Audition Notice (Information)

SOUTHSIDE THEATRE GUILD is pleased to announce Open, Non-Union, Non-Paid auditions for the comedy,

BILOXI BLUES

By Neil Simon

Winner! 1985 Tony® Award for Best Play

Auditions to be held at:

SOUTHSIDE THEATRE GUILD

20 West Campbellton Street

Fairburn, GA 30213

(770) 969-0956

NOTE: These are open, non-union, non-paid auditions. All talent who believes this applies to them should come to auditions. There are NO appointments required for these auditions. All talent will receive an Audition Invitation is invited to attend.

It is recommended, but not required that you prepare one (1), one (1) minute comic monologue; there will also be cold readings from the script.

ALSO: FAIR WARNING: Nothing is being cut from this show.

For more information, please e-mail the director at: stgec75@gmail.com

OR

Go to our website: http://biloxibluesatstg.blogspot.com/

Auditions: Sunday, August 24, 2014 – Monday, August 25, 2014 sign in at 6 p.m.

Call backs: Tuesday, August 26, 2014

This is the second in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Neil Simon's trilogy which began with Brighton Beach Memoirs and concluded with Broadway Bound. When we last met Eugene Jerome, he was coping with adolescence in 1930's Brooklyn. Here, he is a young army recruit during WW II, going through basic training and learning about Life and Love with a capital 'L' along with some harsher lessons, while stationed at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1943.

CHARACTER LIST:

Eugene Morris Jerome (M, 18-25, Lead): A writer and the narrator of the show. He is the alter ego of the youthful Neil Simon.

Roy Selridge (M, 18-25, Major Supporting): A confident man who thinks of himself as funny. He tends to take cues from others on how to behave and who to harass.

Joseph Wykowski (M, 19-26, Major Supporting): Big and tough - but not too smart and somewhat bigoted.

Don Carney (M, 18-25, Major Supporting): A private from New Jersey who irritates his bunkmates with his singing. He is not very good at making important decisions.

Arnold Epstein (M, 18-25, Major Supporting): A sensitive, well-read and intelligent Jewish guy from New York City. He is mentally strong, but physically weak. He constantly feels the need to fight for something.  

Sgt. Merwin J. Toomey (M, 35-50, Major Supporting): A Southerner. He is big and tough – he is smart and hardcore, old school “Army”, but he has his demons.

James Hennesy (M, 16-24, Major Supporting): Big and tough - but not too smart.

Rowena (F, 20-up, Minor Supporting): A world-wise, Southern prostitute.

Daisy Hannigan (F, 16-24, Minor Supporting): A USO dancer and Eugene's first love, she is young and pretty.

Performances: Thursday, October 30, 2014 – Sunday, November 16, 2014.

Thursday – Saturday performances begin at 8:00 p.m.

Sunday matinees begin at 2:30 p.m.

Warning: This show is not appropriate for children.

Biloxi Blues is produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc.