[Capdist-auditions] AUDITIONS FOR "ARSENIC AND OLD LACE"

[Susan Ellis]

Our Own ProductionS, Inc. will be holding auditions for a May 2010 production of: 
  
Arsenic and Old Lace 
By 
Joseph Kesselring 
Directed by:  Norman Eick 
  
Audition dates are:  Monday and Tuesday, March 8 and 9, 2010 from 6-9 p.m. with call back date of Thursday, March 11, 2010 if needed.  Sign in is at 6:00 with auditions starting promptly at 6:30.   The auditions will consist of reading from the script.  While a resume and head shot is desirable, it is not mandatory. 
  
Auditions will be held at St. Gabriel’s Church, 3040 Hamburg St., Schenectady, NY 12303 in the church basement. 
  
For more information, e-mail the director at:   normeick at yahoo.com. 
  
The roles being cast are: 
  
Martha Brewster 
Abby Brewster 
Mortimer Brewster
Teddy Brewster 
Jonathan Brewster
The Rev. Dr. Harper 
Elaine Harper 
Dr. Einstein
Mr. Witherspoon
Officer Klein
Mr. Gibbs
Officer Brophy
Officer O'Hara
Lieutenant Rooney 
  
The play is a farcical black comedy revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a marriage-hating drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police in Brooklyn, NY, as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves. His family includes two spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and "just a pinch" of cyanide; a brother who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home (which then serve as graves for the aunts' victims); and a murderous brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice, Dr. Einstein (a character based on real-life gangland surgeon Joseph Moran) to conceal his identity and now looks like horror-film actor Boris Karloff (a self-referential joke, as the part was originally played by Karloff). 
  
 



      
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