Auditions for “Love Letters” — the first show of the new Sizzle & Steak Productions — will be held on Monday, May 18th, at the beautiful 200 seat Rao Theatre on the campus of Fulton-Montgomery Community College in Johnstown starting at 6:30 pm.
A 1988 Pulitzer Prize finalist about the lifelong platonic relationship between a married man and a woman through the letters and cards they exchange with one another over 50 years, from childhood to adulthood, A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters” examines a deep, complicated friendship which often explores love, loss and missed connections.
Since the show is staged using what is often referred to as the “epistolary novel technique” — a novel written as a series of letters or postcards between two fictional characters — none of the performers who are cast need to memorize their lines, since they are supposed to be extemporaneously reading the notes, letters and cards while sitting or standing side by side one another.
To use as many people as possible, Sizzle & Steak Productions will pair six different men with six different women. Each selected pair that is cast will therefore only have to perform one show during the six-show run of “Love Letters.”
A second round of auditions will also be held at the Rao on Wednesday, May 20 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Staged in cooperation with the Foothills Arts Council, “Love Letters” will debut at the Rao on Friday, July 24 at 7:30 pm. It will also be performed on Friday, July 31st at the same time, on Saturdays, July 25th and August 1st at 3 pm and on Sundays, July 26th and August 2nd at 3 pm.
The Saturday, August 1st show will be a special performance for neurodivergent audiences. For more information, please email the company at SizzleandSteakProductions@gmail.com or leave a phone message at 518-878-4248.
