Westport Community Theatre Announces Auditions for ENTER LAUGHING, 7/11
By: Lauren Wolman Jul. 04, 2010
Westport Community Theatre announces auditions for ENTER LAUGHING by Joseph Stein, adapted from the Novel by Carl Reiner. The produciton will be directed by Lester Colodny. Auditions will be held on Sunday, July 11 at 7:00 PM at Westport Community Theatre Westport Town Hall, 110 Myrtle Avenue, Westport, CT.
ENTER LAUGHING is the semi-autobiographical coming of age story based on the novel written by Carl Reiner. Taking place in 1938, it tells the hilarious story of a stage-struck, woman-struck young Jewish kid from the Bronx named David Kolowitz. David is a delivery boy in a sewing machine factory. His boss, Mr. Foreman wants to train him to take over the business. His quintessential loving but domineering mother and overwhelmed father want him to become a druggist, but David has other ideas - he dreams of being an actor despite his obvious lack of acting experience. At his friend Marvin's suggestion, David tries out for a part in a play, and gets it even though he's not that good. Although discouraged by his parents and boss, he leaves their dreams and his devoted girlfriend Wanda behind and is soon enlisted (and paying for) a slot as the "leading man" in a third-rate theatrical company while being seduced by the resident less-than leading lady, the daughter of the hammy "artistic director". His baptism of fire is a hilarious first performance where everything that can go wrong, does.DAVID: Tall, good looking, should pass for seventeen...outgoing, but shy in sexual encounters...one of those delightful boy wonders of the twenties and thirties who is going to make something of himself.MARVIN: Short, same age as DAVID...a shnook.MR FOREMAN: Older, at least fiftyish, an old fashioned manufacturer, nosy.WANDA: DAVID's love, sweet young thing, pretty, about 17.MARLOWE: An older theatrical impresario...one would think of him as a Shakespearean mandarin instead of a teacher in a third rate theater... father of Angela.ANGELA: About twenty... Marlowe's daughter... a would-be sexy actress.... poetic, dumb as they come.
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