Next Stage Theatre Southwest AUDITIONS for Neil LaBute’s triple-Tony-nominated "reasons to be pretty."

 

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Subject: Audition Notice for Tucson Stage

 

AUDITION NOTICE

 

Next Stage Theatre Southwest, which captivated Tucson audiences last year

with David Ives' Venus in Fur and Halley Feiffer's A Funny Thing Happened on

the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer

Center of New York City, is pleased to announce auditions for its next production:

Neil LaBute's triple-Tony-nominated "reasons to be pretty." Labute, among our

foremost contemporary playwrights, brings us two working class couples fractured

by disrespect, deceit and the dissolution of their dreams. With "some of the freshest

and most illuminating dialogue heard anywhere these days" (New York Times), the

play affords a hopelessly romantic drama about the hopelessness of romance. The

production will run at the Tucson Temple of Music and Art Cabaret for 12 shows

between October 27 and November 12, 2023. Rehearsals will begin September 5.

 

Competitive stipends will be offered.

 

Ben Brantley's New York Times review gives a nice sense of the play and its

characters. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/theater/reviews/03brantley.html

• Stephanie: 30s, hair stylist, insecure about her appearance, feisty when

provoked, wanting more out of life than she's getting from either her relationship

(with Greg) or her work. Capable of tearing a man apart with her words —

somebody you don't want to mess with. ALREADY CAST.

 

• Greg: 30s, warehouse worker, easily pushed around until he isn't, in a long term

relationship with Stephanie until he says one stupid thing. Capable of learning

and growing. Underneath it all, a good guy. Maybe the play's moral center.

 

• Kent: 30s, warehouse worker, a bully, sleazy/smarmy good looks, the epitome

of misogyny, perfectly willing to have an affair with a co-worker while his wife

(Carly) is carrying his baby. In the end, maybe not as tough or as slick as he

thinks.

 

• Carly: late 20s or early 30s, Kent's wife, pregnant and just starting to show,

quite attractive, an unarmed security guard at the warehouse. A woman who

loves to dish, especially to Stephanie, and pretty much oblivious to Kent's

offensive qualities. Until she's not.

 

Auditions will be from 2:00 to 5:00 pm on Saturday March 25 and 7:15 to

9:30 pm on Sunday, March 26 in the Conference Room at the Historic Y, 738 N 5th

Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705. Auditions will consist primarily of readings from the

script, and sides will be provided to auditioners roughly one week in advance.

Short monologues from contemporary works are welcome but not required.

 

Those wishing to audition should register by emailing the Director, Mark

Klugheit, at mklugheit@comcast.net and should feel free also to email or call

(520-907-7209) with any questions. Please bring a hard copy resume and headshot

to the audition.

 

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