A Play in 3 Acts By Jack Heifner Directed by KEN PATTON Produced by ROGER KREVENAS AUDITION DATES & TIMES: 7:30 PM January 30th, 31st, & February 1st, 2011 (Sunday, Monday & Tuesday) AUDITION LOCATION: Conejo Players Theatre 351 South Moorpark Road Thousand Oaks, CA 91361-1008 PERFORMANCE DATES: April 30th through May 14th, 2011 Saturdays at 2:00 PM Sundays at 7:00 PM NO PERFORMANCE CONFLICTS ALLOWED AUDITION REQUIREMENTS: Please bring a headshot and resume (if available). Please bring a list of all potential conflicts including travel, etc. Please be familiar with the script. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. There will be movement [a cheerleading routine will be taught, as cheerleading skills are integral to the action in the 1st Act.] Dress comfortably, and please bring athletic shoes. Plan to stay the entire evening. No appointment necessary. These are Open Call Auditions. There is NO PAY. PLOT SUMMARY: Vanities is a laugh-out-loud comedy about the growth of a friendship among three small town women coming of age in the 1960s and ‘70s. It's an astute, snapshot-sharp look at their lives with witty dialogue that keeps the audience laughing throughout the production! As the audience enters the theatre, the actresses are on stage at their vanity tables getting ready for the first scene, placing the show on an “automatic pilot.” The actresses return to the vanities at the end of each scene, making their physical changes of the passing of time on-stage in front of the audience, timed and choreographed with the music from each period. In 1963, Joanne, Kathy and Mary are aggressively vivacious cheerleaders. Five years later in their college sorority house, they are confronting their futures with nervous jauntiness. In 1974, they reunite briefly in New York. Their lives have diverged — their friendship, which once thrived on assumption as well-coordinated as sweater sets, is strained and ambiguous. Old-time banter rings false. Their attempts at honest conversation only show they can no longer afford to have very much in common. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Please contact Ken Patton at patton.ken@gmail.com. CHARACTER BREAKDOWN: JOANNE:  Sweet, prim, proper, churchgoing.  A person with her morals intact, Joanne remains a virgin until she is married.  Joanne is quite judgmental, and she gets her feelings hurt quite easily. Joanne is fiercely loyal and protective of her family and friends. A Texas accent is required; this character speaks with an accent through the entire play. KATHY:  Warm-hearted, athletic, bossy, full of boundless energy.  There is organized, and then there is Kathy; ‘a place for everything, and everything in it’s place.’  She is never without her clipboard; she is the consummate event planner, and needs to run everything.  She is head cheerleader, she is the President of her Sorority.  Kathy starts out with a Texas accent, but loses it during the course of the play. MARY:  Wild, a free spirit, restless.  Mary is the promiscuous one in the group; she challenges authority, and is quick to pick a fight with her friends.  She has an unhappy family life, and looks for love in all the wrong places.  She seeks adventure and excitement.  Mary spends most of the play searching; she always seems just a little lost.  Mary starts off with a Texas accent, but she loses it during the course of the play. Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French