2014-2015 Season Auditions at Red Barn Theatre / May 17th
Red Barn Theatre is excited to announce two of the productions the Theatre will be producing in the 2014 – 2015 season –its 35th season! The auditions are open and paid and will consist of brief readings from the scripts. Callbacks will be at a yet-to-be-determined time. Email Joy Hawkins at [email protected] with any questions.
Auditions take place at the Red Barn Theatre, 319 Duval Rear, from 3 to 6 pm Saturday, May 17. There is no parking at the theatre, except for bikes. Please park elsewhere and walk in.
They are seeking actors for the following shows:
THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO by Alfred Uhry
Production Dates: December 16 – January 17
Director: Joy Hawkins
Winner of the 1997 Tony Award, Outer Circle Critics Award and Drama League Award for Best Play
Uhry won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award for his play Driving Miss Daisy.
Without ever departing from it’s basic structure as a rich, often hilarious romantic comedy, Ballyhoo plumbs unexplored territory as it progresses. The time is 1939, when the most important thing in young Lala Levy’s life is the Altanta premiere of Gone With the Wind. More urgent to her widowed mother, Boo, is the question of who will be Lala’s date for the last night of Ballyhoo, the formal dance that crowns the party season for Altanta’s Jewish Society.
“Remarkable is Uhry’s gift for creating a stage full of characters so rich they all seem like leading roles.” — American Theatre
Characters:
ADOLPH FREITAG: A businessman, late 40’s – early 60’s. Gently acerbic with secret sorrows. Kind, wise, occasionally grumpy.
BOO LEVY: Adolph’s sister. Late 40’s – early sixties. Originally played by Dana Ivey. Pragmatic, direct to the point of insensitivity at times. Desperately concerned for her daughter’s future. Dry wit.
REBA FREITAG: Adolph’s sister-in-law. Mid 40’s to late 50’s. Seemingly simple. Perhaps not the sharpest blade in the drawer but loving and inadvertently funny. Sunny’s adoring mother.
LALA LEVY: Boo’s daughter, 20’s. Played at one point by Cynthia Nixon. An off-kilter, high-strung, odd-duck. Thrilled by all things “Gone With the Wind”.
SUNNY FREITAG: Reba’s daughter, 20’s. A junior at Wellesley. Self-possesed, smart and lovely. A good and tender heart.
JOE FARKAS: Adolph’s business assistant, 20’s – early 30’s. Originally played by Paul Rudd. A charmer from New York City. Tells it like it is. Finds an intellectual match in Sunny.
PEACHY WEIL: A male visitor from Lake Charles, 20’s – early 30’s. Blithely arrogant and outspoken. Will have to have red hair one way or another.
CLARK GABLE SLEPT HERE by Micheal McKeever
Produciton Dates: February 3 – March 7
Director: Joy Hawkins
The new smash-hit play by prolific South Florida playwright McKeever. Produced by Zoetic Stage, Miami to critical raves and buffo box office.
Called by the Miami Herald “wildly funny and comedically horrifying…carefully constructed to reveal surprise after surprise”. Florida Theater On Stage said “Death, drug overdose, murder, lies, hypocrisy, soulless creatures willing to do absolutely anything for greed and glamour…you really shouldn’t be laughing this much or this hard”.
This jet-black satire unfolds on the night of the Golden Globes Awards in LA in a glamorous penthouse. Nothing is ever what it seems and closets are used for much more than hanging up your Tom Ford tuxedo.
Characters:
GAGE HOLLAND: 30’s – 40’s. A hotel manager. The only decent person in the room. Simply wants to do his job. Jittery.
ESTELLA: 20’s – 50’s. A hotel maid. Must speak Spanish well. Smarter than a fox and hides it well. Talent for physical comedy.
JARROD “HILLY” HILLIARD: 50’s. A super manager/agent. Cool, collected, razor-sharp. Knows his way around a dry, drop-dead delivery.
MORGAN WRIGHT: 40’s – 50’s. A Hollywood “fixer”. Glamorous, gorgeous with a commanding presence and great comic timing. Street smart with the moral compass of a shark.
TRAVIS: 20’s – maybe 30’s. A “dead” male prostitute. Great body. Also has to act.