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| The Children's Hour Auditions-Los Angeles, CA - Casting ID # 1396517 | |||
| Project Type | Live Event | Submission Type | Open Call |
| Market | Los Angeles, CA | Union | Non-union |
| Location | Newport Beach, CA 92663 | Release Date | 11-13-13 |
| Rate/Pay | n/a | Submission deadline | 11-23-13 |
| Audition Date | n/a | Casting Category | Theatre - Non-Equity |
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PRODUCTION DESCRIPTION Casting "The Children's Hour," a 1934 stage play written by Lillian Hellman. It is a drama set in an all-girls boarding school run by two women, Karen Wright and Martha Dobie. REHEARSAL AND PRODUCTION DATES & LOCATIONS Rehearses Dec. 7 & 14 (10 a.m.-2 p.m.), Dec. 16-18 (6-9 p.m.), & Dec. 21 (10 a.m.-2 p.m.); runs Jan. 24-Feb. 23, 2014 at Newport Theatre Arts Center in Newport Beach, CA. Note: We take a week off for the holiday including two days for New Years. A complete schedule will be generated based on cast conflicts. All rehearsals and shows are at NTAC. COMPENSATION & UNION CONTRACT DETAILS Small fuel stipend available. |
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| Role # 1 Dr. Joseph Cardin |  |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role to play 35, a relaxed and amiable doctor and Karen Wright’s fiance, his casual dress reflects his warm, easy-going nature, gracious and humorous and seems ideally suited to Karen. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Male Age: from 26 to 33 |
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| Role # 2 Dr. Joseph Cardin | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role to play 35, a relaxed and amiable doctor and Karen Wright’s fiance, his casual dress reflects his warm, easy-going nature, gracious and humorous and seems ideally suited to Karen. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Male Age: from 26 to 33 |
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| Role # 3 Martha Dobie | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Karen Wright’s friend and co-owner of their school, about the same age, twenty-eight, described as “nervous” and “high strung” and is certainly far less composed and self-assured than her friend, it quickly becomes obvious that she greatly depends on Karen’s emotional stability and good sense to provide her with the confidence needed to make a go of their school. Searchable talent specs : Age: from 25 to 30 |
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| Role # 4 Lily Mortar | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role looking for an actress to play this character Searchable talent specs : Gender: Female Age: from 45 to 55 |
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| Role # 5 Ms. Amelia Tilford | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role a wealthy widow, large, dignified woman in her sixties, has been an influential supporter of the Wright-Dobie School, where her granddaughter, Mary, is enrolled, although she is a fair and generous person, she lacks good judgment when it comes to matters concerning her granddaughter, recognizes that Mary is both spoiled and manipulative, but she dotes on the child and is utterly blind to the girl’s vicious nature. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Female Age: from 60 to 69 |
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| Role # 6 Mary Tilford | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role the spoiled granddaughter of Amelia Tilford, a problem child at the Wright-Dobie School, appears “undistinguished,” but she is clever and used to having her own way with her doting grandmother, attempts to manipulate everyone at the school, resorting to a variety of tricks, including flattery, feigned sickness, blackmail, physical intimidation, and whining complaints. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Female Age: from 12 to 14 |
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| Role # 7 Rosalie Wells | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role a student at the Wright-Dobie School, appears first in the hectic scene opening the play, having her hair badly trimmed by Evelyn Munn, unlike Peggy and Evelyn, she is not cowed by Mary Tilford, whom she does not like. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Female Age: from 12 to 14 |
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| Role # 8 Karen Wright | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Martha Dobie’s close friend and partner in the Wright-Dobie School, to play 28, attractive, warm, and outgoing, admired and respected by her students, for whom she has a genuine affection, an emotionally stable woman, at ease with herself and others. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Female Age: from 25 to 30 |
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| Role # 9 Helen Burton | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role one of the girls at Karen and Martha’s school, she plays a limited role, it is her bracelet that classmate Rosalie Wells “borrows.” an act which allows Mary to blackmail Rosalie into confirming Mary’s lies about Karen and Martha, one of the first to be pulled out of the school when Mrs. Tilford begins spreading the fiction that Karen and Martha are lesbian lovers. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Female Age: from 12 to 14 |
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| Role # 10 Catherine | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role one of the students at the Wright-Dobie School, appears only in the first scene, where she attempts to help Lois prepare for a Latin test, the Latin lesson contributes to the chaotic lack of discipline in Mortar’s classroom, revealing Lily’s incompetence as a teacher. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Female Age: from 12 to 14 |
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| Role # 11 Lois Fisher | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role another of Karen and Martha’s students, she receives Lain tutoring from Catherine at the play’s opening, conjugating Latin in hectic counterpoint to Peggy Roger’s reading of Portia’s “quality of mercy” speech from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice and Lily Mortar’s languid criticism, like Catherine, she plays no significant role in the rest of the drama. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Female Age: from 12 to 14 |
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| Role # 12 Grocery Boy | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role the unnamed grocery boy makes a very brief appearance in the last scene, carrying a box of groceries into the school’s living room, almost mute, but his puerile gawking and giggling are indicative of the damage done to the reputations of Karen and Martha as a result of Mary’s accusations. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Male Age: from 14 to 18 |
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| Role # 13 Evelyn Nunn | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role (Supporting) one of the girls at the Wright-Dobie School, is first encountered in the opening scene in which she mangles Rosalie Wells’ hair with a pair of scissors, who lisps, is relatively quiet and timid, with Peggy Rogers, she overhears the conversation between Martha Dobie and Lily Mortar; the overheard conversation becomes the keystone in the malicious arch of lies that Mary Tilford constructs, like Peggy, Evelyn is a victim of Mary’s intimidation, which, at the end of the first act, turns to physical abuse, when Mary attempts to extort money from Peggy, Evelyn tries to interfere and is slapped in the face for her efforts. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Female Age: from 12 to 14 |
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| Role # 14 Peggy Rogers | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role a student at the Wright-Dobie School, Peggy, like Evelyn Munn, is easily intimidated by Mary Tilford, appears in the opening scene, where, under Lily Mortar’s tutelage, she tries to read Portia’s famous speech on the quality of mercy, unimaginative, she shows little interest in Shakespeare, her grandest aspiration is to marry a lighthouse keeper, is with Evelyn when they overhear the fateful conversation between Martha Dobie and her aunt, thereafter the pair confide in Mary, who immediately puts her malicious scheme into operation by extorting money from Peggy, who was saving it for a bicycle Searchable talent specs : Gender: Female Age: from 12 to 14 |
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