What A Do Theatre is excited to announce it is partnering with the Battle Creek Symphony for a

performance of Ellis Island: The Dream of America by Peter Boyer. 

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Adult Actors:

What A Do is looking for several actors who are capable of various believable European accents, and capable of delivering powerful monologues, and non-verbal acting. We are looking to cast Two Female presenting roles and one Male presenting role (These are paid, contracted positions.)

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Youth Actors:

We will be open casting FIVE youth performers ages 11-18 (still in middle or high school) for non-verbal acting roles that will create a living picture as each Adult Actor presents a historical monologue (These are non-paid roles.)

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Auditions:

January 30

7:30pm -10pm

The Music Center

450 North Avenue

Battle Creek, MI 49017

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Rehearsals:

Mondays through Thursdays

Starting March 2nd - April 9th

7:30pm - 10:00pm

The Music Center

450 North Avenue

Battle Creek, MI 49017

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Performances:

School performance: Friday, April 10th- 8:30a-11:30a (Program at 9:30a- WK Kellogg Auditorium)

Evening Dress Rehearsal: Friday, April 10th (Time TBD, but mandatory for entire cast; if they aren't available, they can't be in the production, WK Kellogg Auditorium)

Performance: Saturday, April 11th at 7:30p (Call 6:00p, WK Kellogg Auditorium)

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While there may be some days of rehearsal that you will not be required to attend, we are requiring that your availability be open during those times. Those who are cast, please note you are required to be memorized by March 2nd.

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Below you will find the samples we are requiring actors to read during auditions. You are not required to have this memorized prior to auditions.

 

Lillian Galletta, emigrated from Italy:

My father spent most of his time going back and forth from Sicily to America, because there wasn’t enough work there for a carpenter. Practically all the Galletta family were master carpenters. And he’d come back and forth every couple of years. That’s why all my brothers and sisters are spaced two years apart.

 

Helen Rosenthal, emigrated from Belgium:

I lived in Belgium with my sister for two and a half years. That’s where I met my husband, Paul. We got engaged in 1936 and were married soon after. By 1940, the war was coming closer to Belgium, and I had a feeling that the Germans would have to go through Belgium to get to France. I kept on saying to Paul, “We have to leave.”

 

Emanuel “Manny” Steen, emigrated from Ireland:

We were eight kids. My father and mother was ten. My bachelor uncle was eleven and my grandmother lived with us. Twelve people! The boys slept four in a bed, toe-to-toe. The girls slept three to a bed. We were poor people, but not dirt poor. We were poor but we ate.

In 1921, my father died, and my uncle Jack assumed command of the family. He said, “We can’t go on. The economy is nothing. We’re all going to America.”

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If interested in Auditioning please fill out the form below!

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