Tucson: Audition notice- Catalina Players

 

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From: Brian [mailto:mclaff9@earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:50 AM
Subject: Audition notice- Catalina Players

 

Catalina Players Auditions

 

The Boys Next Door

by Tom Griffin

 

Directed by:  Bill Fikaris, 2003 AACT/FEST awards for Excellence in Directing for THE LARAMIE PROJECT, 2002 NJTL recipient for Directing Excellence for The Shadow Box.

For an Audition Appointment or if you have Questions:  Call Priscilla Marquez, Executive Director, 304-9171, catalinaplayers@comcast.net or the Director Bill Fikaris , 730-7203.

 

SYNOPSIS

 

The play is a communal residence in a New England city where four mentally handicapped men live under the supervision of an earnest, but increasingly burned out young social worker.  Mingled with scenes from the daily lives of these four, where little things sometimes become momentous (and often very funny), are moments of great poignancy when, with touching effectiveness, we are reminded that the handicapped, like the rest of us, want only to love and laugh and find some meaning and purpose in the brief time which they, like their more fortunate brothers, are allotted on this earth.  The Boys Next Door moves the audience to an awareness of how many things in everyday life we take for granted.

 

CAST BREAKDOWN (7M, 2F)

 

Males  Late 20s To Mid 50s

Females Late 20s To 50s

 

PRINCIPAL LEADS (4 MENTALLY CHALLENGED MEN)

 

ARNOLD  very nervous man in his mid 40s

LUCIEN  Black man, very slow, late 40s to early 50s

NORMAN  Fat and sloppy man, late 30s to early 40s

BARRY - Full of positive convictions, late 20s to early 30s

 

FEATURED ROLES

 

JACK  A wry man in his mid 30s, a social worker

SHEILA  Mentally challenged female, overweight, late 20s early 30s

MR. KLEMPER  Barrys father, coarse middle aged man

 

ENSEMBLE ROLES

 

1 male  & 1 female to play 3 different characters, age range early 40s to 60's

 

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