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The Encore Musical Theatre Company is proud to announce auditions for their upcoming production of Club Morocco - An Original Swing Musical by Jon Huffman and Barbara F. Cullen with musical arrangements by Ashton Wolf.

The action all takes place in a ‘40’s-style club--“an oasis of smooth in a jagged town of broken dreams…where the swing is red-hot, the beauty dangerous, and the luck as fleeting as the love.”

The heat at the core of the evening’s entertainment is provided by Zoot-suited bandleader Chick Valentine and his onstage band, The Swing Street All-Stars. A motley crew of “killers, grifters, con-men and thieves”, the All-Stars are “the hottest bunch of hep-cats around”, who work their horns “like there’s nothing left to lose.”

The club features its own cast of singers and dancers, including the dashing tenor, Bobby LaRue, the headliner/diva, Miss Velvet St. Regis, and the tap-dancing brothers, Butch and Slick Wannabe. Gangster Torch Tangier, the club’s owner, considers it his mission to make his audience “forget about the world outside—tonight, the only world that exists is right here—at The Club Morocco.” And, throughout the evening, the audience is invited and encouraged to dance onstage to some of the greatest music of the twentieth century—Glenn Miller, Louis Prima, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, etc.

The only fly in the ointment is hard-boiled private eye, Frank McCann. Harboring a terrible secret, he’s returned for one last night to the Club Morocco—“the one place in this whole stinking world where everything wrong and everything right about my life collided.” He’s come to exact revenge, seek redemption, and maybe—if he’s lucky—rekindle a lost flame. Too bad for him--the object of his affection, love-shy torch-singer Nugget Rialto, has ideas of her own.

CLUB MOROCCO—you’ll come for the mystery, the romance, the champagne. You’ll stay for the swing, because--

“Once you’ve had the taste, you never lose the hunger.”