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`TWELFTH NIGHT' AUDITIONS PLANNED.


Byline: Daily News

LANCASTER - Auditions for the Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties.  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 non·al·co·hol·ic
adj.
A beverage usually containing less than 0.5 percent alcohol by volume.
 beverages only) and a party that keeps going after the actors have finished.

Wolfert describes the show as ``all the glitz glitz   Informal
n.
Ostentatious showiness; flashiness: "a garish barrage of show-biz glitz" Peter G. Davis.

tr.v.
 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 (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264.

(2) (Audio Visual C
 Black Box Theatre at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays from July 21 to Aug. 5 with a 2 p.m. matinee mat·i·nee or mat·i·née  
n.
An entertainment, such as a dramatic performance or movie, presented in the daytime, usually in the afternoon.
 performance July 30.

Actors interested in auditioning are asked to first read the play and then to prepare a monologue monologue, an extended speech by one person only. Strindberg's one-act play The Stronger, spoken entirely by one person, is an extreme example of 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 (661) 722-6394.
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Date:Apr 24, 2006
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