[NEohioPAL] MARC MORITZ AUDITIONING UNNECESSARY FARCE AT WEATHERVANE

[Marc Moritz via NEohioPAL]

These Auditions .
This Sunday & Monday.

UNNECESSARY FARCE


AUDITION DATES

CASTING REQUIREMENTS

Unnecessary Farce requires an ensemble of seven ADULT actors — four men and three women — between the ages of 20s to 70s.

Character Breakdown

ERIC SHERIDAN (male; age range 30s) — A bookish, even-keeled police officer who's thrown into some difficult situations — while not wearing any pants.

BILLIE DWYER (female; age range 20s/30s) — A police officer, she is Eric's partner. Although she seems to lack every skill needed for police work, she is enthusiastic and eager to succeed.

KAREN BROWN (female; age range 30s) — An accountant who usually has a very professsional demeanor, but seems unable to keep herself in control today.

MAYOR MEEKLY (male; age range 50s to 70s) — He is a sweet, gentle fellow who seems very innocent (and with a capital "I")!

AGENT FRANK (male; age range 20s to 50s) — He's the Town Hall head of security. Although he can seem confident and gruff, in moments of crisis he is easily reduced to being a very frightened man.

TODD (male; age range 20s to 50s) — He speaks with a pronounced Scottish accent. He's a professional hit man whose accent gets thicker the angrier he gets — until his thick brogue renders him completely undecipherable.

MARY MEEKLY (female; age range 50s to 70s) — She is the mayor's wife. Small statured, she seems very sweet natured and makes a good match for her husband.

AUDITION REQUIREMENTS

The auditions for Unnecessary Farce will be held as an "open call." This means you do not have to schedule an appointment in advance.

Please pick one of the two audition days — either Sunday, Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. or Monday, Dec. 8 at 7 p.m. — and arrive at the appointed time.

The auditions will consist of "cold readings" from the script.

Copies of the script are available for borrowing at the Weathervane Box Office during the following hours only:
• Mondays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• Tuesdays through Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

> CLICK HERE to buy the script.

ABOUT THE PLAY'S REHEARSALS

A complete schedule of the rehearsals will be available at the auditions. Though subject to change, a typical Weathervane rehearsal schedule for a Mainstage production such as this would be Sundays through Thursdays from 7 to 10 p.m.

Please bring your calendar with you to the auditions in order to declare any "conflict dates" between Feb. 1 and May 10, 2015. Conflict dates reported after the show has been cast may result in re-casting.

ABOUT THE PLAY'S PERFORMANCES

Unnecessary Farce will play for 12 performances on Weathervane Playhouse's Founders Theater stage between April 23 and May 10, 2015.

Thursday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 24 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, April 25 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, April 26 at 2:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, May 1 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 2 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 3 at 2:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Friday, May 8 at 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 9 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 10 at 2:30 p.m.

ABOUT THE PLAY AND THE PLAYWRIGHT

Two cops...three crooks...eight doors...go! That's a very quick summation of Unnecessary Farce.

In a cheap motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant, while in the room next-door, two undercover cops wait to catch the meeting on videotape. But there's some confusion as to who's in which room, who's being videotaped, who's taken the money, who's hired a hit man, and why the accountant keeps taking off her clothes.

PAUL SLADE SMITH is a New York actor and writer. His play Unnecessary Farce premiered at the humble and fearless BoarsHead Theater in Lansing, Michigan in October of 2006, and by the end of 2013 saw its hundredth production. As an actor, Mr. Smith has appeared in the national touring companies of Wicked and The Phantom of the Opera, as well as regional theatres including The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (where he appeared in The School For Lies, an adaptation of The Misanthrope by David Ives). He is currently at work on his next play, A Real Lulu.

ABOUT THE PLAY'S DIRECTOR

MARC MORITZ’s most recent Weathervane directing assignment was last season’s Don't Dress for Dinner. Previously for Weathervane he directed The 39 Steps, 3 Guys Naked from the Waist Down and Shine! with special guest artist Hal Linden. Elsewhere, his directing credits include A Raisin in the Sun at TrueNorth Cultural Arts; The Walworth Farce, Guttenberg! The Musical! and Tigers Be Still at Dobama Theatre; A Broadway Christmas Carol at Clague Playhouse; Frankie and Johnny in Clair De Lune and a staged concert version of Merrily We Roll Along for Blank Canvas Theatre. As an actor, Marc originated the role of Talk Show Host in the Broadway production of the Stephen Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along. In the summer of 2013, he played Otto Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank and Sydney Black in Light Up the Sky at Oberlin Summer Theatre. Porthouse Theatre audiences may also recognize him as Al Lewis in The Sunshine Boys. His other regional credits as an actor include Cleveland Play House, Riverside Shakespeare, Long Wharf Theatre, Goodman Theatre, New Harmony Theatre and the Great Lakes Theater Festival and Idaho Shakespeare Festival co-production of Into the Woods. Favorite roles: Mushnik in Little Shop of Horrors, Tateh in Ragtime, The Cat in the Hat in Seussical, Chico in The Cocoanuts, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Ezekial Cheever in The Crucible and Emperor Joseph in Amadeus. Marc was the founder/artistic director of Cleveland’s popular Giant Portions Improv Company and has taught and performed with ImprovOlympic and The Second City in both Chicago and New York. In 2012, he received his master of fine arts degree from Kent State University.
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