U.W.A., 12-4pm.

All roles are featured roles, appearing throughout the entirety of the play. There are no bit parts in this show.

The roles are:

GIUSEPPE VERDI (60Â’s)
ItalyÂ’s greatest opera composer. A noble, dignified, stubborn man. Happy in retirement but ready to work if he feels the world wants it. Possesses an innate authority. Full beard, slim build.

ARRIGO BOITO (40Â’s)
a nervous, self-doubting, neurotic genius. Sometime composer, full-time poet/librettist. A gifted operatic wordsmith with a real artistic soul. Dapper, slightly overweight, with a large moustache.

GIUSEPPINA STREPPONI (60Â’s)
VerdiÂ’s wife. A strong, sharp, intelligent woman, wholly devoted to her husbandÂ’s best interests. A former soprano, she has endured much in her marriage, but is awake to what her husband needs, in spite of his protestations.

FRANCO FACCIO (40Â’s)
VerdiÂ’s favourite conductor. Can be infuriatingly vague, and even outright dim, but he is a prodigiously talented musician and a great friend to Boito.

GIULIO RICORDI (40Â’s)
VerdiÂ’s publisher and BoitoÂ’s good friend. A practical, urbane man, and a worthy successor to the Ricordi publishing empire.

Please call me, David Meadows (the director) to book a time.


cheers,
D.M.

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Walter PlingeFri, 16 Feb 2001, 09:09 pm
The Graduate Dramatic Society presents Julian Mitchell's wonderfully funny and clever play-with-music, "After Aida", opening in June at the Dolphin Theatre, U.W.A.

Five actors and five opera singers will join forces tell the story of the writing of Verdi's masterpiece, "Otello".

AUDITIONS will be held on Sunday March 18th at the Bradley Studio, U.W.A., 12-4pm.

All roles are featured roles, appearing throughout the entirety of the play. There are no bit parts in this show.

The roles are:

GIUSEPPE VERDI (60Â’s)
ItalyÂ’s greatest opera composer. A noble, dignified, stubborn man. Happy in retirement but ready to work if he feels the world wants it. Possesses an innate authority. Full beard, slim build.

ARRIGO BOITO (40Â’s)
a nervous, self-doubting, neurotic genius. Sometime composer, full-time poet/librettist. A gifted operatic wordsmith with a real artistic soul. Dapper, slightly overweight, with a large moustache.

GIUSEPPINA STREPPONI (60Â’s)
VerdiÂ’s wife. A strong, sharp, intelligent woman, wholly devoted to her husbandÂ’s best interests. A former soprano, she has endured much in her marriage, but is awake to what her husband needs, in spite of his protestations.

FRANCO FACCIO (40Â’s)
VerdiÂ’s favourite conductor. Can be infuriatingly vague, and even outright dim, but he is a prodigiously talented musician and a great friend to Boito.

GIULIO RICORDI (40Â’s)
VerdiÂ’s publisher and BoitoÂ’s good friend. A practical, urbane man, and a worthy successor to the Ricordi publishing empire.

Please call me, David Meadows (the director) to book a time.


cheers,
D.M.
Walter PlingeFri, 16 Feb 2001, 09:16 pm

RE: Auditions for After Aida

and he promptly forgets to include the phone number.... duh!

home: 9472 8678
mobile: 0417 789 845
e-mail: davidave@bigpond.com

or come and see "Romeo and Juliet" at the New Fortune (opening next week!), and you might find me skulking in a dark corner offering candy to little girls.

(Dean Schulze is on long service leave... someone's got to do it!)

hehe.


D.M.
Walter PlingeSat, 17 Feb 2001, 01:36 pm

RE: Auditions for After Aida

Don't kid yourself Meadows. I'll be there. A corner each, O.K.?
This heat's a problem though. I may just have to wear nothing under my raincoat.
Walter PlingeSat, 17 Feb 2001, 06:43 pm

RE: Auditions for After Aida

Dean Schulze wrote:

> This heat's a problem though. I may just
> have to wear nothing under my raincoat.

Since when have you needed an excuse for this?!


D.M.
Walter PlingeTue, 13 Mar 2001, 01:43 am

RE: Auditions for After Aida

GIUSEPPINA STREPPONI (60Â’s) Stage age 60's right?

Hopefully so.

Looks good to me.

David Meadows wrote:
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The Graduate Dramatic Society presents Julian Mitchell's wonderfully funny and clever play-with-music, "After Aida", opening in June at the Dolphin Theatre, U.W.A.

Five actors and five opera singers will join forces tell the story of the writing of Verdi's masterpiece, "Otello".

AUDITIONS will be held on Sunday March 18th at the Bradley Studio, U.W.A., 12-4pm.

All roles are featured roles, appearing throughout the entirety of the play. There are no bit parts in this show.

The roles are:

GIUSEPPE VERDI (60Â’s)
ItalyÂ’s greatest opera composer. A noble, dignified, stubborn man. Happy in retirement but ready to work if he feels the world wants it. Possesses an innate authority. Full beard, slim build.

ARRIGO BOITO (40Â’s)
a nervous, self-doubting, neurotic genius. Sometime composer, full-time poet/librettist. A gifted operatic wordsmith with a real artistic soul. Dapper, slightly overweight, with a large moustache.

GIUSEPPINA STREPPONI (60Â’s)
VerdiÂ’s wife. A strong, s....
Walter PlingeTue, 13 Mar 2001, 02:08 am

RE: Auditions for After Aida

Marian Palandri wrote:

> GIUSEPPINA STREPPONI (60Â’s) Stage age 60's right?

Correct.

> Looks good to me.

Then call me to book a time - 9472 8678.


peace,
David M.
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