IN MASKS OUTRAGEOUS AND AUSTERE Equity Principal Auditions - 45 Bleecker Theatre Auditions

IN MASKS OUTRAGEOUS AND AUSTERE

– Equity Principal Auditions

Off-Broadway $544/week minimum.

Producers: Masks RBA Limited Partnership, Victor Syrmis, Carl Rumbaugh, Susan Batson, Roy Gabay, Allan Buchman.

Author: Tennessee Williams

Dir: David Schweizer

GM: Roy Gabay/Daniel Kuney

CD: Billy Hopkins

Casting Assoc: Ashley Ingram

1st rehearsal TBA. 1st perf on/about 4/5/12. Runs at 45 Bleecker Theatre.

Equity Principal Auditions:

Sunday, February 19, 2012 Chelsea Studios

Monday, February 20, 2012 151 West 26th St (2/19: 6th Floor; 2/20 & 2/21: 5th Floor)

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 New York City

10 AM - 6 PM all three days.

Lunch from 1:30 – 2:30.

Please prepare a contemporary monologue (2 minutes or less).

Please bring a photo and resume, stapled back-to-back.

Williams’s last full-length play, kept somewhat secret at his death in the early 1980s and now recovered, is an epic piece with larger-than-life characters and a tone that veers wildly from heated Williams melodrama to surreal hilarity to lyric tragedy. This is an experimental play, the last outcry by our greatest American playwright.

Seeking (all roles are available):

Casting director’s note: “Actors with real technique, love of LANGUAGE, physical presence, and an underhanded, dark sense of humor are required.”

“Babe” Foxworth:

Woman, 60s. Southern speech. Classic Tennessee Williams diva in a provocative new setting and situation. Babe was once a beauty; she is still resplendent. Fiercely eloquent, paranoid, alternately generous and terrifying—this woman is fighting for the last shreds of her sanity, and the battle is worth it. She has a spirit that will not be quenched. She is a true outlaw.

Billy Foxworth:

30s. Southern speech. Babe’s “trophy” husband, a poet and an omnisexual charmer. Billy is the real deal – a genuinely tortured artist with a sense of humor about it, and a lifetime’s worth of conquests who have not made him happy, only more and more restless.

Jerry:

Man, 22. Billy’s “secretary” and lover. Natural exhibitionist and curiosity-seeker. Deeply intelligent, and quick to learn the complications of adult life, but not quite as sophisticated as he would like to think he is. Effortlessly seductive, however.

Matron:

40ish. Mysterious, opera-singing, elegant, timelessly stylish woman with a Vaudevillian, outlandish slapstick streak. Revels in her own theatricality, and can change moods and attitudes on a dime.

Playboy:

Teen. Matron’s son. Strange boy who speaks only in sounds and is prone to inappropriate sexual gestures, but also has a haunting sweetness about him. Should be physically compelling, something beautiful about him.

Peg:

40s. “White trash”. Babe’s chambermaid. Something underhanded and sinister about her. Also highly sexual, and rather emotional.

Joey:

30s. Peg’s garage-mechanic boyfriend. Sexy “grease monkey”-type, but with something mysterious about him as well.

Mac:

African American mane. Matron’s giant husband. A surreal character with a strange, unfamiliar mode of speech. He is, nonetheless, a figure of dignity and power.

Interpreter:

“Little person” who interprets Mac’s speech. Quick-witted, resourceful.

Three Gideons:

The Gideons are handsome, sleek young men whose opaque manner makes them rather terrifying. They are onstage throughout, and will set the mood for the entire play. They are basically corporate thugs – or are they something more? Actors in these three roles will understudy Billy, Jerry and Joey.

Understudy for Babe / Matron / Peg:

Track age: 40-50s.

Understudy for Mac / Interpreter / Gideons:

Track age: 30s. Character of Mac is African American.