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Auditions Open For Palmdale Playhouse Production About Triangle Factory Fire

TriangleProjectThe Palmdale Playhouse will hold open auditions for the upcoming Enhanced Readers Theatre “The Triangle Factory Fire Project” this Friday, Feb. 10 at 6 pm, and Saturday, Feb. 11 at 10 am at the Palmdale Playhouse, 38334 10th Street East in Palmdale.

Roles are available for five men and four females each playing multiple parts. Performers should be prepared to read sides from the scripts, which will be provided at the audition.


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The story of The Triangle Factory Fire Project began on Saturday, March 25, 1911, at 4:45 pm. In the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory off downtown Manhattan’s Washington Square – where 500 immigrant workers toiled 14-hour days making women’s dresses – a cigarette was tossed into a bin of fabric scraps. Despite desperate efforts to extinguish the fire, flames swept through the eigth, ninth and tenth floors.

Panic-stricken workers ran in all directions. On the ninth floor, some made it to the fire escape, only to have it collapse beneath their weight. Dozens leaped from windows to their deaths. In the space of 28 minutes, the fire was under control, but 146 people, mainly young immigrant girls, died.

“The Triangle Factory Fire Project uses eyewitness accounts and other archival material to create a dramatic moment-by-moment account of this historic fire and the social upheaval that followed,” said Theatre Operations Technician Linda Willis.

The drama will be directed by M. Steven Felty. Performances will be Saturday, March 24 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, March 25 at 2 pm.

Upcoming radio play productions for the Playhouse 2011-2012 season include Andrew J. Fenady’s “The Big Guns: or Whose Little Lily Is She?” and “The Shadow Knows!”

Tickets for all Palmdale Playhouse events may be purchased 24 hours a day on the Playhouse Web site at www.cityofpalmdale.org/playhouse. For information please call the Playhouse at 661/267-5684.

Auditions Open For Palmdale Playhouse Production About Triangle Factory Fire

One comment

  1. I would like to be considered for the up coming plays. I live in the Palmdale area and I’m very interested to be apart of your production.

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