Sweeney Todd auditions: no singing required

If you've always wanted to act in "Sweeney Todd" but don't have the pipes, here's your chance.

Pax Amicus Caslte Theatre in (on, really) Budd Lake, is doing the nonmusical dramatization of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Open call; beginners welcome. Details follow below.

I'll be on vacation next week, but will keep checking in. No theater on the vacation schedule, but I (and Mrs. Willie) am booked for a flight on the Everready Bunny hot-air balloon. And if you're at Sandy Hook, and think you see a beached whale, give a wave. It just maybe your friendly neighborhood bloggerman. Except the day I'll be bunny-hopping over Central Jersey.

My wife says, if nothing else, I take her to the most unusual places. Coincidentally, I was speaking to a press representative about a restaurant when it came up that she also represents musician Gail Anne Dorsey, who I recalled played bass in David Bowie's band when he co-headlined a tour with shock-rockers Nine Inch Nails (1995?). I then recalled that was the first concert I took Mrs. Willie to when we were first dating.

And she married me anyway.
But she still tells the story.


TITLE: Open Cast Call

DESCRIPTION: The Pax Amicus Castle Theatre, Lake Shore Road, Budd Lake will hold an Open Cast Call for its Fall production of the classic melodrama, Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by C.G. Bond.
This non-musical version will be directed by Stan Barber and tells the story of a man falsely accused and banished from his home in London, who returns years later to wreak havoc on the people who destroyed his life.
Roles include Sweeney; his innocent teen age daughter, Johana; Anthony Hope a sailor who falls in love with her; the lecherous Judge Turpin; the conniving Beadle; Mrs. Lovett who makes meat pies from the bodies of the men Sweeney kills; her helper, Tobias and several men and women in smaller roles who fall prey to Sweeney's rage.
Beginners are welcome. The Open Cast Call is being held on Saturday, July 21st at Noon and Tuesday, July 24th at 7:00 pm at the Castle Theatre in Budd Lake. There is no singing, as this is the non-musical play upon which Stephen Sondheim based his famous operetta.
Sweeney Todd will be presented September 28, 29, October 6 and 13 at 8:00 pm. For additional information/reservations please call 973-691-2100.
Thank you,
Jean

PAX AMICUS CASTLE THEATRE
23 Lake Shore Road – Budd Lake, NJ 07828
973-691-2100
FAX: 973-691-5783 – Group Sales: 973-691-4900