Covedale Center Hosts Auditions For CHRISTMAS STORY & BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS, 8/29

Covedale Center for the Performing Arts Will hold Auditions for A CHRISTMAS STORY And BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS Saturday, August 28, 2010, noon - 4:30 pm and Sunday, August 29, 2010, noon - 4:30 pm

All auditions will be held at the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, 4990 Glenway Avenue in West Price Hill.

For A Christmas Story :

Children: Boys and girls ages 8 - 12 years and up. Must be able to read well for their age. Children older than the ages of the characters listed below who can "play younger" are preferred. MUST HAVE A PERFORMANCE RESUME to audition and must be able to provide a resume listing theatrical experience.

Children should be prepared at auditions to recite a short monologue (one minute or less) and read from the script.

Adults (17 + years of age): MUST HAVE A PERFORMANCE RESUME to audition and must be able to provide a resume listing theatrical experience. Adults will read from the script only at auditions.

For Brighton Beach Memoirs :

Children: Boys (14 -15 yrs old), Girls (12 -13 years and up). Must be able to read well for their age. Children older than the ages of the characters listed below who can "play younger" are preferred. MUST HAVE A PERFORMANCE RESUME to audition and must be able to provide a resume listing theatrical experience.

Children should be prepared at auditions to recite a short monologue (one minute or less) and read from the script.

Adults (17 + years of age): MUST HAVE A PERFORMANCE RESUME to audition and must be able to provide a resume listing theatrical experience. Adults will read from the script only at auditions.

Both casts include many roles for adult males and females.

For both productions, please be prepared to read from the script.

A CHRISTMAS STORY
Rehearsals begin Monday, October 25, 2010
Performance dates: December 2 - December 22, 2010.

The Show: By Philip Grecian. Based on the movie A Christmas Story, Written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark
"You'll shoot your eye out, kid!" Jean Shepherd's memoir of growing up in 1940's Indiana, follows Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case to his mother, his teacher and Santa Claus himself at Goldblatt's Department Store. All the elements from the beloved movie are here - the family's temperamental furnace, the school bully Scut Farkas, the boys' bet with a wet tongue on an icy lamppost, the Little Orphan Annie decoder ring; Ralphie's father winning "a major award" - the lady's leg lamp in a fishnet stocking! A Christmas Story is destined to become a theatrical holiday perennial.
Tim Perrino, Director; Nicola Burgun, Production Stage Manager
Characters include:

Ralph as an adult (a storyteller) also plays the Cowboy, the Tree Lot Owner, The Delivery Man and the Voice of the Neighbor (age mid 20's to 40's)
Ralphie Parker, the 10 year old boy (can be older and play younger)
Mother, Ralphie's mother (age 35 - 40)
The Old Man, Ralphie's father (also plays the role of Santa Claus, a jolly old elf)(age 40 - 50)
Randy, Ralphie's little brother, an 8 year old boy
Miss Shields, Ralphie's teacher (age 20's to 40's)
Flick, Ralphie's friend and classmate (also plays Desperado One) (age 10 -11)
Schwartz, Ralphie's friend and classmate (also plays Desperado Two) (age 10 - 11)
Esther Jan Alberry, another classmate (age 10 - 11)
Helen Weathers, another classmate (age 10 - 11)
Scut Farkas, the bully (also plays Black Bart) age 12.

BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS

Rehearsals begin Monday, December 6, 2010
Performance dates: January 20 - February 6, 2011.

The Show: B By Neil Simon
The first play in Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy is still his best, filled with riotous humor, sweet memories and deep compassion for the times and family who have gone before him. It's a portrait of the playwright as a teen in 1937, living with his family in a lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Eugene Jerome, standing in for the author, is the central character. Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with his mundane family life in Brooklyn - his formidable mother, his overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche, her two young (but rapidly aging) daughters and you have a recipe for hilarity, served up Simon-style. This bittersweet memoir evocatively captures the life of a struggling household where, as his father states "if you didn't have a problem, you wouldn't be living here." Simon's finest play.
Dennis Murphy, Director; Nicole Ignatowski, Production Stage Manager

Characters include:

Eugene Jerome, Neil Simon at age 15
Kate Jerome, his mother, (40 yrs. old)
Blanche Morton, Kate's widowed sister (38 yrs. old)
Laurie Morton, Blanche's 13 yr. old daughter
Nora Morton, Blanche's 16 yr. old daughter
Stanley Jerome, Eugene's 18 yr. old brother
Jack Jerome, Eugene's salesman father (40 yrs. old)

Please note: Performers do not have to be the character ages as listed, but must be able to play those ages.

All roles are paid positions.

For more information on auditions, contact the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, (513) 241 - 6550. Check us out on the web @ www.cincinnatilandmarkproductions.com

Cincinnati Federal Savings is the 2010 - 2011 Season Sponsor for the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, 4990 Glenway Avenue, 45238.