UTAH STATE THEATRE TO PRODUCE “HOLES” BY LOUIS SACHAR – SPECIAL CASTING NEEDS

Utah State University theatre arts department head Colin Johnson posed this question for local residents.

“Do you know ‘Holes,’ Louis Sachar’s Newberry Award-winning children’s book and popular Disney movie? Do you also know that it is also a stage play?”

“Holes,” the play, will be produced by Utah State’s Theatre Arts Department in October 2004 and Johnson directs. He is looking for seven or eight young men, ages 14-16, or men who can look that age, to play the Camp Green Lake boys.

Those familiar with the story know that the characters of X-Ray and Armpit are African-American, Magnet is Latino and Zero has a gypsy, or Romani, background from Eastern Europe, Johnson said.

Also needed are the characters of the toughest kid, Elya, and the play’s main protagonist, Stanley Yelnats.

Parents of young people interested in auditioning for roles should contact the Theatre Arts Department (Chase FAC, room 232) and professor Johnson at (435) 797-3046 for an interview. Rehearsals begin in September and the production will be staged in the Morgan Theatre of the Chase Fine Arts Center Oct. 18-23.

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