MYSTIC PIZZA - NYC EPA
Ivoryton Playhouse Foundation, Inc. | Ivoryton, CT Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Monday, February 19, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00-2:00 pm
SPT
$650 weekly minimum (SPT 6)
Equity actors for roles in MYSTIC PIZZA (see breakdown).
***Ivoryton Playhouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Ivoryton Playhouse aims to ensure that our productions and production teams reflect a multi-racial society that includes actors and stage managers with disabilities. Our casting process includes a flexible and imaginative casting policy to increase employment for actors and stage managers of color, women, seniors, and actors and stage managers with disabilities.
Prepare a short song excerpt in the style of the show. **Please bring a picture and resume stapled together
Pearl Studios (500)
500 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6504
Holding Room: 402; Audition Studio: 406
Expected to attend:
Executive Director: Jacqueline Hubbard Executive Producer: Ben Hope
Director/Choreographer: Brian Feehan Music Director: Michael M. Morris
Managing Director: Krista May
First Rehearsal – June 11, 2024
Opening date – June 27, 2024
Closing – July 28, 2024
Performance schedule: Wednesdays 2 pm and 7:30 pm, Thursdays 7:30 pm, Fridays and Saturdays 8 pm, and Sundays 2 pm
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Questions may be directed by email to ben@ivorytonplayhouse.org.
*Please do not email appointment requests; online sign-ups through the Equity member portal only.
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition. An Equity Monitor will be provided.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination.
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Mystic Pizza by Sandy Ruskin
Character Breakdown:
JOSEPHINA BARBOZA (JO/JOJO) – Female Identifying, 19, Any Ethnicity. The daughter of immigrants. She is vibrant, fast-talking, emotional, curious, ambitious, always up for a laugh, and loyal.
DAISY ARUJO – Female Identifying, 19, Any Ethnicity. The daughter of immigrants. A perfect combination of insecurity and arrogance: the seductive life of the party when she needs to be, an introspective dreamer when she doesn’t. A pain in her mother’s ass.
KATHERINE (KAT) ARUJO – Female Identifying, 18, Any Ethnicity. The daughter of immigrants. Daisy’s kid sister. The apple of her mother’s eye. A goofy, playful, desperate romantic, and aspiring astronomer on the cusp of the rest of her life.
LEONA SILVA – Female Identifying, 50+ (nearing retirement), Any Ethnicity. The immigrant owner of Mystic Pizza and guardian of the “Mystic Pizza” special sauce. A sarcastic, wry, yet loving mother figure for Jo, Daisy, and Kat.
BILL MONTIJO – Male Identifying, 20, Any Ethnicity. The son of immigrants. A burly yet warm, sensitive lobsterman and lead singer/guitarist in The Lobster Rolls – the local town band, who wants nothing more than to marry Jo and raise a family in Mystic, CT. Acoustic or electric guitar playing is a plus.
CHARLES GORDON WINDSOR JR. – Male Identifying, Early 20s, White. A country club, sweater vest-wearing, Porsche-driving, law-school-drop-out cad with a surprising capacity for true love.
TIM TRAVERS – Male Identifying, late 20s, Any Ethnicity. An easy-going, Yale graduate architect with a secret.
The ensemble functions as the townies of Mystic, CT. They’re responsible for the shifting of set pieces/establishing new locations. They serve as an omnipresence of locals in this small town and appear in featured roles throughout.
WOMAN 1 – Female Identifying, 20s, Any Ethnicity. Various roles, including LORNA, a snobby college girl; SERENA WINDSOR, Charlie’s sister, a vapid country-club goer; and others.
WOMAN 2 – Female Identifying, 20s, Any Ethnicity. Various roles, including DEBBIE, a snobby college girl; MARIANA, an immigrant oyster shucker; TERESA, an immigrant housekeeper; NIKKI TRAVERS, Tim’s wife; and others.
WOMAN 3 – Female Identifying, 40s, Any Ethnicity. Various roles, including MRS. ARUJO, Daisy and Kat’s immigrant mother, and others.
WOMAN 4 – Female Identifying, 40s, Any Ethnicity. Various roles, including AUNT BONNIE, an immigrant oyster shucker, MRS. POLLY WINDSOR, Charlie’s mother, and others.
MAN 1 – Male Identifying, 30s, Any Ethnicity. Various roles, including a PRIEST; NICK, a Planetarium employee; MICKEY, a pizza shop regular; and others.
MAN 2 – Male Identifying, 20s, Any Ethnicity. Various roles, including FRANK, a warm, friendly guitarist in the local band by night and an oyster shucker at the docks by day;
STEAMER WINDSOR, Charlie’s younger brother, and others.
MAN 3 – Male Identifying, 40s, Any Ethnicity. Various roles, including THE FIRESIDE GOURMET; MR. CHUCK WINDSOR, Charlie’s demanding father, and others.
MAN 4 – Male Identifying, 40s, Any Ethnicity. Various roles, including MR. BARBOZA, Jo’s immigrant father; LIONEL, a cheerful real estate agent; LOU, Bill’s friend, and others.
MAN 5 – Male Identifying, 18+, Any Ethnicity. Various roles, including GEORGE, a snobby graduate student; ALFIE, a townie doofus; a WAITER; and others.
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