!!VORTEX EXTRA!!!

May, 2007

 

La Casa Azul!!

Revolting Drag Queens!!

High Dive!!

Auditions for Death of a Salesman!!

Auditions for American Buffalo!!

 

JUST TWO MORE WEEKENDS

(THROUGH JUNE 3)

 

SOPHIE FAUCHER’S

LA CASA AZUL
TRANSLATED BY NEIL BARTLETT

DIRECTED BY VALLI MARIE RIVERA

 

Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 PM.

Sundays at 6:00 PM.

(Door opens 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.

 

 

COMING ATTRACTIONS

(Replacing The Mystery of Irma Vep)

 

IN JUNE

 

THE DOLLS

 IN

[!!A BRAND-NEW SHOW!!]

REVOLTING DRAG QUEENS

JUNE 29 THROUGH JULY 15

(Three Weekends)

 

IN JULY

HIGH DIVE

by Leslie Ayvazian

directed by Tish Miller

JULY 20 THROUGH AUGUST 5

(Three Weekends)

 

 

UPCOMING AUDITIONS

 

ARTHUR MILLER’S

DEATH OF A SALESMAN

directed by Debi Kierst

Audition dates:

Saturday, June 23, 2007, 12:00-4:00

Sunday, June 24, 2007, 12:00-4:00

 

Show dates: August 31-September 30

Rehearsals begin: July 16, 2007.

 

ALL PARTS ARE AVAILABLE.  NO ROLE HAS BEEN PRE-CAST.

Willy Loman—an elderly traveling salesman who lives by false hopes and illusions.

Age Range—50-70

Role—Lead

Linda Loman—Willy’s wife.  The peacemaker; always trying to ease the tension.

Age Range—50-70

Role—Lead

Biff Loman—Willy’s oldest son.  The conflict between the two is central to the story. 

Biff was a “star” in high school, but has been a failure at most everything since.

Age Range—28-40

Role—Supporting

Happy Loman—Willy’s youngest son.  Trying to find his way in life.

Age Range—26-38

Role—Supporting

Bernard—Charlie’s son.  He was a childhood friend of Biff. Extremely studious and eventually successful.            

            Age Range – 28-40

            Role—Small Supporting

Charley—The Loman’s next door neighbor.  Owns his own sales firm. 

            Age Range—50-70

            Role:  Small Supporting

Howard—Willy’s boss who inherited the company from his father. 

            Age Range:  28-40

Uncle Ben—Willy’s dead brother who appears to Willy during his flashbacks and times of trouble.

            Age Range:  40-60

            Role:  Small Supporting

Jenny—Charlie’s Secretary

            Age Range:  20-35

            Role:  Cameo

Letta—A prostitute

            Age Range:  20’s-35

            Role:  Cameo

Miss Forsythe—A prostitute

            Age Range:  20-35

            Role:  Cameo

StanleyWaiter at Frank’s Chop House

            Age Range:  20-45

Role:  Cameo

The Woman—Willy’s mistress when Hap and Biff were in high school. 

            Age Range:  30-45

            Role:  Cameo

  

Auditions will take place at the Vortex Theatre and will consist of cold readings from the script.

For more information, e-mail the director at pdmkierst@aol.com or call 833-1720.

 

 

AND

 

DAVID MAMET’S

AMERICAN BUFFALO

directed by Frank Melcori

Audition dates- August 11, 11-4:00, August 12, 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!

 

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