LUCKY GUY - Equity Principal Auditions
Broadway / Production Contract $1,754/week minimum.
Producing Partners: Colin Callender, Roy Furman, Arielle Tepper Madover.
Author: Nora Ephron
Dir: George C. Wolfe
GM: 101 Productions, Wendy Orshan
Casting: Jordan Thaler and Heidi Griffiths
1st reh: 1/14/13. Runs 3/1-6/16 at a Shubert Theatre TBA.
Equity Principal Auditions:
Wednesday, October 3, 2012 Ripley-Grier Studios
10 AM - 6 PM 520 Eighth Avenue, 17th Floor (elevator to 16)
Lunch from 1:30 - 2:30. New York City
and
Thursday, October 4, 2012 Chelsea Studios
Friday, October 5, 2012 151 West 26th Street, 5th Floor
10 AM - 6 PM both days. New York City
Lunch from 1:30 - 2:30.
Please prepare a contemporary monologue (2 minutes or less). Please bring a photo and resume, stapled back-to-back.
Spans the period from 1985 – 1998, when the tabloid business in New York was in its glory days. Small papers, big headlines. The city had become polarized between rich and poor, black and white, criminals and cops. The crack epidemic was beginning, the murder rate was at an all-time high. The city was loud, messy, chaotic and dangerous. The perfect place for a young and hungry reporter to become a star.
Seeking (all roles are available unless otherwise specified):
Hap Hairston:
African American man, 40s-50s. An editor, brilliant at inspiring reporters and sharpening their copy. His combination of fierce intelligence, ordinariness and generosity allow those around him to shine. He is one in a handful of minorities to break into a world historically dominated by the Irish, and he’s had to work ten times harder than the next guy to get there. Comfortable with the controlled chaos of the newsroom.
John Cotter:
Irish American, 50s-60s. A managing editor. Old-school newspaperman who will do anything to get a good story. Loves the hard-working, hard-drinking culture of the city newsroom, and thrives on the competitive pressures of the tabloid wars … working, in the end, for all three. Has a keen nose for a story, and excellent instincts about writers. A great mentor to Mike, with the ability to push him to do the near-impossible. A brilliant man who never eats and never sleeps. He just drinks.
Eddie Hayes:
Irish American, 40s-50s. A lawyer. Grew up in a working-class Irish neighborhood in Queens. An ex-Bronx DA, known for his relentless prosecution of murderers and drug dealers, he is now a high-flying lawyer in private practice, with a taste for handmade suits, headline-grabbing cases and movie stars with big problems. But don’t let the fancy suits and pocket squares fool you. Scratch the surface and there’s a tough New York street-fighter, more than capable of taking care of himself and his friends.
Alice McAlary:
Italian American, mid 30s. A girl from Massapequa, Long Island. Smart, pretty and funny. At ease with the tough guys in the newsroom, who adore her in return. Tough and a little salty, she can give as good as she gets. She is totally loyal to Mike, and constantly challenges him to be the best man and the best reporter that he can be. But her husband’s success comes with a price tag. She is often alone in their house on Long Island while he works the streets and bars of New York 24/7 for a story.
Michael Daly:
Irish American, late 30s - early 40s. A columnist at the “Daily News”. As a young reporter, he is taken with the romance of the newspaper business. Spends a lot of time in the trenches with Mike, and teaches him the fine points of being a columnist.
Jim Dwyer:
Irish American, late 30s-40s. Born and bred in New York. A columnist at Newsday. While Mike is mixing with cops and gangsters, he is covering the closing of the last 24-hour hotdog stand in the subway. He watches with increasing frustration as Mike’s star rises. He is smart, with a slightly self-deprecating sense of humor.
Bob Drury / John Miller:
Drury: Irish American, mid 30s – early 40s. A reporter. Tall, good-looking and charismatic. Has spent his life working in the newspaper world, starting as a copy boy and then fighting, alongside Mike, to escape a career as a sportswriter where he has no patience for the dumb, narcissistic jocks he’s surrounded by. Has a legendary barroom brawl with Mike. This role will most likely double with John Miller: 40s. Deputy Commissioner for Public Information at the NYPD. A former journalist turned Police Department PR guy. He has retained the hard-nosed edge of a reporter in his press conferences.
Louise Imerman / Debby Krenek:
One actress plays both. Imerman: 30s. A reporter. One of only a small handful of women that made it into the tough-talking, booze- and adrenaline-driven, misogynist world of tabloid journalism. She’s definitely “one of the boys”. Curses like a truck driver, and holds her own at the bar. She’s in the newsroom because she’s tough and talented, but she doesn’t hesitate to work the guys if she thinks it will help her to get a story or meet a deadline. Krenek: An editor at the “Daily News”. Texan. Initially a section editor, she keeps her head down and works hard. Everyone thinks she’ll run the paper one day. She is pragmatic and steady. As genteel as she is tough. The voice of reason amidst the ongoing chaos of the newsroom. Fiercely loyal to her staff. She does indeed become the first female Editor in Chief in the paper’s 79-year history. This is a role for a character actress with range and comedic skill.
Jerry Nachman / Stanley Joyce:
Nachman: Jewish, 50s. Editor at the “New York Post”. A Brooklyn native, he has never lost his passion for telling stories about his city. A smart guy who is all skill and no pretense. He is a gifted newsman. Confident and tenacious, he always accomplishes what he sets out to do. A lion in the business that he knows inside and out. This role will most likely double with Stanley Joyce: Managing editor of the “Daily News”. A tough-minded boss.
Abner Louima:
Haitian, 30s. Security guard at a sewage treatment plant. Physically delicate. Thoughtful, quiet man. After trying to help break up a fight outside a Brooklyn nightclub, he is arrested, beaten and brutally assaulted by officers at the 70th Precinct. He brings his story to Mike, who goes on to win the Pulitzer Prize for his exposé of Louima’s horrific attack.
Male Ensemble:
Character ages: 20s-50s. “Good Cops, Bad Cops, Reporters, Columnists and Criminals”. Seeking a small ensemble of character actors with great New York City texture and faces to play small as well as non-dialogued roles, with likely understudy responsibilities. Roles include
Dino Tortorici: 20s. Italian American kid from Yonkers whose girlfriend has died after taking
cyanide-tainted Tylenol. He becomes the subject of Mike’s first headline story.
Bartender: Bartender at the various places the guys go drinking. Sometimes Elaine’s,
sometimes the Lion’s Head in the Village, sometimes McGuire’s.
Jimmy Breslin: The legendary NYC columnist.
O’Regan: 40s. A crooked cop.
Mike McAlary:
CAST. Seeking Understudy. Mike is Irish American, 40s. Successful columnist. Even as a kid, he dreamt of becoming the next Jimmy Breslin. Driven and fearless, he will go to places in the city where even the cops are afraid to go. Becomes addicted to the rush that getting “The Story” brings, likes the media spotlight a little bit too much and in the process makes potentially career-ending mistakes. But ultimately, his passion for telling the stories forged in the crucible that is New York turns him into a great, award-winning columnist.
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