*BUTA PRESENTS Spring 2011*
The Colored Museum by George C. Wolfe
Auditions THIS WEDNESDAY, 4-8pm, Cutter Shabazz

Blitz "BUTA" for an audition slot by midnight MONDAY!

The Colored Museum is a combination of 11 vignettes that follow the history of  
Blacks from slavery until present day using stereotypes that question and redefine  
what it means to be Black in contemporary America.

Actors, Actresses, and Crew Needed! See below for details.

--Black Underground Theater Association
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Actors/Actress REPLY WITH
Name:
Year:
Times Available Between 4-8pm on Wednesday:
Vignette Your Interested In:

Other help needed includes:
*Set design**Costume Design**Makeup**Stage Crew*
No experience needed!! Blitz back with interested position.
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Vignettes Descriptions:
Miss Pat- Cute, pert, black flight attendant, who leads the way on an transatlantic  
flight through history.

Aunt Ethel: A down home black woman with a bandanna on her head, should emulate  
Aunt Jemima.

The Photo Session: Two attractive models, vain, and superficial. One Girl, one  
Guy.

A Soldier With A Secret: Junie, a young soldier, with a grim fantasy, and a secret.  
Junie thinks that he has to kill his fellow soldiers before they become veterans  
and face more horrible futures at home than they would have to face at war.

The Gospel According to Miss Roj: One male, open to do drag. Sassy and hysterical  
drag queen, she is oddly one of the most direct and insightful characters in the  
show.

The Hairpiece: Three women, two which shall serve as voices for hairpieces.

The Last Mama-on-the-Couch Play." Five actors, Narrator, Son, Mama, Lady, Medea.  
Actors are free to have fun in this truly Brechtian piece. There are actors acting  
out this scene, who are in and of themselves actors trying to win an award from  
the narrator. All of the characters are parodies of the Younger family from Lorraine  
Hansberry's "A Raisin in The Sun"

Symbiosis:  a man attempts to trash his past because it is too painful to be black.  
The scene, while comic in some areas, comes off as oddly tragic and frightful,  
as the man is willing to kill (or try to kill) his younger self in order to survive  
in the "present climate."

"Lala's Opening". One female, Lala, portrayal of the ultimate superstar diva,  
vain and childlike. The "little girl" and Lala are two separate fragments of the  
same woman.

Permutations: One female, Normal Jean Reynolds: Very southern/country and very  
young

The Party: one female, Topsy Washington, a loud, vivacious, spunky character,  
with a lot of sass, who loves to party in the midst of madness.
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