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June 1, 2007

Jazz, auditions enhance tonight's WaterFire

PROVIDENCE -- The season's second WaterFire is tonight, and there should be lots to do at this one. You can even audition for a role.

The event begins at 8:15 p.m., sunset, and goes to 1 a.m. Tonight's is sponsored by Providence Place and the Rhode Island School of Design, which holds its commencement tomorrow.

Scheduled are outdoor jazz and an American Idol-style casting call sponsored by Verizon.

All 100 braziers will be lit along the Providence, Woonasquatucket and Moshassuck rivers.

And it's the debut of the revamped WaterFire Jazz Stage, featuring the Chaplin Brothers Quartet led by 16-year-old guitarist Gregory Chaplin. The jazz stage is located on Steeple Street between Canal Street and North Main. Times are 8:30 to 11 p.m.

The aforementioned casting call is from 7 to 11 p.m. at the corner of Steeple Street and North Main. According to a news release, Verizon is holding a series of open casting calls at WaterFire lightings throughout the summer. TThe object is to find "a man or woman" to star in a local media campaign promoting Verizon's new fiber-optic Internet and cable service, know as FiOS.

Applicants will be asked to record a 15-second video explaining "why they should be famous with Verizon FiOS."

Call (401) 272-3111 or visit www.waterfire.org for information.

-- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney

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