BIG KNIFE – Equity Principal Auditions
Roundabout Theatre Company New York City LORT $1,231/week minimum.
Author: Clifford Odets
Dir: Doug Hughes
Casting: Jim Carnahan
1st reh: 2/19/13. Runs 3/22-6/23 at the American Airlines Theatre (Broadway).
Equity Principal Auditions:
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 Ripley-Grier Studios
10 AM – 6 PM 520 Eighth Avenue, 16th Floor
Lunch from 1:30 – 2:30. New York City
Sides will be provided at the audition. Please bring a photo and resume, stapled back-to-back.
Seeking:
Buddy Bliss:
AVAILABLE ROLE. 40s. In publicity work, a friend of Charlie Castle. Of humorless sturdiness, an intent and hopeful (or shall we say hopeless?) believer in facts and self-improvement. In adjustment to Charlie, he is mostly an eager, grateful and nervous failure, he is dense and stubborn, too. Some would call him “a nice, American boy”. Married to Connie Bliss.
Connie Bliss:
AVAILABLE ROLE. Late 20s - early 40s. Handsome and blonde, with lissome, fairly uncovered body, any dress she wears looks like a bathing suit. She would be hard were it not for her disposition to please, but this does not mean that she is undetermined. She minces and coquettes a little, her way of asking for your favor, and she laughs constantly, without effort, finally, her blue-eyed, washed-out candor covers enough slyness: hers is a nimble, jumping mind. In a certain mood, you will find her light and refreshing, a veritable Rhine-wine of a person.
Understudy for Charlie Castle, Hank Teagle and Russell:
AVAILABLE POSITION. One actor understudies all three male characters, late 30s early 40s. Charlie Castle: CAST (Bobby Cannavale); seeking understudy only. Charlie is the famous movie star. Virile and insistent, sensitive and aware, although frequently, as now, he is apt to mask his best qualities behind a cynical, guying manner and certain jazzy small-talk. He knows how to use an abruptly disarming charm and he understands the value of candor. He is a very successful man and this sits on him with a certain relaxed gravity. He is a “going Concern” and he knows and acts it. Hank Teagle: CAST; seeking understudy only. Hank limps slightly. He is smiling, tender and affectionate by nature and experience, his face hides a quiet gaiety and a sharper insight. He is unpretentious, quiet and mature, with a gift for devotion. A man with his own tremor, he respects a tremor in another. He is a civilized man in the sense that he makes you feel guilty or inadequate on no score whatsoever. Russell: CAST; seeking understudy only. Russell is the butler to the Castles. He is a simple, sincere man who finds pleasure in everything. He is proud and happy to be working in the Castle home.
Understudy for Buddy Bliss, Nat Danziger, Marcus Hoff and Smiley Coy:
AVAILABLE POSITION. One actor understudies all four male characters, 50s-60s. Buddy Bliss: See description above. Nat Danziger: CAST; seeking understudy only. Nat is a pasty sixty, with all the qualities of the president of a synagogue. He is tolerant, sympathetic reliable and wise in business ways, he is paternal, really concerned for those he loves. He is charitable not on principal alone, much of what he says in tinged with sentiment and religiosity. His confidence and affable authority give him a certain foolish quality. He wants to do the right thing always. He speaks fondly, with a certain grotesque cheerfulness. His motto: “I serve!” Marcus Hoff: CAST, seeking understudy only. Marcus is a sleek, middle-aged man, full of amour propre, suave, ceremonial and grave, shrewdly pompous, but authoritative and powerful. He knows how to play a part and how to get his way. Easy and assured, he is not stupid, he speaks in kingly tone. Plump and pudgy. Smiley Coy: CAST, seeking understudy only. Smiley is slim and tall. He is elegant, loose-jointed and deft, he is completely competent, cynical calm and courteous, he has many of the witty and amusing characteristics of the professional Irishman, including a certain atmosphere of loneliness.
Understudy for Patty Benedict, Marion Castle, Connie Bliss and Dixie Evans:
AVAILABLE POSITION. One actor understudies all four female roles, late 20s up. Patty Benedict: CAST, seeking understudy only. Patty is a famous movie columnist. She is authoritative, cynical and assured, insolently appraising, the world of Hollywood is surely her intimidated oyster. Marion Castle: CAST, seeking understudy only. Marion is a smart and good-looking thirty-two years’ accumulation of woman and sensibility. Frequently now her face wears an expression of bemused sadness. Normally she is an alert, intelligent, feminine woman, at present we may expect to surprise in her face and manner something rueful, anxious and nervous. Connie Bliss: See description above. Dixie Evans: CAST; seeking understudy only. Dixie is physically small but attractive, she is a product of a Boston parochial school, a poor family, several years of work in department stores, and finally, four years of Hollywood. Frequently helpless and unconsciously pathetic, she has learned to appear bright and competent, she has shrewd if intuitive flashes of genuine insight.
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