[Capdist-auditions] Press Release

[Jonathan S. Slocum]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Town Players of Pittsfield announce open auditions for the final production of
it's 90th season, "Bad Habits" by Terrence McNally.







Winner of the Obie Award, this pair of brilliantly satirical one-act plays offers,
"a biting and hilarious study of events in two very singular sanitariums."  


In the first play, DUNELAWN, we are in an expensive retreat for the unhappily
married, where the wheel-chaired director, Dr. Pepper, dispenses a definitely unique
sort of marital guidance. His theory includes complete indulgence in such "bad
habits" as smoking, drinking and sexual promiscuity—which seems to work wonders for
his patients, whose wacky case histories are each examined in hilarious detail. In
the second play, RAVENSWOOD, the approach is quite the opposite. Here the saintly
Dr. Toynbee injects his straitjacketed charges with tranquilizing drugs to calm such
urges—but again the catalogue of aberrations revealed in his patients is subjected
to close, and enormously funny, scrutiny.

Auditions will be held on Wednesday and Thursday, April 27th and 28th, from 7-9pm,
at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, 28 Renne, Pittsfield, MA.

This production will include a cast of 6 men and 2-3 women; ages range from late 20s
to mid-50s.  
Readings will be from prepared portions of the script.

For more information on the Town Players of Pittsfield please visit 
www.townplayers.org/

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jslocum at pittsfield.net