Word: loebs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fortunately, I was not alone, as several hundred other student actors and would-be actors descended in swarms upon the Loeb and Agassiz theaters to audition for an unprecedented 44 plays in the largest Common Casting Week in HRDC history...
...stairs of the Loeb, looking for the sign-up table, where most of the action is. I ignore the two men sitting on the steps. The table is not upstairs. On my way back downstairs, a woman asks me, "Did you see him? It's Ken Howard! That's him sitting on the step." Ken Howard is a TV and movie star who is now acting with the American Repertory Theater at the Loeb. He is someone whose face I would have recognized, had I been paying attention. He is gone...
Salovaara is in the midst of the action, standing on the sign-up table in the lobby of the Loeb, while hordes of shouting thespians wave their arms about his legs, grasping for pens and audition forms. He has long since given out all 750 copies of the event's "bible", the appropriately titled "Common Casting Week" booklet, which contains pertinent information about each show...
...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...