Jewish Theatre Workshop Holds Auditions For YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU 5/23

Auditions for our summer production, "You Can't Take It With You", are set for May 23rd. All roles are open, and you can see the casting notice online at http://www.jewishtheatreworkshop.org/casting-yctiwy.html.

Here are the details:

*CASTING NOTICE*

The Jewish Theatre Workshop Presents "You Can't Take It With You" by Moss Hart & George S. Kauffman

*Performances:*
August 12th at 7pm
August 15th at 2pm
August 16th at 7pm

*Auditions:*
May 23rd 2-5pm JEA Room, Weinberg PH JCC
May 25th 6-9pm Call Backs if needed, Room B-02, Weinberg PH JCC

*What to prepare:*
Please come and tell us a memorized clean joke. You may also be asked to read sides from the script.

*Call Backs:*
If you are called back, you may be asked to do improvisation in addition to reading sides from the script.

*Rehearsals:*
Sundays 1-5
Tuesdays 6-9:30
Wednesdays 6-9:30
Thursdays 6-9:30
No rehearsals on Fridays, Saturdays or Mondays until Tech week. Rehearsals to begin June 20th

*Inquiries:*
gavriel@jewishtheatreworkshop.org
<mailto:gavriel@jewishtheatreworkshop.org> Gavriel Lewin, Director
(Artistic Director of JTW)

*Available roles:*
All roles are available at the open audition. They include:

Penny Sycamore - mid 50's, a playwright, painter and mother

Essie Carmichael - late 20's, her daughter, a "ballet dancer" and candy
maker

Rheba - 20's-40's an African American maid, really part of the family

Paul Sycamore - mid 50's, Penny's husband, he makes fireworks in the
basement

Mr. DePinna - mid 40's-50's an ice man (one who brings ice to homes) who
came and stayed with the family ever since. He helps Paul make the fireworks

Ed Carmichael - late 20's, Essie's husband, likes to print things,
deliver Essie's candies and play xylophone

Donald - 20's-40's Rheba's boyfriend, also African-American.

Martin Vanderhof - 70's, Penny's father, the patriarch of the family,
attends commencements at Columbia and enjoys his pet snakes.

Alice Sycamore - early-mid 20's, Penny's other daughter, "normal" works
at Kirby and Co. Vivacious, lovely and in love.

Wilbur Henderson - 40's, a government IRS employee, sent to collect back
taxes from Martin Vanderhof

Boris Kolenkhov - 30's-40's a Russian immigrant and a choreographer, not
a Communist

Gay Wellington - 30's-50's a drunk actress

Anthony (Tony) Kirby, Jr. - 20's-30's Alice's soon-to-be fianc‚ nice
young man

Anthony Kirby - 50's Tony's father, a business man who raises prized orchids

Miriam Kirby - 50's Tony's mother, prim and proper, believes in spiritualism

3 G-men - Three FBI agents

The Grand Duchess Olga Katrina - 40's-50's once a Grand Duchess of
Russia, now is a waitress at a Manhattan greasy spoon

*Synopsis:*

At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder. In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. The plot shows how Tony, attractive young son of the Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore home on the wrong evening. The shock sustained by the Kirbys, who are invited to eat cheap food, shows Alice that marriage with Tony is out of the question. The Sycamores, however, though sympathetic to Alice, find it hard to realize her point of view. Meantime, Tony, who knows the Sycamores are right and his own people wrong, will not give her up, and in the end Mr. Kirby is converted to the happy madness of the Sycamores, particularly since he happens in during a visit by an ex-Grand Duchess, earning her living as a waitress. No mention has as yet been made of the strange activities of certain members of the household engaged in the manufacture of fireworks; nor of the printing press set up in the parlor; nor of Rheba the maid and her friend Donald; nor of Grandpa's interview with the tax collector when he tells him he doesn't believe in the income tax.