AUDITION NOTICE SANTA PAULATHEATERCENTER THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN BY SYDNEY HOWARD
The Santa Paula Theater Center is noted for its revival of prime chestnut plays from the past (most recently the wonderfully successful HARVEY). Recently, we jumped at the chance to get the rights for THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Sidney Howard for our twenty-fifth silver anniversary season. This play, revived in New York in the fall 2009, received rave reviews in the NY Times and New Yorker magazine for its incisive writing and timeliness to today's economic crisis. Like, our currently running GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS, it deals with greed, avarice, and the human condition-but in a wildly comedic way. And, with these great shows from the past (this one 1932), there are usually big casts and lots of terrific parts. SANTA PAULA THEATER CENTER 125 SO. 7TH STREET, SANTA PAULA Thanks, Leslie Nichols-Producer 805.525.9840 sptcleslie@gmail.com
Auditions will be held at the Center on Sat., Feb. 20 from 3-6 p.m. and Sunday evening, Feb. 21 from 6-9.
Cast of Players needed : Dr. Haggett-A stout, undistinguished rural medical man of fifty Susan Haggett-a Pretty girl of nineteen Abby-She is the help of the Haggett family, a Yankee villager aged vaguely between youth and maturity, of a wistful prettiness, simple and serious. Mrs. Haggett- A Yankee around 50.She has assumed certain citified airs in dress and bearing Ada Haggett-A girl of 26, a baby prettiness and baby like manner. Warren Creamer-The village painter and paper hanger.He is a personable, self-satisfied youth in his early twenties. Tallant- A smooth, youngish and shabbily-dressed New Yorker. Rosen- An oily and too affable Jewish Gentleman of middle age. Maxwell Davenport-An elderly and distinguished Gentleman
COLD READINGS FROM THE SCRIPT. NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY. PICTURE AND RESUME DESIRABLE. Set in Boston, this classic comedy, THE LATE CHRISTOPHER BEAN is the second of SPTC's Silver Anniversary Season focusing on Pulitzer Prize winning plays and playwrights. Based on PRENEZ GARDE A LA PEINTUR by Rene Fauchois, Yankee predictability collides with New York's sophisticated Art World in this sly 1930's comedy. All hell breaks loose when a celebrated painter's early works are traced to the humble home of a country doctor. Both a biting satire on the destructive power of greed and a touching view of a family in turmoil, this feisty comedy will have you cheering for the most unlikely.
It will run from April 16th through May 23rd with weekly performances on Fri. and Sat. at 8 p.m. and Sunday Matinees at 2:30. CONTACT: LESLIE NICHOLS, PRODUCER 805.525.9840 sptcleslie@gmail.com