The Children’s Theatre Inc. is pleased to announce auditions for Night at the Wax Museum. (Robin Hood is going to be postponed until the end of the season as Ace is looking forward to directing it. Thank you for your patience while we worked on making adjustments.)

 

Directed by: Jen and Ben Snyder

Assistant Directors: Laurie Laise and Manuel Nieves

Student Director: Lily Truitt

 

Please read all audition information carefully- including MANDATORY dates and times. 

 

Audition Dates: 

Monday, Sept. 14th or Tuesday, Sept. 15th. 

Callbacks, if needed, Wednesday Sept. 16th.

 

Please come with a parent at 6:00 p.m. to complete registration and receive your badge number. At 6:30 p.m., auditions will begin and the front doors will be locked. No late arrivals will be admitted. Children ages 8-18 may audition; 18 year-olds must still be in high school. Your child should come prepared to do a cold reading. Only one audition will be allowed. 

 

Auditions and rehearsals will be held at Reith Hall, 304 South Governors Avenue, Dover, DE. 

 

Cast list will be emailed out by Sunday night, Sept. 20th. 

 

Read Thru: Monday, Sept. 21st from 6:00 p.m.-8:00ish p.m. with a parent meeting at the end. 

 

Rehearsals: Monday and Wednesday evenings from 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. 

 

MANDATORY: Be prepared for possible added rehearsal times 2 weeks before the show including evenings and during the days below for possible 4-5 hour rehearsals, specific times TBD: 

• Election Day, Tues. Nov. 3rd (morning to early afternoon) 

• Sun. Nov. 8th (afternoon) 

• Veterans Day, Wed. Nov. 11th (morning to early afternoon) 

• Dress Rehearsal (Friday night), Nov. 13th at the Schwartz Center for the Arts

Attendance: If your child will

miss more than 2 regular rehearsals, or has conflicts with any mandatory dates and times, please consider auditioning for a FUTURE show. NO CONFLICTS will be accepted between 11/2 and 11/15. 

 

Show Dates at The Schwartz Center for the Arts: Saturday, Nov. 14, 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 15, 2:00 p.m. Must be available ALL DAY for both days. 

 

Cost: If cast, there is a materials fee of $35. Please ask for a scholarship if this is a hardship; no child is ever left out due to this fee.

 

Synopsis:

The hysterical meets the historical in this comic romp through the wackiest wax museum in history!  

 

School’s out for summer, but not for six unlucky students who don’t know much about history — they have to re-take the class in summer school.  First year teacher Heather Fairchild has arranged for them to help her two aunts set up a new wax museum as a class project.  Though the students’ eyes glaze over with boredom, there’s a twinkle in the wax figures’ eyes when a mysterious incantation from the back of Cleopatra’s bracelet brings them to life!  King Henry VIII finds himself smitten with Cleopatra, making his queen, Anne Boleyn, furious.  If she can just not lose her head, John Adams is there to serve as her divorce attorney!  When Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Blackbeard and a bevy of lady pirates show up, everybody’s out for one thing — treasure!  Supposedly, there’s a mighty valuable one hidden in the museum!  It’s a wild goose chase to find it, with a greedy museum landlord and her bumbling son joining in the mad search.  And why is Lizzie Borden lurking in the shadows, since the aunts say they never had a wax figure of her?!  Join the hilarious fun as treasure-hungry outlaws, pirates and royalty mount the greatest siege since Vicksburg!  

 

Wax historical in this mad-cap comedy adventure where the magic of history comes alive...  literally!

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