Auditions for "Baby" This Sunday

My pal Eddie Harbert sends along this notice about auditions this weekend for the musical Baby:

Arts Resources for the Tri-State is having auditions for the musical Baby on Sunday, June 13 at 2 p.m. at the Renaissance Center (old Huntington High School).

The show will be presented in Huntington at the Renaissance Center on August 20-22 and 27-29 as well as September 10-12 at the Alban Theatre in St. Albans.

Baby is the story of three couples who discover they are having babies: One couple is in their 20s, one is in their 30s and the third couple is in their 40s-50s.

The setting for Baby is a college campus. The youngest couple are students in college who discover they are pregnant and are trying to plan their careers and future around the coming of the child.

The couple in their 30s are coaches at the college who have been trying to have a baby for years. They are very excited when discovering they are going to have a baby and are devastated when told there was a mix-up with the pregnancy tests and they are not really going to have a baby. We then follow them on their arduous and sometimes comedic journey of trying to get pregnant. There is also the role of the doctor who advises the couple on their attempts at fertilization.

The third couple consists of a college professor and his wife who are retiring and leaving the university just as their third child graduates high school and heads for college. While celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary at the Plaza Hotel, they get pregnant, and their struggle throughout the show is trying to decide whether to terminate the pregnancy and move on with their lives or to keep the baby and rearrange their new lifestyle plans.

Baby tells the story of the ups-and-downs, joys, and trials of having children. It is about change and how we either ride the tide or fight against it. It will bring audiences to tears and be a source of great laughter. It is the story of life and how, in spite of our fighting against it, "the story goes on."

For more information about auditions or the production itself, please call Eddie Harbert at 304-412-8738.