Performance Riverside announces open call auditions for professional non-union performers for the upcoming production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance.  The production is directed and choreographed by Bart McHenry, with music direction by David Lamoureaux.

Auditions are Saturday, March 6 at 9:30am at  Landis Performing Arts Center on the campus of Riverside City College. Performance pay is available.

Please prepare a song (16 bars) that shows your voice and personality, in a style appropriate for the production.  Have another contrasting song prepared in the event one is requested.  Wear clothes appropriate for moving and dancing.  All persons who audition must bring a resume, headshot, and a biography with them. Come prepared to list any conflicts you have with the rehearsal schedule. Casting the parts of:

• Frederic, the Pirate Apprentice (tenor)
• The Pirate King (bass-baritone)
• Major-General Stanley (comic baritone)
• Samuel, his Lieutenant (baritone)
• Sergeant of Police (bass)
• General Stanley’s Daughters : Mabel (soprano); Edith (mezzo-soprano); Kate (mezzo-soprano); Isabel (speaking)
• Ruth, a Piratical Maid of all work (contralto)
• Chorus of Pirates, Police and General Stanley’s Daughters

Weeknight and weekend rehearsals begin Saturday March 27.  Performances are April 23, 24, 30, and May 1 at 8pm, April 24, 25, May 1 and 2 at 2pm, and  Friday April 23 and 30 at 10am.  All performances are at Landis Performing Arts Center at 4800 Magnolia Avenue. For more  information call the Audition Hotline at (951) 222-8485, or come and explore Performance Riverside’s website at www.performanceriverside.org.