NSF 2019 LOCAL AUDITION NOTICE

The Neil Simon Festival will be holding local auditions in Cedar City, UT, Saturday, October 20, 2018 from 10:00am to 1:00pm. Auditions will be held at the Heritage Center Theater. No appointment necessary. We are casting our summer company of actors to be on-site in Cedar City, UT from June 3 – July 29, 2019. Several shows TBA will also tour for an additional 3 weeks at the Kayenta Center for the Arts, in Ivins. UT; and 1-2weeks at the Eqyptian Theatre in Park City, UT. All actors are expected to perform a minimum of two roles during the summer. Housing is provided along with a modest stipend. Actors should prepare a 60-second comedic or seriocomic monologue from a Neil Simon play, or one of his contemporaries. Actors auditioning for the musical should also prepare 16 bars from a Broadway musical (preferably in the 50s-60s style). Please bring digital accompaniment (iPod, CD, cellphone, etc.), NO accompanist will be provided at this call. Actors are reminded to bring their current headshot and resume. The 2019 Summer Season includes:

• Neil Simon’s Rose & Walsh • Neil Simon’s Barefoot in the Park • I Hate Hamlet • Little Shop of Horrors • I Left My Dignity in My Other Purse (NSF New Play Contest Winner 2018)

NSF 2019 SEASON SHOW/CASTING BREAKDOWN

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK CORIE BRATTER – 20s. Beautiful young bride, full of hope for the future. Lovely, free-spirited and unflappably positive. Great sense of humor and fun. PAUL BRATTER – Man, 20s. Attractive and very responsible young lawyer who dresses like he’s 56 years old. Eager to please, with a tendency to be overwhelmed. Polite and conventional. MOTHER – Late 40s, early 50s. Corie’s mother. Well-meaning woman who tries not to be a bother, but is anyhow. Pretty, but has recently let herself go. Secretly lonely, with a flair for the dramatic. Her daughter’s boundless spirit can often be a “bit much” for her.

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VICTOR VELASCO – Late 50s - early 60s. The Bratters’ upstairs neighbor. An eccentric world traveler, he lives in an attic above the Bratters’ apartment. Possessing endless energy, he is adventurous and unpredictable. A huge personality with a sense of fun and (kind) mischief. PHONE REPAIR MAN – Man of few words, he gets the job done. ROSE & WALSH ROSE STEINER – She is 64 years old. A Pulitzer Prize winning playwright. WALSH MCLAREN – He is in his mid-fifties. A famous mystery writer. ARLENE MOSS – 34, Rose's assistant. GAVIN CLANCY – mid-30s. A young, talented, writer. I HATE HAMLET ANDREW RALLY – Young and popular, Andrew is a television actor and star of a recently canceled soap opera. He just moved to New York City from Los Angeles, where he will soon be playing Hamlet onstage. Male 20-35 years old. FELICIA DANTINE – Andrew Rally's real estate broker and eccentric, Felicia claims to be a medium and speak to the dead. Female 20-50 years old. DEIRDRE MCDAVEY – Attractive and emotional, Deirdre is Rally's girlfriend. Female 20-35. LILLIAN TROY – Rally's agent, Lillian Troy is an older woman who remembers fondly an affair she had with John Barrymore many years ago, in the apartment Rally now lives in. Female 50-70’s. JOHN BARRYMORE – A legendary actor, John Barrymore, or, rather, his ghost; who is still quite active and appears to help Rally in the nuances of both acting and love. Male 30-60 years old. GARY PETER LEFKOWITZ – A cocky, pompous television producer, Gary gave Rally his first big break. Male 25-50 years old. LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

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SEYMOUR – (playing age of mid 20s-30s) Our insecure, naïve, put-upon, florists’ clerk hero. Above all, he’s a sweet and well-meaning little man. He is not a silly nerd, and therefore, should not be played as the hero of a Jerry Lewis film. Strong acting and singing. VOCAL RANGE: TENOR AUDREY – (similar playing age to Seymour) The bleached-blond, Billie-Dawn-like secret love of his life. If you took Judy Holiday, Carol Channing, Marilyn Monroe and Goldie Hawn, removed their education and feelings of self-worth, dressed them in spiked heels and a short black dress, and then shook them up in a test tube to extract what’s sweetest and most vulnerable – that’d be Audrey. Strong acting/comedy and singing. VOCAL RANGE: MEZZO-SOPRANO MR. MUSHNIK – (middle aged? Old enough to ‘adopt’ Seymour as his son) Seymour’s boss. A failure of an East Side florist. His accent, if he has one, is more that of middle class New York than of Eastern Europe. He seldom smiles. Strong character actor (some singing). VOCAL RANGE: BARITONE ORIN – (late 20s-early 30s) A tall, dark, handsome dentist with a black leather jacket and cruel tendencies. He is not, however, a leftover from the movie version of Grease. Think instead of an egotistical pretty-boy – all got up like a greaser but thinking like an insurance salesman and talking like a radio announcer. Makes a couple of brief, but high impact, appearances. Strong character actor and singer. Plays all the other roles in the show, too! VOCAL RANGE: BARITONE THE PUPPETEER (AUDREY II) An anthropomorphic cross between a giant Venus flytrap and an avocado. It has a huge, nasty-looking pod, which gains a shark-like aspect when open and snapping at food. The creature is played by a series of four increasing large puppets, manipulated by one non-speaking Puppeteer hidden invisibly inside. The plant grows from a few inches tall, to almost filling the stage. The role requires someone with physical acting skills to portray character and emotion purely through movement, and stamina to operate the large, heavy puppet. VOICE OF AUDREY II – Provided by an actor or actress on an offstage microphone, lip-syncing to the movements of the puppets. His or her voice is a cross between Barry White, Tom Jones, Nina Simone and Wolfman Jack. Think of the voice as that of a street-smart, funky, conniving villain. Strong character singer. VOCAL RANGE: BARITONE/BASS or ALTO/MEZZO CRYSTAL, RONNETTE and CHIFFON – (playing age of late teens to 20s) Three female ‘street urchins’ who function as participants in the action (when they have dialogue) and a Greek Chorus commenting and narrating the action (when they sing together in close harmony). They’re young, hip, smart, and the only people

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in the whole cast who really know what’s going on. In their “Greek Chorus” capacity, they occasionally sing to the audience directly. And when they do, it’s often with a “secret-smile” that says: “we know something you don’t know.” Strong harmony singers with good movement skills to perform tightly drilled choreographed movement. Significant presence in the show with 5-6 songs. Diversity preferred! VOCAL RANGES: MEZZO-SOPRANO I LEFT MY DIGNITY IN MY OTHER PURSE RUTH BAKER – 50s-60’s and a former CEO of a large company. Funny, deadpan, strong and naive to all the technology. Attractive, moral, collector of art. MARGE – 50s-60’s. Best friend of Ruth. Strong, her nature is to fix things. MAYA FINKELHEIMER – 50s-60’s. Jewish and rich. Always wears white gloves. She is an instigator who thinks only of her own wants and needs. Same actor plays the following male and one female roles. Multiple ages and characters, Late 30’s with a beard. Distinctive look that is easily recognized. Must be able to dance and strip to bikini underwear: DELIVERY MAN 1 DELIVERY MAN 2 DELIVERY MAN 3 DELIVERY MAN 4 UBER DRIVER JOAQUIN, a Latin dancer. BOB, a barfly, a Dick Martin (Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In) type. SERGEANT SEXY, a stripper cop with a large badge on his leather underwear. ART BUYER MR. ZINK – a meek and mild lawyer who has a high pitched halting speech. He stutters when embarrassed. ROY – Good looking distinguished Late 60’s. Very charismatic. Strong and tall. RUTH’S Fiancé.