Prime Stage is looking to cast (12) non-Equity actors; age 20 years old and older. Some actors will play multiple roles. All ethnicities and genders are welcome.
GENERAL AUDITIONS will be conducted over Zoom on SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH from 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm and SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27th from 6:30 pm – 10:00 pm. Actors should prepare a stylistically appropriate comedic monologue.
CALLBACKS AS NEEDED will be held IN PERSON at the Prime Stage Studio on SUNDAY, MARCH 6TH from 7-10pm.
Rehearsals: Beginning April 3rd
- Wednesday-Friday evenings 6:30-10pm
- Saturdays and Sundays 2-6pm*
- Mondays and Tuesdays days off
Performances May 6th - 8pm
May 7th - 8pm
May 8th - 2:30pm
May 11th - 10am Student Matinee
May 12th (TBD) - 10am
May 13th - 8pm
May 14th - 8pm
May 15th - 2:30 pm
*Performances are at the New Hazlett Theater on the North Side
To secure your time slot and for any additional questions, please email auditions@primestage.com.
**Prime Stage Theatre adheres to the COVID policy of our performance facility, the New Hazlett Theater; therefore all cast members will be required to either be fully vaccinated or provide routine COVID test results -subject to change.
Arsenic and Old Lace
Living in the 1930’s, the Brewster sisters are legendary in their Brooklyn neighborhood for their kindness and generosity to all in need. They are friends to the local cops walking the beat, loving neighbors to the minister next door, and surrogate mothers to their nephews Teddy and Mortimer. But when slick, sophisticated, and newly engaged Mortimer discovers one of their “charities” involves poisoning elderly men to save them from living out their days in loneliness, he must find a way to stop their murder spree without turning them over to the police - a task that becomes more and more complicated with the return of his long-lost brother Jonathan, himself a prolific serial killer.
CHARACTER ROLES:
Abby Brewster - Female, late 60's to early 70's - Victorian in style and sensibility. A tireless do-gooder and reliable friend to all in need, she is - between herself and her sister - the more forceful personality, though is also a touch more oblivious.
Martha Brewster - Female, late 60's to early 70's - High-collared and proper, but kind and affectionate. Equally as sweet and anachronistic as her sister, though perhaps a bit sharper and a little more savvy.
Mortimer Brewster - Male, late 20's to early 30's - Erudite, intellectual, well-read, and better-written. A respected dramatic critic who wouldn’t be out of place at the Algonquin Round Table, he has worked his life to elevate himself from both the quaintness and madness of his Brooklyn family.
Elaine Harper - Female, early to mid 20's - Effortlessly effervescent and endlessly energetic, with an old-fashioned upbringing and a modern mind. The literal and archetypal girl next door who is ready for the big city, she exists as naturally as the minister’s daughter as she does bantering with her dramatic critic fiancé.
Teddy Brewster - Male, late 30's to early 40's - Quite mad and beloved by all. Leading characteristic is his psychotic break with reality that makes him believe himself to be Theodore Roosevelt, and everybody else just kind of goes with it. Other notable talents include playing bugle calls through a bushy mustache and running up large flights of stairs whilst yelling at the top of his lungs.
Jonathan Brewster - Male, mid to late 40's - Murderous and menacing, the perfect blend of Frankenstein’s Monster and the actor who played him. The eldest of the Brewster brothers has all the respective wit and madness of the others, but a level of cruelty that is uniquely his own. He is a true homicidal maniac.
Dr. Einstein - Male, ambiguous age - Alcoholic murder toady with a heart of gold. Jonathan’s faithful accomplice and master of disguise, he is a disgraced, former, but still practicing plastic surgeon, though whatever profession he had chosen, he would now be the disgraced, former, but still practicing version of it. He speaks like the Igor to Jonathan’s Frankenstein.
Officer O’Hara - Male, 20's to 30's - Underachieving beat cop and aspiring failed playwright.
Harper/Gibbs/Witherspoon - Male, late 60's - Three roles to be played by one actor who can shift from an ordained minister, to a cranky perspective tenant, to a hapless asylum administrator from act to act.
Officer Brophy
Officer Klein
Lt. Rooney
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