You Can't Take it With You Auditions!
by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman
Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service.
Laurel Mill Playhouse is holding auditions for You Can’t Take It With You, a comedy in three acts by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. Have you ever been afraid to introduce your friends to your crazy family?
Producer – Maureen Rogers
Director – Patrick Pase
Auditions will take place on January 21 & 23, 2014 at 7pm in the theater, located at 508 Main Street in historic downtown Laurel. Performances are four weekends, beginning on Friday, March 21, 2014.
Cold readings from script. No prepared monologues. No appointment necessary. Bring conflicts. Head shots and resumes requested but not required.
7 women and 12 men from 20-70.
Penelope Sycamore - The mother of Essie and Alice, wife of Paul, and daughter of Martin. She writes plays and paints as
hobbies because it makes her happy, but is terrible at both..
Essie Carmichael - Wife of Ed, daughter of Penny and Paul Sycamore, Granddaughter of Martin, sister of Alice. An aspiring Ballerina who can’t dance.
Rheba -
Maid and cook to the Sycamore family.
Paul Sycamore - Father of Essie and Alice, husband of Penny, Son-in-law of Martin. He is a tinkerer who manufactures
fireworks in the basement.
Mr. De Pinna - The ice man who came inside to speak to Paul eight years before, and never left. He helps Mr. Sycamore build
fireworks.
Ed Carmichael - Husband of Essie, son-in-law of Paul and Penny. He is a xylophone player, and distributes Essie's candies.
Donald - Boyfriend of Rheba, Handyman.
Martin Vanderhof - Referred to mostly as Grandpa in the play. Father-in-law to Paul, father of Penny, grandfather of Alice and Essie. He is an eccentric happy old man who has never paid his
income tax because he doesn't believe in it.
Alice Sycamore - Fiancée of Tony Kirby, daughter of Paul and Penny, Granddaughter of Martin, sister of Essie. She is the only normal
family member.
Wilbur C. Henderson - Tax Collector
Tony Kirby - Fiancé of Alice, Son of Mr. and Mrs. Kirby.
Boris Kolenkhov - A
Russian who escaped to America shortly before
the Russian Revolution. Dance instructor to a talentless student.
Gay Wellington - A drunk actress.
Anthony P. Kirby - Husband of Mrs. Kirby, father of Tony. Businessman.
Miriam Kirby - Wife of Mr. Kirby, mother of Tony. Wife of a businessman.
G-Man 1, G-Man 2, G-Man 3 - Federal Agents.
The Grand Duchess Olga Katrina - A waitress who was once a Grand Duchess in Russia.
THE STORY: At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder. In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. The plot shows how Tony, attractive young son of the Kirbys, falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore home on the wrong evening. The shock sustained by the Kirbys, who are invited to eat cheap food, shows Alice that marriage with Tony is out of the question. The Sycamores, however, though sympathetic to Alice, find it hard to realize her point of view. Meantime, Tony, who knows the Sycamores are right and his own people wrong, will not give her up, and in the end Mr. Kirby is converted to the happy madness of the Sycamores, particularly since he happens in during a visit by an ex-Grand Duchess, earning her living as a waitress. No mention has as yet been made of the strange activities of certain members of the household engaged in the manufacture of fireworks; nor of the printing press set up in the parlor; nor of Rheba the maid and her friend Donald; nor of Grandpa's interview with the tax collector when he tells him he doesn't believe in the income tax.
More information about the theater is available at
www.laurelmillplayhouse.org
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