Audition for “Hollywood Arms”
News Release 07-039-D For more information: Release date: 9/26/07 Bentley Gilbert For immediate release (541) 440-7747 http://www.umpqua.edu/
Roseburg— Centerstage at Umpqua Community College will be holding auditions for the play, Hollywood Arms, on Monday, October 1, at 7 p.m. and Tuesday, October 2, at 7 p.m. in Centerstage Theatre on the Umpqua Community College campus. The play is a domestic drama telling the story of Carol Burnett’s early life. Parts are available for four women, four men, one boy and two girls, ages 10 and older. Residents of Douglas County are invited to audition, whether they are students or non-students at the college. Previous acting experience is not required.
Scripts of Hollywood Arms are now available at the front desk of the college library for a one-day check-out. The play, directed by Ken Ellis, will be presented November 29 through December 16 in Centerstage Theatre.
Set in California in 1941 and 1951, Hollywood Arms, is the funny moving story of three generations of women living on welfare in a one-room apartment, one block north of Hollywood Boulevard. The cast of characters include a tough, funny, yet tender pill-popping Christian Scientist grandmother; a beautiful wide-eyed and distant mother who is struggling to be a writer, only to drown her ambitions in a bottle; a loving but absent and alcoholic father; and a young girl whose only escape is up on the roof of their rundown apartment house where she creates her own magical world at the foot of the Hollywood Hills. Finally, it’s a story about shattered hopes and realized dreams.
For more information about the play or auditions, call Dean Remick at the college, 440-4694.
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