Audition Information

2011-2012 SEASON AUDITION DATES

All auditions will be held at the Vandivort Center Theatre at 6:30 PM on the dates listed below. Callbacks, if deemed necessary, will be held on the scheduled dates. Further audition details, including what to prepare, will be announced closer to each audition date. Check our website for updates or join our audition mailing list to receive new information as it becomes available. Also, for most productions we currently have a few extra scripts in the office, if you would like to check one out to read. We only ask for a $10 deposit when you have the script that will be returned when the script comes back.

THIS IS THE FINAL AUDITION OF THE 2011-2012 SEASON. SPRINGFIELD CONTEMPORARY THEATRE WOULD LIKE TO THANK EVERYONE WHO AUDITIONED TO BE A PART OF THE SEASON. WE WILL BE POSTING AUDITION DATES FOR OUR UPCOMING 2012-2013 SEASON CONCURRENT TO OUR SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT IN APRIL.

ENRON
Co-Production with Drury University
By Lucy Prebble
Directed by Robert Westenberg

When: Sunday, January 22 at 7:00 PM
Where: Vandivort Center Theatre
Callbacks: Tuesday, January 24, Drury University
Prepare: one contemporary monologue that is serious or dramatic in nature and no longer than 3 minutes total.

Please call the VCT Box Office to sign up for an audition time by calling (417) 831-8001. Walk-ins will be worked in as time allows.

ROLES
The cast will be comprised of a mix of students from the Drury University theatre program and actors from the community.

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS (3 men, 1 woman)

Ken Lay: 50’s to 60’s, he was president of Enron, paternal, political, energetic, born dirt poor and the son of a Baptist minister, a doctorate in business, friend of presidents

Jeffrey Skilling: 40’s, brilliant conceptualist who becomes the president of Enron, graduate of Harvard, a believer in Darwinist principles, wildly ambitious, not a “people person”

Claudia Roe: 30’s, tough, nicknamed “Claws,” competitive, one of the most powerful women in finance (Forbes magazine)

Andy Fastow: Late 20’s to early 30’s, lupine, a numbers guy, smart, socially inept, an outsider, ambitious and overdressed

ENSEMBLE (6 men, 5 women)

Ensemble plays numerous speaking roles throughout the production. They play traders, accountants, analysts, lawyers, members of the press, politicians, board members and other high profile individuals.

CHILD (1 girl)

Jeffrey Skilling’s Young Daughter: no older than 9, only does scene work with actor playing Skilling. While there is no strong language or violence in the scene work containing the daughter, the show itself does contain some very mature material.

Details subject to change.