`TWELFTH NIGHT' AUDITIONS PLANNED.

Byline: Daily News

LANCASTER - Auditions for the Antelope Valley College Theatre Arts Department's summer production of Shakespeare's ``Twelfth Night'' will be held Sunday and May 1 at the college's Black Box Theatre, FA2 130, 3041 W. Ave. K.

Open auditions will be held between noon and 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday.Those auditioning only need to come to one of those sessions. Callbacks will be held at 6 p.m. May 1.

A wide variety of acting, singing and dancing roles are available for men and women, regardless of age or ethnicity.

Director Stephan Wolfert will stage the production in the middle of a raucous Vegas nightclub, complete with a live band, go-go dancers, a working bar (serving nonalcoholic beverages only) and a party that keeps going after the actors have finished.

Wolfert describes the show as ``all the glitz of Vegas and all the glory of Shakespeare colliding in a tale full of misdirected passions, high comedy, low tricks and unexpected poignancy.''

Performances of ``Twelfth Night'' will be presented at the AVC Black Box Theatre at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays from July 21 to Aug. 5 with a 2 p.m. matinee performance July 30.

Actors interested in auditioning are asked to first read the play and then to prepare a monologue in a similar style of no more than two minutes. Scripts of ``Twelfth Night'' are on reserve in the AVC Library.

Those without prepared monologues are also invited to attend and will be asked to read directly from the pieces. All auditioning actors should come prepared to move, in comfortable clothing.

Those interested in singing roles are asked to prepare 16 bars of a song to be performed. For information, call [phone].