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Seeking performers for the following 2 shows:

RED HOT & BLUE
Music and lyrics by Cole Porter

Rehearses: 9/5-10/1/12. Runs: 10/2-10/14/12

Synopsis: It’s about a former manicurist - Ethel Merman, an ex-con - Jimmy Durante, and a square boyfriend - Bob Hope; and their misadventures. This pairing of Cole Porter and Ethel Merman followed Anything Goes by one year. Songs: It's De-Lovely, Down in the Depths on the 90th Floor, A Little Skipper from Heaven Above, How’m I Ridin’?

Seeking:

Nails Duquesne
(Ethel Merman – 28 at the time) - Broadway belter; a former manicurist who is now a wealthy widow and wants to help ex-cons by finding them jobs

Bob Hale
(Bob Hope – 33 at the time) – baritone; her lawyer; timid sometimes; boastful at others; provides her with “scheme” to help ex-cons; she loves him well before he realizes he loves her

Policy Pinkle
(Jimmy Durante - ageless) - character baritone (only 1 song); the con who doesn’t want to be an ex-con but does want to help implement the “scheme”

Peaches LaFleur
Character mix (like Adelaide in Guys & Dolls or the Lesley Ann Warren character in Victor/Victoria – 20s-30s) - annoying high pitch; the ultimate bimbo

Fingers
(ageless) ex-con turning over a new leaf by being butler/bouncer/all-round character

Sonny
(20-30 society-type) baritone or baritenor; member of the social set that Nails’ money and late husband has gotten her into

Anne
(20-30 society-type) - probably more soprano-y legit/mix; member of the social set that Nails’ money and late husband has gotten her into

Vivian & Betty
(20-30 society-types) - 2 good lower female voices (band singers) - but their number is the Five Hundred Million which is with the Female ensemble and these are the 2 soloists; member of the social set that Nails’ money and late husband has gotten her into.

Ensemble
(vocal ranges will vary). 3 Congressmen who will double as Reporters. 3 Rough-and-Tumble Crooks who will double as party guests/prison types/etc. 4 Women who will be socialites/contestants in “scheme”/etc.

FADE OUT – FADE IN
Book and lyrics: Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Music: Jule Styne

Rehearses: 10/1-10/15/12. Runs: 10/16-10/28/12

Fade Out – Fade In is about Hollywood in the 1930s. Songs: Call Me Savage; Usher from the Mezzanine; My Fortune is My Face; Lila Tremaine; Dangerous Age; Fiddler and the Fighter.

Hope Springfield
(Carol Burnett – 31 at the time); the klutz who gets accidentally cast as the lead of a big budget movie; character belt. Wacky comedienne. Low E to D

Byron Prong
(Jack Cassidy – 37 at the time); the shallow narcissist and studio star she is to play opposite; smarmy show biz baritone, to G

Lou Williams
(African-American dancer-type) – the “Bojangles Robinson” character; song and dance baritone

Rudolf Governor
(30s) boss’s nephew; the one who believes in Hope – milquetoast romantic interest; baritone to an F

Gloria Curie
(Tina Louise – 30 at the time) the starlet of LZ’s dreams; mezzo
Lionel Z. Governor
(Lou Jacobi) the dumbest most pompous movie mogul in history (aka Louis B Meyer); character tenor

Dora Dailey
(ageless) Hollywood columnist

Ralph Governor
(any age) – nephew and yes-man; tenor

George Governor
(any age) – nephew and yes-man; tenor and/or baritone

Dr. Anton Traurig
(any age); Viennese psychiatrist to the stars and to L.Z.

Myra May Melrose
Former star now wardrobe mistress

Ensemble:
To play various parts including: Governor Nephews, Helen Sixtrees (30s; elegant film star), Lyman (ageless; Byron Prong’s agent), Roscoe (ageless; studio publicity agent), Custer Corkley (30s-40s; director/choreographer), Rex (ageless; Studio official), Max Welch (ageless; screenwriter; in 1 scene), Billy Vespers (ageless; casting director)