MARIE AND BRUCE Equity Principal Audition - The New Group Auditions
The New Group
MARIE AND BRUCE – Equity Principal Auditions
The New Group NYC ANTC $467/week minimum.
Author: Wallace Shawn
Dir: Scott Elliott
Casting: Judy Henderson
Assoc Artistic Dir: Ian Morgan
Artistic Assoc: James Gittins
1st reh: 1/31/11. Runs 3/3-4/23.
Equity Principal Auditions:
Friday, December 17, 2010 Theatre Row Studios
10:30 AM – 6:30 PM 411 West 41st Street (between Ninth and Dyer Avenues)
Lunch from 2 – 3. New York City
Ring bell at street entrance for admittance.
Please prepare a brief contemporary monologue. Please bring a picture & resume, stapled together.
This comedic masterpiece of marital strife recounts the day that Marie finally resolves to tell her charming and impossibly positive husband Bruce that she's had enough. After a contentious morning in their apartment, we follow Marie and Bruce, respectively, on their journeys through the city, leading up to a dinner party that night.
Seeking (all roles are available (i.e. not yet offered and accepted) unless otherwise specified):
Frank:
Mid 30s-40s. Party host. Droll, and given to high-flown phrases. Alternately, can become aggressive and opinionated.
Sword Woman:
Mid 30s-40s. Party guest. Movie actress.
Herb:
Mid 30s-40s. Party guest. Assistant to an important man; fed up at being unappreciated. Voluble.
Drug Woman:
Mid 30s-40s. Party guest. Astonished at how high she was.
Machine Man:
Mid 30s-40s. Party guest. A reasonable fellow, interested in technological advances and trends.
Present Woman:
Mid 30s-40s. Party guest. Neurotic. Mistrusting of human emotions and our ability to identify what we actually feel.
Man Who’s Traveled:
Mid 30s-40s. Party guest. Has become politically engaged and passionate after witnessing atrocities in foreign countries.
Waiter:
Mid 30s-40s. Waiter at a nice restaurant. Friendly and sales-oriented.
Bert:
Mid 30s-40s. Restaurant customer. Speaks loudly; oblivious to those around him.
Ed:
Mid 30s-40s. Restaurant customer. Bert’s friend. Intimidating.
The following roles are cast. Auditioning performers will be considered as possible replacements, should any become necessary.
Marie:
CAST. Suffering from a fever, and worked up into a state of exasperation by all of the little annoying peculiarities of her husband Bruce. Frustrated by a long hot summer of unemployment, and questioning whether her marriage is founded on anything real.
Bruce:
CAST. Charming, oblivious, and tolerant, if not downright amused by other’s idiosyncrasies. In love with Marie, yet consistently seems to be on the make.
