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December 17, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Auditions for Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson will be held Dec. 16, 17, 2024 at 7:00pm at the Theatre Denton Annex. Directed by Lee Brown.
Auditions will be held on Monday, December 16th and Tuesday, December 17th with callbacks
on that Wednesday, the 18th.
All three of these events will be at 7pm and held on the Phil Gallivan stage at the Annex space at 2201 I-35E South, Denton, TX, 76205.
Auditions will consist of cold reads of scenes from the script. Physical copies of the scenes will
be provided at the auditions. A digital copy of the audition sides is also attached with this
audition notice.
If you are unable to attend auditions in person, there is a virtual option. Please film yourself
performing two monologues of your choice and fill out the Google form at:
this link!
Virtual submissions are open until 7pm on Tuesday, December 17th.
Character Descriptions from the script:
Henrietta Leavitt (LEH-vit): 30s, brilliant, meticulous, excited — almost always wearing a period
hearing-aid.
Margaret Leavitt: 30s, homebody, creative, sweet, sister.
Peter Shaw: 30s, the head astronomer’s apprentice … and the man.
Annie Cannon: 40s, the leader, terse and sure, grows into a firebrand.
Williamina Fleming: 50s, smart as a whip and fun, Scottish.
Performances will be at the Theatre Denton Annex Jan. 31, Feb. 1,2,7,8,9.
About the show:
The fascinating true story of Henrietta Leavitt, an astronomer at the Harvard Observatory, who made amazing discoveries while battling for recognition in a man’s world in the early 20th century.
Tickets for this show go on sale Dec. 6, 2024
