Drama Club Auditions for Fall Production Approach
Auditions for Huntington High School's fall drama club production of "The Skin of Our Teeth" will be held on Monday, September 13 at 2:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium. The audition is open to all students in the school.
Audition call-backs will be held on Tuesday, September 14 at 2:30 p.m. and Wednesday, September 15 at 2:30 p.m., if necessary. Rehearsals will kick-off on Friday, September 17 at 2:30 p.m. and will run for several hours each afternoon right up to opening night on Friday, November 5 at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium. The show will also be presented the following evening, Saturday, November 6 at 8 p.m. Tickets will be on sale at the door.
Michael Schwendemann, the school's drama club advisor, said those auditioning for a role in the play should prepare a one minute comic monologue. Mr. Schwendemann is a veteran director and actor and a popular high school English teacher.
"The Skin of Our Teeth" is a Pulitzer Prize winning play by Thornton Wilder. It opened in Connecticut in October 1942 before moving to Broadway a month later.
"The Skin of Our Teeth" is a comedy about George Antrobus, his wife and two children, and their utility maid, Lily Sabina, all of Exelsior, New Jersey," according to Mr. Schwendemann. "George Antrobus is John Doe or George Spelvin or you – the average American at grips with destiny, sometimes sour, sometimes sweet."
"The Antrobuses have survived fire, flood, pestilence, the seven year locusts, the ice age, the black pox and the double feature, a dozen wars and as many depressions," Mr. Schwendemann said. "They have run the gamut, are as durable as radiators, and look upon the future with disarming optimism. Alternately bewitched, befuddled and becalmed, they are the stuff of which heroes are made – heroes and buffoons. They are the true offspring of Adam and Eve, victims of all the ills that flesh is heir to. They have survived a thousand calamities by the skin of their teeth, and Mr. Wilder's play is a tribute to that indestructibility."
Last year's drama club productions featured outstanding acting and impressive set designs and were enhanced by a new sound system.
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