[Capdist-auditions] OPEN AUDITIONS FOR "THE UNDERSTUDY" AT SCHENECTADY CIVIC

[jwmhickman at nycap.rr.com]

OPEN AUDITIONS FOR Schenectady Civic Player's production of
  
"THE UNDERSTUDY" by Theresa Rebeck

  Directed by Mark Stephens

  January 7(Tues) and 9(Thurs), 2014 at 7:30 PM. Signup begins at 7:00.

  at our 12 So Church St.Playhouse, Schenectady, NY

      (Performance dates: March 21 – 23 and 26 – 30, 2014)

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS:

ROXANNE: 30s /40s  -- Former actress, now stage manager, her personal and professional choices come back to haunt her as she runs the understudy rehearsal for a Broadway play. 
 
JAKE: Late 20s / 30s – Attractive Hollywood C-lister, star of a crash/bang/ shoot’em up action film, his talents don’t justify his fame.  He is anxious to be seen as a legitimate actor by appearing on Broadway.
    
HARRY: 30s / 40s –Roxanne’s ex-fiance, a marginally successful, highly trained actor hoping at last for the big break he thinks he deserves. He is Jake’s understudy. Requires physical comedy.

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Franz Kafka’s play is the hilarious setting for Theresa Rebeck’s exploration of the existential vagaries of show business. Personal and professional lives collide when Roxanne, charged with running the understudy rehearsal for the production, finds out that her ex-fiancé Harry has been cast as the understudy. The other understudy is Jake, a famous action movie star yearning for legitimacy in the theatre. Roxanne attempts to navigate the rehearsal despite friction between the actors, a stoned lightboard operator, her feelings for both actors, not to mention the producers who threaten to close the show.

“The Understudy delivers a clever indictment of contemporary theatre while making the characters’ personal circumstances ever more Kafkaesque. They are no more in control of the forces of celebrity, art, money, and Broadway than they are of their own fates.”-The New Yorker

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