A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES - EPA's
Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre | New Orleans, LA
Date of Audition:
12/3/2013
Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Tuesday, December 3rd from 10a-6p
Wednesday, December 4th from 10a-6p
Contract
Midsize Theatres
actor minimum $615/wk
Location
Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre
616 Saint Peter Street
New Orleans, LA 70116
at Jackson Square, on the corner of Saint Peter and
Chartres
Seeking
Male and Female Actors. Please Breakdown.
Preparation
Materials from the play supplied at the EPA the day of. Bring headshot and resume.
Other Dates
1st rehearsal: Jan. 28, 2014
1st previews: Feb. 26, 2014
Opening night: March 28, 2014
Closing: May 31, 2014
Personnel
Producers: Robert Guza and John Hardy
Directed by: David Esbjornson
Adapted by: Jeffrey Hatcher
General Manager: Martian Entertainment LLC Casting: Telsey + Co./Will Cantler and Karyn Casl
EPA Rules are in effect.
A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
To scedule an appointment please contact Andrew Femenella via email (preferred)
confederacyepa@gmail.com or call 212-868-1260 est. 49.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend. Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
Breakdown
NOTE: Ability for deep character-driven comedy is a must for all roles
IGNATIUS T. REILLY: Male 30’s-40’s.
Extremely over-weight with an eccentric and somewhat baffling approach to fashion. A complex and contradictory character driven by insecurity and a profound need to be accepted on his
own terms. He is self-aggrandizing and aggressive in his world-view and his ego often spins out of control. He loves words and the sound of his own voice.The role requires skills in language, an innate sense of timing, good physical skills.
IRENE: Female 50’s-60’s.
Ignatius’ mother. Slightly past middle-aged and widowed. She is long suffering and patient and has greatly sacrificed the little she has to indulge her “stay-at home” son’s existence. Despite her arthritis and other ailments of age, she is indefatigable, sees the best in people and loves her son deeply. Her future depends on getting her son to successfully grow up. Role requires a spirited and generous energy, coupled with a somewhat frail spirit. There is also a robust physicality that suggests a dormant sexual energy.
SANTA: Female 40’s – 50’s
A new and colorful friend of Irene’s—generous, fun-loving, vulgar and over-bearing, she is fiercely protective of Irene, looks after her and helps her change her life. Role requires a bold and confident presence. SANTA doubles as BARTENDER.
CLAUDE: Male 60’s-70’s
Claude is working class with conventional and conservative political beliefs. He is retired with a pension and the love of his family but is looking for female companionship. Although a former railroad worker, Claude speaks and carries himself like a gallant, old-world southern gentleman.
MANCUSO: Male late 20’s – mid 30’s
Italian American. A dedicated but frustrated undercover cop with a beat-cop’s mentality, he is passionate, earnest and prepared to pay his dues. He tries to act tough, but at heart he’s very sweet. He works mostly nights and dons a variety of bad disguises in an attempt to remove an unsavory collection of New Orleans criminals from the streets. Role requires the ability to role- play in numerous dialects.
LANA LEE/MYRNA MINKOFF/LIZ: Female 30’s
[LANA LEE] - An sexy and hardened club owner and leader of a pornography ring, she attempts to scrape together a living by running her two businessesfrom the same location. Lana has a sexy, perhaps S&M quality and tough demeanor. The role requires poise, command and ideally, a throaty vocal quality. [MYRNA MINKOFF] - A New York Jewish lefty with opinions on almost everything, including her former boyfriend Ignatius. Myrna is a force of nature and very intelligent but like Ignatius, she is full of paranoid and implausible fantasies. The role requires a highly spirited, no-nonsense, tough-lovequality. [LIZ] - Part of a trio of colorful, butch lesbians with loud mouths and ridged attitudes.
GEORGE/MRS. LEVY/FANTASY MYRNA #2/BETTY: Female late 20’s – early 30’s
[GEORGE] - A hyped up street kid, he functions as Lana’s porn runner and lackey. Possibly a user, George is a high-strung slim-jim, impatient and lacking good judgment. Role requires a quirky, caffeinated physicality and quick tongue. [MRS. LEVY] - She is high-strung and
intolerant when it comes to her husband but has a self-flattering interest in social causes and in particular, those employees she feels are ignored and exploited by the factory her husband fails to run effectively. The role requires a strong sharp quality. [BETTY] - Part of a trio of colorful, butch lesbianswith loud mouths and ridged attitudes.
DARLENE: Female in her 20’s.
A dumb-like-a-fox B-girl working in Lana’s club. She parades a sexy innocence and aspires to becoming a stripper with her own act involving her pet cockatoo. She is open and kind and therefore quite exploitable. The role requires a young woman with a proportioned body, a lack of modesty and keen sense of irony. DARLENE doubles with the FANTASY MYRNA #3
JONES: Male, African-American, late 20’s to 30’s.
A cocky, funny and raging hustler with a subjective and astute sense of racial and political injustice, he is often vagrant and in trouble. Jones uses his sharp wit and perceptions to survive both jail and the street. Role requires an irreverent sensibility and a quick, sharp delivery.
GUS LEVY/SERGEANT/FRIEDA: Male 40’s
[GUS LEVY] - The often-absent owner of Levy Pants Company, a factory operation inherited from his father, Gus is a seething vat of irritation alwaysready to blow. He so loathes Levy Pants that he comes into work only to collect his mail. He is intelligent and well-meaning but his imagination has been clipped by his tyrant of a father and his optimism brow-beaten into submission by his hectoring wife. MR. LEVY doubles the SERGEANT, the somewhatsadistic superior officer to MANCUSO, and FRIEDA. [FRIEDA] - Part of a trio of colorful, butch lesbians with loud mouths and ridged attitudes.
MR. GONZALES/DORIAN: Male, Hispanic, 30’s – 40’s.
[MR. GONZALES] - The beleaguered Hispanic manger of the day-to-day operations at Levy Pants. Striving and fussy, he struggles to function in the wakeof Mr. Levy’s neglect, a failing infrastructure and incompetent employees. The role requires the ability to do a Spanish accent. [DORIAN] - A flamboyantgay New Orleans queen who loves to cruise and party his way through life. Straight out of Pangborn/Lynde/Nelson Reilly.
MISS TRIXIE: Female plays 70+
An example of one of the incompetent employees at Levy Pants. Addled, loopy and sometimes hostile, she is well over retirement age and is a victim of Mrs. Levy’s social experiment, forced to stay working at the factory for her “own good”. Role requires an aggressive and comedic approach to old age.
MR. WATSON: Male, African-American, 40-60:
A somewhat disgruntled factory worker. Mr. Watson does not stretch his working-class mind very far but has a few strong opinions to share. Doubleswith the stoic and somewhat Dickensian figure, MR. CLYDE.
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