[NEohioPAL] Auditions - Crumbs from the Table of Joy

[Jan Harcar]

Weathervane Playhouse

Akron OH

 

OPEN CALL AUDITIONS

Crumbs from the table of joy

 

Drama by Lynn Nottage

 

Audition Dates:

Saturday and Sunday, October 23 & 24, 2010

Between 4 - 6 p.m.

 

NO APPOINTMENTS ARE NECESSARY.

Sides will be provided for the audition.

 

 

Rehearsals: Sunday - Thursday at 7 p.m. beginning Sunday, October 17

 

Performed in the John L. Dietz Theater

Thursdays, January 13, 20, 27 at 7:30 p.m.

Fridays, January 14, 21, 28 at 8 p.m.

Saturdays, January 15, 22 at 8 p.m.

Saturday, January 29 at 2:30 and 8 p.m.

Sundays, January 16, 23 at 2:30 p.m.

 

 

Casting Requirements:

Seeking THREE African-American females

Seeking ONE Caucasian female

Seeking ONE African-American male

 

Ernestine Crump, a 17-year-old African-American female. The script describes her as "slightly plump...she wears her hair pulled tight into tiny mismatched pig tails. Her diction is crisp from practice and has the gentle inflections learned from her favorite screen actresses."

 

Ermina Crump, a 15-year-old African-American female, is described in the script as "attractive, slim...She also wears her hair in mismatched pig tails."

 

Godfrey Crump, a 35- to 40-ish African-American male, father to Ernestine and Ermina. He is a widower raising his two daughters on his own after the death of his wife. He is described in the script as "a lean, handsome man in his late thirties....wears an impeccably pressed suit. His appearance is always neat and well assembled."

 

Lily Ann Green, a 35- to 40-ish African-American female, is Godfrey's late wife's sister and aunt to Ernestine and Ermina. In her first entrance in the play, the script describes her as wearing "a smartly tailored suit and sparkling white gloves. Her hat is cocked to the side and she smokes a cigarette. Her eyes are concealed beneath the thick rimmed bebop sunglasses popular at the time [1950]. She is a non-conformist, a 'dangerous woman.'

 

Gerte Schulte, a 30-ish Caucasian female and a German immigrant, is described in the script as having "the posture of a film star from the thirties...and...the waning beauty of a show girl."

 

No prepared monologues will be required. Instead, the auditions will consist of readings from the script. The audition sides will be distributed at the auditions.

 

Please bring your calendar with you to the auditions in order to declare outright any potential "conflict dates" that you may have. Conflicts reported after casting may result in re-casting.

 

Rehearsals begin Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010.

At first, rehearsals will be held only on three consecutive Saturdays,

Nov. 6, 13 and 20 - from 2 to 6 p.m.

 

Then, starting on Monday, Nov. 29, rehearsals will be held Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 7 to 10 p.m.

 

During the weeks of Christmas and New Year's Day, rehearsals will be:

Monday, Dec. 20 from 7 to 10 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 21 from 7 to 10 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 22 from 7 to 10 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 27 from 7 to 10 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 28 from 7 to 10 p.m.

Wednesday, Dec. 29 from 7 to 10 p.m.

 

 

ABOUT THE PLAY

The play is set in Brooklyn, New York, in 1950. The recently widowed Godfrey, and his daughters Ernestine and Ermina, move from Florida to Brooklyn for a better life. Not knowing how to parent, Godfrey turns to religion, and especially to Father Divine, for answers. The girls absorb their new surroundings, but not necessarily religion. Lily, Godfrey's sister-in-law, shows up from Harlem, having promised her sister that if anything ever happened, she'd look out for the girls. Lily, while fascinating to her nieces, stands for everything Godfrey dislikes: Communism, sexual freedom and the fight against racial discrimination. As the racial and social issues of the late 1950s escalate, personal issues between Godfrey and Lily explode, prompting him to walk out. A few days later, he returns, with a new wife - a white, German immigrant named Gerte. With Godfrey immersed in religion, Lily claiming to be a part of the new revolution, and quiet, stoic Gerte coming from the horrors of Germany, life in the household gets heated. Ultimately, Lily must leave, seeing as she's neither Godfrey's wife nor the girls' mother. Godfrey and Gerte keep the family together as best they can, but nothing lasts forever. Ernestine, about to graduate from high school, gets a job offer from her father, but it's not what she wants to do. Instead, as a young woman in the dawn of a new age, she sets off for Harlem in search of her spiritual mother, Lily, and all of the causes she supposedly stood for during the "revolution."."

 

DIRECTOR:

YVONNE OLIVER recently appeared as Mrs. Jefferson in Weathervane Playhouse's production of The Great White Hope. Elsewhere, her last stage role was in Jar the Floor. Yvonne's other performances include Coming Home and Legacy (African Community Theatre) and Weaving Rainbows (Cleveland Public Theatre).Yvonne has appeared in infomercials and instructional training videos. She played Sharon Morgan in a television show, Such Is Life, and appeared in the movie And the Winner Is with Jerry Springer. Yvonne graduated from Kent State University and The University of Akron with degrees in communication. She has been training and performing for the past five years. She lives in Akron with her husband, Nathan. They have two sons, Nicholas and Nelson, and a granddaughter, Nia.

 

 

Weathervane Playhouse is committed to non-traditional casting.

Except in cases where race, gender, age or disability is essential to the play,

all roles will be cast on the basis of talent.

Janis Harcar
Director of Advancement
Weathervane Playhouse
330-836-2323 X16
www.weathervaneplayhouse.com
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