White male actor needed for August 18th special event being co-produced with The Goodman Theatre & Fourth Presbyterian Church Non equity white male actor between 25 yrs - 50 yrs needed for "Prelude to a Dream" on August 18th, 2013. This performance will be held in the Granz Chapel of Fourth Presbyterian Church and is being co-produced with The Goodman Theatre. Please send head shot and resume to casting@civilrightsopera Prelude to a Dream is a dramatization of the tension and uncertainty during the final preparations for the march and the stories of ordinary Americans who planned to attend the march. THE MARCH: A Civil Rights Opera is a new American opera project exploring the personal and political circumstances surrounding the 1963 March on Washington. THE MARCH is being developed in Chicago and will premiere there in the fall of 2014, followed by performances in Washington, D.C. and Atlanta. While the opera is developed, creator and librettist Alan Marshall has been producing theatrical based "mass meetings" which dramatize various episodes of civil rights movement during the long, hot summer of 1963. These performances include freedom songs (solos & audience participation), speeches, testimonies & character driven drama, all happening around the audience. Prelude to a Dream is the fourth installment of these mass meetings. Prelude to a Dream offers a diverse cast of characters: Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, Courland Cox(SNCC), Joyce Ladner (SNCC), Clarence Mitchell (NAACP), Andrew Young (SCLC), Anna Hedgeman, a Justice Department official, an aide to Archbishop Patrick O’Boyle, an aide to Senator Strom Thurmond and a host of other civil rights figures and individual march participants. Deadline: Wednesday, August 7, 2013. Link: civilrightsopera.co.... Hide Contact Information Contact Name: Alan Marshall. Contact Email: casting@civilrightsopera. Contact Address: 4044 N. Milwaukee Avenue Chicago Illinois
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:55:47 +0000