A TUNA CHRISTMAS Equity Principal Auditions - Rubicon Theatre Company Auditions

Call Type
Equity Principal

Time(s)
Monday, October 20, 2014
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Lunch break 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Contract
SPT
SPT $518/WK

Location
Rubicon Theatre
1006 E. Main St.
Ventura, CA 93001
Street Parking.Use Laurel St Entrance.Corner of E. Main St. & S. Laurel St.

Seeking
Male character actors between the ages of 40-60 with extensive character work and theatre credits.

Preparation
Sides will be proidved to you once an appointment time has been schedule.

Other Dates
Rehearsal Dates: November 11 - December 2, 2014
Production Dates: December 3-­?21, 2014
Performance Schedule: Wed.thru Sun.
Start Date: November 11

Other
Accommodations: Hotel accomodations with small kitchen provided.

www.rubicontheatre.org

Personnel
Producer,Karyl Lynn Burns
Director, Brian McDonald
Casting Director, Stephanie Coltrin
Writers, Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, Ed Howard

· EPA Rules are in effect.

· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

Appointments
Please contact Brian McDonald at
bmcdonald@rubicontheatre.org with your requested appointment time. Office #
(805) 667-2912 Ext. 234.

Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.

Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.

Breakdown

A Tuna Christmas is the second in a series of comedic plays (preceded by Greater Tuna and followed by Red, White and Tuna and Tuna Does Vegas), each set the fictional town of Tuna, Texas, the third-smallest town in the state. The trilogy was written by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears, and Ed Howard. The plays are at once an affectionate comment on small-town, Southern life and attitudes but also a withering satire of same. The plays are notable in that two men play the entire cast of over twenty eccentric characters of both genders and various ages.

Roles Played by this Actor 1:

Thurston Wheelis - A disc jockey at radio station OKKK

Elmer Watkins - The victim of a tragic flame-shooter incident, Elmer was left with no eyebrows.

Bertha Bumiller - Housewife and mother to Jody, Stanley, and Charlene; member of the Smut Snatchers of the New Order (Censorship is as American as apple pie, so shut up!)

Leonard Childers - Entrepreneur and radio personality on OKKK

R.R. Snavely - UFOlogist and husband to Didi

Pearl Burras - Aunt to Bertha, former riveter in Houston during World War II (the Japanese never sank one of [her] ships!)

Sheriff Givens - Called Rubber Sheets due to his having wet the bed at church camp

Ike Thompson- a slow-witted highway worker

Inita Goodwin - A waitress at the Tasty-Creme

Phoebe Burkhalter- Presumably Farley's significant other, Phoebe is voiced by actor but onstage is a wig behind a window manipulated by a stagehand

Joe Bob Lipsey - the not-the-marrying-kind director of the Tuna Little Theater's troubled production of A Christmas Carol


Roles played by Actor 2 (THERE IS AN OFFER OUT FOR THIS ROLE):

Arles Struvie - A disc jockey at radio station OKKK.

Didi Snavely - Owner of Didi's Used Weapons (If we can't kill it, it's immortal)

Petey Fisk - Employee of the Greater Tuna Humane Society

Jody Bumiller - Youngest child of Bertha Bumiller

Stanley Bumiller - Aspiring taxidermist, fresh from reform school; twin to Charlene

Charlene Bumiller - Daughter of Bertha Bumiller and sister to Stanley and Jody; infatuated with Joe Bob Lipsey.

Vera Carp - Town snob and acting leader of the Smut-Snatchers of the New Order (until the Rev. Spikes gets out of prison)

Dixie Deberry - Controller of the Tuna Electric Company

Helen Bedd - A waitress at the Tasty-Creme

Farley Burkhalter - A little person and a patron of the Tasty-Creme

Garland Poteet- A soda distributor and one of Inita's many boyfriends