SALVATION Equity Principal Audition - Hudson Stage Company Auditions

SALVATION – Equity Principal Auditions

Hudson Stage Company SPT (approval/salary level pending; 2009-10 minimum weekly: $223).

Pension/health paid; transportation to Theatre (in Westchester) provided during tech/run.

Producers: Denise Bessette, Dan Foster, Olivia Sklar

Playwright: James McLindon

Dir: Giovanna Sardelli

1st reh: 10/4/10. Rehearses in NYC. Runs in Westchester County 10/29 - 11/13 (weekends only/nine performances).

Equity Principal Auditions:

Wednesday, September 8, 2010 Theatre Row Studios

10:30 AM – 6 PM 411 West 41st St (between 9th & Dyer)

Lunch from 1 – 1:30 New York City

Sides will be provided at the audition. Please bring a picture & resume, stapled together.

Dark comedy. Jack took to heart his 2nd-grade nun’s teaching 50 years ago that, no matter how evil a life he led, he could still go to heaven provided he made a perfect deathbed confession. Now, at the end of a crime-filled life, Jack lies dying, attended only by Bartholomew, his browbeaten son who despises him almost as much as he loves and wants to reconcile with him. Enter Father Gallagher, a soul-weary priest, about to encounter the most bizarre confession of his career.

Seeking:

Notes: All roles are available (i.e. not yet offered and accepted). All actors must have strong comic skills.

Bartholomew:

Mid 20s - early 30s, yet filled with the anger, uncertainty and awkwardness of a 13-year-old. Agoraphobic. Buddhist. Artist trying to define himself as separate from his criminal, Catholic overbearing father.

Jack:

50s. Bartholomew’s father. Dying criminal. Though he is not well, his iron constitution masks this. Devout Catholic. Crusty, larger-than-life, charming storyteller. The type of guy you love to hate. Believes confession will set him free in the end.

Father Gallagher:

50s. Roman Catholic priest. A spare man. Weary, dispirited and preoccupied with his own problems – a bit of a bumbler. He is to priesthood what Maxwell Smart is to spies. He desperately wants to find his faith again, or at least have the time to search for it.

Tommy:

Around Jack’s age. Tall, heavy, brutish neighborhood thug and drunk. A bully, not above using his emotions to get what he wants. More clever than people would think. Out for money or vengeance; determined that if he doesn’t get his share from a bank heist, he can at least have the pleasure of killing Jack.