I HATE HAMLET - Laurel Mill Playhouse Non Equity Auditions

Posted January 7, 2016
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I HATE HAMLET - Laurel Mill Playhouse
LAUREL MILL PLAYHOUSE

ANNOUNCES AUDITIONS FOR

I Hate Hamlet by Paul Rudnick

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER – Maureen Rogers

DIRECTOR – Ilene Chalmers
STAGE MANAGER - Lori Bruun


THE STORY: A young and successful television actor relocates to New York, where he rents a marvelous, gothic apartment. With his television career in limbo, the actor is offered the opportunity to play Hamlet onstage, but there's one problem: He hates Hamlet. His dilemma deepens with the entrance of John Barrymore's ghost, who arrives intoxicated and in full costume to the apartment that once was his. The contrast between the two actors, the towering, dissipated Barrymore whose Hamlet was the greatest of his time, and Andrew Rally, hot young television star, leads to a wildly funny duel over women, art, success, duty, television, and yes, the apartment. …fast-mouthed and funny…It has the old-fashioned Broadway virtues of brightness without pretensions and sentimentality without morals. —Village Voice. …unapologetically silly and at times hilarious…affectionately amusing about the theatre… —NY Times.

CASTING

3 MEN, 3 WOMEN,

Cold readings from the script. No appointment necessary.
Please bring resume, conflicts and head shot with you to auditions to be held on;

Thursday, January 21 at 7pm
Saturday, January 23 at 2pm
Sunday, January 24 at 2pm

Please be prompt. No conflicts allowed tech week.

Production Dates: April 1 - April 17, 2016. Fridays, Saturdays at 8pm and 2 Sunday matinees on April 10th and April 17th at 2pm..

Auditions to be at 508 Main Street, Laurel MD., 20707.

Any questions contact Maureen Rogers at
maureencrogers@gmail.com or
301-452-2557.
Description of Characters -

Felicia Dantine: Andrew Rally's real estate broker, Felicia Dantine claims that she can speak to the dead; however, her séance arranged to speak with the ghost of Barry more appears on the surface to have been a failure.

Andrew Rally: Young and popular, Andrew Rally is a television actor and star of a recently canceled soap opera. He just moved to New York City from Los Angeles, where he will soon be playing Hamlet on stage. He is both overwhelmed and chagrined by the challenge, because it is the stage, not Hollywood, and because it is perhaps the most difficult role every written. However, he has unwittingly moved into the apartment of the deceased John Barrymore, perhaps the greatest Shakespearean actor who ever lived.

Deirdre McDavey: Attractive and emotional, Deirdre McDavey is Rally's girlfriend. She is committed, much to his annoyance, to saving herself until they are married.

Lillian Troy: Rally's agent, Lillian Troy is in her early twenties but remembers fondly an affair she had with John Barry more many years ago, in the apartment Rally now lives in.

John Barrymore: A lengendary actor, John Barrymore, or, rather, his ghost is still quite active (in many ways) and appears to help Rally in the nuances of both acting and love.

Gary Peter Lefkowitz: A cocky, pompous television producer, Gary Peter Lefkowitz gave Rally his first big break. He wants Rally to move back to Los Angeles to film a new television series and can't understand why he isn't jumping at the chance.

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