SHOWCASE
THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED – OPEN Auditions in Brooklyn
The Gallery Players (Brooklyn, NY) Showcase, approval pending
Producer: Robert Earle Jones
Director: Patrick Vassel
by Douglas Carter Beane
1st rehearsal: Saturday 8/13/11 (evenings and weekends, no holidays).
Run: 9/10/11 – 9/25/11 (Thur-Sun, 12 performances).
All auditions, rehearsals, and performances at The Gallery Players, 199 14th Street, Brooklyn.
OPEN Auditions (Equity and non Equity actors):
Tuesday, July 26, 2011 at the Gallery Players
7:15 PM – 9 PM 199 14th Street, between 4th and 5th Aves.
(sign in begins 6:45pm) Brooklyn, NY
AND
Monday, August 1, 2011
8 PM – 9:30 PM
(sign in begins 7pm)
Equity audition procedures are NOT in effect. No Equity monitor provided. Producer runs all aspects of the audition.
Prepare a contemporary monologue that is similar in nature to the show of roughly 1 – 1.5 minutes in length. Please be advised that you may be asked to read a side cold at your audition.
Bring picture and resume, stapled together.
Callbacks will be held Tuesday, 8/2 in the evening.
Breakdown:
Mitchell:
Male, mid 30s. The up-and-coming movie star with a “recurring case of homosexuality.” Mitchell is the boy-next-door ready to become a leading man. Young for his age and trying to do the right thing, if he can figure out what that is. Please note: this role requires full nudity briefly in one scene.
Alex:
Male, early 20s. Young, attractive, straight-forward male prostitute. Alex is a rent boy with a sometime girlfriend (ELLEN) and would share her pain and anguish over growing up if he ever stopped to think about it. “The trick,” he says of pain in his past, “would be not to think about it.” Please note: this role requires full nudity briefly in one scene.
Diane:
Female, 40s or 50s. The elegant, bold, all-business agent of MITCHELL, Diane does whatever it takes for her clients and, in turn, her career in Hollywood. This includes acting as the public girlfriend of Mitchell (she is herself a lesbian), whom she is trying to keep in the closet and in the leading role of his upcoming film. Diane is clever, tough, and a problem-solver.
Ellen:
Female, early 20s. The young, hip, beautiful downtown best friend/girlfriend of Alex. Ellen is a wannabe-socialite searching for her scene and very much afraid that, at age 24, there isn’t one left for her. Ellen had no plan for adulthood but to “keep laughing,” but she is having a hard time finding anything very funny in her life as she gets older.
Take the R to 9th St. or the F to 4th Ave. in Brooklyn. The "R" can be accessed at the Pacific/Atlantic station in Brooklyn which is served by the 2,3,4,5,N,B,D and Q trains from Manhattan
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