Unified Auditions Theatre Momentum showcase [Archive]

VinRigan

04-19-2008, 02:00 AM

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<tr><td colspan="2"><a href="http://www.TheatreMomentum.com">Theatre Momentum</a> is currently scheduling auditions for our upcoming showcase, opening in mid-August at the Bailiwick Theater.

Last year, we mounted two showcases of three shows each; this year we are shifting to two shows per showcase, with new rounds of auditions every 8 weeks or so. Individual shows have the opportunity to extend their runs after the showcases. One of last year's shows, Fugue, will be remounted later this year.

The TM II showcase garnered praise from the Trib: "The kind of work they're doing is a worthy alternative to what you'll find at improv mainstays such as i.O. or Annoyance."
Check out these auditions:

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<td width="50%">Jigsaw
The show's progression will resemble the construction of a jigsaw puzzle, with four "corner pieces", the main characters of the story, giving opening monologues. This will follow with "border pieces" scenes- illustrating the close relationships of the main characters, and then scenes that fill in the rest of the "puzzle" of the show's narrative. It is a story told out of sequence and in chunks, in such a way that the audience gets the whole picture by at the close of the show.</td>
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<tr><td width="30%">A story in pieces.</td>
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Directed by Rob Kozlowski

Rob Kozlowski has been teaching comedy writing at the Second City Training Center since May 2003. He studied improv in the early 90's at the Second City Training Center and ImprovOlympic and was a founding member of The Playground Theatre in 1997, performing with founding ensembles Cinco de Bob and Ordinary Madness. He was the co-writer and director of the sketch play Personal Disasters, and has coached the improv ensembles Plain Cake Donuts, You Burned Our House, Objection Sustained and The Parsifal Mosaic. Rob was also the assistant director of Single Box Turn Productions' Little House on the Parody in its original Chicago production. He's written the books The Actor's Guide to the Internet and The Art of Chicago Improv, is a network playwright at Chicago Dramatists, a member of the Hermits' Tea Party, and is the proud owner of a relatively meaningless but nonetheless pretty B.A. in film and video with an emphasis in screenwriting from Columbia College Chicago.</td>

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<td width="45%">Mixtape
This show explores the subtext of a mixtape songs, for the mixer and the recipient. The show will open, close, and be punctuated/scored by a single player singing the songs put into a "mixtape" their character has made for a friend/spouse/loved one. The scenes that intersperse will express the meaning behind the chosen songs, the stories the mixtape-mixer was thinking of, and hopefully tell a bit of the story of the mixer and tape's recipient. Please plan to have a few verses of a song memorized, for your callback.</td>

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Every song has a story.</td>
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Directed by Amanda Rountree
Amanda Rountree has been performing improvisational theatre professionally since 1992, teaching since 1998, and directing since 2002. She relocated to Chicago this past summer from Seattle where she was a performer and instructor with Unexpected Productions and a performer and co-artistic director of Playback Theater Northwest. Amanda has entertained audiences in seven countries and countless North American cities utilizing a wide variety of styles, disciplines, and formats. To find out about her current projects, please visit <a href="http://www.amandarountree.com">amandarountree.com</a>.</td>

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These unified auditions will take place Saturday, May 17 from 1-5 PM
at the Second City Training Center.
Audition slots will be 30 minutes in length and take place on the hour and half-past the hour.
The audition covers both shows (performer show preferences noted). Please arrive early. 

Callbacks will be held the following week:
Please note: <a href="http://www.theatremomentum.com/workshopinprogress.htm">Work(shop)-in-Progress</a> regulars may move directly to the callbacks.

For Jigsaw - Callbacks will be Saturday, May 24th, 1-5 PM, location TBA.
Rehearsals will run Saturdays, May 31st-August 16th, 4-7 PM at the Second City Training Center.

For Mixtape - Callbacks will be Thursday, May 22nd, 6-10 PM, location TBA.
Rehearsals will run Thursdays, May 29th-August 14th, 7-10 PM, location TBA.

The shows will run every Wednesday at 8 PM for eight weeks, opening August 20th, 2008, at the Bailiwick Theatre Loft, with extensions possible.

Please contact: <a href="mailto:auditions@TheatreMomentum.com">auditions@TheatreMomentum.com</a> to register for an audition slot.
Auditions and callbacks will be fully improvised.

VinRigan

04-27-2008, 05:03 PM

Hello, all-
I just learned that the auditions@theatremomentum.com email was bouncing back to some folks, when they replied to this audition notice. I apologize for that; our email system is not spectacular, I'm finding out. If you have attempted to reply to this audition notice and it got bounced back, it should be working now.

If you can't get through, you can reply back to info@theatremomentum.com, or my personal email, tonyrielage@yahoo.com. Again, my apologies for the inconvenience. That'll teach me to use an email system known as "SquirrelMail". Never heard of it? Yeah, me, either.

See you all at the auditions.

Tony Rielage
Artistic Director
Theatre Momentum (http://theatremomentum.com)

Steev

04-27-2008, 05:24 PM

SquirrelMail is just a web-based mail client, and has nothing to do with bouncing email.

Sincerely,
WrongBot

Frymire

04-28-2008, 04:06 PM

It's not mentioned in the above post, but Found in Translation, another show that originated with Theatre Momentum, has independently gone on and has had three successful runs in other venues, including the Skybox and CIC, with a fourth run planned at The Playground.

I'm not involved in FiT, and I think they deserve their props.

VinRigan

04-28-2008, 09:32 PM

It's true! They've been playing all over the place, and will be at SnubFest, too. Definite props to them. James Honey, Sarah Albritton, and the gang have taken the ball and run with it. I wish we'd had things together enough to give 'em a place to play, when TM II closed last year. Live n' learn.

The plan, this year, is that TM will have space already lined up for shows that wish to continue/extend/remount. That's what's going on with Fugue, and what could potentially happen with Jigsaw, Mixtape, or any of the other TM shows. Yay, progress.

Also big ups to the cast of '97 Bulldogs for working to get that going again. It's a complex, intelligent show- what was it? "A smart sensitive premise"? (Kerry Reid, Reader) Should be great to see that get its sea legs again. I'm lookin' at you, Frymire.

VinRigan

05-01-2008, 10:49 AM

These slots are filling up quickly. We're already over half full, so drop a line if you're interested in auditioning, and if you have a specific time slot you're interested in, say so, or you'll go wherever there's room. Thanks!

VinRigan

05-07-2008, 08:37 PM

Auditions filling up fast. Get up on it!

That is all.

VinRigan

05-13-2008, 09:53 PM

These slots are very nearly fully. Given that there are generally a handful of no-shows for auditions, we'll be accepting walk-ins, if there's room for you in a given slot. Time slots are capping at 12 players max. Please bring headshot/resume (or equivalent- we don't stand on ceremony).

If you definitely want a slot, shoot an email as soon as you can to snag one of the few left. Please note when you'd like to have your slot.

Thanks!