[Capdist-auditions] CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF - corrected announcement (roles added)

[LWAndruski at aol.com]

The Delta Xi cast of Alpha Psi Omega, the  National Theater Honor Fraternity 
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, will hold  auditions for Tennessee William
’s Cat on  a Hot Tin Roof on Tuesday, June 26 and Wednesday, June 27 at 7:00 
pm in  Mother’s Emporium, lower level of the RPI Union, 15th and Sage Avenue  
in Troy, NY.  Show dates are September 7th, 8th, 14th and 15th  at the RPI 
Playhouse on 15th Street in Troy.  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof will be directed  by 
Amanda Brinke.  No prepared monologue necessary.  Actors will read  directly from 
the script. 
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the story of a Southern family in crisis,  focusing 
on the turbulent relationship of a wife and husband, Maggie "The Cat"  and 
Brick Pollitt, and their interaction with Brick's family over the course of  one 
evening gathering at the family estate in Mississippi, ostensibly to  
celebrate the birthday of patriarch and tycoon "Big Daddy" Pollitt. Maggie,  through 
wit and beauty, has escaped a childhood of desperate poverty to marry  into the 
wealthy Pollitt family, but finds herself suffering in an unfulfilling  
marriage. Brick, an aging football hero, has neglected his wife and further  
infuriates her by ignoring his brother's attempts to gain control of the family  
fortune. Brick's indifference, and his nearly continuous drinking, date back to  
the recent suicide of his friend Skipper. Big Daddy is unaware that he has  
cancer and will not live to see another birthday; his doctors and his family  
have conspired to keep this information from him and his wife. His relatives are 
 in attendance and attempt to present themselves in the best possible light,  
hoping to receive the definitive share of Big Daddy's enormous wealth. 
(Source:  Wikipedia) 
Available Roles: 
Margaret -  The play's cat. Maggie's loneliness and Brick's  refusal to make 
her his desire, has made her hard, nervous, and bitchy. The  woman constantly 
posing in the mirror, Maggie holds the audiences transfixed.  The exhilaration 
of the play lies in the force of the audience's identification  with its 
gorgeous heroine, a woman desperate in her sense of loneliness, who is  made all 
the more beautiful in her envy, longing, and dispossession.  
Brick  -  The favorite son and mourned lover. Brick embodies an  almost 
archetypal masculinity. At the same time, the Brick before us is also an  obviously 
broken man because of his repressed homosexual desire for his dead  friend 
Skipper.  
Big Daddy  -  Brick's father. Affectionately dubbed by Maggie  as an 
old-fashioned "Mississippi redneck," Daddy is a large, brash,  and vulgar plantation 
millionaire who believes he has returned from the grave.  Though his coming 
death has been quickly repressed, in some sense Daddy has  confronted its 
possibility. In returning from "death's country," Daddy would  force his son to face 
his own desire.  
Big Mama -  Brick's mother. Fat, breathless, sincere, earnest,  crude, and 
bedecked in flashy gems, Mama is a woman embarrassingly dedicated to  a man who 
despises her and in feeble denial of her husband's disgust. She  considers 
Brick her "only son."  
Mae  -  A mean, agitated "monster of fertility" who schemes  with her husband 
Gooper to secure Big Daddy's estate. Mae appears primarily  responsible for 
the burlesques of familial love and devotion that she and the  children stage 
before the grandparents.  
Gooper  -  A successful corporate lawyer. Gooper is Daddy's  eldest and least 
favored son. He deeply resents his parents' love for Brick,  viciously 
relishes in Daddy's illness, and rather ruthlessly plots to secure  control of the 
estate.  
Reverend Tooker -  A tactless, opportunistic, and hypocritical  guest at Big 
Daddy's birthday party. As Williams indicates, his role is to  embody the lie 
of conventional morality. Note especially in Act III his off-hand  anecdote 
about the colors of his cheap chasuble fading into each other.  
Doctor Baugh -  The sober Baugh is Daddy's physician. He  delivers Daddy's 
diagnosis to Big Mama and leaves her with a prescription of  morphine.  
The Children  -  Mae and Gooper's children. They appear here as  grotesque, 
demonic "no- necked monsters" who intermittently interrupt the action  on
-stage. Under Mae's direction, they offer up a burlesque image of familial  love and 
devotion.  
The servants -  The plantation servants appear throughout the  play. Note 
Williams's references to "Negro voices." In the birthday scene, they  appear 
laughing at the edges of the stage, functioning to almost ornament the  grotesque 
tableau.  
Alpha Psi Omega is a National Theater Honor Fraternity.  The Delta Xi Cast is 
associated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and has been in existence 
since 1937.  We welcome both student and community members for acting and 
production roles.
Producer Greg Zabielski is also seeking the following production roles:
 
- Stage Manager
- Set Designer 
- Master  Carpenter
- Props Master
- Costume Designer
- Master Electrician
-  Sound Designer
- Light Designer
- Publicity Director
- Hair and Make-up  Person/People*
- House Manager*
- Box Office Manager*

The last  three production roles* do not have to be present in Troy during 
the summer, but  interested parties should apply for them now.  Deadline for 
production roles is  Wednesday, June 20th.

Submissions should be made by email or  if that is not possible, by phone to:

Greg Zabielski, Producer   
Email : _VigilantThief at gmail.com_ (mailto:VigilantThief at gmail.com) 
Phone: 518 301 5849 





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