Audition Details

ShowLaughter on the 23rd Floor
CompanyPlaycrafters Theatre Company
DirectorBob Kaplan
InstructionsIn addition to reading from the script, each person will be asked to be prepared to tell a joke. Roles & Audition Sides - from the Samuel French script, 1995 Edition For further information contact Bob Kaplan at 631-793-6722 or mediamanbob1@gmail.com
Performance DatesFridays, November 1 & 8 @ 8pm Saturdays, November 2 & 9 @ 8pm Sundays, November 3 & 10 @ 3pm
QuestionsSend Mail
Show InfoPlaywright Neil Simon got his first big break in the early '50s as a staff writer on Sid Caesar's fabled television series Your Show of Shows, and this comedy takes a fictionalized look at the backstage chaos that went into producing one of the landmarks of television's golden age. Max Prince is the star of The Max Prince Show, a popular comedy-variety series that is a major hit on the East Coast, but network executive insists that it's too sophisticated for the Midwest and urges Prince to dumb down his act. Between the tensions of producing an hour of top-quality comedy each week and being pestered about his ratings, Prince is beginning to unravel. His last line of defense against both the network and the ratings are his writing staff, which spends its days coming up with business for the show while hurling humorous invective at each other and anyone else within earshot. Keeping up a running commentary on the writing, fighting and wacky antics is Simon's alter-ego Lucas Brickman.

Auditon Location/Date/Times

TypeLocationDateTime
OpenBoys & Girls Club of the Bellport Area
471 Atlantic Ave
Bellport
Sep 074:00 PM - 7:00 PM
OpenBoys & Girls Club of the Bellport Area
471 Atlantic Ave
Bellport
Sep 097:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Roles

RoleM/FAgeDescription
Max PrinceM40-60A bigger-than-life comic actor who is the mega-star of a hugely popular television variety show ?The Max Prince Show,? based on Sid Caesar and ?Your Show of Shows; -- cannot help but dominate a room entirely
Pages 30-32
Lucas BrickmanM20-30The freshman writer, sensible and sincere.
Pages 8-9
Milt FieldsM40-55The flamboyant ?gag? man; a joke a minute wholesaler who deals in fast paced patter.
Pages 10-11
Val SlotskyM40-55A senior member of the staff; the most politically aware of all the writers, a Russian immigrant, he should still carry a strong accent.
Pages 12-15
Brian DoyleM40-55An Irish American with a biting sense of humor and acerbic outlook on life; a heavy smoker, heavy cougher and heavy drinker
Pages 16-18
Kenny FranksM30-40Considered the ?boy genius? of the group but also the most sophisticated of the writers
Pages 18-20
Ira StoneM30-45A hypochondriac who comes in late every day with a new ailment; his humor is wrapped around despair
Page 45; page 91
Carol WymanF30-50The only woman writer on the show; has a strong and quick defense system.
Page 81
HelenF20-30Max?s female secretary; attractive in a quirky way; completely out of her element in the writer?s room
Pages 84-85, Pages 89-90