Announcing Auditions For...

"City of Angels"

Auditions - June 3, 4 of 2007 at 7 pm
at the Starlighters Theatre in Anamosa

-------------------------------------

**A note from the director:
The auditions for "City Of Angels" will be rigorous. We are looking for singers, actors, and people who move well.

All who audition will be asked to sing several times and do a lot of scene work.

It will be helpful for all who audition if they familiarize themselves with the show prior to auditions, this will better your chances.

-------------------------------------

Directing Team for "City of Angels":

Brian Glick (Olin),
Director

Polly Chalstrom (Anamosa),
Assistant Director

For further information about "City of Angels," or to check out a script and music for one week, contact director Brian Glick by calling 319-462-4793 Ext. 821, or by sending an e-mail to b-jglick@hotmail.com

THE STORY:

No, it's not the movie! It is the far superior Tony Award-winning Broadway musical that consists of the interweaving of two plots, one dealing with the writing of a screenplay in the glamorous, seductive Hollywood of the 1940s; the other, the enactment of that screenplay.

"City of Angels" is the rarest of musical comedies; one that overflows with sidesplitting comedy, but is also loaded with a mix of outstanding music, with some written in the contemporary jazz idiom, and some written to emulate pure movie soundtrack music of the 40s.

The show chronicles the misadventures of Stine, a young novelist who writes suspenseful detective novels featuring his main character, a gumshoe named Stone. In this story, we see Stine attempting a screenplay for the stereotypical movie producer-director, Buddy Fidler. What happens when the main character of a story confronts the story's author? You'll find out, in a big way!

Winner of 6 Tony awards and the New York Drama Critics Circle award for best musical!

The Cast

The characters in "City of Angels" is made up of two parallel groups, the group of "real people" in Hollywood, and the "imaginary" people in the movie script. Below is a breakdown of those parallel groups, and who in the Hollywood group is double-cast as who in the movie group.

Hollywood Cast .................................. Movie Cast

*Stine, A writer of fiction.................................... (Himself)

(Himself)............................................................. *Stone, Stine's creation, a private eye

Gabby, Stines Wife............................................ Bobbie stone's ex-wife, a cabaret singer

Donna, Buddies Secretary ................................. Oolie, Stone's secretary

*Buddy Fidler, Movie Director/Producer............. Irwin S. Irving, a movie mogul

Carla Haywood, Buddy's wife.............................. *Alaura Kingsley, Femme Fatale

Werner Kriegler, an Actor.................................. Luther Kingsley, Alaura's invalid husband

Gerald Pierce, an Actor....................................... Peter Kingsley, Alaura's stepson

Avril Raines, a Starlet ........................................ *Mallory Kingsley, Alaura's stepdaughter

Pancho Vargas, an Actor..................................... *Lieutenant Munoz, A police Detective

Gene, an assistant director, ................................. *Officer Pasco, a police man

Stand-in, a studio employee................................. Margaret, a maid at the Kingsley's

Gilbert, a barber................................................. Dr. Mandrill, a religious leader

Jimmy Powers, a movie crooner.......................... Jimmy Powers, a movie crooner

Studio Cop, a studio employee............................. Big six, a big thug

Studio Cop, a studio employee............................. Sonny, A small thug

Del Dacosta, a studio Songwriter......................... *Mahoney, a reporter

*Angel City Four, A vocal quartet....................... Angel City Four, A vocal quartet

(Plus chorus roles of about 6 people who play radio announcer, butler, movie cast, and crew.

* Singing roles

Age requirements for the cast , 20s - 50s

Return to the 2007 Mainstage Schedule

Return to the Starlighters II Home Page