CLASSIC COMEDY AUDITIONS
With the floorboards still sizzling from the completely sold-out three-week run of “Cabaret,” veteran Production Director Elena Vitale is preparing auditions for the Community Light Opera and Theater Association's next production, “Arsenic And Old Lace.” Vitale promises that this memorable American farce, a perennial favorite since its record-breaking Broadway début in 1941, will keep Center Stage’s roof beams bouncing with uproarious audience laughter as a pre-Thanksgiving holiday treat.
Friday, August 27 tryouts for 11 male and 3 female roles will begin at 6:00 p.m., followed by a Saturday, August 28 session starting at noon—all at Center Stage, 1425 N. Inyo.
Male actors will be vying to play Mortimer Brewster, a hilarious leading-man role that Cary Grant made famous in the 1944 film adaptation. Mortimer has family problems, including two spinster aunts who feel sorry for lonely old men and have taken to easing them out of their solitude by serving them home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and "just a pinch" of cyanide.
Mortimer’s murderous brother, who resembles horror film actor Boris Karloff, and another brother who believes himself to be Teddy Roosevelt illustrate the peculiarity that runs rampant in the Brewster clan. “Is it any wonder,” Vitale asks, “that Mortimer questions whether he should marry his lovely fiancée and start his own family?”
Rounding out the cast are a maniacal plastic surgeon, a quartet of not-too-competent policemen, and an assortment of lovable old geezers with a hankering for elderberry wine.
Vitale and Assistant Director K. Pearl Woolam (fresh from her knockout performance as Fräulein Schneider in “Cabaret) say the characters range in age from the 20s into the 70s. Performance dates are November 5, 6, 12, 13, 14,19 and 20. For more information, leave a call-back request at the CLOTA hotline, 760-446-2411.
No comments:
Post a Comment