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Show USF looking ahead Casting sessions for the 1981 Utah Shakespearean Festival are in progress this week in Los Angeles. Approximately 120 actors and technicians will be chosen for performing per-forming and support roles in"Much Ado About Nothing'.', 'jHamlet" and" Henry IV, Part I", the plays scheduled for presentation in Cedar City July 16 through Aug. 29. Selection of company members is a three-day process of listening to audition tapes, studying resumes and in some cases verifying information in-formation by personal knowledge. Responsibility for final selection rests with Producing Director Fred C. Adams, associate director Douglas N. Cook and 1981 play directors Howard Jensen and Leslie Reidel. These directors are assisted in their decision making process by other top-level Festival personnel in attendance at the casting meetings. This season represents the first time in five years the casting meetings have been held away from Cedar City, and the departure from tradition is an economy measure. Many of the people involved in the meetings are from the eastern part of the United States, and it is less expeasive for them to travel directly to the West Coast than to travel to Cedar City, according to R. Scott Phillips, public relations director. Acting and technical personnel selected for membership in the 1981 Festival company will arrive in Cedar City June 13 and immediately launch into an iptensive period of costuming, rehearsals and voice coaching. |
