[NEohioPAL] Auditions for "It's Only a Play" at Weathervane Playhouse next weekend

[Fred Gloor via NEohioPAL]

Weathervane Playhouse announced auditions for "It's Only a Play" on June 24 and 25 from 3-6 pm on both days.
Callbacks (if necessary) will be on June 26 at 7 pm.
It's Only a Play
By Terrence McNally
Directed by Fred Gloor

Please come prepared with a comedic monologue of no more than three minutes in length and your headshot and resume (If you have one).  Rehearsals begin July 23rd and run Sunday through Thursdays. The show runs Thursdays through Fridays from August 31 through September 17.  All performers are volunteers and there are no Equity contracts available. To sign up http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f054aaaa62aa2f49-its


Synopsis

It's the opening night of The Golden Egg on Broadway, and the wealthy producer Julia Budder is throwing a lavish party in her lavish Manhattan townhouse. Downstairs the celebrities are pouring in, but the real action is upstairs where a group of insiders have staked themselves out in the producer's bedroom, waiting for the reviews to come in. Included are the excitable young author; the brilliant but unstable director (who courts failure and is devastated when his work is well received); the pill-popping leading lady (who is hoping to revive her career after a series of flop movies); and the playwright's best friend, an egotistical but insecure comic actor who passed up a chance to star in the play for a television series-which has since been cancelled. Also present are a fawning, hypocritical drama critic (who is a closet playwright); a would-be singer working as a part-time servant; and a hard-boiled lady taxi driver who has seen it all, many times over.

Cast of characters
*         Julia Budder, a first-time producer of the Broadway play The Golden Egg
*         Peter Austin, the nervous playwright
*         James Wicker, an egotistical but insecure comic actor who passed up a chance to star in the play for a television series-which has since been cancelled
*         Virginia Noyes, dissolute, aging star of the play; she wears an ankle monitor and drinks and snorts cocaine throughout
*         Frank Finger, the young, egomaniacal, "genius" British director
*         Ira Drew, insecure theater critic
*         Emma, a no-nonsense taxi driver (dropped from the 2014 revival)
*         Gus, who checks the coats and hats but has aspirations for a Broadway career
Questions can be addressed to the director at fgloor at weathervaneplayhouse.com<mailto:fgloor at weathervaneplayhouse.com>



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