[Capdist-auditions] Auditions for DROP DEAD DISCO: A DANCING MYSTERY- TONIGHT!! September 10th & TOMORROW!! September 11th

[Nick Himmelwright]

Audition Announcement for:

Drop Dead Disco: A Dancing Mystery



Auditions

*Wednesday, September 10th *

&

*Thursday September 11th *



At

Rocks Albany
77 Central Ave, Albany, NY

6 to 8 pm



*Show Date and Location: *

*October 18th, 2014* at the *Watervilet Ancient Order of the Hibernians
Lodge*

*1021 9th Ave, Watervliet, NY*



Auditioners are asked to bring theater resmues and (if possible) a recent
photo.

 Improv experience desired, but not required! Due to restrictions from the
venue, all Auditioners are asked to be *21 or over*.



Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script and a minor
improv exercise.

The audition packet with all information is attached as a PDF.



Any Questions Please email: damonhyper at gmail.com



*The Scenario:*

Dust off your disco duds, poof up your pompadour and

get ready to get down at the hottest spot this side of the seventies --

it's opening night at the Drop Dead Disco.



Putting aside personal differences, club owners Paulie, Esther & Cotton
Blend

are pulling out all the stops to put a glow in your mood ring and a song in
your heart.

Their inheritance depends on it.

Persuaded by their adopted parents to abandon previous occupations, the

Blend Siblings have decided to operate a discotheque. From inception to
completion,

the only thing the three agreed on was the name: DROP DEAD.

Paulie has hired a blind person to be the DJ - 'blind people have great

hearing' was his rationale. Cotton got the doorman through a friend for a
favour and

Esther is contributing a contest idea - she's even picked up a few prizes.
Don't ask if

they were paid for. Paulie's a little worried about a rumour that an
undercover

investigator from the IRS will be in the club - he knows that, at the end
of the

night, the money and the receipts won't match up. Esther is keeping crooked
company,

and this is Cotton's first public appearance since he got out of jail. They
are all taking a chance on the nightlife.





*The Characters:*



*Paulie Blend **** is a neat freak extraordinaire, and his life is going
from bad to worse.

The DJ is blind, his girlfriend left him, the Doorman isn’t what he seems,
the Mob is moving

in, his siblings are slobs, the disco is dirty and he wants everything
cleaned up.



*Esther Blend* has a secret source of income, a secret skill and a secret
relationship.

She wishes her bothersome brothers, especially Paulie, would drop dead.





*Cotton Blend**** hired the blind DJ and the suspicious Doorman. When not
in jail,

Cotton is working to turn the disco into a casino. He likes to gamble and
wants to be the

house because the house always wins.





*Donna O’Shea*, Disco Dance Queen and Paulie’s angry ex-girlfriend. Donna
will do

anything to win the dance contest. She’s a paranoid walking arsenal and
extremely moody.





*Johnny Fever*, a mobster and a loan shark and proud of it; with a secret
obsession

for auctions. Johnny loves Elvis, hates disco and is frequently outbid by
Paulie on Ebay.



*Stevie Awesome*, the blind DJ who wants to keep her job and is quick to
yell

discrimination if anyone interrupts her continuous play and suggests being
blind is a

handicap to scratching vinyl.





*Hugo Grommet*, the doorman, is supposed to be hot for Esther but seems to
have a

little something going on with Donna. He’s very interested in people’s
financial information.



**Please Note: *Paulie Blend *&* Cotton* *Blend* are played by the same
actor**



Thanks for your interest!
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