AUDITION NOTICE!
Crowns by Regina Taylor
A moving and celebratory musical play in which hats become a springboard for an exploration of black history and identity as seen through the eyes of a young black woman who has come down South to stay with her aunt after her brother is killed in Brooklyn. Hats are everywhere, in exquisite variety, and the characters use the hats to tell tales concerning everything from the etiquette of hats to their historical and contemporary social functioning. There is a hat for every occasion, from flirting to churchgoing to funerals to baptisms, and the tradition of hats is traced back to African rituals and slavery and forward to the New Testament and current fashion. Some rap but predominantly gospel music and dance underscore and support the narratives. The conclusion finds the standoffish young woman, whose cultural identity as a young black Brooklyn woman has been so at odds with the more traditional and older Southern blacks, embracing hats and their cultural significance as a part of her own fiercely independent identity.
SEEKING:
1 FEMALE- 14-18 years old
1 MALE- to play all male roles
4 FEMALES- Ages 25+
Auditions: Thursday, January 9th from 6-8:30pm
Epic Center-359 S. Kalamazoo Mall (2nd Floor)
For questions or more info: faceoffproductionmgmt@gmail.com
A moving and celebratory musical play in which hats become a springboard for an exploration of black history and identity as seen through the eyes of a young black woman who has come down South to stay with her aunt after her brother is killed in Brooklyn. Hats are everywhere, in exquisite variety, and the characters use the hats to tell tales concerning everything from the etiquette of hats to their historical and contemporary social functioning. There is a hat for every occasion, from flirting to churchgoing to funerals to baptisms, and the tradition of hats is traced back to African rituals and slavery and forward to the New Testament and current fashion. Some rap but predominantly gospel music and dance underscore and support the narratives. The conclusion finds the standoffish young woman, whose cultural identity as a young black Brooklyn woman has been so at odds with the more traditional and older Southern blacks, embracing hats and their cultural significance as a part of her own fiercely independent identity.
SEEKING:
1 FEMALE- 14-18 years old
1 MALE- to play all male roles
4 FEMALES- Ages 25+
- Yolanda- 17-year-old black girl from Chicago
- Jeanette- flirtatious 35-year-old woman
- Mabel-the bigger than life bodacious preacher’s wife
- Wanda-40-ish bookish schoolteacher
- Mother Shaw-73-year-old salt of the earth grandmother of Yolanda
- Velma-27-year-old haunted mortician
Auditions: Thursday, January 9th from 6-8:30pm
Epic Center-359 S. Kalamazoo Mall (2nd Floor)
For questions or more info: faceoffproductionmgmt@gmail.com