Announcing Auditions for Neil Simon’s Classic:
Brighton Beach Memoirs
WHEN
January 9th and 10th from 7-9pm
Call backs on January 11th if necessary
WHERE
Louisville Center for the Arts
801 Grant Ave., Louisville, CO 80027
PREPARATION
Open Auditions. No preparation necessary.
Headshots and resumes welcome but not required.
Auditions will be held in small groups with 30 minutes slots starting at 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, and 8:30 each night.
Email larisa.netterlund@gmail.com with your preferred audition time
OR
JUST SHOW UP!
Appointments welcome, but not necessary!
CAST REQUIREMENTS
4 women, including 2 girls (aged 13 and 16), and
3 men, including 2 boys (aged 14 and 18)
REHEARSALS
Typically, Monday-Thursday from 7:00-10:00pm (with occasional weekends)
Actors will be expected to help with set build and strike. PLEASE COME PREPARED TO NOTE ALL CONFLICTS.
PERFORMANCES
February 24-26, March 2-5, 9-10 (Strike March 11)
Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; Sundays at 2:00 p.m.
CONTACT
Please contact director, Larisa Netterlund at larisa.netterlund@gmail.com with any questions.
SYNOPSIS
Here is part one of Neil Simon's autobiographical trilogy: a portrait of the writer as a young teen in 1937 living with his family in a crowded, lower middle-class Brooklyn walk-up. Eugene Jerome, standing in for the author, is the narrator and central character. Dreaming of baseball and girls, Eugene must cope with the mundane existence of his family life in Brooklyn: formidable mother, overworked father, and his worldly older brother Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche, her two young (but rapidly aging) daughters and Grandpa the Socialist and you have a recipe for hilarity, served up Simon-style. This bittersweet memoir evocatively captures the life of a struggling Jewish household where, as his father states "if you didn't have a problem, you wouldn't be living here."