ENEWS FROM
THE VORTEX
July, 2007
High Dive!!
Auditions for BUG!!
Auditions for
American
OPENING FRIDAY!!
JULY 20 THROUGH AUGUST 5
(THREE WEEKENDS ONLY)
HIGH DIVE
by LESLIE AYVASIAN
directed by Tish Miller
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM.
Sundays at 6:00 PM.
(Doors open one half hour before “Curtain”.)
ADMISSION
$12.00 per person
(The Vortex accepts Visa and MasterCard.)
RESERVATIONS
Call 505-247-8600
OR
Email reservations@vortexabq.org
OR
click on this web address: www.vortexabq.org; when the page comes up click on “Reservations”; fill out the form; and click “Submit”.
PLEASE REMEMBER! Reservations unclaimed by fifteen minutes before curtain may be sold.
MAKING RESERVATIONS
The Vortex phone, email, and web site are available to you for making reservations 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. However, in order for us to process your reservations, we must ask your cooperation in one specific matter. If you are making reservations on the day of the performance you wish to attend, please make them before 3:00 PM. For example, if it is Friday and you want to attend that night’s performance, please make your reservation before 3:00 PM. The same for Saturday and Sunday.
You are always welcome at the Vortex without reservations, but we cannot always guarantee you seats.
RELATED EVENTS
Friday, July 20: Opening Night Party after the performance
Sunday,
July 22:
Pay What You
Will
Sunday, July 29:
Talk-back with Cast and Crew after the Performance
ABOUT THE PLAY
They say that just before you waft off to heaven (or plummet to that other place); your life passes before your eyes. Well, O.K., for the sake of argument.
But does that same life do that same flashing thing
when you’re standing on a high diving board above a hotel swimming pool in
In HIGH DIVE, you bet it does! Especially if you are the principal character who attracts inadvertent adventure like a magnet: motorcycle mishaps, tidal waves, hurricanes, unbelievable jobs, and a soused celebrity.
Since the principal character is a woman, does this make it a “woman’s play”? No. The play’s underlying theme is adventure and risk-taking and that, in one way or another, is the story of all our lives – regardless of age, sex, or national origin.
HIGH DIVE is a one-woman show with a very large cast.
Leslee Richards is the one-woman.
The very large cast includes, but isn’t limited to: Harry Zimmermann, Andrew Pollack, and Diana Dorland.
UPCOMING AUDITONS
TRACY LETTS’
BUG
directed by Aaron Worley
Audition dates:
Saturday, July 28, 2007, 12:00-3:00
Sunday, July 29, 2007, 11:00-2:00
Performances dates:
September 7 through September 30 (4 weekends)
Casting 5 Characters:
Agnes (age 44)
R.C. (lesbian)
Peter (age 27)
Jerry (early 40's)
Dr. Sweet (age flexible)
Auditions will take place at the Vortex Theatre and will consist of cold readings from the script and improvisations. For more information, contact the director at (505) 268-7316 or chewfly@earthlink.net.
AND
DAVID MAMET’S
AMERICAN
directed by Frank Melcori
Audition dates- August 4, 11-4:00, August 5, 11-4:00
Performance dates: October 12 - November 4
Rehearsals start August 31.
ROLES (All roles are available and none have been pre-cast):
Teach-35-45. A self-absorbed petty thief, living day to day and with a vicious streak.
Donny-45-60. Owner of a junk store and mentor to Bobby but a thief, as well.
Bobby-25-35 An on and off again junky and not always what he seems. He sees Donny as a father figure.
(The auditions will consist of cold readings from the script.)
For more information, leave a message at the Vortex (247-8600)
or contact the director at fmelcori@cnm.edu or call 262-4124.
SEE YOU AT THE VORTEX