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TDW Announces Auditions for the 2004-2005 Season

Auditions for the TDW 2004-2005 season will be held on Tuesday, August 10 & Wednesday, August 11 at the Westwood United Methodist Church on the corner of Epworth and Urwiler Avenues (one block off of Harrison Ave). in Westwood. Auditions are from 7:00 - 9:30 pm both nights (Click here for directions). All three directors will be on hand, and scripts will be available for cold readings. Auditions are open to the public and no appointments are needed. No prior experience is needed, nor are headshots and resumes (but they are accepted). Those wishing to volunteer for technical positions are also welcome each night to get more information on helping out. The following is information on each show:

Fall Show Double Feature
Deliver Us Not! (Or, Birth Where is thy Sting?)
A One Act Comedy by Lee Howard and Greg Gamble
Directed by Adam Marple
Three fetuses sharing a womb debate the possibilities of life-after-birth, trying to come to terms with their impending due-date. The characters, representing a trio of philosophies, take to task such topics as atheism, warm-fuzzy-new-age sophisms, and pompous poetry. Deliver Us Not! juggles it all with impudent wit and subtle subtext.
Cast: 3 people, any age or sex.
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Epic Proportions
A One-Act Comedy by Larry Coen and David Crane
Directed by Arlene Schwab
Set in the 1930's, Epic Proportions tells the story of two brothers, Benny and Phil, who go to the Arizona desert to be extras in the huge Biblical epic "Exeunt Omnes." Things move very quickly in this riotous comedy and before you know it, Phil is directing the movie, and Benny is starring in it. To complicate matters further, they both fall in love with Louise, the assistant director in charge of the extras. Along the way there are gladiator battles, the Ten Plagues and a cast of thousands portrayed by four other actors.
Cast requirements:
- Benny: male, 20's - 30's looking.
- Phil: male, 20's-40's looking.
- Louise: female, 20's-30's looking.
- D.W. DeWitt: male, older-looking man, around 60
- Egyptian Dancing Girl, Conspirator, Extra, the Queen, Cochette: female, 30's-50 looking.
- Octavium, Slavemaster, Extra, Egyptian, Queen's Attendant, Gladiator, Cochette's Assistant: male, larger in size, 20's-50's looking.
- Jack, Conspirator, Roman General, Egyptian, Guard, Gladiator: male, 20's- 50's looking, could be a larger size man.
- Shel, Conspirator, Extra, Egyptian, Guard, Executionaer, Gladiator: male, 20's-50's looking.
October 22-24, 28-30, 2004

Doin' Time at the Alamo
by Mary Hanes
Directed by Jim Burton
It's a hot July weekend at the Alamo, a woebegone motel that is directly across the street from a federal penitentiary in Texas. In this warm comedy, seven characters "do time" between visits with loved ones in prison. They play cards, argue, order out for moo shu shrimp, plan a wedding and dream of love. At the Alamo, these prisoners of love take a final stand against loneliness and ultimately find freedom. Characters include the motel owner who has been unable to escape from the Alamo since his father died in prison, a tough-talking New Yorker engaged to a two-timing mobster, her reluctant body guard, the dental hygienist who loves the bodyguard, her mother (a devotee of the card game rummy), a seventy-year old woman who believes in numerology and the letters of the twenty year old prisoner she plans to marry this July 4th weekend, and the wife whose yuppie husband has lied to the Feds and to her.Cast: 5 women, 2 men.
April 15-17, 21-23, 2005

Both shows will be performed at the Columbia Performing Arts Center at 3900 Eastern Ave. This is due to The Westwood Town Hall undergoing renovation.

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