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It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play auditions

Auditions for It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play adapted by Joe Landry which will be performed in the Warren Enters Theatre November 2025. Please prepare a 1-1.5 minute long monologue from a published play, preferably written between 1900-1965. We're happy to see auditions that don't fit these guidelines, but a piece from this time period would be most advantageous for the actor as the style will most closely match the style of It's a Wonderful Life. 

This play is unique in that most of the actors will need to play multiple characters, and each character will need to have a different sound from the others. In addition to the monologue, please prepare a character. You will be asked to do your monologue a second time as this character. There should be a distinct difference in your voice the second time. Characters could be: old lady who is hard of hearing, whiny young child, grumpy old man, goofy teenager, captain of the football team, cheerleader, school nerd, 1940s sales person, etc. We're looking for big bold choices here!!

April 1, 2025 - 6 to 9 p.m. - Flexible Theatre, Donald Savage Building

Please review the available slots here and click on the button to sign up. Thank you! 
 

Featured Alumnus: Marco Antonio Rodriguez ('97)

Marco Antonio Rodriguez

Marco's New Play Premieres Off-Broadway in April! 

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https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2649755/
 

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2024-2025 Productions

Antigone

November 7 - 10, 2024

by Jean Anouilh

Directed by Jennifer Toohey

Co-sponsored by Casting Hall Productions

 

Ride the Cyclone

March 12 - 16, 2025

By Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell

Directed by Sabrina Kahwaty

Co-sponsored by Casting Hall Productions

Buffalo State presents musical ‘Ride the Cyclone’ in renovated Flexible Theatre

Thursday Play Reading Series

Join us as we present FREE play readings and discussions. Enjoy plays selected from our student surveys or submitted by faculty and local directors. All performances will take place in the Flexible Theatre (SAVA 205), from 12:15 - 1:30 p.m.

Schedule:

February 13th 

March 20th

April 10th

Theater Spotlight

Cast of Ride the Cyclone

Buffalo State presents musical ‘Ride the Cyclone’ in renovated Flexible Theatre

Ride the Cyclone premiered in 2008 but has recently become a viral sensation. With book, music, and lyrics by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell, the musical follows six teenagers whose lives are cut short by a freak roller coaster accident. When they awake in limbo, a mechanical fortune teller named Karnak invites each to compete for the ultimate prize—the chance to return to life. 

This month, Ride the Cyclone is presented in the round—i.e. with audience seated on all sides of the stage—by the Buffalo State Theater Department and Casting Hall Productions. It is the university’s first production in the newly renovated Flexible Theatre, located in the Donald Savage Theater and Communication Building.

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