WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE 3 SHOWS Equity Principal Auditions - Westport Country Playhouse Auditions

Westport Country Playhouse 3 shows – Equity Principal Auditions

Westport Country Playhouse (Westport, CT)

Contract: COST -Special Agreement Westport Country Playhouse

$705/week minimum WCP will be paying $740/week “favored nations”

Artistic Director: Mark Lamos

Artistic and Management Coordinator: Kim Furano

Casting: Stephanie Klapper Casting and Tara Rubin Casting

This EPA is for the first three shows of the 2013 season.

THE DINING ROOM

by A.R. Gurney

Director-Mark Lamos

Casting: Stephanie Klapper Casting

1st rehearsal: 4/5/13 (First rehearsal in Westport all subsequent rehearsals in NYC)

Runs: 4/30 – 5/19/13

In A.R. Gurney's celebrated masterpiece, nearly half a century passes in the course of a single day in the most singular of rooms-where people gather, meals are eaten, conversations begin, and generations converge. The Dining Room chronicles the American Family and the keeping and breaking of traditions.

NOTE:

All the actors will play New England WASP's of various generations. Some scenes take place in the past and some in the present. The scenes are interrelated. We are seeking a facile cast. There will be no costume changes and all the actors will play both young and older roles. All the characterizations will be through the acting.

Seeking 3 male performers and 3 female performers, capable of playing multiple roles across a wide variety of age ranges and time periods, to portray members of a traditional New England WASP family and their household.

MAN 1 (as cast): Early 20's to mid-30's. Believably WASPY and Caucasian.

MAN 2 (as cast): Mid-30's to early 40's. Believably WASPY and Caucasian.

MAN 3 (as cast): Late 40's to mid-50's. Believably WASPY and Caucasian.

WOMAN 1 (as cast): Early 20's to mid-30's. Believably WASPY and Caucasian.

WOMAN 2 (as cast): Mid-30's to early 40's. Believably WASPY and Caucasian.

WOMAN 3 (as cast): Late 40's to mid-50's. Believably WASPY and Caucasian.

THE SHOW OFF

by George Kelly

Director-Nicholas Martin

Casting: Tara Rubin Casting

1st rehearsal 5/17/13 (All rehearsals in NYC)

Runs: 6/11 – 6/30/13

Seeking:

Aubrey: This role is cast and is not available.

Mrs. Fisher: This role is cast and is not available.

Amy Fisher: mid 20’s to late 20’s A young naïve woman who is smitten with Aubrey.

Clara Fisher: late 30’s A sophisticated woman who is trapped in a loveless and unhappy marriage to Frank Hyland. Amy and Joe’s sister.

Joe Fisher: early 20’s but must be younger than Amy. Young inventor and brother of Amy and Clara.

Mr. Fisher: late 50’s to late 60’s. Middle class businessman. Doesn’t have much to say. Husband to Mrs. Fisher, father to Joe, Clara, and Amy.

Frank Hyland: early 40’s Indifferent to everything. Well to do businessman unhappily married to Clara.

Mr. Gill: mid 30’s to mid 50’s Blue Collar working class.

Mr. Rogers: mid 20’s to mid 50’s Typical fast talking Insurance Salesman.

LOOT by Joe Orton

Director-David Kennedy

Casting: Tara Rubin Casting

1st rehearsal 6/21/13 (All rehearsals in Westport)

Runs: 7/16 – 8/4/13

Note: Loot requires quick-witted actors who have a genuine facility for sharp, specific physical and verbal comedy grounded in truth, as well as a solid command of English dialects.

Fay - (female, late 20s): This role is cast and is not available.

McLeavy - (male, 50s): A devout and gentle Catholic, a good soul, an upright member of the English middle classes, and the essence of unimaginative bourgeois conformity. He’s mourning the recent death of his wife, and is heartsick over his delinquent son. He naively defers to authority at all times, until he reaches a spectacular breaking point.

Hal - (male, 20s): McLeavy’s wayward son and a bit of a misfit, in and out of reformatories as a boy, and now graduated to bigger crimes. Despite this, he’s actually rather earnest, honest to a fault, and cannot tell a lie, a real stumbling block for a thief. He’s a strange mix of arch-criminal and good Catholic altar boy

Dennis - (male, 20s): Hal’s dashing childhood friend and occasional lover, he was born to the lower classes and a life of crime. With Hal, he recently pulled off a daring bank job, using his work as an assistant funeral director as cover. He’s now desperately staying one step ahead of the police, employing his native smarts to navigate out of tight spots. His one weakness is Fay, whom he desperately wishes to marry.

Truscott - (male, 50s): On the surface, the quintessential brilliant investigator from English detective stories, but underneath an often arbitrary, authoritarian, corrupt, somewhat sadistic, and violent man. Like a dictator, he speaks the most illogical pronouncements with the conviction of truth.

Meadows - (male, 30s/40s): Truscott’s backup, an English bobby, steadfast and true.