AUDITIONS FOR BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS THIS WEEKEND AT THE NCRD PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

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Riverbend Players Community Theater

Auditions this weekend:
Saturday and Sunday from 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
NCRD Performing Arts Center Lobby

To audition, no preparation is necessary. Auditions will use a cold-read format. Those auditioning will be asked to read sides and may read for multiple characters.

PERFORMANCE DATES: March 17th – April 2nd.

Performances Friday and Saturday nights at 7pm.

Sunday Matinees at 2pm.

SUMMARY

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 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.”

BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS — CAST LIST 4f/3m

JACOB “JACK” JEROME – Male, 40-45, Husband and Father

KATE JEROME – Female, 40-45, Mother, Wife, Blanche’s sister

STANLEY JEROME – Male, Late Teens

EUGENE JEROME – Male, Mid Teens

BLANCHE MORTON – Female, Mid-late 30’s, Kate’s sister

NORA MORTON – Female, Late Teens, Blanche’s daughter

LAURIE MORTON – Female, Early Teen, Blanche’s daughter

TIME PERIOD – 1930’s

SETTING – Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York. September, 1937.

FEATURES – Period Costumes

CAUTIONS – Mild Adult Themes