WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS
– Equity Principal Auditions
Mint Theater Company LOA-NYC $333/week minimum + pension/health.
Artistic Dir: Jonathan Bank
Author: Arnold Bennett
Dir: Matthew Arbour
1st reh: 12/13/10. Holiday-week layoff from 12/20-12/26. Runs 1/13/11 - 3/20/11.
Equity Principal Auditions:
Friday, October 29, 2010 Actors' Equity Association Audition Center
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM 165 West 46th Street, 2nd Floor
Lunch from 1 - 2. New York City
Sides will be provided at the audition. Theatre states that sides will be available at
www.minttheater.org/casting.html on 10/22. Script is available via Google Books at
http://ow.ly/2U71h
Please bring a resume & a picture (of yourself), stapled back-to-back.
Seeking (all roles are available (i.e. not yet offered and accepted):
Note: Actors must have verbal dexterity, quickness of thought, and ready humor. The production will be played in standard American speech. Some actors will play multiple roles (see below).
Sir Charles Worgan:
38-45. Charming yet brusque and strong-willed. Intelligent, but not cultured. Newspaper proprietor and media magnate with a gift for the sensational. Self-made man who wishes to be thought well-bred and high-minded, though he’s actually not.
Francis Worgan:
40-50. Sir Charles’s elder brother. World-travelled, educated and thoughtful, and something of a chronic dabbler. Charming flake and lovable eccentric.
Emily Vernon:
28-35. Striking woman with a quick, native intelligence, charm and good taste. Self-aware enough to know her own limitations; brutally honest with herself and others.
Mrs. Worgan:
Mid-late 60s. Mother to the three Worgan brothers. Stern. Proud of her sons, but demanding of their affection and never satisfied with them. Kind and neighborly with others.
Mrs. Downes:
Mid 60s. Provincial widow. Perfectly independent, very good-natured, with strong common-sense.
Edward Brindley / Page Boy:
Edward: 21. James Brindley’s son. Nervous, shy, but sturdy in defending his own opinions. Aspires to the admiration of his dad’s worldly friends. Page Boy: Late teens-20ish. Office worker and menial.
Mrs. Cleland (Henrietta Blackwood) / Annie Worgan:
Mrs. Cleland: Late 30s-40+. A genuine actress, jaded but still eager for the public’s approval. Annie: Late 30s-40. John’s wife. Capable and sensible. Sure of herself, her family and her homemaking.
Two or three men will double or triple (tracks TBD) in the following roles:
John Worgan:
Mid 40s-50. Sir Charles’s eldest brother. Successful doctor in an industrial town. Prig. Snob.
Saul Kendrick:
50. Sir Charles’s right-hand man. Without taste or tact, though occasionally he remembers that he is a gentleman.
Holt St. John:
50+. Theater producer and manager. Passionate, with impeccable taste. Oversized ego and easily inflamed temper.
Henry Cleland:
40s. Stage manager and husband to Henrietta. Small-minded functionary with no backbone.
Simon Macquoid:
40s. Passionate, temperamental firebrand. Easily outraged, very dramatic.
James Brindley:
Mid 40s. Successful manufacturer. The guy who gossips over the fence about how much he doesn’t like to gossip. Today, he’d read the “Post” and the “Daily News” both.
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