OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES Equity Principal Audition - Frankel-Green Group Auditions

OLD JEWS TELLING JOKES

- Equity Principal Auditions

Producers: Frankel-Green Group Off-Broadway Currently $630/week minimum.

Authors: Stuart Ross, Dan Okrent and Peter Gethers

Dir: Stuart Ross

Casting: Tara Rubin Casting

1st reh: On/about 9/12/11. 1st preview: On/about 10/11. Opening: On/about 10/27.

Equity Principal Auditions:

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 Pearl Studios NYC

Thursday, March 31, 2011 500 Eighth Avenue (Wed: 12th Floor; Thu: 4th Floor)

10 AM - 6 PM both days. New York City

Lunch from 1:30 – 2:30.

Note that the EPA on 3/30 is on Pearl’s 12th Floor, while the 3/31 EPA is on Pearl’s 4th Floor.

Please be prepared to tell a joke or a brief funny story (approximately two minutes).

Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.

New comedy based on the website OldJewsTellingJokes.com. The show combines jokes, video, film footage, stories, music, live streaming and sketches creating a world that proves “There’s a little Jew in all of us”. A cast of six actors gives a lightning history of comedy, from the Big Bang through the contemporary world of joke-telling and on into the future. Every form of joke and joke-telling media is covered, provoking every form of laughter from modest giggles to roars of total disbelief. The actors are supported by an inventive set employing the use of television, video, digital and green-screen techniques. Despite its laugh-inducing rhythms, at its core the show has a heartwarming hilarity that explores how everyone gets through the tsuris of everyday life (even if they don’t know what “tsuris” means!). To enter the theater is to enter the world of “OJTJ”: pain… discrimination… war… sex… paper cuts… bunions and gas… everything that makes comedy worthwhile.

Seeking (all roles are available (i.e. not yet offered and accepted):

Note: All must have the ability to tell stories and jokes – long, story-telling jokes as well as quick one- liners. Ability to do accents is very helpful.

Three Male Actors: Age ranges of these tracks: 25-35, 40s-60s and 55-70ish.

Three Female Actors: Age ranges of these tracks: 25-35, 40s-60s and 55-70ish.

One Male Understudy

One Female Understudy