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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions (2 days)
Monday, June 17, 2013
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
10:00 am-6:00 pm each day
(lunch 1:00-2:00 pm)
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Contract
SPT
$502 minimum weekly salary
Location
Theatrical Outfit
Balzer Theatre @ Herren's
84 Luckie Street NW
Atlanta, GA
Rehearsal hall
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Seeking
Equity male and female actors.
See breakdown.
Equity Members without appointments will be seen throughout the day as time permits.
Preparation
Prepare applicable sides. Full script & sides will be available for check-out at the box office starting 6/3/13. Sides will be sent as an attachment with email confirmation and will be the same for auditions & callbacks.
Other Dates
First Rehearsal - Mar 11, 2014
Runs - Apr 2 - Apr 21, 2014
Possible Extension through Apr 27, 2014
Other
Bring TWO copies of your most current stapled-together picture/resume. NO PAPER CLIPS, PLEASE.
Theatrical Outfit does not supply housing to out of town actors.
Personnel - UPDATED
Written by: Horton Foote Directed by Tom Key
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
For 5 minute appt. slot, send email to
auditions@theatricaloutfit.org. If no email access, call Justin Anderson at 678-852-8666. EMAIL PREFERRED.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
SYNOPSIS
Matriarch Stella Gordon is determined not to divide her 100-year-old Texas estate, despite her family's declining wealth and the looming financial crisis. But her three children have another plan. Old resentments and sibling rivalries surface as the members of this hilariously dysfunctional family go head to head to see who might claim the biggest piece of the pie in DIVIDING THE ESTATE.
**ALL ROLES ARE AVAILABLE. NONE HAVE BEEN PRE-CAST.**
MALE CHARACTERS:
1.) LEWIS: male, 50s-60s, Stella’s only son. An alcoholic gambler. Sensitive despite his degenerate ways. He is angry at his lot in life, self-imposed though it is, yet submissive to his mother because he has always been dependent on her.
2.) BOB: male, 50s, Mary Jo’s husband, an out-of-work realtor who says he wants to divide the estate to prevent the loss of thousands of dollars in taxes. He always has a scheme to get everybody rich.
3.) DOUG: male, 80s-90s, African-American housekeeper who has worked at the estate his entire life. Proud, though physically weak and mentally slipping.
4.) SON: male, 35-45, Lucille’s son, Pauline’s fiancé. He manages the Gordon estate and Stella’s finances with reason and integrity.
FEMALE CHARACTERS:
1.) STELLA: female, late 70s-80s, the matriarch of the clan, ruling over the family with an iron fist. She is no-nonsense, outspoken and cantankerous. Though dementia dulls her memory, she is opinionated and arbitrarily willful.
2.) LUCILLE: female, 50s-60s, Stella’s dutiful older daughter who lives with Stella on the farm. She nervously flutters about, complacent; she is the widow whose job it is to protect her family, but she is not terribly effective.
3.) MARY JO: female, 50s, Stella’s relentlessly calculating younger daughter. She has come to visit from Houston with her husband, Bob, and she wants her share. She is predatory, humorless and hard, always disappointed with her lot in life.
4.) MILDRED: female, 40s-50s, African American housekeeper who is slowly taking over control of the household from Doug. She is a patient, but sharp-tongued cook.
5.) PAULINE: female, 30s–early 40s, is the know-it-all schoolteacher engaged to Son. She is an outsider to the family who annoys everyone with her prim, do-gooder attitude.
6.) CATHLEEN: female, 20s-30s, African American, A long-suffering, emotional, sensitive servant of the family, she is young and ambitious and wants to go to college
7.) EMILY: female, 20s, One of Mary Jo and Bob’s daughters. She is materialistic and spoiled rotten and shows it in her dress and attitude.
8.) SISSIE: female, 20s, one of Mary Jo and Bob’s daughters. She is self-absorbed and spoiled rotten and shows it in her dress and attitude.
9.) IRENE: female, late teens, Lewis’ secret girlfriend. A local high school girl who works at a burger joint.
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