Date: Aug. 10, 2013
Time: 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
Location: Salt Lake City Library (210 E. 400 S.), Conference Room E (lower level by the Children’s Library).
-Produced by Silver Summit Theatre Co.
-Directed by Jesse Peery, rehearsals begin October 9 (Mon-Sat). Performances run November 7-November 17 (Thur-Sun) at The Leonardo. There are no AEA contracts available. Although there is no set stipend, actors are eligible for box office share.
-Email your name, phone number, and desired role to . You will receive a reply confirming your August 10th time slot.
-A copy of the play is available for review at the The Leonardo Museum (209 E. 500 S.). The script is not available for overnight check-out; we ask that you read it there in the Museum’s café and return it to the front desk for other actors.
-Please come prepared with the side of your choice (a reader will be provided). Sides will be made available on our website shortly. www.SilverSummitTheatre.org. In the mean time, sides can and will be sent to you via email when you sign up for your slot.
-Callbacks will be held Aug. 13, 6:15-8:45.
-The cast is 3 female, 4 male. There is an 8th cast member who plays Beethovens’ Diabelli Variations throughout the show, and would also musically direct the cast (singing background helpful, but not required). We are not auditioning The Pianist at the August 10 auditions, but please let us know if you would like to be considered. Though this is not a musical, there is a four-part harmony between Katherine, Clara, Schindler, and Diabelli (singing background not required).
Dr. Katherine Brandt, 55-75
Clara Brandt, 25-35
Mike Clark, 25-35
Ludwig Van Beethoven, 50-60
Dr. Gertrude Ladenberger, 45-75
Anton Diabelli, 35-45
Anton Schindler, 25-35
Pianist/Musical Director
PLAY SYNOPSIS: Time travelling between our present day and nineteenth century Austria, 33 Variations by Moises Kaufman delivers music, genius, and obsession.
In modern day New York, we helplessly watch a brilliant musicologist, Dr. Katharine Brandt, slowly degenerating from Lou Gehrig’s Disease. She has a daughter she longs to make a connection with (Clara, who drifts from job to job, and has begun dating a male nurse named Mike). With little time remaining, Dr. Brandt leaves New York and travels to Bonn, Germany to find answers. There she encounters a rather stoic but humorous Dr. Gertrude Ladenberger, who soon becomes a very close friend.
Meanwhile, in 1819 Vienna, Beethoven is compelled to enter a competition inspired by the publisher Anton Diabelli, who has challenged fifty composers to write a single variation on a simple waltz that Diabelli has written. History isn’t entirely sure why but - with the help of his associate and secretary, Anton Schindler - Beethoven will spend the last years of his life composing thirty-three distinct variations on this crude theme, and Dr. Brandt is consumed. She must unearth why Beethoven was so impassioned with unlocking the variations of Diabelli’s mediocre waltz before this disease takes her body. And, in seeking those answers, she will find what her and Clara have really been looking for all along.
This brilliant play explores the struggle between the ferocity of human spirit and the inevitability of one’s mortality. Throughout this award winning production, Beethoven’s work is not only projected for the audience to see each variations evolution, but is also played live by a pianist!
33 Variations was a breakout hit on Broadway, nominated for five Tony Awards, 3 Drama Desk Awards, and 5 Outer Critics Circle Awards. It has won the Edgerton New American Play Award, and the Steinberg American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award.
( For more information on the play, you can visit our Kickstarter here http://www.kickstarter.com/
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