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UPCOMING AUDITIONS AT CCT
THE FACE OF EMMETT TILL – A Play by Mamie Till-Mobley & David Barr III
Audition Dates: Wed. & Thurs. February 26 & 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Directed by Lionel Downer
6 show dates over 2 weekends: May 2 – 11, 2025
This play is a true-to-life dramatization of the death of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a Chicago teenager who, while visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi in August 1955, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by two white men who claimed they wanted to teach him a lesson for “allegedly” whistling at a local white woman.
The horror and brutality of this crime were magnified even more when his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, made the fateful decision to invite the media to the funeral where she had an open casket. The shocking pictures were published by the American black press and later republished around the world. The ramifications of this act are still being felt today. The play chronicles this tragedy, its aftermath, and Mamie Till-Mobley’s heroic crusade for justice. This “hate crime changed America” and sparked the civil rights movement.
ANNA IN THE TROPICS – A Play by Nilo Cruz
Audition Dates: Tues. & Wed. April 1 & 2, 2025 at 7 PM
Directed by Xiomara Sanchez & Heather McRae
6 show dates over 2 weekends: June 13 – 22, 2025
Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize, Anna in the Tropics is a poignant and poetic play set in Florida in 1929 in a Cuban-American cigar factory, where cigars are still rolled by hand and “lectors” are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a cause for celebration, but when he begins to read aloud from Anna Karenina, he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners, for whom Tolstoy, the tropics and the American dream prove a volatile combination.
“The words of Nilo Cruz waft from a stage like a scented breeze. They sparkle and prickle and swirl, enveloping those who listen in both a specific place and time – and in timeless passions that touch us all… In Anna in the Tropics, Cruz claims his place as a storyteller of intricate craftsmanship and poetic power…” The Miami Herald
CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY THEATRE
PAST AUDTIONS:
FLYIN’ WEST
A Play by Pearl Cleage
Directed by Sayeeda Carter & Eileen Bishop Des Jardins
CASTING CALL:
April 5 & 6, 2022
Tuesday & Wednesday at 7 PM
ACTORS NEEDED:
Males ages 30ish – 40ish // Females ages 18ish to 70ish
Show Dates: June 10 – 19, 2022
About this play: Set in 1898 outside the all-black town of Nicodemus, Kansas. Facing problems ranging from the inevitability of long, cold winters, to the possibility of domestic violence, to the continuing spectra of racial conflict, the women of Flyin’ West include Miss Leah, the old woman whose memories of slavery and its aftermath comprise a living oral history;
Sophie Washington, whose determination to protect her land and those she loves puts to rest forever the requirement that western archetypes be white and male;
Fannie Mae Dove, the gentle sister, trying to civilize the frontier with fine china and roses, who finds herself falling in love with their soft-spoken neighbor,
Wil Parish; and Minnie Dove Charles, the headstrong baby sister whose mulatto husband, Frank, introduces a danger into the household that tests their sisterhood in unexpected ways.
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AUDITIONS AT CCT 2022
January 2022 – April 2022
THE AFFECTIONS OF MAY – a Comedy by Norm Foster
Directed by Diana Prince
AUDITIONS: January 18 & 19, 2022, Tuesday & Wednesday at 7 PM
Show Dates: March 18-19, 25-26 & April 1-2, 2022; Fridays & Saturdays at 8 PM
Sunday Matinees: March 27, 2022 at 4 PM
THE REVOLUTIONISTS – a Comedy by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Denise Blanchette & Malerie Gleason
AUDITIONS: March 1st and 2nd 2022, Tuesday & Wednesday at 6:30 PM
Show Dates: May 6-7 & 13-14, 2022; Fridays & Saturdays at 8 PM
2 Sunday Matinees: May 8 & 15, 2022 at 4 PM
FLYIN’ WEST– a Play by Pearl Cleage
Directed by Sayeeda Carter & Eileen Bishop Des Jardins
AUDITIONS: April 5 & 6, 2022, Tuesday & Wednesday at 7 PM
Show Dates: June 10-11 & 17-18, 2022; Fridays & Saturdays at 8 PM
2 Sunday Matinees: June 12 & 19, 2022 at 4 PM
Past Seasons
2019 – 2020 Season
AUDITIONS: Nov. 12 & 13, 2019 Tues. & Wed. at 7 PM THE SPITFIRE GRILL
Music and Book by James Valcq
Lyrics and Book by Fred Alley
Based on the Film by Lee David Zlotoff
Music Direction by Philippa Smith-Tyler Directed by Eileen Bishop Des Jardins Show Dates: January 31, February 1, 7-8, 14-15, 2020 at 8 PM Sunday Matinee: February 16, 2020 at 4 PM AUDITIONS: Jan. 7 & 8, 2020 Tues. & Wed. at 7 PM GETTING SARA MARRIED A Comedy by Sam Bobrick Directed by Michael Baker Show Dates: March 13-14, 20-21, 27-28, 2020 at 8 PM Sunday Matinee: March 22, 2020 at 4 PM AUDITIONS: March 3 & 4, 2020 Tues. & Wed. at 7 PM DONE TO DEATH A Play by Fred Carmichael Directed by Malerie Gleason Show Dates: May 8-9, 15-16, 2020 at 8 PM 2 Sunday Matinees: May 10 & 17, 2020 at 4 PM AUDITIONS: April 7 & 8, 2020 Tues. & Wed. at 7 PM SWEAT An Award-Winning Play by Lynn Nottage Directed by Paul Knipler Show Dates: June 19-20, 26-27, 2020 at 8 PM 2 Sunday Matinees: June 21 & 28, 2020 at 4 PM
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