Western Reserve Playhouse announces auditions for our
2018 Opening Season Play
“Lost in Yonkers” by Neil Simon
Directed
by Keith Stevens
Performances are Fridays & Saturdays, January 26-February 10, 2018 with one Sunday Matinee on February 4, 2018
@ 2PM
REHEARSALS WILL START DECEMBER 18, 2017
By America's great comic playwright, Neil Simon, this memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942. Bella is thirty-five years old, mentally challenged & living at home with her mother, stern Grandma
Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne'er-do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady's doorstep. He is financially strapped & taking to the road as a salesman. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, Bella & her secret romance & Louie, her brother
& a small-time hoodlum, in a strange new world called Yonkers.
Looking to Cast:
JAY - 16
ARTY - 13 1/2
EDDIE - their father, 41
BELLA - mid-thirties, neat & sweet & pretty
GRANDMA KURNITZ - Eddie & Bella's mother, a big woman, buxom, with a strong, erect body, 70 odd years of age
LOUIE - her other son, 36, doesn't look like he'd be the hugging type
AUNT GERT - mid-to-late thirties, another of Grandma Kurnitz's children
Please bring a current headshot
& resume. Auditioners will be asked to cold read from the script. There are no equity contracts available
for this production. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the director, Keith Steven at
keithstevens@aol.com