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YOUNG PLAYWRIGHT'S FESTIVAL
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ID # 31876
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Live Event
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Submission Type |
Open Call
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| Location |
Ventura CA |
Union |
Non-union
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| Rate/Pay |
n/a
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Release Date |
04-27-06
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| Audition Date |
12-31-69
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Submission Deadline |
04-29-06
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| Shoot Date |
12-31-69
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| Casting Category |
Theatre - Non-Equity
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| Market(s) |
Los Angeles, CA |
Personnel
Brian McDonald: Associate Producer
Other Dates
Performances on May 28 and 29, 2006 in Ventura.
Contract
Other
Staged Reading Code
Preparation
Sides will be available at the audition.
Other
Travel reimbursement.
Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
NOTE: ALL TALENT UNDER THE AGE OF 18 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN AT ALL TIMES
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Seeking 8 talent(s) for this role
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Various types of men and woman ages 20 - 65.
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Gender: Male Female
Age: from 20 to 65 |
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Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
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1 male early 20's African American to play 17.
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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 23
Ethnicity: African - African American - Caribbian - |
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NOTE: ALL TALENT UNDER THE AGE OF 18 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN AT ALL TIMES
1 girl to play 10 years old.
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Gender: Female
Age: from 9 to 12 |
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NOTE: ALL TALENT UNDER THE AGE OF 18 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN AT ALL TIMES
1 boy to play 6 years old.
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Gender: Male
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Rare recordings of a radio broadcast on the Lindbergh trial and a landmark TV drama have been discovered, the Museum of Television & Radio said Tuesday
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The other discovery, the acclaimed 1954 jury room drama "Twelve Angry Men," has not been seen in its entirety since the initial broadcast and was among the museum's most sought-after programs Scott
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Broadcasting in its early days was considered disposable and so much was lost that the discoveries take on greater importance, said Robert Thompson, professor of media and popular culture at Syracuse University
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The Lindbergh recordings features prominent New York defense attorney Samuel Leibowitz's daily accounts of the trial Because of his interest in the law, Leibowitz had requested a kinescope of the program from CBS Lindbergh Jr org/
Rose adapted it as a movie starring Henry Fonda in 1957 and it received several Academy Award nominations It was remade in 1997 as a TV movie for Showtime featuring Jack Lemmon, Ossie Davis and George C
The recording was in the possession of Leibowitz's children, who also had a 16mm film copy of a kinescope of "Twelve Angry Men The defendant, who maintained he was innocent, was convicted of killing 20-month-old Charles A
"Whenever anyone is able to reclaim even a little corner of broadcasting history, it warms our hearts," he said The recordings will be featured at the museum's Los Angeles and New York locations May 23 to July 6 and will be available for viewing afterward as part of the permanent collection
The museum learned of the historic recordings from filmmaker Joseph Consentino, who is producing a documentary about Leibowitz scheduled to air in June on the History Channel
Hundreds of reporters swarmed a New Jersey courtroom for Hauptmann's trial and radio networks offered daily coverage, but no recording of the coverage was known to exist, according to the museum J
Leibowitz had been hired by WHN to comment on the trial
A recording provides the texture of the event in a way a court transcript cannot, he said
Museum curators validated the material and remastered it
