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AIDA (CHORUS DANCERS CALL)
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ID # 14257
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Live Event
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Submission Type |
Open Call
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| Location |
Fullerton CA |
Union |
Equity
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| Rate/Pay |
$610.00 per n/a
Minimum per week.
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Release Date |
09-02-05
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| Audition Date |
09-09-04
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Submission Deadline |
09-02-05
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| Shoot Date |
12-31-69
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| Casting Category |
Theatre - Equity (Union)
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| Market(s) |
Los Angeles, CA |
Please note: This is an OPEN CALL AUDITION. If you fit the role criteria and are interested in auditioning for this project, auditions are on Friday, September 9, 2005 at 4:00pm. See location below description and follow all audition instructions very carefully.
Contract
LOA ref WCLO
$610.00 Weekly
Other Dates
First Rehearsal: 9/19/05
Opens: 10/14/05
Closes: 10/30/05
Other
Non-Required Call: Sept 10-3pm Dance Call at FCLO Bldg., 218 W. Commonwealth Ave, Fullerton, CA 92832
Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Seeking: Male and Female Chorus Dancers – All must dance & sing very well. All ethnic backgrounds encouraged to attend.
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male Female
Age: from 18 to 45 |
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"It made me out and out nauseous "The Passion of the Christ," Mel Gibson's crucifixion epic, is moving into cinemas around the world, and into the international tempests whipped up by terrorism, war and clashing religions That cannot be good
The film has opened to packed houses in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon "
Finland's leading tabloid, Ilta-Sanomat, called it "one of the most cruel and violent films ever made
But that does not mean it is being ignored in the Jewish state
In Germany, Charlotte Knobloch, vice president of the Central Council of Jews, warned that the movie's "suggestive power "
Some European churches, like American ones, have encouraged the public to see the film, hoping it will reverse declining religious faith The closest Western nation was Britain at 33 percent Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat watched the film at his West Bank compound with a group of local Muslim clerics and Christians from the United States, Canada and Britain "
"Many of our compatriots have plunged into materialism and are afraid of asking themselves the meaning of life and death â€â€? and these are the very questions that the movie sets forth," he said following an advance screening
In France, the film's opening Wednesday coincided with a European Union report which showed that among member nations experiencing anti-Semitic acts and threats, France had the sharpest increase â€â€? a six-fold jump from 2002 to 2003 Eric Delve was quoted as telling the Church Times, an Anglican weekly
For many around the world, as in the United States, the core issues of the film are the blood-soaked depiction of Christ's last hours, and the emphasis on Jews clamoring for the Romans to crucify him Hollywood has rather sanitized the life of Jesus in the past
"It was about the human condition, about human suffering," he said
The film, showing in more than 500 theaters across France, cannot be shown to children under 12
Bishop Marc, a spokesman for the Moscow Patriarchate, called the film "heavy-duty medicine "
Italian theaters will not screen the film until April 7
In the Philippines, where some faithful are nailed to crosses in Easter reenactments, Bishop Ramon Arguelles wondered whether Gibson "may beat Mother Teresa" as an evangelizer " French Roman Catholic bishops worried it "could be used to comfort anti-Semitic opinions
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Brian Murphy is an Associated Press correspondent based in Athens, Greece
Moreover, the Quran insists that, regardless of what the New Testament says, Jesus did not die on the cross and thus did not save humanity " Three Jewish brothers tried but failed to get a Paris court to block the movie as inflammatory
Many in the Arab world welcome the film, seeing it as an anti-Jewish message gaining worldwide currency at a time of escalating Palestinian-Israel clashes
Not so the Roman Catholic archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, who described the film as "ridiculous" for its graphic attention to the beatings and abuses suffered by Jesus
France's Liberation newspaper warned that the film could "exacerbate anti-Semitism
Miikka Ruokanen, a professor of theology at the University of Helsinki, called it "the best biblical film" and rejected accusations of anti-Semitism
The movie opens in Russia on Tuesday
Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales, in a pastoral message, called the film "a serious labor of love, painstakingly made, of genuine artistic and religious value But the coming week is also the Jewish holiday of Passover, which could sharpen the focus on what some perceive as the movie's anti-Semitism Geoff Crago, communications officer for the Anglican diocese of Gloucester, told the paper he doubted the film would revive religious faith
Muslims revere Jesus as a prophet, not as the messiah, and some Arab countries have banned the film because a strict interpretation of Islam frowns on portraying its prophets as flesh-and-blood characters
"It's not saying the sort of things I believe are right for presenting the gospel in the 21st century," he said "
But that is just what some advocates say is needed to draw attention to Christianity's core beliefs
Gibson and many clergy who praised the film deny it has any anti-Semitic overtones " European Jewish leaders are troubled by it
The film will not be seen in Israel, either Vatican officials openly praised it
"The average church program does not grab a lot of people
Others, too, recoiled at the violence
"The Palestinians are still daily being exposed to the kind of pain Jesus was exposed to during his crucifixion," a top Arafat aide, Aub Rdeneh, said in a statement after the March 20 viewing 'Passion' Draws Worldwide Praise, Outrage
Apr 3, 7:33 PM EST
An Islamic leader says it reveals Jewish "crimes Films like this get extremist feelings going Shapira Films, which has the Israeli distribution rights, "decided this was not the appropriate time to screen it," spokeswoman Orly Ben Eliyahu said But Pope John Paul II saw it at a private screening in December, and later blessed Jesus' portrayer, actor Jim Caviezel, a devout Roman Catholic
"There are fundamentalists in every religion â€â€? Christians, Muslims and Jews
In southern England, five churches â€â€? three Anglican, one Baptist, one nondenominational â€â€? joined forces to block-book 3,000 tickets and offer them free on the Internet But pirated DVD versions are circulating widely "Jesus happened to be a Jew and the same fate would have befallen the son of God in other societies "
He cautioned viewers against reading an anti-Jewish message into the film: "Anti-Semitism may not be justified ever, the church teaches us, and the terrible crimes anti-Semitism has led to, culminating in the Holocaust of the last century, are surely crimes in the eyes of humanity and God "
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"The film will open people's eyes to the Christian faith, so they can look seriously at Jesus as an option for their life," Anglican Rev Israeli theaters don't plan to show it will give a further push to the current resurgence of anti-Semitism
"Given the damage he's done to Christian-Jewish relations, I wouldn't want to be Mel Gibson on Judgment Day," wrote Yossi Klein Halevi in the Jerusalem Post "
The movie has equally firm defenders
"It is downright gruesome," Oslo Bishop Gunnar Staalsett said on Norwegian state television
"It's not going to help quiet things down," said Giorgos Moustakis, who teaches theology and Christian ethics at the American College of Greece A poll in December 2002 by the Pew Research Center found 59 percent of Americans consider religion "very important" in their lives In Britain, the age limit is 18 "
"The Passion" has gone global as Christians prepare to celebrate Easter week
"The Jews are most upset with the movie because it reveals their crimes against the prophets, the reformers and whoever contradicts their opinions," said Hamza Mansoor, secretary-general of the Islamic Action Front, a hard-line political party in Jordan
