JOFFREY COMPLETES CASTING AT ARTS CENTER

Casting for the Joffrey Ballet’s first full-season engagement at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, opening Sept. 22, was announced by the company on Monday.

Programs during the seven-performance run, through Sept. 27, will feature works from the Joffrey’s regular repertory, most of which have not been seen in Orange County. The Joffrey has appeared just once locally--an October, 1986, performance with the Master Chorale of Orange County at the Center.

Casting:

Sept. 22: “Birthday Variations” (Arpino/Verdi)--Cameron Basden, Jodie Gates, Victoria Pasquale, Tina LeBlanc, Dawn Caccamo, Glenn Edgerton.

“L’Apres-midi d’un Faune” (Nijinksy/Debussy)--Leader of the Nymphs: Charlene Gehm; The Faune: Tyler Walters.

“Monotones I & II” (Ashton/Satie)--I: Caccamo, Parrish Maynard, Jennifer Habig; II: Elizabeth Parkinson, Edgerton, Tom Mossbrucker.

“Arden Court” (Taylor/Boyce)--Linda Bechtold, Ashley Wheater, Jill Davidson, Raymond Perrin, Pasquale, Douglas Martin, Carl Corry, Patrick Corbin, Peter Narbutas.

Sept. 23: “Parade” (Massine/Satie): Chinese Conjurer: Philip Jerry; Acrobats: Caccamo, Edgerton; Little American Girl: Carole Valleskey.

“Three Preludes” (Stevenson/Rachmaninoff)--Leslie Carothers, Jerry.

“La Vivandiere” pas de six (Saint-Leon/Nadaud)--LeBlanc, Edward Stierle, Basden, Gates, Pasquale, Kim Sagami.

“Light Rain” (Arpino/Adams & Gauthier)--Carothers, Jerry.

Sept. 24: “Italian Suite” (Arpino/Wolf-Ferrari)--Carothers, Deborah Dawn, Jerry.

“Untitled” (Pilobolus/Dennis)--Corbin, Davidson, Jerel Hilding, Jerry, Beatriz Rodriguez, Perrin.

“Altered States” (Kachadurian/Corigliano)--Caccamo, Edgerton.

“The Clowns” (Arpino/Kay)--Stierle, LeBlanc, Hilding, Maynard.

Sept. 25: “La Fille mal gardee”” (Ashton/Herold)--Widow Simone: Stanley Holden; Lise: LeBlanc; Colas: Edgerton; Alain: Stierle.

Sept. 26, 2 p.m.: “La Fille mal gardee”--Widow Simone: Corry (debut in the role); Lise: Caccamo; Colas: Wheater; Alain: Mark Goldweber.

Sept. 26, 8 p.m.: “La Fille mal gardee”--Widow Simone: Holden; Lise: Valleskey; Colas: Edgerton; Alain: Corbin.

Sept. 27, 2 p.m.: “La Fille mal gardee”--Widow Simone: Holden; otherwise the same cast as Sat. matinee.