All roles available: audition tonight for RCP’s ‘Hello, Dolly!’

(Rockwall) The 2011-12 season promises to be the best yet for the Rockwall Community Playhouse. Auditions for the RCP’s Hello, Dolly! are set for 7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 8. Those wishing to audition should prepare 16 bars of song, sheet music, a short monologue, resume and photo. All roles are available – for men, women and some children.

Performances will be Sept. 23, 24, 25, 30; Oct. 1, 2, 7, 8 and 9. Pam Whittaker will direct this musical comedy, which features songs like Put On Your Sunday Clothes; Ribbons Down My Back; Before the Parade Passes By; Hello, Dolly!; It Only Takes a Moment; and So Long, Dearie.

Available roles include:

Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi – An indefatigable meddling matchmaker of strikingly dramatic appearance; a widow in her middle years
Ernestina – A heavy-set girl in need of Ms. Levi’s services
Ambrose Kemper – A young artist seeking to marry Ermengarde
Horace Vandergelder – Proprietor of a Hay & Feed Store in Yonkers, NY and a client of Mrs. Levi’s.  A widower of some means
Ermengarde – The 17 year old niece of Horace Vandergelder
Cornelius Hackel – Vandergelder’s chief clerk, 33 years old
Barnaby Tucker – An assistant to Cornelius, 17 years old
Minnie Fay – A young girl who works in Irene’s shop
Irene Molloy – A millineress with a Hat Shop near 14th Street in NYC.  Mrs. Levi has introduced her to Mr. Vandergelder
Mrs. Rose –  Sells vegetables from a street cart, a friend of Mrs. Levi’s from years before
Coachman – non-speaking, chorus
Horses – chorus/dancers
Rudolph Reisenweber – The Prussian major-domo of the Harmonia Gardens Restaurant.  (male or female)
Stanley – a young waiter.  (male or female)
Fritz, Harry, Louie, Danny, Manny & Hank – Harmonia Gardens waiters (male or female)
First Cook  (male or female)
Second Cook (male or female)
Judge – white whiskered, red nose, NYC night court
Court Clerk – Recorder  (male or female)
Paperhanger
5 children for the chorus

RCP is located at 609 E. Rusk in Rockwall.

For more information, season subscriptions and showtimes, visit rockwallcommunityplayhouse.org or call 972-722-3399 to leave a message. Get a season subscription and receive guaranteed seats and a 25 percent discount on tickets.

Information provided by Caperton Ballard with rockwallcommunityplayhouse.org.

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