Auditions for "The Elephant Man"

Monday, November 1 at 6:30pm - November 2 at 10:00pm
Location	The Acrosstown Repertory Theatre Mainstage 619 S. Main Street
	Auditions will be held on Monday 11/1/2010 and Tuesday 11/2/2010 evening starting at 6:30PM Friday January 7, 2011 through Sunday January 23, 2011. There may be the possibility of a hold-over the following week: January 28 thru January 30. Shows are 8pm Friday and Saturday. 2pm Saturday matinee. A little about the play: ...The lead John Merrick, is a hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as “The Elephant Man”. Treated as a sideshow freak, Merrick is assumed to be retarded as well as misshapen because of his inability to speak coherently. In fact, he is highly intelligent and sensitive, a fact made public when one Dr. Frederick Treves rescues Merrick from a carnival and brings him to a hospital for analysis. Alas, even after being recognized as a man of advanced intellect, Merrick is still treated like a freak; no matter his station in life, he will forever be a prisoner of his own malformed body. MALE ROLES: Frederick Treves: A surgeon and teacher. John (Joseph) Merrick – The Elephan Man Belgian Policeman ...Francis Carr Gomm: Administrator of the London Hospital Belgian Policeman London Policeman Ross: Manager of the Elephant Man Bishop Walsham How Porter: At the London Hospital Lord John Pinhead Manager Snork: A male orderly Voice Conductor FEMALE ROLES: Orderly: At the London Hospital Countess: Visiting Mr. Merrick to give him gifts. Pinheads * Ms. Sandwich: A terrified Orderly. Duchess: Visiting Mr. Merrick to give him gifts. Mrs. Kendal Princess Alexandra: Visiting Mr. Merrick to give him gifts. * Pinheads – Freaks who suffer from microcephaly or some other mental retardation. They usually were well formed in body but their heads were generally cone-shaped, thus giving them a non-human appearance. They were promoted as "Darwin's missing link" or the surviving children of a lost civilization (i.e. The Ancient Aztec Children, the Wild Men of Borneo).