East Lynne Theater Company auditions for its summer/fall season 2017
East Lynne Theater Company (ELTC) will have two audition days for its 2017 Season.
On Saturday, February 25, from 11:00 PM to 7:00 PM, the call will be at The First Presbyterian Church, 500 Hughes St., Cape May, NJ, where the company is in residence. Sign-up for auditions begins at 10:00 AM and continues through 6:55 PM. Lunch break is from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM. Equity actors may contact the theater for a definite time-slot by e-mailing the company at eastlynneco@aol.com. Non-union actors will be seen as long as no Equity actors are kept waiting.
On Wednesday, March 1 from 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM the call will be at the Actors’ Equity Audition Center, 165 West 46th St., NYC. Sign-up for auditions begins at 8:30 AM, and continues through 5:00 PM. Lunch break is from 1:00-2:00 PM. Equity members may access online EPA sign?up through the member portal from 12:00 noon one week prior to the audition date until 12:00 noon on February 28.
The company operates under an Equity SPT 3 Contract with rehearsals beginning on Monday two weeks before the opening-performance week, and a Wednesday through Saturday night performance schedule, with a few exceptions, which are noted below. All of the rehearsals will be in Cape May.
Artistic Director, Gayle Stahlhuth will be at the auditions and is directing all three shows. Actors may read a side from any of the three plays, or do a monologue, preferably humorous.
The season opener, Will Rogers' U.S.A., is a one-person show conceived and produced by George Spota in the 1970s for James Whitmore. Currently, this role is cast, but actors may audition and be considered for this show, should there be a need for a replacement. The role of WILL ROGERS requires someone with a dry sense of humor, comfortable with delivering jokes about politics and events, and has knowledge of how to use a lariat. Age range: 45-55. This play runs from June 14-July 22.
All roles for the other two shows are still available. Ah, Wilderness!, Eugene O'Neill's only comedy about growing pains and family values in a small town in 1906, running from July 26-Sept. 2; and A Year in the Trenches, a world premiere by James Rana, based on Charles Edwards Dilkes' book Remembering World War I: An Engineer's Diary, and other accounts, produced to commemorate the 100thanniversary of the United States entering World War I. This is an ensemble piece, where only one of the six actors portrays the same role. The other five play multiple roles. It runs from September 20-October 14. (Note: there will be no performance on Wed. Oct. 4, but a performance on Sun. Oct. 8 at 7:30 PM, and the performance on Wed. Oct. 11 is at 2:00 PM with no evening show.)
Ah, Wildnerness!: NAT MILLER - a newspaper man with a keen sense of humor, age range 40-55; MRS. MILLER - Nat's wife, maternal and bustling, age range 40-55; TOMMY MILLER - the youngest Miller child, inquisitve, seeking an actor who can pass for age 11 (could also be played by a young girl); MILDRED MILLER - sweet, kind, seeking an actor who can pass for age 15; RICHARD MILLER - enjoys reading and writing and is graduating from high school with the whole world before him, seeking an actor who can pass for age 16, this is a leading role. ARTHUR MILLER - the eldest of the Miller childen, attends Yale and is very collegiate, seeking an actor who can pass for age 19; LILY MILLER - Nat's sister, shy, kind, never married, has an off-and-on relationship with Sid Davis, age range 35-50; SID DAVIS - Nat's brother-in-law, has a drinking problem, and has never grown up, age range 35-50; DAVID McCOMBER - brusk man who can jump easily to wrong conclusions, and doesn’t like Richard seeing his daughter, Muirel, age range 40-55 (this actor will also portray the SALESMAN who encounters Belle at a bar; MURIEL McCOMBER - pretty, sweet, in love with Richard, seeking an actor who can pass for age 16; WINT - a friend of Arthur's from Yale, and a bit of a hell-raiser, an actor who can pass for age 19; BELLE - a pretty peroxide blonde, typical tart of the period, but still with a bit of heart, age range 20-30 (this actor will also portray NORA - the Miller's Irish maid); and the BARTENDER - who will do anything to keep his bar going, age range 35-55. Due to the size of the cast, an ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER will be hired, who may also be playing one of the roles.
A Year in the Trenches: CHARLES EDWARD DILKES - the narrator, an engineer who enlists in the army when the United States declared war in 1917, and was one of the last soldiers to leave Germany, age range 30-40; ACTOR 1 - portrays pilot Kenneth Russell Unger, and other characters including a French officer and a German soldier, age range 25-35; ACTOR 2 - Arthur Buzzoni (army friend of Dilkes'), newsboy, medic, and various soldiers, age range 20-35; ACTOR 3 - poet Joyce Kilmer, a recruiting officer, American general, and a chaplain, age range 25-35; ACTOR 4 - nurse Amabel Scharff Roberts, various French women, and Dilkes' sister, also a singer to sing World War I songs, who can play an instrument such as an accordion, guitar, and/or ukulele, age range 20-35; ACTOR 5 - Grace Banker (headed up the Hello Girls - part of the Signal Core), and various French and German characters, also a singer to sing World War I songs, who can play an instrument such as an accordion, guitar, and/or ukulele, age range 20-35.
The East Lynne Theater Company is committed to nontraditional casting and equal employment opportunities. Actors wishing to mail pictures and resumes should mail to the office: 121 Fourth Ave., West Cape May, NJ 08204 – and not to the church. To learn more about the company, go to
www.eastlynnetheater.org.
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