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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
9 AM to 5 PM
lunch 1 to 2
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Contract
Off Broadway
contract/salary pending; anticipated $566/week
Location
Theatre at St. Clement's
423 West 46th St. (bet.
9th & 10th Avenues)
New York, NY
Parish Hall
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Seeking
Equity actors, men and women, for various principal roles.
See breakdown
Preparation
Please prepare a 2 minute comedic monologue.
Bring picture and resume, stapled together.
Other Dates
1st Rehearsal: January 12, 2015
1st Preview: February 10, 2015
Opening: February 16, 2015
Closing: March 29, 2015
Personnel
Writer: Moss Hart
Director: Christopher Hart
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will be provided.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
This classic Moss Hart comedy revolves around a group of bustling New York theatre-folk opening a new show out of town in Boston. The cast of characters includes the Producer, Director, Leading Lady, leading lady’s Mother, Producer’s Wife, Young idealistic playwright, etc. As the opening night mood swings from optimistic bon ami, to terror of failure and angry recriminations, the young writer gets his first reality check on the hysterics inherent in his chosen profession. Christopher Hart, son of the playwright, will direct.
Seeking:
MISS LOWELL
(30-45) She’s a ghostwriter to the Leading Lady, Irene Livingston. College educated, she gives the audience an outsider’s perspective to the wacky goings-on behind the scenes.
CARLETON FITZGERALD
(40-60) The Director of the Play. A man whose sense of the dramatic means he doesn’t just enter a room, “he pervades it.” Intellectually verging on the pretentious, emotionally overboard, it is said of him, “he cries at card tricks.”
FRANCES BLACK
(35-48) The vivacious Wife of the Producer, Sidney Black. She is a professional figure skater in a well known ‘Ice Show’. Although in the entertainment world, she is a babe-in-the-woods as far as investing in the professional Theatre is concerned.
OWEN TURNER
(48 – 60) An urbane, soft-spoken, established New York playwright, who has come to opening night in Boston to wish his old colleagues well.
STELLA LIVINGSTON
(59+) The Mother of the Leading Lady. She is almost a perfect specimen of that redoubtable old pirate and saboteur. The veteran of a thousand fights and feuds from which she has invariably emerged unscarred, her age is as uncertain as the color of her hair, and as carefully guarded a secret. She is quite a handsome old hoodlum, and very well turned out. She has retained, undaunted through the years the spirit and ethics of a Dead End Kid.”
PETER SLOAN
(mid-30s) The Young, Idealistic Playwright. Diffident and shy. “He has the body and face of a longshoreman, and the brooding deep-set eyes of a poet.”
SIDNEY BLACK
(mid-40s – 60) The Producer. He is short, ideally. A successful, fast talking, dynamo in a blue suit and blue tie whose ‘savage acquisitiveness’ has recently included paintings, antique silver, furniture and the most challenging, but also the most meaningful roll of the dice, the Theatre.
SVEN
(a masseur)/A SHRINER/A PLAIN-CLOTHES POLICEMAN (29-39) A versatile and funny jack of all trades.
IRENE LIVINGSTON
(40 – 50-something) The Leading Lady. A great star of the stage, beautiful, charming, neurotic, and always surprising. She walks into a room and we know she is the star.
TYLER RAYBURN
(45 – 60) Irene’s dry-toast stock broker husband. Never surprising, always surprised.
WILLIAM H. GALLAGHER
(50 – 70) The Backer. A Shriner. A star struck native of Elkhart, Indiana who owns three factories, and always dreamed about a life in the Theatre.
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