IT'S ONLY A PLAY Equity Principal Auditions - Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre Auditions

Call Type
Equity Principal

Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
9:30 am-5:30 pm
(lunch 1:00-2:00 pm)

Contract
Production (League)
$1807 weekly minimum

Location
Actors' Equity Association Audition Center
165 West 46th Street
16th Floor
New York, NY 10036

Seeking
Equity actors, male and female, for IT'S ONLY A PLAY.

See breakdown for more information.

Preparation
Please prepare a two-minute contemporary, comedic monologue.

Other Dates
1st Rehearsal: July 28, 2014
Opens: Aug 28, 2014
Closes: Jan 4, 2015

Other
All roles are either cast or on offer. Actors will be seen for understudies and future replacements for all roles.

Personnel
Producers: Tom Kirdahy, Ken Davenport, Roy Furman
Playwright: Terrence McNally
Director: Jack O’Brien
GM: Richards/Climan, Inc.
Casting: Caparelliotis Casting

· EPA Rules are in effect.

· A monitor will be provided.

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

Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.

Breakdown

PETER: 40s. (CAST) The excitable author of a new play, THE GOLDEN EGG; the type who sincerely believes that ''you can write a serious play for Broadway and still have a place in the Hamptons.''

JULIA: 50s. (CAST) The extremely wealthy, neophyte producer of the play; enthusiastic and passionate devotee of ''the theatre''; charmingly dotty and benevolent dilettante; not the most self-aware woman in the world, such as when explaining the concept of ''breaking a leg'' to a roomful of seasoned theatre people.

JAMES: 40s – 50s. (CAST) A witty, sarcastic, middling sitcom star; has been best friends with PETER since their off-off Broadway days; egotistical but insecure; turned down the lead in THE GOLDEN EGG to remain on his (just cancelled) television series; secretly thrilled with the terrible reviews the play receives.

VIRGINIA: 50s. (CAST) The pill-popping, Tony-winning leading lady of the play; trying to resurrect her career by returning to Broadway after a series of movie flops and more than a few cocaine hits.

FRANK: mid - late 20s. The angst-ridden, boy-wonder/enfant terrible, British-by-way-of New Jersey director of THE GOLDEN EGG; a self-deprecating almost to the point of self-loathing sort who, after a string of 14 theatrical successes, longs for the flop that will reveal him to be the poseur he claims he actually is; prone to bouts of histrionics and kleptomania.

IRA: 50s. (CAST) Fawning, sycophantic, two-faced drama critic who is a closet playwright. Skewers the theatre world he desperately wants to be a part of.

MAX: male; 20s. (CAST) Actor/waiter hired to work the party; just off the bus from Kansas; wide-eyed and naïve, star-struck and impressionable, extremely enthusiastic.