SSTG presents; Auditions for “39 Steps” Directed by Karen Petersen Tuesday, September 23 and Wednesday, September 24, 2014 at 7:30 @ the Gaithersburg Arts Barn Performances will be on Jan. 9-25, 2015 Fri & Sat at 8 p.m., Sun at 2 p.m. Casting 3 men and 3 women, any age, ethnicity, or orientation: Richard Hannay (male on stage the entire show) Anabella Schmidt/Pamela/Margaret (female plays all the lead female parts) Clown 1 (male) Clown 1 & 3 share a “part” that means they play half of all of the “other characters” Clown 2 (male) Clown 2 & 4 share a “part” that means they play all of the rest Clown 3 (female) shared with Clown 1 Clown4 (female) shared with Clown 2 Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script, and if time permits, up to 5 minute comedic monologues. This is a spoof of Hitchcock with 150 characters; please bring your accents and high jinx, nothing is too outrageous. Since the auditions are during Jewish religious holidays the director will make every effort to accommodate schedules, including an additional day/call backs on Tuesday, September 30th. Please email kpetersen@aol with any questions or scheduling needs. Please include “39 Steps” in the subject line. Be aware that the rehearsal period includes Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s. Tech-in will most probably be January 2, 3 or 4, 2015. The schedule is flexible but actors are required to attend load-in, all of tech week and strike and are further expected to work independently on their lines. Adapted By Patrick Barlow from the novel by John Buchan. From the movie of Alfred Hitchcock Licensed by ITV Global Entertainment Limited and an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon. “The 39 Steps” is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have the intriguing, thrilling, riotous and unmissable comedy. The show hurtles a notorious fugitive and a spellbound blonde from a London music hall north by northwest to Scotland’s most remote highlands. Will they save Britain from a den of devious spies? A cast of 6 plays over 150 characters in this fast-paced tale of an ordinary man on an extraordinarily entertaining adventure. The 39 Steps contains every single legendary scene from the award-winning movie — including the chase on the Flying Scotsman, the escape on the Forth Bridge, the first theatrical bi-plane crash ever staged and the sensational death-defying finale in the London Palladium. According to the New York Times “It’s really not so much about a spoof of Hitchcock, which it is of course; it’s really an homage to the theater. Not the contemporary theater, where mermaids traverse the stage on wheels and gargantuan mechanical sets get bigger applause than the actors, but the nostalgic version that survives on greasepaint and hammy actors. It’s a valentine to that kind of creativity and imagination, of doing so much with so little…” Ben Brantley, The New York Times.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 13:02:07 +0000
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