NEW ENGLAND REPERTORY COMPANY AUDITION
Play: Enter Laughing by Joseph Stein, adapted from a novel by Carl Reiner.
Performance Dates: September 6 – 21, 2008
Auditions: Black Box Theater, June 16, 17 at 7:00 PM. Call backs on June 20, 7:00 PM
Contact the director if you plan to audition: Send resume to Mike.Kiernan@comcast.net
or call Mike at 781-784-5666.
All roles are open. Read from script. Auditioners will also be considered for future NERC roles.
Play description: David Kolowitz, a nice young man living with his parents in New York City in 1938, works at a machine repair shop. His parents want David to study to become a pharmacist. But what he really wants is to be an actor like his idol, Ronald Colman. One day, at his friend Marvin's suggestion, David tries out for a part in a play, and gets it, despite his obvious lack of acting experience (not to mention ability). True, it's a rather small part in a low-rent production. Leading the troupe is a washed-up, alcoholic actor who hires David at the urging of his actress-daughter, who finds David "cute." David manages to splash through romantic scenes with the manager’s daughter, with another fellow’s date, and finally with the office girl who was meant for him all the time.
Cast includes:
Males – 8
David and Marvin - teen’s
David’s Father – 40 to 60
Pike (theater stage hand) – any age
Marlowe (theater manager-actor) – 50 to 80
Foreman (Machine shop owner) - 40 to 80
Theater extras – any age
Females - 4
Wanda and Miss B -- teen’s
Angela - 20s
David’s Mother - 40 to 60 |