Continue reading »]]> Picasso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin (Yes, that Steve Martin!)
Directed by Jessica Abdallah

**Please note that this is an unpaid production**

**We are also still looking for a costume designer and a stage manager**

PRODUCTION INFO:
It is 1904, Einstein and Picasso walk into the Lapin Agile, a Parisian bar filled with eccentrics, and what happens next will irrevocably change the face of the 20th century. In his first comedy for the stage, popular actor, comic and playwright, Steve Martin plays fast and loose with fact, fame, fortune and the idea of genius.

Performances: May 3rd to May 13th 2012 at the Louise Chalmers Theatre – John Rennie High School, Pointe-Claire.

Rehearsals: Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays at the Chalet St-Charles starting February 21st.

AUDITION INFO:

When: Tuesday, February 14th & Thursday, February 16th 2012 from 7pm – 10pm. NOTE: These are group auditions, so please arrive at 7pm on one of the days and be prepared to stay for a couple hours. If you have time constraints please let me know.

Call backs: Sunday, February 19th 2012 from 10am to 1pm

Location of Auditions & Call backs: Chalet St. Charles in Dorval – 90 St. Charles Ave. off of Lakeshore Blvd. The #191 bus stops at Lakeshore Road and St. Charles.

Character Breakdown:
Freddy (M) – late 30s/early 40s: Owner & bartender at the Lapin Agile.
Gaston (M) – in his 60s: Frequent customer at the Lapin Agile.
Albert Einstein (M) – 25 years old: A scientist/theorist/physicist.
Sagot (M) – early 50s: Picasso’s art dealer.
Pablo Picasso (M) – 23 years old: Spanish painter on the cusp of brilliance.
Charles Dabernow Schmendimen (M) – a young man.
A visitor (M) – 25 years old: A singer from the 1950s. Elvis.
Germaine (F) – 35 years old: Waitress at the Lapin Agile. She is Freddy’s girlfriend.
Suzanne (F) – 19 years old: Picasso’s lover.
The Countess (F) – Late 20s/early 30s. A friend of Einstein’s.
A Female Admirer (F) – young. An admirer of Schmendiman.

Audition Sides: To get the sides in advance, please send an email to membership@lakeshoreplayersdorval.com

(No memorization required. Sides will be available at the audition)

Please invite anyone who might be interested to this event page and I hope to see a lot of you there

Continue reading »]]> Audition Notice: Lakeshore Players Presents: The Real Inspector Hound

By Tom Stoppard
Directed by Heidi Hawkins

Please note this is an unpaid production

Performances: February 2nd – 11th, 2012
At Louise Chalmers Theatre – John Rennie High School, Point-Claire, QC

Auditions: November 15th and 17th – 7pm – 10pm
Callbacks: November 20th – 1pm-5pm

Location:  Chalet St. Charles in Dorval - 90 St. Charles Ave. (off Lakeshore Blvd.)

Lakeshore players is also looking for crew.

CHARACTERS (all British, comedic):

Moon: aged 30 to 50. A second-string theatre critic, called to the production to review it in the absence of Higgs, another critic.

Birdboot: aged 40 to 75. A theatre critic and a womaniser, who catapults young actresses to stardom by delivering dazzling reviews in return, we assume, for sexual favours.

Mrs Drudge: aged 30 to 75. The maid, or char, of Muldoon Manor. One of Stoppard’s primary vehicles for emphasizing the satirical character of the story. Her cockney accent adds to the humor of Stoppard’s play.

Simon Gascoyne: aged 25 to 35. A cad. Handsome. Simon has had affairs with both Felicity and Cynthia.

Felicity Cunningham: aged 18 to 30. A beautiful, innocent, young friend of Cynthia’s who has had an affair with Simon and Birdboot. She is seemingly sweet and charming, but soon seeks ruthless revenge.

Cynthia Muldoon: aged 30 to 40. Apparent widow of Lord Albert Muldoon who disappeared ten years ago. Sophisticated and beautiful. She has had an affair with Simon.

Major Magnus Muldoon: aged 40 to 60. Lord Albert Muldoon’s crippled half-brother who just flew in from Canada. Has a desire for his late brother’s widow, Cynthia. Takes an instant dislike to Simon, as they are both in love with Cynthia.

Inspector Hound: aged 25 to 50 – Appears from outside the house in the middle of the play to investigate an alleged phone call.

SIDES: (no memorization, sides will be available at the audition)

If you would like to see the sides in advance, please send an email to: secretary@lakeshoreplayersdorval.org  and follow the instructions below.

Moon
Start p.14 – “It is merely that it is not enough…” End p.15 – “But there is more to it than that.”
Start p.42 – “Ah! The final piece of the jigsaw!” End p.43 – ” I only dreamed… sometimes I dreamed”

Birdboot
p.16-17 & p.52
Start p.16 – “Nonsense – red herring.” End p.17 – “Christ – who’s that?”
Start p.52 – “Hello..” End p.52 – ” Good-bye, Myrtle”

Simon
p.11-12
Start p.11 – “Ah! – hello there!” End p.12 – “I really should be off.”

Felicity
p.15-16
Start p. -15 “”You!” End p.16 – “I’ll kill you for this Simon Gascoyne!”

Cynthia
p.17-19
Start p.17 – “Simon!” End p.19 – “…Simon, met me through Felicity, our mutual friend.”

Drudge
p.10-11
Start p.10 – “Hello, the drawing-room of Lady Muldoon’s country residence one morning in early spring?” End p.11 – “…all practical purposes from the outside world.”

Magnus
p.43-44
Start p.43 – “We only have your word for that, Inspector.” End p.44 – “…my memory has returned and your long wait is over!”

Inspector
p.26-18
Start p.26 – “Lady Mudloon? End p.28 – “Is there anything you have forgotten to tell me?”

Continue reading »]]> Adapted from the passionate, gothic romance novel, Jane Eyre brings Charlotte Brontë’s famous heroine to life in a richly theatrical adaptation. From a lonely and penniless life within the grueling repressiveness of Victorian England to the meeting with the mysterious and brooding Mr. Rochester, Jane Eyre boils over with the repressed passions and glorious melancholy of the period while still speaking clearly to our modern world.

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Another wonderful season has opened with Jane Eyre.  Our audiences were thrilled with the brooding, melancholic classic.  We are so proud of the entire cast and crew, including a number of new members that have joined Lakeshore Players for this production.  Congratulations to everyone and thank you to all our patrons.  See you soon!

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Rave reviews greeted this wildly popular one-act masterpiece of farce when it was recently revived in London. Feuding theatre critics Moon and Birdfoot, the first a futsy philanderer and the second a pompous and vindictive second-stringer, are swept into the whodunit they are viewing. In the hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie-like melodramas that follows, the body under the sofa proves to be… As mist rises about isolated Muldoon Manor, Moon and Birdfoot become dangerously implicated in the lethal activities of an escaped madman.

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The show is a hit! Congrats to everyone. There is still time to get into the mystery. Check out the little blurb on the Gazette’s Stage to Page blog:

When was the last time a Tom Stoppard play surfaced in Montreal? Hmm. I really can’t really answer that one off the top of my head either. But I think it was a student production of his Arcadia at the National Theatre School two years ago.

Stoppard may not be ubiquitous here. But at least The Lakeshore Players haven’t forgotten this illustrious British playwright. Their production of his The Real Inspector Hound, a zany farce about feuding theatre critics, opens Thursday (Feb. 2) and continues through Feb. 11 at the Louise Chalmers Theatre of John Rennie High School in Pointe Claire.

Heidi Hawkins directs.

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May 3 – 5 to May 9 – 12, 2012

This long running Off-Broadway absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian café in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. In his first comedy for the stage, popular actor, comic and playwright Steve Martin plays fast and loose with fact, fame, fortune and the idea of genius.

More information coming very soon!