Cast For “It's Only a Play” & “Dead Man's Cell Phone” Plays
Description
Auditions for “It’s Only a Play” & “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” plays. Looking for cast. Please see the breakdown below.
About the project:
“IT’S ONLY A PLAY”: It’s the opening night of The Golden Egg on Broadway, and the wealthy producer (Julia Budder) is throwing a lavish party in her lavish Manhattan townhouse. Downstairs the celebrities are pouring in, but the real action is upstairs where a group of insiders have staked themselves out in the producer’s bedroom, waiting for the reviews to come in. Included are the excitable young author; the brilliant but unstable director (who courts failure and is devastated when his work is well received); the pill-popping leading lady (who is hoping to revive her career after a series of flop movies); and the playwright’s best friend, an egotistical but insecure comic actor who passed up a chance to star in the play for a television series—which has since been cancelled. Also present are a fawning, hypocritical drama critic (who is a closet playwright); a would-be singer working as a part-time servant; and a hard-boiled lady taxi driver who has seen it all, many times over. The good natured bonhommie with which the evening begins grows steadily bitchier—and funnier—as the reviews (all bad) come in, and those assembled seek desperately to pin the blame on each other. But, as euphoria slides into despair, the narcissism, ambition, childishness and just plain irrationality that infuse the theatre and its denizens take over, and as the curtain falls plans are eagerly afoot for their next venture—this one sure to be the hit they have all been hoping for.
“DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE”: An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl. A work about how we memorialize the dead – and how that remembering changes us – it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
Additional info:
Both auditions: Be prepared for the show you are auditioning for, be prepared to do a cold read with prepared sides which will be provided. In the meantime, look at these plays online, read up on characters, playwright etc.
“IT’S ONLY A PLAY”
Running August 23-September 8th. (10 performances)
“DEAD MAN’S CELL PHONE”
Running October 4-October 13th (7 performances)
If you are interested, please apply.