Darien Arts Center’s Cabaret Theatre sets auditions “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change”
The Darien Arts Center’s Cabaret Theatre announces auditions for the off-Broadway musical, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” directed by Lynne Colatrella, with music direction by Howard Kilik. All musical ranges are needed but particularly a second alto who can belt low A to A flat and low F sharp to F flat and lyric baritones.
Auditions will be held at the Darien Arts Center's
Weatherstone Studio located in the rear of the Darien Town Hall, 2 Renshaw Road, Darien at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, August 23, and Wednesday, August 24. Callbacks will be Wednesday, August 24 at 8 p.m.
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The production team also is looking for great actor/singers with good comedic skills. Some movement skills required as well. Please prepare a 16-bar cut of an uptempo song and 16-bar cut of a ballad that will demonstrate your vocal
ability. Please bring your own music. All actors (20s to 40s) must have excellent comic delivery and be flexible, dynamic performers. The show is musical sketch comedy.
Ms. Colatrella is vice president of Events & Marketing for the Stamford Downtown Special Services District, (SDSSD). She also is the co-founder of Curtain Call Theatre, where she produced and directed many of their productions, including “Cinderella,” “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown,” and most recently, the hit musical, “A Chorus Line.” For Westhill High School she directed “West Side Story,” and for The Wilton Playshop, “Sweet Charity.”
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For the Stamford Center for the Arts and the African-American Cultural Series’ Black History Gala in 2006, she directed “The Spirit of New Orleans.”
In 2008, she starred as Patsy Cline in Curtain Call Theatre’s production of “Always…Patsy Cline.”
Mr. Kilik, a graduate of Juilliard, is a freelance pianist, conductor and composer with affiliations with many educational institutions throughout the New York Region. As composer he has received Meet-the-Composer grants, and has occupied a variety of resident artist positions. Many works have been written for the Linda Duci Dance Ensemble and for the Vassar Repertory Dance Theater. The score to “Dream” debuted to critical acclaim in Charleston,
SC, during the 1986 Spoleto Festival and has most recently been read in NYC.
His music director credits include: “Dames at Sea,” “The Fantasticks,” “Putting It Together,” “Charlie Brown,” "Pippin,” and “Hair” at the Emelin Theater, as well
as many Vassar College and Westchester Community College productions. He also has conducted at Fordham University and Carnegie Hall, and did the choral preparation for “Carmina Burana” at the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College. Other credits include extensive summer stock, regional and community productions.
As pianist, he has subbed on and off-Broadway for “A Chorus Line,” “Phantom of the Opera,” and “Nunsense,” accompanied at the AMDA School in NYC, and has been a member of Comedy Express and The Players, improvising at the keyboard and supporting the comedy.
“I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” will run for two weekends, Fridays and Saturdays, October 14, 15, 21 and 22 at 8 p.m. at the DAC Weatherstone Studio. For more information, visit the Web site at arts.darien.org, or call 203 655 8683 for more information.
The musical premiered at the off-Broadway Westside
Theatre, New York City, on August 1, 1996 and closed on July 27, 2008, after 5,003 performances.
I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change is presented in the form of a series of vignettes connected by the central theme of love and relationships. The play's tagline is "Everything you have ever secretly thought about dating,
romance, marriage, lovers, husbands, wives and in-laws, but were afraid to admit."
With few exceptions, the scenes stand independent of the others, but progress in a fashion designed to suggest an overall arc to relationships throughout the course of one's life. A first date, for example, comes before scenes dealing
with marriage, and scenes dealing with marriage come before those dealing with child rearing.
About the Darien Arts Center: Founded in 1975, and located directly behind the Town Hall, 2 Renshaw Road,
the Darien Arts Center (DAC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing visual and performing arts programs and events for the community. The DAC offers educational programs in Dance, Visual Arts, Theatre and Music and performances, by the Darien Players and the Cabaret Theatre. The organization is funded by private donations, tuition fees and ticket sales.
For further information, call (203) 655-8683 or visit our Web site at arts.darien.org.
