Creative Greensboro and Community Theater of Greensboro will hold auditions for the Tony award winning musical Once on This Island, directed by Todd Fisher and Rozalynn Fulton, Sunday April 30th from 2-4 pm and Monday May 1 from 7- 9 pm at the Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 N. Davie St. There are a limited amount of roles for ages 8-12 with the remaining roles ages 13 and up of all experience levels, genders, ethnicities, and racial identities are encouraged to register for an audition at www.creativegreenboro.com or www.ctgso.org
What to Prepare: Actors should prepare 16 bars of a contemporary Broadway musical to sing for their audition. All actors will be asked to participate in a brief movement audition. Actors are asked not to audition with a song from “Once on This Island’.
Rehearsals are in the evenings and on weekends as schedules permit. Performances will take place from June 22-25. Not a performer and you still want to participate? Several backstage support opportunities are also available. Register to join the crew using the same online audition form.
About Once on This Island: Ti Moune, a peasant girl, rescues a wealthy boy from the other side of the island, Daniel, with whom she falls in love. Unbeknownst to Ti Moune, the pompous gods who preside over the island make a bet with one another over which is stronger, love or death, the stakes being Ti Moune’s life. When she pursues Daniel, who has returned to his people, Ti Moune is shunned because of her lowly status. Her determination and capacity to love, though, is not enough to win Daniel’s heart, and Ti Moune pays the ultimate price; but the gods turn Ti Moune into a tree that grows so strong and so tall, it breaks the wall that separates the societies and ultimately unites them.
For more information contact Creative Greensboro’s Performing Arts Coordinator Todd Fisher at todd.fisher@greensboro-nc.gov or 336-373-2974.