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Looking ahead to our next production - by Daisy O'Halloran PDF Print
Written by Samantha Fields   

follies-poster-small.pngTHE FOLLIES 10th to 16th April 2011

Come and join us at the preparation meetings for auditions in HAODS Green Room: 29th, 30th Nov and 1st Dec 7.45pm. Auditions: Saturday 4th Dec from 1pm and Sunday 5th Dec from 10am. First read through: Tuesday 7th December. Rehearsal nights will be Mondays and Wednesdays with occasional Thursdays for dancing. Dancers won't be required for all main rehearsals.

Follies tells the story of a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the "Weismann's Follies. It focuses on two couples, Buddy and Sally Plummer and Ben and Phyllis Stone, who are attending the reunion. Sally and Phyllis were showgirls in the Follies, and both couples are having marital problems. Buddy, a traveling salesman, is having an affair with a girl on the road; Sally is still as much in love with Ben as she was years ago; and Ben is so self-absorbed that Phyllis feels emotionally abandoned. Several of the former showgirls perform their old numbers, sometimes accompanied by the ghosts of their former selves.

YOUNG CAST- aged late teens, early 20’s
The Past (1920 to 1939)
Young Sally, Phyllis, Buddy, Ben (Acting, Solo singing, Dancing), Young Stella (Singing, Dancer), Young Heidi (Solo Singing), Young Vincent and Vanessa (Dancers), Dance Chorus.

The Present (1970)
Francesca (Acting, Singing, Dancing), Kevin (Acting and maybe Singing and Dancing), Waiters, Photographers, etc

OLDER CAST - age range 49 to 80
The Present 1970
WOMEN
Sally Durant Plummer, Phyllis Rogers Stone, Stella Deems, Emily Whitman, Solange La Fitte, Hattie Walker, Carlotta Campion (Acting, Solo singing, Dancing), Heidi Schiller (Solo Singeing), Christine Donavon, Meredith Lane, Dee Dee West (Singing, Dancing), Vanessa (Dancing and possibly Acting, Singing)
MEN
Buddy Plummer, Benjamin Stone, Theodore Whitman (Acting, Solo singing, Dancing), Dimitri Weisman (Acting), Max Deems, Willy Wheeler, Vincent (Dancing, Singing), Roscoe (Solo singing), Major Domo, Chauffeur.

For more information or if you want to get involved in the show get in touch on Daisy_me20@hotmail.com
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