The Shoemaker and The Pretty Trap
– Equity Principal Auditions
Cause Celebre Off-Broadway $539/week minimum.
Artistic Dir: Susan Charlotte
Stage Dir: Antony Marsellis
Equity Principal Auditions:
Thursday, June 2, 2011 Theatre Row Studios
Friday, June 3, 2011 411 West 41st Street (between Ninth and Dyer Avenues)
10:30 AM – 6:30 PM both days. New York City
Lunch from 2 – 3. Ring bell at street entrance for admittance.
Please prepare a brief monologue (for THE PRETTY TRAP, a piece from THE GLASS MENAGERIE is appropriate; for THE SHOEMAKER, a dramatic/tragic piece is recommended).
Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.
Four roles are available, and four roles are cast. For pre-cast roles, auditioning performers will be considered as possible (emergency) replacements, should any become necessary.
THE SHOEMAKER by Susan Charlotte. 1st reh: 6/20/11. Runs 7/14-8/14 (27 performances).
World Premiere. Two-act play takes place on 9/11, but the audience does not know this until the end of Act I.
Louise:
AVAILABLE ROLE. Young woman (mid - late 20s). Works on Wall Street. Nicknamed “Tiny Louise” because she is very short (around five feet). Always wanted to be a dancer, but her her father, who was a very successful businessman on Wall Street, wanted her to follow in his footsteps. Very vulnerable. Although she is very bright, she never felt that she quite measured up, so to speak. At the end of the play, we do not know if she has survived or not. Note: Producers state that Danny Aiello will attend callbacks to read with actresses who are called back for this role.
Offstage Actor:
AVAILABLE ROLE. Plays four different characters: Shoemaker’s Father (from Italy; we hear the him at different phases in his life, from 50 - 80 years old); Simon Levi (successful Wall Street investment banker, 50-60); A Nazi and an Italian Fascist Officer. It is important that the actor has both a very strong voice, and the ability to change from character to character.
The Shoemaker:
CAST (Danny Aiello). Italian Jew. Sent to this country in 1940 so that he would be saved from the Holocaust. His father and grandmother remained in Italy and died in a concentration camp. The Shoemaker never recovered from this loss. He has spent his life as a shoemaker in Hell's Kitchen in NYC. He is a widower with one daughter.
Hilary:
CAST. Woman, 50s. Film professor at Columbia University. Comes from a family of teachers. Has a great love of foreign films. About to teach her first class of the semester at Columbia (an analysis of the Italian masterpiece “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis”). The day is 9/11, and of course she is unable to teach. She walks for miles, and winds up in The Shoemaker's shop.
THE PRETTY TRAP by Tennessee Williams. 1st reh: 7/19/11. Runs 8/2-8/21 (17 performances).
NY premiere of the one-act version of THE GLASS MENAGERIE. The characters are the same as those in THE GLASS MENAGERIE.
Laura:
AVAILABLE ROLE. Mid 20s. Has a delicacy about her. Her look and speech pattern should not be contemporary – she is of another time – 1920s. Note: Producers state that Katharine Houghton will attend callbacks to read with actresses who are called back for this role.
Tom:
AVAILABLE ROLE. Mid - late 20s. Based on Tennessee Williams; should have the feeling of a poet. His look and speech pattern also should not be contemporary.
Amanda:
CAST (Katharine Houghton).
The Gentleman Caller:
CAST (Robert Eli).
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