901 Trinity Street, 4^th floor
Saturday, March 3^rd  2-6pm
Callbacks Tuesday evening, March 6 ^th 6-10pm
The show runs June 1-24

Trinity Street Players announces the Austin premiere of Willie Russell’s blockbuster musical, Blood Brothers. This is the tuneful, heartwarming, and heartbreaking tale of twins separated at birth whose paths cross again years later in friendship and conflict. The show examines the nature vs. nurture debate as the twins’ different backgrounds take them to opposite ends of the social spectrum. When both twins fall in love with the same girl, the results are intense and deeply moving. The show has been running in London for over 25 years to packed houses and cheering crowds.

Director, Bob Beare
Musical Director, David Blackburn
Producer, Cathy Jones

CHARACTER LIST

• Please bring a resume’ and headshot.
• Everyone sings in this show. Auditioners are asked to prepare two 16-32 bar songs, one up-tempo and one ballad, preferably from pop or rock musicals. An accompanist will be provided.
• Also needed are tech personnel and musicians.
• Email BloodBrothers@trinitystreetplayers.com for a time slot and/or more information

We proudly present in the Summer of 2012 the Austin premiere of the London blockbuster musical, Blood Brothers. For over 25 years, this tale of two brothers separated at birth has brought audiences to tears, to laughter, and to their feet cheering for more. Don’t miss this meaningful and powerful theatrical experience.

David Auburn’s play Proof, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play, is a complex, layered drama about a young woman struggling to find room for healing and trust in a world that is imploding around her. Catherine’s struggles with herself, her brilliant yet unstable father Robert, her well-meaning but controlling sister Claire, and her father’s passionate and devoted protégé Hal provide a dynamic context for exploring the often fine line between creativity and madness, familial love and emotional suffocation, and self-perception and reality. Catherine exhibits signs of the same remarkable genius as her father, but she fears she will also inherit the mental illness that robbed him of his career and ultimately his ability to function in the world. Her sister Claire urges Catherine to abandon her amazing gift and embrace the mental stagnation of a safe and structured life. However, it is Hal who begins to perceive the truth of Catherine’s life and introduces her to the possibility of risking something big for something great. At the center of the conflict is an earth-shattering mathematical proof whose authorship is in dispute and around which our characters engage in a ferocious battle of mind, heart, and soul.

Trinity Street Players is proud to present this truly moving theatrical experience. The play is directed by TSP veteran David McCullars, whose last directorial outing was the highly acclaimed Shadowlands. He is assisted by Shadowlands and Three Viewings star, Linda Miller Raff. The cast includes three fantastic additions to the TSP community. Bridget Farias, a well-known and beloved presence in the Austin-area theatre scene who also serves as artistic director of the EmilyAnn Theatre & Gardens in Wimberley, TX, plays the troubled but brilliant Catherine. Gary Clarke, whose impressive TV and film résumé includes roles in The Virginian, Michael Shayne, Tombstone, and General Hospital, plays Robert, Catherine’s crumbling genius father. Dr. Circe Sturm, also a talented and familiar face in the Austin theatre community, plays Catherine’s forceful but caring sister Claire. Proof director David McCullars plays Hal, Robert’s devoted graduate student and Catherine’s path to awakening.

Three compelling characters, including a quirky undertaker, a wise-cracking corpse robber, and an endearing, widowed matron, tell their personal stories from the confines of a small town funeral parlor. A unique theatrical experience for the Halloween season, patrons will love the fast-paced and genuine stories of love and love lost.

Three Viewings is veteran theatre professional Bob Beare’s directorial debut with Trinity Street Players. With many credits as a director, actor, and singer in Houston at Theatre Under the Stars, Stages Repertory Theatre, Theatre Lab, and Main Street Theatre, he is also an accomplished composer and lyricist. Beare has written, directed, and performed a variety of music for stage, screen, and video.

“There are many surprises in Three Viewings,” Director Bob Beare said. “There is nothing morose about it. Though it is set in a funeral home, the stories are briskly told with an element of truth that is always the best kind of humor.”

Award-winning playwright and talented screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher has written many original productions that have been performed on Broadway and across the US and abroad. Some of his other plays include Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (being performed this fall at UT), Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Scotland Road, A Picasso, Neddy, Mercy of a Storm, and Work Song. He also co-wrote a stage adaption of Tuesdays with Morrie with author Mitch Album.

“Hatcher is an intelligent writer,” Beare said. “Each detail is important in each of the stories, and he delivers a full range from hilarity to deep sorrow, without forcing the humor or overdoing the tragedy.”

All of a sudden, a war hero blasts into his life and overstays his welcome. The socially inept, obnoxious visitor becomes unbelievably annoying, but is tolerated because he had saved Willum’s life in Vietnam.  The second act revolves around the character’s increasingly humorous plans to convince his unexpected visitor to leave without hurting his feelings.

In 1942, in a make-shift detention room in Vichy, France, a group of men find themselves detained for questionable reasons. As the play unfolds, they realize the horrible truth of why they have been brought together. The setting of occupied France, at a time when many brave French citizens had joined underground groups and found ways to stymie the Nazis, adds a fresh, yet chilling dimension to this historical piece.

Miller’s exploration leaves both characters and audience members with questions. Where is the guilt? Can anyone atone for the horrors? And who gets to decide what our life means, anyway?

Director Cathy Jones said Black Box Theatre’s thrust stage extending into the audience “is a powerful and interactive way to present this live show. The audience is allowed to see up close human beings that we can understand and even identify with; struggling with questions and decisions we all face, eventually.”