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AUDITIONS
August 26th to 30th, 2019

Applicants entering the theater by the stage door will be directed to the auditorium. In the middle of the stalls will be sat the producing directors of the theater, the director, and the musical director. At the front row is set up a lit table, from which application forms may be taken and filled out. A sign on said table requests that these forms be returned as promptly as possible.

Company Applied for (Theater/Repertory/Ballet/Band):Please include a preference to be a regular or guest performer. Also, if applying for the Band, please specify instrument.

Name (inc. title):

Address:

Is there anything concerning your medical history or state of health that is relevant to your application' Yes*/No (*If you answer Yes, please give details):

How much notice do you need to give to your current employer, if currently employed"

Previous training pertinent to this application (if any):

Previous experience pertinent to this application (if any):

Do you have any criminal convictions" Yes*/No (If you answer Yes, please give details):

Please note - The positions offered by the Shanachie Theater are full time and salaried. Members of the Company and Band will be expected to keep to a strict rehearsal and performance schedule. Sick and holiday pay is non-negotiable and subject to duration of employment. The directorship withhold the right to terminate employment, should contractual obligations not be met.

The structure of the Theater Company auditions will be as follows - group warm ups, followed by individual dance, singing, and acting interviews. They will be asked to learn and repeat one dance routine, perform one pre-prepared song, and one pre-prepared scene.

Applicants for the positions in the Repertory Company will be interviewed individually. They will be asked to perform a prepared audition piece of their own choosing, and sight-read and perform a monologue chosen by the in-house director.

Applicants for positions in the Ballet Troupe will be invited back to audition with Anthony and Anastasia De Luca. There will be set pieces, as well as a solo and group audition.

((OOC Note - The Shanachie Theater Companies and House Band are intended to be a platform for players to expand their horizons among the community. Applications can be considered to be successful if made. Regular play, in forums and/or live, would be very much appreciated where time permits. Player's names will be attached to the pertinent productions in varying roles, unless they specifically state otherwise. Please note, if you are currently on the Roll Call of the Shanachie's Companies, you will need to add your details to this thread, or contact myself or Mataya directly, to keep that place in the Shanachie line up. In light of the last couple of years experience at this, we are also adding that should your character join the Shanachie and then do absolutely nothing - play in the rooms, post on the boards, etc - for an extended period of time, we will remove your character from the roll call.))

Company Applied for (Theater/Repertory/Ballet/Band): Please include a preference to be a regular or guest performer.

Ballet (Regular)

Name (inc. title):

Christian Benoit

Address:

12 Dragon Lane, Apt. B
Rhy'Din City

Is there anything concerning your medical history or state of health that is relevant to your application' Yes*/No (*If you answer Yes please give details):

No

How much notice do you need to give to your current employer, if currently employed"

None/Currently employed with the Shanachie Ballet.

Previous training pertinent to this application (if any):

- Twelve years at the Ballet Montreal Performing Arts School
- Four years at Canada's National Ballet School

Previous experience pertinent to this application (if any):

- Three years with Les Grands Ballets Canadiens
- Five years with the National Ballet of Canada
(See resume for specifics.)

Do you have any criminal convictions" Yes*/No (If you answer Yes please give details):

No

Company Applied for (Theater/Repertory/Ballet/Band): Please include a preference to be a regular or guest performer.

Repertory (Regular)

Name (inc. title):

Marcus Spencer

Address:

127 Moonshine Way, Apt. 4A
Rhy'Din City

Is there anything concerning your medical history or state of health that is relevant to your application' Yes*/No (*If you answer Yes please give details):

No

How much notice do you need to give to your current employer, if currently employed"

None (Currently employed with the Shanachie Repertory Company.)

Previous training pertinent to this application (if any):

Degree in Drama from Rhy'Din University.

Previous experience pertinent to this application (if any):

- Recurring guest role on the daytime soap opera Horizons.
- Shanachie Repertory Company - 2016-2019
(See attached resume for complete list of previous experience.)

Do you have any criminal convictions" Yes*/No (If you answer Yes please give details):

No

Company Applied for (Theater/Repertory/Ballet/Band): Ballet (Regular)

Name (inc. title): Cygnet Rassveta, though I respond to Siggy just as well

Address: Currently, I can be reached at the Inn

Is there anything concerning your medical history or state of health that is relevant to your application' Yes*/No (*If you answer Yes, please give details): No

How much notice do you need to give to your current employer, if currently employed" None

Previous training pertinent to this application (if any): 10 years at Belovodye Imperial Academy of the Arts. If authentication is required, my graduation sigil may be provided.

Previous experience pertinent to this application (if any): Belovodye Imperial Ballet Soloist

Do you have any criminal convictions" Yes*/No (If you answer Yes, please give details): None in Rhydin

Cygnet piled her audition form onto the growing stack and curtsied low to Anthony and Anastasia, bowing her head with a delicate flick of her wrists. It was an action deeply ingrained, as students of the Academy knew the consequences of forgetting and Imperial Ballet company members wished to show off the mark of their accomplishments borne on their skin. With her hair piled up in a bun, her own crown etched into the base of her neck was clearly visible against pale skin. Back home that needed no resume nor explanation. But here, in this strange new city, she was simply another face; not an Imperial Academy graduate, not a member of the Imperial Court, not Seelie property or Seelie castoffs. Here she was no one. Though she tried to convince herself it was freeing, there was still something comforting in the familiarity of the theatre. On the stage, she knew exactly what to do. As the trill of the violins from Aspicia's Act II Variation swelled through the room, she began to leap and twirl, feeling the give of the wood floor beneath her toes and the push and pull of her breath with the music. She couldn't help feeling like she was coming home.

Company Applied for (Theater/Repertory/Ballet/Band):Please include a preference to be a regular or guest performer. Also, if applying for the Band, please specify instrument.
Theater: guest

Name (inc. title):
Mairead “Maggie” Harker

Address:
Harkers’ Island

Is there anything concerning your medical history or state of health that is relevant to your application' Yes*/No (*If you answer Yes, please give details):
No.

How much notice do you need to give to your current employer, if currently employed"
My school schedule is attached. Classes for me are generally half-day morning sessions and I do peer tutoring in the afternoons. My teachers have agreed to provide work at home packets if I am invited to perform during the school year.  The school administration has also agreed to count my participation as credit toward art and music classes or an elective subject.

Previous training pertinent to this application (if any):
Music theory, dance (including ballet and tap), gymnastics training, and weapons training. Piano and violin lessons. Experience with training dogs. (This helped when I played the lead in Annie!)

Previous experience pertinent to this application (if any):
Acted in school plays, dance recitals, member of the Shanachie STARS for several seasons, several seasons as a guest performer at the Shanachie Theater, and a reporter for Channel KIDS.

Do you have any criminal convictions" Yes*/No (If you answer Yes, please give details):
No

Please note - The positions offered by the Shanachie Theater are full time and salaried. Members of the Company and Band will be expected to keep to a strict rehearsal and performance schedule. Sick and holiday pay is non-negotiable and subject to duration of employment. The
directorship withhold the right to terminate employment, should contractual obligations not be met.

She had come a long way since her first audition for the Shanachie; if she had any nerves on edge, she didn’t show it. For her audition pieces, Maggie had opted to wear a pair of black jeans, red blouse, short black boots, and a black fedora with a red silk band around it.  The song she chose was Roar.

For her prepared piece, she chose a monologue from “Stop Playing the Victim.”

Sally visits her best friend and is yet again met with her friend’s negative attitude that she is sick of dealing with for so long.

Sally:  I’m trying to understand something.  Why is it that when I talk to you about things that make me happy you always get down"  Whenever I talk to you about things that upset me, you always get so involved.

Do you want me to be miserable in my life"  I feel as though the only way for us to have any relationship is when things are bad.  I don’t want things to be bad.  I want to talk about good things.  I want to hear you tell me good things.  Why is that so hard for you?  Do you realize that every time I come over here you have nothing nice to say.  You are always complaining and moaning about your work, your boyfriend, your family, your apartment…you never have anything happy going on it seems.

It’s like the only way you can exist and communicate is by raging against something.  Doesn’t that exhaust you?  It takes more energy to be miserable than be happy.  Try being happy and stop playing the victim all the time.

Company Applied for (Theater/Repertory/Ballet/Band):

Theater (Guest)

Name (inc. title):

Josh Stuart

Address:

Rocky View, King's Cove
Rhy'Din

Is there anything concerning your medical history or state of health that is relevant to your application' Yes*/No (*If you answer Yes please give details):

No

How much notice do you need to give to your current employer, if currently employed"

None, but need two weeks notice prior to rehearsals.

Previous training pertinent to this application (if any):

- Voice and Dance Lessons
- Drama Club
- Two years of Drama and Music at Tirisano School for the Arts
- Bachelor of Arts in Musical Theater from Rhydin University

Previous experience pertinent to this application (if any):

- Numerous theater productions from grade school through university
- Shanachie Theater Company - 2013-2019

Do you have any criminal convictions" Yes*/No (If you answer Yes please give details):

No

For Josh's pre-prepared song, he chose "You're So Easy to Love" from Cole Porter's Anything Goes. He followed that up with a tap solo from Kiss Me Kate, also Cole Porter, showing off both his vocal range and his dance skills.

Company Applied for (Theater/Repertory/Ballet/Band): Ballet (Regular)

Name (inc. title): P̸̡͍̲͈̞̣̣̼̦̬͇͎̍͜ŏ̵͖͙̟̘̫̬̲̟͔̦̗̭̼̥̞̈́̀́͑̃̈́̾̌͂̄̕͝t̶̨̙̪̗͔̺̤̘͎̲͉͌̾͌̿̆̊̑̅̾̓̚͠ȅ̸̠̝̯̻͙̦͔͙̞̤̰̟̻̯̫̋s̵̞͓̲̠̲̗͖̟͖͙͔̻͈̋́́̂̌̑̊͠ẗ̸̹̗͎̺́̍̃ͅa̴̢̛͙͖̩̙͕̻̤̭̳͚̬̞͊̐̊͋̌̋̏̈́̂̔͘s̴̢͚̭̹̤͎̙̜͎̫̞͈̿̇̂̃͒͂̋̚͜͝͠͝ͅ Farren Ainsley

Address: Mail can be forwarded to the Inn

Is there anything concerning your medical history or state of health that is relevant to your application' Yes*/No (*If you answer Yes, please give details): No

How much notice do you need to give to your current employer, if currently employed" None.

Previous training pertinent to this application (if any): Self-taught

Previous experience pertinent to this application (if any): Member of the Celestial Choir maybe? I'm still very new to any experience

Do you have any criminal convictions" Yes*/No (If you answer Yes, please give details): No

There were a few moments while filling out the form where Farren almost set the paper alight and left. The glimmering, shifting name he originally penned wasn't him anymore. Like any mortal, it stung his eyes just looking upon its oily sheen as it danced across the page. And the name beside it was small, empty, just a collection of lines pinned to the page. It made that hollow between his shoulder blades twinge with a phantom pain. How could a body ache for something it never truly had"

"How much notice do you need to give your current employer?" He almost laughed at that. Surely They would need no notice. Maybe They watched over him as They assured They oversaw all else. Or maybe he truly was alone. Maybe this strange place really was too far from Their gaze. He paused a moment before scribbling. None. Underlined. Period. He wasn't beholden anymore.

The final question gave him pause again. This body was his conviction, in all sense of the word. The blister of summer sun, the parch of his throat, the dull ache in limbs that still seemed so foreign. This was his punishment, and a punishment hard earned. He made a choice and he paid the price or earned the prize. But They still had yet to learn, it was only a punishment if you felt punished. He had been given a body to feel shame, to know guilt and frailty and the futility of the corporeal world. But he had also been given a body to dance and laugh and feel the summer sun on his skin. He had made a second choice. "Do you have any criminal convictions?" He simply wrote No.

True, he had no formal training, and little experience in anything of this world. But grace flows from Grace, and something so integral to his very being couldn't be simply revoked by chaining him to a physical form. As he leapt to the triumphant blaring of the horns and that crooked grin spread across his face, Farren only wished for a moment that he wouldn't fall back to earth.

Company Applied for (Theater/Repertory/Ballet/Band): Ballet - Regular

Name (inc. title): Josette Marie Wheeler

Address:
143 Cherry Blossom Lane, New Haven

Is there anything concerning your medical history or state of health that is relevant to your application' Yes*/No (*If you answer Yes please give details):
Yes. At times prone to subtle to violent tremors when under extreme stress. Currently under treatment to help mitigate these symptoms.

How much notice do you need to give to your current employer, if currently employed"
None, currently employed with the Shanachie Ballet.

Previous experience pertinent to this application (if any):
Various performances with the Paris Opera Ballet, most notably her performance of Giselle as her first principal role with the company. Shanachie roles include:
The Snow Queen: Gerda
La Bayadere: Nikiya
The Little Mermaid; Little Mermaid
Onegin: Olga
The Nutcracker: Clara
La Sylphide: The Sylph
The Red Shoes: Victoria Page
Swan Lake: Odile-The Black Swan
Coppelia: French Doll
Peter Pan: Wendy
Ondine: Ondine

Do you have any criminal convictions" Yes*/No (If you answer Yes please give details): No

Josette was particularly excited for the auditions for this new season for a special reason. After her absence at the Summer Gala, she was feeling stronger than ever after working with Irina on her strength training after taking a much needed rest and she was eager to be back to work rehearsing and performing in Apollo.

Having spent the morning in the quiet reverie of the branches of one of her favorite ancient oak trees in the Southern Glen, she felt recharged and rejuvenated as she bounced with eager excitement through the backstage door. There may have been a stray leaf or two still stuck in her hair and some dirt beneath her fingernails as she plopped her bag down and brushed her delicate bangs out of her eyes that framed her doll-like face like wisps of angel wings. Feeling one of the leaves with delicate fingers, she gave a little sheepish smile, before plucking one out and tucking it into the safety of her bag before she began stretching.

A warm smile was given to both new and old faces alike as she began her warm up routine. As she had a sensitivity to energy that was as finely tuned as a Stradivarius, she noticed the flicker and fade of Camille's fingertips upon the barre, but did not let her gaze linger as she did not want to make the girl self conscious.

And of course she greeted Dante Alvarez, who she had worked with many years ago at the Paris Opera Ballet. Josette had told him about the company after he returned from his time in Nepal to escape his alleged scandal with the Royal Ballet company. Dante denied the rumors as spurious lies of course, but as Josette had worked with the notorious "Black Eagle" before, she knew his temperament all too well. A brilliant dancer to be sure, but he'd given more than one choreographer in the ballet world a few sleepless nights as he was a bit of a divo. She'd told him about the company when he said he was looking for work after the leaving the Royal Ballet, she just never actually thought he would decide to audition!

Having worked hard on her strength and flexibility during her time off, Josette chose to dance the variation Arabian Coffee from her first and forever favorite ballet, The Nutcracker as her individual piece. For the group auditions, she'd choreographed a special surprise at the end that she'd enlisted Dante's help with, as well as several willing members of the corps. Josie had worked rather hard on it, as she wanted to flex her choreographer muscles a bit and needed to channel some restless energy during her time off. Testing the waters to see if Anya and Tony would ever want to give her a chance at choreographing a few pieces should they ever needed the occasional break, she created a piece that was a bit of a modern twist of The Nutcracker.

After watching a few amazing duels, she drew inspiration from the fighters and their incredible movements to combine some fight aspects with the ballet and merge the two together to give Clara some fire and a bit more to do than simply throw her ballet slipper at the Mouse King! She hoped everyone would enjoy the fresh take!

(OOC Note: Everyone that wishes to is welcome to participate in the group piece as long as it remains in line with the choreography in the following video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-1XB00Ss8I  Josette is dancing the role of Clara and Dante Alvarez is dancing the Mouse King, but all other roles are open to whoever wants to join in on the fun! Full credit for the original choreography goes to Benjamin Millepied.)