Renaissance Players auditions May 14-15 for regional premiere of Cats

Release Date: 4/20/2007. Expired: 5/15/2007

The Renaissance Players will hold open auditions for a regional premiere community production of one of the most popular Broadway musicals of all time – Cats. Auditions will be at 6 p.m. Monday, May 14, and Tuesday, May 15, in the Performance Hall of The Renaissance Center in Dickson.

Roles are available for males and females 13 and older only. Those auditioning will need to prepare 16 bars of a song and provide the sheet music in the correct key or a CD/tape for accompaniment and dress appropriately for a dance/movement audition.

Written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cats ran for more than 7,400 performances over 18 years (1982-2000) at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York, making it the second-longest running show in Broadway history behind only Phantom of the Opera. It earned 11 Tony nominations, taking home seven awards including Best Musical and Best Original Score.

Cats is based on T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats and is best known for the song Memory.

To help prepare for the auditions, The Renaissance Center’s Theatre Arts Department will present a Mock Audition Workshop 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Saturday, May 12. Tuition is $15.

Bryan J. Wlas, resident choreographer, and Nathan W. Brown, resident musical director, will take participants step by step through the audition process, including working on a song and the dance combination to be used for auditions.

The Renaissance Players will present Cats July 13-22 with performances at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday and in a special lunch matinee at 12 p.m. Saturday, July 14.

For more information or to register for the Mock Audition Workshop, call (615) 740-5533. For information on auditions, contact Amy Scott, managing director of the Renaissance Players, at (615) 740-5551 or amy.scott@rcenter.org. Cats will be directed by Hal Partlow, manager of the Renaissance Repertory Theatre Company and managing director of the Mind Enrichment Theatre series.

The Renaissance Center is a fine arts education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.

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