Audition Notice for "Les Liaisons Dangereuse"

Center Stage at Southampton Cultural Center to Hold Open Auditions for Christopher Hampton’s Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons)
Center Stage at the Southampton Cultural Center will hold open auditions for performances of Christopher Hampton’s Broadway hit, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons) on Monday, January 23rd at 6:00 PM and Tuesday, January 24th at 6:00 PM in Southampton Cultural Center’s Levitas Center. Auditions begin promptly at these times. Late arrivals will be seen at the discretion of the director.
Performances will begin on March 15, 2012 and run through April 1, 2012. Michael Disher directs.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses is adapted from the 1782 novel of the same title by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. The plot focuses on the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, rivals who use sex as a weapon of humiliation and degradation. Their targets are the virtuous (and married) Madame de Tourvel and Cécile de Volanges, a young girl who has fallen in love with her music tutor, the Chevalier Danceny. In order to gain their trust, Merteuil and Valmont pretend to help the secret lovers so they can use them later in their own treacherous scheming seductions and betrayals.
A successful British run and an equally successful Broadway run was followed by the film adaptation, Dangerous Liaisons (starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich and Michelle Pfeiffer) which earned 7 Academy Award nominations. A subsequent film version, Valmont, starred Colin Firth, Annette Bening and Meg Tilly.
Roles include:
La Marquise de Merteuil – manipulative, cunning, seductive. 30s

Vicomte de Valmont – equally manipulative, cunning, seductive. 30s

Madame de Volanges – Cecile’s mother, opinionated, pious, ill-informed. 40s

Madame de Rosemonde – Valmont’s aunt, grand, respected. 50s

Cecile Volanges – protected, exploited, ruined. Teens to Early 20s

Chevalier de Darceny – chivalrous, somewhat innocent, easily deceived. 20s

La Presidente de Tourvel – pure, innocent, a victim and pawn. 20s

Emilie – a courtesan. 30s

Azolan – Valmont’s valet and confidante. 30s

Major-Domo – authority figure. Ageless