Tucson: Catalina Players Auditions for The Boys Next Door by Tom Griffin

 

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From: PRISCILLA MARQUEZ [mailto:catalinaplayers@comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 9:38 PM
Subject: Catalina Players Auditions for The Boys Next Door by Tom Griffin

 

Catalina Players Auditions

 

The Boys Next Door

by Tom Griffin

February 27, 28, 2006

6565 E. Broadway, Room 6-7, Christ Presbyterian Church

7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

 

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”.

Questions:  Call Priscilla Marquez, Executive Director, 304-9171, catalinaplayers@comcast.net

 

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 20’s To Mid 50’s

Females– Late 20’s To 50’s

 

PRINCIPAL LEADS (4 MENTALLY CHALLENGED MEN)

 

ARNOLD – very nervous man in his mid 40’s

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

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

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

 

FEATURED ROLES

 

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

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

MR. KLEMPER – Barry’s father, coarse middle aged man

 

ENSEMBLE ROLES

 

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

 

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