Western Reserve Playhouse announces auditions for our 2018 Opening Season Play “Lost in Yonkers” by Neil Simon Directed by Keith Stevens Auditions will be October 8 & 10, 2017 from 6:30-9:30P. Please sign up at www.SignUpGenius.com/go/5080E49A9AD29A2FC1-lost 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