ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS **Revised** Equity Principal Auditions - Broadway Theatre TBA Auditions

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS

– Equity Principal Auditions

Broadway/Production Contract Currently $1,653/week minimum.

Producers: Bob Boyett and The National Theatre of Great Britain

Author: Richard Bean
Based on “The Servant of Two Masters” by Carlo Goldoni

Songs: Grant Olding

Dir: Nicholas Hytner

US Casting: Tara Rubin Casting

1st reh: 3/19/12. UK actors join 4/3. 1st preview: 4/6. Broadway opening: 4/18.

Equity Principal Auditions:

Thursday, January 19, 2012 Pearl Studios NYC “500”

Friday, January 20, 2012 500 Eighth Avenue, 12th Floor

10 AM - 6 PM both days. New York City

Lunch from 1 - 2.

Please prepare a comedic English monologue from the mid to late 20th Century. Suggested writers: Orton, Pinter, Bond, Brenton, Osborne. Use either a cockney or RP accent. Monologue should be 2 minutes or less.

Please bring a photo and resume, stapled back-to-back.

Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small-time East End hood. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who’s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. Holed up at the Cricketers’ Arms, the permanently ravenous Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubbers, who is hiding from the police and waiting to be reunited with Rachel. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple.

Several roles in this play with music are cast with actors who have played them in the National Theatre production. The following “ensemble” role/understudy tracks are all AVAILABLE:

Gareth / Taxi Man / Understudy for Charlie and Harry:

AVAILABLE POSITION. Gareth: 30s/40s. Supercilious, efficient waiter in Lloyd’s pub. Small part; helps out in the restaurant scene, lots of fun. Camp works well. Typical superior and snooty waiter. Physically adept – helps out with quite a lot of “business”. RP accent. Doesn’t sing. Taxi Man: Surprisingly smart cab driver who knows his Greek mythology. Understudy for Charlie “the Duck” Clench: 50s-60s. Pauline’s father. Small-time gangster. Streetwise, but not intelligent. Pantalone in the original Goldoni play. Miserly, he gets his nickname from the English slang phrase “as tight as a duck’s arse”. Weasely, shifty, spiv-like. Has a great, prosaic turn of phrase. The stereotype is the small-time London geezer. George Cole in the original St. Trinian’s movies, basically. Cockney accent, doesn’t sing. Understudy for Harry Dangle: 40s-late 50s, The stereotypical fat lawyer, quoting Latin ad infinitum. Loquacious, bombastic and blustery. Late comical, extravagant, red-faced, pompous. Doctor Lombardi in the original Goldoni play. The archetypical corrupt lawyer. Posh RP accent, which occasionally dips into Cockney. In the current version, he plays ukulele in the number he performs between scenes (although it is not necessary that he does). Actor MUST be able to sing well.

Understudy for Francis:

AVAILABLE POSITION. Francis is 20s-30s. An Essex boy driven by his stomach. A bit rough around the edges, but very charming. Should be fat, or at least on the heavy-side. Incredible comic presence. Must be able to drive the show. Should be incredibly fit and able to do complex physical routines. Should be charming and lovable – needs the audience to fall in love with him. A teddy-bear quality helps, along with the ability to improvise and turn on a sixpence. Stand-up experience a bonus. Sings. Actor may also play an athletic Body Double for Francis (doing a cartwheel) and a Removal Man moving furniture in a choreographed fashion.

Policeman / Understudy for Stanley and Hotel Porter:

AVAILABLE POSITION. Policeman: Silent policeman in numerous scenes, and a Removal Man moving furniture in a choreographed fashion. Understudy for Stanley Stubbers: Stanley is a posh public-school boy. Has a very dirty sense of humor, but is still charming and generally decent. Florindo in the Goldoni play. Tall, good-looking, fit, earnest, posh, stereotypical boarding school. One of the funniest parts in the play. Sporty. Utterly confident and steeped in the arrogance of the upper classes. Sings. Understudy for Hotel Porter: The Porter helps Francis carry a trunk. Also dances during Lloyd’s musical interlude, and plays a Removal Man moving furniture in a choreographed fashion.

Policeman / Understudy for Alan and Alfie:

AVAILABLE POSITION. Policeman: Silent policeman in numerous scenes, and a Removal Man moving furniture in a choreographed fashion. Understudy for Alan Dangle: Alan is Young, 20s probably; could be 30. Alan is an aspiring actor with little common sense. Hot-headed and passionate, full of bluster but ineffective. Slim, attractive but in a characterful way. Maybe tall and lanky, a bit goofy. From Brighton, so not posh RP; middle-class London accent, basically. But not Cockney like the Clenches. Silvio in the Goldoni play – the hot-headed fighter. The trickiest character to find an equivalent to in the 1960s setting; the author and director finally settled on him being a slightly hopeless, aspiring actor, so the stereotype is the angry young man actor/writer (John Osborne character, young Alan Bates, David Warner, Anthony Hopkins etc.). Buys a knife from “Woolies” (i.e. a rubbish one). Thinks he’s a bit of a poet, but he’s consistently prosaic. Great comic part; needs a comic genius, maybe someone from a stand-up background. Sings a bit. Understudy for Alfie: Alfie is an 87-year-old waiter in Lloyd’s pub. Tiny, wiry and seemingly frail. Originally played an actor in his 30s. Casting personnel state, “This needs to be an extraordinary physical performer, clowning experience might be helpful. The physical demands (falling backwards through a trap in the stage, being hit by doors, cricket bats etc.) mean he can’t be an actual older man.” Must be able to convince physically. Must also be very funny.

Hotel Porter / Understudy for Lloyd, Gareth and Taxi Man:

AVAILABLE POSITION. Porter: Helps Francis carry a trunk. Also dances during Lloyd’s musical interlude, and plays a removal-man moving furniture in a choreographed fashion. Understudy for Lloyd Boateng: Lloyd is Caribbean. Wise and sanguine owner of a pub. Old friend of both Charlie and Rachel. Strong Caribbean accent. Gregarious, helpful. Supporting role. Doesn’t really sing. Mimes playing the steel drums in his “calypso” moment. Understudy for Gareth and Taxi Man: See descriptions above.

Female “Ensemble” / Understudy for Dolly and Pauline:

AVAILABLE POSITION. “Ensemble” roles including an Old Lady out shopping and a Woman eating chips. Also an alternate plant in the audience who helps Francis serve dinner to his two bosses. Understudy for Dolly: Dolly is late 20s-30s. Charlie’s accountant. Smart and sassy, very sexy and very funny – but not dumb; in fact, she’s probably the smartest person in the play. Gorgeous, flirtatious, curvaceous, a real firecracker. Smeraldina in the Goldoni play, the archetypal “clever maid”. The author subverts the 1960s “dolly bird” stereotype by making her look and walk like Diana Dors or Barbara Windsor in the “Carry On” films – but she’s also got smarts: she is a “women’s libber”, and can play Francis at his own game. She’s Northern – so Lancashire or Yorkshire accent, Liverpool would work, too. Must be a strong singer. Understudy for Pauline Clench:Pauline is early 20s. Sweet, Cockney girl who is not very bright. In love with Alan. Young, pretty, very stupid. Has a broad Cockney accent; her constant refrain is “I don’t understand”. Despite being dumb and occasionally shrill, she should be – somehow – appealing. Should be a good singer.

Female “Ensemble” / Understudy for Rachel:

AVAILABLE POSITION. “Ensemble” roles including an Old Lady out shopping and a Woman eating chips. Also an alternate plant in the audience who helps Francis serve dinner to his two bosses. Understudy for Rachel Crabbe: Rachel is 20s. London girl from a criminal family. Sharp and quick-witted, driven by her real love for Stanley. The breeches part. As Roscoe, she is channeling Pinkie in “Brighton Rock”, the psychotic 1960s gangster, homosexual, vicious. As Rachel, she is strong-witted, brave and good. Cockney accent (not too strong). Must sing.

Casting Directors’ statement: “Actors of all ethnicities are encouraged to attend.”

Note from Equity: Several onstage actor/musician roles are also available. Casting Directors state that Equity Principal Auditions for those roles will be held in February 2012. Watch for separate notice.