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Cooper Driskell will play Ralphie in
A Christmas Story!
Congratulations to COOPER DRISKELL, who has been selected to play Ralphie in Georgia Shakespeare's A Christmas Story! Cooper came to open auditions at Imagine It! The Children's Museum of Atlanta. Watch this space in November and get to know the entire cast of A Christmas Story!
| Ralphie |
Cooper Driskell |
| Ralph, the narrator |
Allan Edwards* |
| The Old Man |
Mark Kincaid* |
| Mother |
Sherman Fracher* |
| Randy |
Ian L’Abate |
| Flick |
Eric Broner |
| Scut |
Whit Weinmann |
| Schwartz |
Giovanni Tortorici |
| Miss Shields |
LaLa Cochran |
| Helen |
Alice Garriga |
| Esther Jane |
Shea Jones |
The Search for Ralphie (and his friends!)
Georgia Shakespeare held open auditions for the lead role of Ralphie in the live stage production of A Christmas Story to run Dec 7 - 26, 2010, at Georgia Shakespeare on the campus of Oglethorpe University. Auditions were held at various locations around Atlanta including Decatur Book Festival, Imagine It! The Children's Museum of Atlanta, Chocolate Perks, Bloomingdales at Lenox Mall and the Atlanta Parent Block Party. Thank you to all of our hosts!
*Member of Actors' Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
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FAQ's WHO IS RALPHIE?
Ralphie is the hero of A Christmas Story. He is an imaginative and adventurous boy who must battle school bullies and convince his parents to buy him the PERFECT Christmas gift. For this paid role, Georgia Shakespeare is looking for boys who look between the ages of 10 and 12 years old (but are not older than 13 years of age), who know how to tell a joke, can get out of any tricky situation, and love to perform.
WHAT WILL I HAVE TO DO IF I WIN?
The winner of “The Search for Ralphie” contest will be cast as Ralphie in A Christmas Story at Georgia Shakespeare. The winner will be required to attend all scheduled rehearsals and perform in all scheduled performances. A 2010 calendar will be provided at the Round 2 auditions, but generally, rehearsals will be held from mid-November through opening of the show on December 8, during after-school, evening and weekend hours. Performances are scheduled through the December 26, 7pm performance.
HOW DO I AUDITION?
There are three rounds of auditions:
ROUND 1 – Open Auditions
For Round 1 auditions, all contestants will be asked to tell a joke and a true-life story about themselves. The story and joke should not exceed one and a half minutes in length. Those auditioning may attend any one of the following Round 1 dates/locations. All contestants must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. The panel of judges will be comprised of local celebrities and Associate Artists and staff members from Georgia Shakespeare.
At each event we will only see the first 60 contestants who sign up at the events. Sign up starts ONLY 30 minutes prior to the event start time:
Saturday, September 4 between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Decatur Book Festival at Several Dancers Core
133 Sycamore Street
Decatur, GA 30030-3338
Sunday, September 12 between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.
Imagine It! The Children's Museum of Atlanta
275 Centennial Olympic Park Drive NW
Atlanta, GA 30313-1827
Saturday, September 18 between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Chocolate Perks
3160 Main Street #200
Duluth, GA 30096
Saturday, September 25 between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Bloomingdale’s Lenox Square
BKids, Level 3
3393 Peachtree Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30326
ROUND 2 – Semi-Finals
SEMI-FINALISTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THIS PAGE OCTOBER 4.
Saturday, October 9
Semi-finalists will be invited to this audition via contact from Georgia Shakespeare. At the semi-final auditions, contestants will be asked to tell their joke and true-life story about themselves. We will also ask contestants to prepare a short selection from the play (we will furnish contestants with the selection ahead of round 2) and participate in a group improv exercise with one of the judges. Semi-final round takes place at the Atlanta Parent's Family Block Party. Times TBD.
ROUND 3 – Finals
FINALISTS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON THIS PAGE OCTOBER 11.
Saturday, October 16 and Sunday, October 17
Finalists will be invited to this audition via contact from Georgia Shakespeare.
Further details on semi-finals and finals to follow.
Pictured above: Image courtesy of Actor's Theatre of Louisville's and graphic designer Matt Dobson.
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