[Capdist-auditions] Auditions for The Register, a new original play written by Michael C. Mensching, this Monday and Tuesday, 8/5 and 8/6

[Michael McDermott]

What: Auditions for The Register, a new original play written by Michael C. Mensching
When: August 5 and 6, sign-in at 6:30 and readings at 7:00 for performances October 4-6 and 10-13.
Where: The Arts Center of the Capital Region, 265 River Street, Troy NY 12180

Setting: An apartment building in New York City in 1985 before iPads, Cell Phones and Netflix.  A blizzard hits NYC taking out all forms of wired communication. Stranded by the blizzard and with little to do to amuse themselves, Frank and Marjorie Balanchine, a married couple, resort to eavesdropping on the couple downstairs through the register vent in the floor of their NYC walk-up apartment building.  Hilarity, thieving and murder ensue in this madcap two-act comedic farce written by Michael C. Mensching and directed by Michael McDermott, as the action progresses and builds floor-to-floor in the overlapping flats of the apartment building.

The Register had a debut as a one-act play during the Playwright's Showcase at Albany Civic Theater in 2018.  After a successful series of workshop reviews it has been expanded to a two-act comedy by Michael C. Mensching, former President of Schenectady Light Opera Company and former Artistic Director of Albany Civic Theater.  The play will be produced in a fully staged production by Troy Civic Theater, October 4,5,6 and 10, 11, 12, 13 at the Arts Center of the Capital District under the direction and design of Michael McDermott.

Rehearsals will be held Monday, Thursday and Fridays with allowances made for actor conflicts.  Some parts have been precast with the following parts open for actors of all types:

Pam Jeffries:       A struggling actress in her early 20’s with a flair for the dramatic.  She and her boyfriend Dennis live in the first floor apartment of a NYC apartment building.

Faith:                  Anthony’s dim witted girlfriend and daughter of a NYC mobster.  She is in her early 30’s.  She is a 1930’s caricature of a gun moll dumped into 1985.

Big Tony:             Male in his 60’s. One of the last remaining mob kingpins left over from earlier times.


Parties interested in viewing sections of the script may contact Michael McDermott at irishmike518 at yahoo.com or by call/texting (518)669-5414.
Michael McDermott
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