Once In A Lifetime

FALL PLAY (Once in a Lifetime)

The Atholton High School Theatre Department invites all interested students to audition for our fall play, or to work backstage getting the production ready for our community!

Once in A Lifetime a comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman

This large-cast satire features a trio of vaudeville performers hoping to cash in on Hollywood’s turmoil when sound movies became an overnight sensation!

Auditions:
Thurs., Aug. 21, 12-2 PM
or Tues., Aug. 26, 2:30-4:30 PM

Students may attend either day, but not both.

Please complete the attached forms in advance and bring them with you to the audition. If you prefer, you can download BOTH of them

Once In A Lifetime AUDITION FORM

Student Information Form 2008-09

The audition will consist of a warm-up, improvisations, and a reading of lines from the script.   You will choose some of what you read. Check the callboard in the drama hallway for information about a callback audition on Wednesday. You may be offered a role even if you are NOT called back.

Performances will be Nov. 12 at 10:00 AM, Nov. 13-15, 2008 at 7:00 PM, and Nov. 16 at 3:00 PM If you are not available for all performances, do not audition.

Rehearsals will be after school:

            2:40-5:00 pm in September & October (not on Mondays)

            afternoons & several evenings in November

The more scenes you are in, the more rehearsals you will have.

TECH: To work on sets, lights, costumes, make-up, props, business, read the callboard & join us dressed to work

Tech Mondays starting Aug. 25 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman’s Once in a Lifetime was one of the pair’s best collaborations, the first of eight they wrote together in the 1930s. Inspired by the rise of the talkies—movies with sound—and the excess of Hollywood, the play is a wisecracking satire, though not particularly mean or bitter. Once in a Lifetime opened on September 24, 1930, at the Music Box in New York City. It ran for 406 performances and won the Roi Cooper Megrue Prize for comedy in 1930. The play was very popular with both critics and audiences, giving them something to think about other than the growing economic depression. Since its original production, Once in a Lifetime was revived regularly through years, both on and off Broadway, as well as regionally and in Europe. As the New York Times’ Howard Taubman wrote in a 1962 review ‘‘Once in a Lifetime is still pertinent and funny. The film industry has been through more upheavals than an old-time banana republic, but the more it changes the more some of its foibles remain the same.’’