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Call Type
Non-Required Principal
Time(s)
OPEN Auditions by APPOINTMENT
Thursday, April 24, 2014
11 AM to 4 PM
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Contract
Showcase-NY
Basic Showcase Code; travel reimbursement $100
Location
ART/NY South Oxford Space
138 S. Oxford Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
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Seeking
4 actors to play multiple roles.
see breakdown.
Preparation
Actors will be sent sides once they schedule an appointment
Other Dates
performance dates June 8-11, 2014 at 7:30pm at The Secret Theatre in Long Island City
Other
targetmargin.org
Personnel
John Del Gaudio, Artistic Producer
Author: Isadore Zolotarevsky
Adapted and directed by Allen Lewis Rickman
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
Please email tententwentysix@gmail.com to schedule an appointment.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
Shortly before she is to travel with her tubercular immigrant father to Denver for his health, innocent, motherless Sonia is “ruined” by struggling young lawyer Albert Liebhartz in a fit of drunken madness. Albert had hoped to marry her, but is forced to marry slumlord Barney Bender’s daughter Cecilia, the nymphomaniac, instead. And while pregnant Sonia’s life degenerates into alcoholism and prostitution, Harry, Cecilia’s lovesick paramour chauffeur, has his own plans...
Actor 1 (m): plays
- Khirik: A functionary of the religious community -- cantor, matchmaker, etc. -- struggling to get by. 40s-50s.
- Harry: A young chauffeur. In love with his employer Cecilia, with whom he has a passionate relationship. Unscrupulous. Later a pimp and an alderman. 20s.
- Yerukhem: Saintly and sickly. Looks 50s at least.
Actor 2 (f): plays
- Khave: Albert’s mother. Matronly, upper-crust. 50s
- A Court Clerk
(Think Margaret Dumont.)
Actor 3 (f): plays
- Cecilia: Bender’s coarse nymphomaniac daughter. Very “old movie New York”. 20s.
- A Policeman
(Think Betty Boop.)
Actor 4 (m): plays
- Albert: Educated, sincere, completely devoted to his mother. At one point has a few drinks and becomes The Wolfman. Later wracked with guilt because of it.
- A Doctor
(A nice Jewish boy, race unimportant.)
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The following roles have been CAST:
Actor 5 (m- ALREADY CAST): plays Bender: A coarse and uncouth immigrant slumlord. 50. Also plays A Policeman
Actor 6 (f- ALREADY CAST): plays Sonia: A naive young immigrant. 20s.
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Director’s note: The play will be done in a broadly melodramatic style -- not cartoonishly or condescendingly, but nevertheless mechanical and ‘over the top’. Actors will not so much play the characters as play 19th century melodrama actors playing the characters. The pace is faster than in a contemporary naturalistic style, and every gesture and inflection is calculated for the effect it will have on the audience; it’s all about “indicating”. All actors will do multiple roles, some with very fast changes, so an ability to do vivid character work is essential. Non-traditional casting is welcomed.
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