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Breakdown
2015-16 SEASON:
PICNIC
THE HISTORY BOYS
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
OUTSIDE MULLINGAR
SATCHMO AT THE WALDORF
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PICNIC
Dir. William Hayes
1st rehearsal: September 15, 2015. Runs: October 9, 2015 – November 8, 2015
Seeking:
Hal Carter
male (20’s) Handsome, charismatic, impulsive, sexy, well-built vagabond. Has led a rough life as a drifter. Hal is insecure, socially inept, and frightened that others will see through his bravado. While on the surface he is cocky and worldly, underneath he is a troubled young man with a difficult past who envies the stability he sees in others.
Millie Owens
female (18-20 to play a 16 year old girl) Madge's younger sister. Very intelligent, shy but boisterous, and assertive in an effort to appear confident. She is a smart, scrappy, smart-mouthed tomboy and never afraid of a fight.
Alan Seymour
male (20’s) Madge's home-town boyfriend. Nice looking, smart, level-headed, wealthy and polished, a good guy. He is jealous of Hal’s freedom and inhibitions, and he likes to live vicariously through Hal’s exploits.
Bomber
male (early-late teens) The neighborhood paperboy. He is a smart-mouthed bully who picks on Millie but worships Madge. Does his best to appear older and wiser than his years. A little annoying but harmless and likeable.
Irma Kronkite
female (30’s-50’s) An unwed school teacher. She is a loud, funny jokester who enjoys her single life. Gossiper.
Christine Schoenwalder
female (30’s-50’s) An unwed school teacher. She is quiet and shy, a follower.
THE FOLLOWING ROLES HAVE BEEN CAST. Auditioners will be considered as a possible replacements for:
Flo Owens
ROLE CAST. female (40’s) Widowed mother of Millie and Madge. She is cautious and sometimes overbearing. She is a pretty, fiercely protective mother with a hard exterior. Loves her daughters very much and wants better lives for them than she has had.
Madge Owens
ROLE CAST. female (20’s to play 18 years old) The most beautiful girl in town, but feels that is all people see in her. Sick of always being the pretty one, she just wants to find her place in the world. Not book smart, but warm and charming. She yearns for and is searching for an escape from small time life. Her sensuality is just below surface and is awakened by a stranger to town. She is not as naive as she may seem.
Helen Potts
ROLE CAST. female (50’s-60’s) A widow whose past is filled with heartache from a long-lost love. She is pleasant, kindhearted, nurturing, warm, friendly and a true romantic.
Rosemary Sydney
ROLE CATS. female (30’s-late 40’s) An unwed school teacher. Bawdy, boastful, and self-righteous on the outside. Inside is a lonely and frightened woman with a fragile spirit.
Howard Bevans
ROLE CAST. male (40’s-50’s) Rosemary's longtime boyfriend, a local business owner. Easy-going, mild-mannered, friendly and content. He is a good friend and neighbor. Enjoys a drink and loves a good time.
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THE HISTORY BOYS
(all actors must speak with a British dialect)
Dir. J. Barry Lewis
1st rehearsal: November 10, 2015. Runs: December 4, 2015 – January 3, 2016
seeking:
Posner
male (20’s to play 17-18 years old) Jewish, small-framed, and homosexual. Posner struggles with feeling like an outsider. He has a sneaky side, an eagerness to learn and impress. He is shy with a great deal of insecurity and self-doubt. Singing ability a plus.
Dakin
male (20’s to play 17-18 years old) Very self-confident “leader” of the group. Cocky, headstrong, smart, creative, and attractive. He is aware of all of these strengths and has developed a smug sense of both entitlement and disregard. Dakin has a cynical nature and is bored with the world because he gets almost anything that he wants.
Scripps
male (20’s to play 17-18 years old) A devout Anglican, he acts as narrator in the play. He is chaste, sharp, perceptive, amiable, calm but strong and is liked by everyone. He is an observer and often the voice of reason for the boys. This role requires some piano playing ability.
Rudge
male (20’s to play 17-18 years old) a thick-headed, working class kid whom all believe has few prospects, better known for athletic skills than for intelligence. Seems like an empty-headed jock, but knows how to work the school system. He is the least clever of the boys and the teachers regard him as a lost cause.
Lockwood
male, (20’s to play 17-18 years old) Can be African American. Strong and opinionated. Inquisitive, willing to challenge the teachers, bright but a little like a typical teenager.
Akthar
male (20’s to play 17-18 years old) of Asian, Middle Eastern or Indian ancestry. Muslim, cheerful, cheeky, rowdy, and bright. Keen on jokes, computers, and pop culture.
Timms
male (20’s to play 17-18 years old) Class clown of the group. A little overweight, high-spirited, cheerful, and revels in games and sceneplay.
Crowther
male (20’s to play 17-18 years old) Can be African American. He is blunt and has a straight to the point sense of humor. He is down to earth. He is a little disillusioned and frustrated.
Irwin
male (20’s-30’s) A brash, awkward yet charismatic young teacher. He is vulnerable, insecure, uncertain of his career path and his sexuality. He is pragmatic, cynical, pessimistic yet incisively brilliant, rigorous and demanding. Despite his airs, he has a longing need to be liked by the boys. He has an apparently flippant and glib attitude to education and is not as concerned with the truth as with what sounds good.
Headmaster
male (50’s-60’s) He is a hypocrite and the stereotype of a Headmaster who is out of contact with the students, but pretends that he isn’t. A business minded leader that is results-fixated. He is a brusque, charmless individual with little feeling for the subtleties of teaching. Narrow-minded and ambitious, he has only one concern: making himself and his school look good; he doesn't really seem to care much about the boys, just their exam scores.
THE FOLLOWING ROLES HAVE BEEN CAST. Auditioners will be considered as a possible replacements for:
Hector
ROLE CAST. male (40’s-60’s) Hector is a romantic in every sense of the word. He is charismatic, eccentric and refuses to conform, a lover of words. Wants the boys to learn about poetry, music, movies, and literature which he believes to be more important than facts and figures. He is accused of being a pedophile. He is an amiable free-thinker, a lover of learning for learning's sake, erudite, incorrigible, an intellectual purist, careless about satisfying academic requirements and oblivious to boundaries in or out of the class.
Mrs. Dorothy Lintott
ROLE CAST. female (40’s–60’s) Serves as the voice of reason, She is a cynical observer of what happens in the play. She is a reliable, astute, forthright and perceptive commentator, a plainspoken schoolmarm. She is an isolated, woman, history teacher in a male-dominated club. She has a no-nonsense, laconic, wry wit.
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LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
Dir. William Hayes
1st rehearsal: December 29, 2015. Runs: January 29, 2016 – February 28, 2016
seeking:
Edmund Tyrone
male (20’s-30’s) The Tyrone’s sickly younger son. He is ambitious, brilliant, sensitive, brooding and deeply unsettled by his relationship to his dysfunctional family. Edmund seems more reticent and thoughtful than his showier brother and father; he is an observer rather than an actor. He is an extremely nervous, restless, consumptive, poet-in-waiting
THE FOLLOWING ROLES HAVE BEEN CAST. Auditioners will be considered as a possible replacements for:
James Tyrone
ROLE CAST. male (60’s) A vibrant, broad-shouldered, good-looking man. He is a proud, brittle, defensive, penny pinching tightwad. He drinks heavily to assuage his festering guilt. He is a bombastic, miserly, anguished, moody ex-actor. He has a hearty sense of humor and the big-hearted expressiveness of a born actor.
Mary Tyrone
ROLE CAST. female (50’s) Tyrone’s wife. She is a nervous, fragile, mentally unstable women suffering from a morphine addiction. She is an empathetic, loving woman who is deeply devoted to her family. She has a grace and elegance about her. She was once extremely pretty and is still striking. She shifts from chirpy gaiety to fiery rebellion to wistful nostalgia. Whether high or sober, she feels profoundly isolated, though she does her best to hide her unbearable loneliness
James “Jamie” Tyrone, Jr.
ROLE CAST. male (40’s) Their elder son. He was once a promising actor, like his father. However, he has squandered his talent on liquor and prostitutes, and has become a bitter and broken man. “On the rare occasions when he smiles without sneering, his personality possesses the remnant of a humorous, romantic, irresponsible Irish charm – the beguiling ne'er-do-well, with a strain of the sentimentally poetic, attractive to women and popular with men.” He is filled with jealousy, self-loathing and cynicism.
Cathleen
ROLE CAST. female, (20’s-30’s) she is the Tyrone's summer maid, or second girl. Plain, Irish peasant. She is amiable, ignorant, clumsy with well-meaning stupidity. She is lighthearted and rather oblivious to the misery that surrounds her. She is a first-generation immigrant and has a pronounced Irish accent.
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OUTSIDE MULLINGAR
(all actors must speak with an Irish dialect)
Dir. J. Barry Lewis
1st rehearsal: March 1, 2016. Runs: March 25, 2016 – April 24, 2016
seeking:
Anthony Reilly
male (40’s) An intense dreamer, dutiful and quiet; his subdued manner masks a full, yearning heart; resigned to a life alone because he's afraid to reveal himself; sensitive, guarded, painfully shy, he feels things deeply.
Rosemary Muldoon
female (40’s) A farmer’s daughter and a tough cookie. A bit of a tomboy, but with a romantic soul. Stubborn, yet patient and optimistic. She is feisty, practical, has a temper and is determined to get what she wants once she sets her mind to it. Confrontational, proud and beautiful, she is a strong willed woman.
Tony Reilly
male (60’s-70’s) Anthony's father; a wily old Irish farmer, cantankerous, set in his ways, and sly; proud, stubborn, and gruff; a fixture of his part of the Irish countryside. He is stern and unsentimental, he thinks he knows it all, and is right about everything.
Aoife Muldoon
female (60’s-70’s) Rosemary's mother, in bad health. She is grief-stricken because her husband has just died. A sharp, straight-shooter who doesn’t suffer fools. She is weathered, blunt, highly opinionated, and set in her ways. She has some spunk left in her and calls things as she sees them.
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SATCHMO AT THE WALDORF
Dir. J. Barry Lewis
1st rehearsal: April 19, 2016. Runs: May 13, 2016 – June 12, 2016
seeking:
Louis Armstrong
African-American male, 40’s-60’s. Ailing Jazz legend at 70 years old. Does not need to resemble Armstrong but must suggest Armstrong’s gravelly voice rather than imitating it. Does not need to play trumpet. He shifts from an optimistic, genial, humorous innocent sensitivity to tough and rough. He is sometimes conflicted, resentful, angry and wracked with regrets. He is a charismatic story-teller and crowd pleaser with a bright smile. An all-around entertainer. Actor must also play Joe Glaser, Armstrong’s white, Jewish fast-talking manager as well as the cool, angry jazz musician Miles Davis.
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