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Tonight is Wednesday, February 4. It is only the second night of this four-day orgy, but according to HRDC Campus Liaison and Common Casting Week Coordinator Erik J. Salovaara '88, 500 to 600 actors have already stormed the two theaters to compete for a handful of choice parts...
...plays themselves--which Salovaara says have quadrupled in number over the past three years--run the gamut from the familiar to the never before seen. The HRDC famed trinity of Shakespeare, Shepard, and Stoppard is well-represented, as are the ranks of plays that have become movies, such as "Betrayal", "Deathtrap", "The Philadelphia Story", and "The Diary of (Not Cleared) Frank". There are also several more experimental works, including a few student-written plays. Judging by the sign-up sheets, the better-known plays attract the most actors...
...Casting Weeks, says that he has never seen such a crowd at Common Casting Week before. The week provides a large "capacity for madhousedom," he says. He adds, though, that he thinks that everything is running especially smoothly this year, even more so than in previous years, since the HRDC has moved the event from a small room on the second floor of the Loeb to the more spacious lobby and has made the booklet more organized...
...Agassiz lobby isn't nearly as spacious as the Loeb's, but there is no other place in the Agassiz to hold the event. I step carefully over the legs of lounging actors toward the table. A friendly but frazzled HRDC official explains the procedure to me. I am to sign up to audition for as many plays as I like. For each one, I will be given an audition form to fill out and a reading to prepare. When my turn comes, a "runner" will escort me and perhaps one or two others to another room to read...
...HRDC Publicity Coordinator Marjorie B. Ingall '89 has been standing behind the table in the Loeb lobby, shouting out actors' names, for two hours now. She will continue to do so for four more hours tonight. "The stress is so much," she says, "that I am indulging in an extra half a packet of Sweet 'n' Low in my coffee." Salovaara has already lost track of how many cups of coffee he has purchased for his crew tonight...