"Crimson Sails" auditions January 16-17 @ 7 PM

 Auditions are held at the Players' Back Door Theater and  will consist of cold readings from the script.  You will be asked to sing a few bars from a recognizable song. It is not necessary to bring sheet music or prepare an audition song.

"Crimson Sails" is an original play with music written by Dick Budin.  

Taking place in an unnamed country in a world long ago, it follows the lives of a 

Prince and a young woman as they mature. Her father, seeking revenge, has been rejected by his village for refusing to save another man in peril. As a result, he and his daughter, Ariana, are outcasts. The Prince, seeking to find his way in the world, comes upon Ariana and learns a gypsy fortune teller has told her she will be claimed by a Prince who comes in a ship with Crimson sails. 

Olga Kruse is  the director and is looking  to cast 4 females: 

QUEEN (50ish) domineering 

MAGDA (60ish) wise, cagey old Gypsy woman

DARTA (20-35) barmaid

ARIANA (20ish) young, innocent looking, and naive

11 Males:

PRINCE (boy) early teens

RABYA (60ish) merchant, speaks with Yiddish accent

MAGISTRATE (50-70) 

COMMANDER. (45-55) military type bearing

PIRATE (35-45) animated, emotional, not logical

CAPTAIN (50-60) doughty, round, lazy

PRINCE (mature) 30ish, handsome, charismatic

DREHYNYEV (60s) old merchant with an eye for the women

NICOLAS (30-50) townsman

ROSTOV (45-60) a weathered man, old before his time

KING (55ish) moderate but henpecked

This is a play with music. Not all of the songs are sung but rather "spoken"