The Magic of Cole Porter
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Director / Choreographer |
Corinne Hickey |
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Music Director |
Michael Lally |
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Assistant Music Director & Accompanist |
Timothy Jenkins |
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Show Dates: November 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 |
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AUDITIONS
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SEPTEMBER 10
NARRATORS |
SEPTEMBER 11
CHORUS / SOLISTS |
SEPTEMBER 12
DANCERS |
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7:00 PM |
7:00 PM |
7:00 PM |
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Dracut Police Department 110 Loon Hill Road Dracut, MA |
Dracut Police Department 110 Loon Hill Road Dracut, MA |
5 6 7 8 Dance Studio 91 Mill Street, Suite 8 Dracut, MA
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Please review the attached narrations prior to auditions. |
Those who are auditioning for chorus only need not bring music. Those who are auditioning for a solo, please prepare a ballad and an “up” tune. Bring a copy of the music in the appropriate key. |
Wear comfortable clothing. Bring a pair of dance shoes and a pair of “tap” shoes (if you have them). |
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ADDITIONAL NOTES
You may audition in all three categories. NARRATOR #1: But Cole Porter was famous, he was rich, and he was a VIP, and he wrote to twenty-six shows….
NARRATOR # 2: Cole Porter was one of Broadway’s greatest songwriting masters of the 20th
century who spent most of his life in the international spotlight. His music and life-style seemed
to typify an era when sophisticated glamour captured the popular imagination. But like so many
famous life stories, Porter’s began in a rather less glamorous, less sophisticated way, in the
unlikely small mid-Western town of Peru, Indiana….
NARRATOR #3: An unpaved Main street called Broadway, a vaudeville theater, a nickelodeon,
a circus – once a year, a symphony concert – once a year, a father who read Robert Browning
with the boy, a mother he adored and who had his precocious song writing efforts privately
published, and a dominating tycoon of a grandfather. When he was thirteen, he was shipped East
to Worcester Academy…Editor of the School Magazine, co-pianist of the Glee Club, leading
man in the class play, president of the Mandolin Club. And then, in 1910, with his own piano
amongst his luggage, Cole Porter arrived at Yale…
PARIS
NARRATOR # 3: By the time Porter arrived in Paris, there were so many Americans living
there that it had become the third largest city in the United States. As you wandered through the
cafes and nightclubs you might come across the occasional writer so decrepit he’d have to check
the obituary columns each morning to make sure he wasn’t there. But there were others, like
Cole Porter, who had a deep and abiding affection for Paris…..
NARRATOR # 2: Porter married Linda Lee Thomas of the Social Register, and they set up a
palatial home on Rue Monsieur in Paris. The garish decor was matched only by the splendor of
the festivities taking place. There were always parties. On one occasion, the Porters hired the
entire Monte Carlo Ballet to entertain their guests; another time, on another moment’s whim they
transferred their guests by motor cavalcade to the Riviera for a gay weekend.
NARRATOR # 1: Porter deliberately fostered the impression of elegant idler, a sort of musical
Court Jester to the international set. But he said later that he could remember almost nothing of
this period because his mind was focused elsewhere. He kept up a front of blithe indifference to
the lack of offers from Broadway or London and pretended that he wrote songs only to amuse
himself and his friends. He had now made the inevitable expatriate’s discovery; the further you
drift from home, the closer the outlines of home become
SYNOPSIS This two-act song and dance revue celebrates the life and times of one of the 20th century's greatest songwriting Masters - Cole Porter. The show features many of Cole Porter's standards such as: "Anything Goes", "I Love Paris", "Take Me Back to Manhattan", "Love for Sale", "Night and Day", and "I Get a Kick Out of You" to name but a few. Short, cleverly written narrations chronicle the important moments and events in Cole Porter's personal and professional life from Yale to Paris to Manhattan to Broadway to Hollywood. The Magic of Cole Porter is upbeat, fast paced, poignant and touching as it conveys - through song, dance and narration - how Cole Porter's lyrics and melodies mirrored the times in which he lived, from the Roaring Twenties to the Swingin' Sixties, with an "anything goes" attitude and a lifestyle devoted to the pursuit of excitement, adventure and gaiety. . |
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