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Request for Bridge Street Theatre’s 2018 Subscription Season<span></span></b></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Submissions from
local Equity, EMC, and non-Equity adult actors are currently being accepted by
Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill for the productions in its 2018 Subscription
Season. All Equity actors cast will be employed under a Special Appearance
contract at $247/wk (raised to $254/wk for DRIVING MISS DAISY and CASSE
NOISETTE). No work weeks will accrue for either EMC points or health insurance.
Housing and one-time round trip transportation is available to artists from
outside a 50-mile radius of Catskill. All non-Equity talent will receive a stipend.
Auditions for student actors for roles in THE REVENGE OF THE SPACE PANDAS will
be held separately.<span></span></b></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>To submit, please
email your headshot and resume to <a href="mailto:casting@bridgest.org">casting@bridgest.org</a> ASAP. Deadline for
submission is Monday 1/22/2018. Those selected to audition will be contacted
for an appointment and provided with sides to prepare, a location, and an
audition time. Bridge Street Theatre is located at 44 West Bridge Street in
Catskill, NY.<span></span></b></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Bridge Street
Theatre’s 2018 Season consist of the following plays:<span></span></b></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>FRANKIE AND JOHNNY
IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE</b> by Terrence
McNally<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">A contemporary American classic – a romantic comedy about
two ordinary people.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Directed by Sarah Lampert Hoover<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Rehearse: March 13
Runs: March 29 – April 8<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Looking for:<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Frankie</b> – 40s.
A waitress in a diner. Striking but not conventional good looks. A sense of
humor and a fairly tough exterior. She is also frightened and can be hard to
reach. Some onstage nudity required.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">[The role of <b>Johnny
</b>has been cast]<span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>LENI </b>by Sarah Greenman<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">A searing exploration of artistic and moral
responsibility, narcissism, and denial.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Directed by John Sowle<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Rehearse: May 1
Runs: May 17 - 27<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Looking for:<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Leni </b>– German
filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003). Plays ages 30-45, but should appear
even younger. Looks pristine, as if she has stepped out a black and white ‘30s
era film. Her make-up and hair should suggest “film starlet.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">[The role of <b>Helene
</b>has been cast]<span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>THE REVENGE OF THE
SPACE PANDAS or BINKY RUDICH AND THE TWO-SPEED CLOCK </b>by David Mamet<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Directed by Steven Patterson<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">A play for children and their adults. Cast will consist
of a mix of adults, young people, and children.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Rehearse: June 19
Runs: July 12 - 22<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Looking for Adult Actors for:<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>George Topax</b> –
Supreme Ruler of Crestview. Capricious, spoiled, and entitled. A preening
narcissist.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Edward Farpis </b>–
A washed-up former matinee idol, now a derelict. Think John Barrymore (or Norma
Desmond)<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Bob </b>– A sheep.
Deadpan, sardonic sense of humor.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Mrs. Rudich </b>– A
somewhat harried housewife, attempting to emulate June Cleaver.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Retainer (“Hank”) </b>–
Works for George Topax. An obsequious sycophant, extremely condescending to
those he feels are lower on the totem pole. Think Franklin Pangborn.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Numerous small roles including <b>A Newsperson</b>, <b>A Radio
Announcer</b>, and <b>An Executioner</b>.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Cross-gender casting possible. Auditions for the Youth Cast
will be held on a separate date.<span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>THERE IS A
HAPPINESS THAT MORNING IS</b> by Mickle
Maher<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Directed by John Sowle<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">A comedy in rhyming couplets about art, ardor, and an
inappropriately public display of affection. <span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Rehearse: August 21
Runs: September 6 – 16 <span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Looking for:<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Bernard </b>– Middle-aged,
a barely published poet of scant scholarship. An undergraduate lecturer (on
William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence”) at a small, failing Liberal Arts college
in rural New England. Exuberant, boyish, childlike.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Ellen</b> –
Middle-aged, a reputable Ph.D. Bernard’s lover and also an undergraduate lecturer
(on William Blake’s “Songs of Experience”) at the same failing Liberal Arts
college. Feisty, combative, but with an undercurrent of melancholy. Far less
sentimental than Bernard.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">[The role of <b>President
Dean </b>has been cast]<span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>DRIVING MISS
DAISY </b>by Alfred Uhry<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Directed by Flo Hayle<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">The prickly decades-long friendship between a Southern
matron and her black chauffeur<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Rehearse: September 25
Runs: October 11 – 21<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Looking for:<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Hoke Colburn</b> –
An African-American man, native to Georgia. 60 years old, unemployed, and
uneducated in 1948 at the beginning of the play, and 85 years old in 1973 at
the end. Extremely patient and tolerant of Daisy’s barely disguised prejudices,
but not afraid to speak up when his dignity is at stake.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Boolie Werthan </b>–
Daisy’s son, born and raised in Atlanta. 40 years old in the first scene of the
play in 1948, and 65 years old at the show’s end in 1973. Dutiful to his
mother, despite her prickly personality. <span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">[The role of <b>Daisy
Werthan</b> has been cast]<span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>CASSE NOISETTE </b>by Michael Whistler<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">World Premiere<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Directed by John Sowle<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">The life of composer Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky juxtaposed
with a contemporary story of a closeted high school teacher obsessed with
Tchaikovsky’s music.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Rehearse: October 23
Runs: November 8 - 18<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing">Looking for:<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Joe Jessup/Pyotr
Illych Tchaikovsky </b>– 50s. <b>JOE</b> is
quiet and diligent: a teacher, and a man who understands the value of patience
and self-negation. He is used to not getting exactly what he might wish for. <b>TCHAIKOVSKY</b> is the musical genius,
deeply emotional, explosive. In turn sullen, petulant, demanding, and more than
a little exasperating.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Nancy
Klein/Antonietta Dell’era</b> – About 40. <b>NANCY</b>
is a high school English teacher, very warm. She laughs too easily, probably
cries too easily as well if anyone were ever around to see. <b>DELL’ERA</b> is Prima Ballerina of the
Imperial Ballet. A voluptuous woman with majestic hauteur. She speaks with an
almost ludicrous Italian accent.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Marc
Maynes/Modeste Illych Tchaikovsky/Consort</b> – <b>MARC</b> is a gym teacher, 35+, not un-charming, but a man who honestly
believes valuable life lessons can be learned in dodgeball. <b>MODESTE</b> is a businessman who wishes to
be an artist. Sharp, a little sly, and not sentimental: a good balance for his
brother. <b>CONSORT</b> is in service to
the Sugar Plum Fairy.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Sasha Illynovna
Davidov/Sugar Plum Fairy</b> – 40s. <b>SASHA</b>, sister to Pyotr and Modeste, is
placid and quite beautiful: a truly porcelain face, which seems to rest in a
fixed calm. A riding injury has left her in constant pain and addicted to
opium. <b>SUGAR PLUM FAIRY</b> is grand, a
little ludicrous and histrionic, with all of the aplomb and humor of a
drag-queen: a version of the fairy from “The Nutcracker”. Ballet experience a
plus.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>Blaine/Vladimir
“Bob” Levovitch Davidov</b> – Early 20s. <b>BLAINE</b>
is a young gay runaway, working for a phone sex chatline. Always testing
bounds. <b>BOB</b>, son of Sasha, nephew to
Modeste and Tchaikovsky, a still unformed and naive young man; unsure which
road to take, unsure if he will take any.<span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNoSpacing"><b>For more
information about Bridge Street Theatre, visit our website at BridgeSt.org<span></span></b></p></div>