Audition Opportunity

Pamela Robbins, a longtime member of the St. Jean's Players, is casting an original play, Nobody Heard Us Singing, to be performed at Manhattan Repertory Theatre (42nd St. just off 8th Ave.) on July 10, 12, 14, 18, and 20.

The play is a 55-minute comedy-drama for 5 women and 3 men, ages 20-60.  The plot involves four unpopular teens - 2 boys and 2 girls - who are (erroneously) thought to be planning an attack on their high school.  Teachers, parents, and faculty are also heavily involved.

The production is non-Equity.  There is no pay.

Auditions will be held on Monday and Tuesday, May 13 and 14, from 6:30-9:00 PM,  at The Williams (720 West End Ave. @ 95th St.). Participants are asked to check in with the security guard and proceed quietly to the basement.

The audition is a cold reading. Sides will be provided.

For more information, contact Pamela Robbins (the director and playwright) at pammilu2@gmail.com.  Please do NOT e-mail your headshots, but do bring them when you read. 

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS:

The Teens

PETER MORESCU: Cheerful, irreverent, lives in the moment. Thinks about being a writer but never does it. Chafes at his dad's high expectations.

CHARLOTTE BARNES: Cynical and opinionated. An instigator. Trusts only her 3 friends.

IONA PETERSEN: Artistic, sensitive, easily led. Used to have a facial deformity

(now corrected), but the school still makes fun of her.

MICHAEL MURRAY:  Brilliant, knowledge-hungry and a little arrogant.  Has the highest grades since antiquity. The whole school hates him.

(For the Teens, ability to sing is helpful though not required.)

The Adults

ZACHARY MORESCU: Peter's dad. Devoted to Peter but disapproves of Peter's fun-loving ways. European accent helpful (German, Russian, Polish, etc.).

DR. HARTE: Psychiatrist assigned to Peter. Savvy and unshockable. Familiar with every deception known to teen.

                                            

MS. JAFFREY: The school guidance counselor. Well-intentioned, but new to counseling. Doesn't know squat.

THE DRIVER: Encountered by Peter and Charlotte when they are hitchhiking.  Crazy. Enjoys scaring kids.

The Teen Parents (played by the Teens)

ANNE BARNES:  Charlotte's aunt. Efficient and zealous. Works as an attorney.

HOLLY PETERSEN:  Iona's mother. Anxious to please and a little fragile.

SETH MURRAY:  Michael's father. Blustery and impatient. Thinks his academic son is a loser.

CHERRIE ADAMS:  Seth's girlfriend. Devoted to Seth. Has little concept of parenthood but wants to be included.

"Enchanted April" Opening Next Week!

The St. Jean's Players

Winner, OOBR Award for Excellence

presents 

Enchanted April 

by Matthew Barber

 From the novel by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Directed by Bryan McHaffey

"To those who appreciate wisteria and sunshine . . ."  

 

These words in an advertisement for rental of an Italian castle captivate two married women and jolt them out of the monotony of their everyday lives. Enlisting two other disparate women to share and pool expenses, they leave the restrictions and dullness of rainy London and demanding husbands for a month of enchantment and newfound hope and the rediscovery of the why of their lives. 
 

The 2003 Broadway production won the John Gassner Award for Outstanding New American Play, and was nominated for a Tony® Award as Best Play.

Starring:

Steven Ackerman - Lucy Apicello - Alexandra Drori - Jay Fink

Rhonda Goldstein - Rachel Hatch - David Mackler - Jack Phillips Moore

S. Michael Martin - Regan Stevens - Pauline Walsh  

  Performances: May 10, 11, 17, 18 at 8 pm, and May 12 and 19 at 3 pm.  

 167 East 75 Street (Between Lexington and Third), Manhattan  

$20 for Adults, $10 for Seniors 65+ and Children to age 18   

 Tickets on sale via SmartTix or 212-868-4444 

Also available at the door one half hour before curtain 

"Enchanted April" Opening May 10th!

Who doesn't need a holiday?

Especially after the horrors of World War I and the world of social change that followed it. And especially when you're lost in a couple of unhappy marriages like Lotty and Rose are. So when they see an advertisement to rent a romantic Italian castle for the month of April they decide to take a chance. To help them foot the expense, they talk a couple of other ladies who are better off into going along with them.

Sure enough, the enchantment of Italy does transform the women. And their husbands realize they have do do something if they're going to keep their wives. Watching them work at it is half the fun of "Enchanted April."

The play was written by Matthew Barber and was based on a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, a lady who knew a thing or two about the changing world of 1922 when she wrote her novel "The Enchanted April." Matthew Barber's 2003 version was nominated for Tony for Best Play. And it won the John Gassner Award for Outstanding New
American Play.

So ... if you need a bit of enchantment in your life ... come see "Enchanted April" at St. Jean's May 10, 11, 17, 18 at 8 pm, and May 12 and 19 at 3 pm. You can find out more at our website.

"Enchanted April" by Matthew Barber

Announcing auditions for our spring show . . .

Enchanted April

By Matthew Barber
From the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim

Directed by Bryan McHaffey

Feeling lost in their marriages and in the rapidly shifting social currents of post-WWI London, two middle-class housewives rent a villa in Italy for an impulsive holiday away from their lives, reluctantly recruiting a pair of independent upper-class women to share the cost and experience. There, among the wisteria blossoms and Mediterranean sunshine, all four clash-and then begin to bloom-rediscovering themselves in ways that they never could have imagined.

The 2003 Broadway production was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Play, and won the John Gassner Award for Outstanding New American Play.

There are 5 women's roles, and 3 men's roles. All roles are open.

Women's roles:

• Lotty Wilton: mousey, childless, fed up, earnest, spontaneous, in her 30s.
• Rose Arnott: older than Lotty, she gives her every penny to the poor to atone for her husband's evil books.
• Lady Caroline Bramble: a society beauty in her 20s, anxious to get away from the responsibilities of title and beauty, tired of society.
• Mrs. Graves, a widow locked in the Victorian age, who was on speaking terms with Tennyson and Keats.
• Costanza: the chatelaine of the villa, Italian, vital, spontaneous (all her dialogue is in Italian).

Men's roles:

• Mellersh Wilton: Lotty's husband, a stuffed shirt eager to make up to the royals.
• Frederick Arnott: Rose's husband, leading a double life as a respectable husband and a disreputable author with a roving eye.
• Antony Wilding: late 20s, an artist and the owner of the Italian villa.

Here's the lowdown about the auditions, rehearsals, and performances:

• Auditions will be Thursday, March 14 and Friday, March 15 between 6:30 and 9:30 pm.
• No appointment necessary. Signup begins at 6 pm so please do NOT arrive earlier. Signup ends at 8:30 pm.
• You will be given the script for cold readings.
• Rehearsals will take place on weekday evenings and on weekends.
• Performances will be May 10, 11, 17, 18 at 8 pm, and May 12 and 19 at 3 pm.

St. Jean's Auditorium at 167 East 75 Street
between Lexington and Third Avenues in Manhattan

Questions? E-mail us at stjeansplayers@gmail.com

(Do not submit headshots and resumes. We will not look at them. Just bring them to auditions!)

Life Is ... (what you make it)

Our Annual Winter One-Acts Festival is back! Don't miss this year's exciting lineup of original plays. The St. Jean's Players Winner, OOBR Award for Excellence presents Life Is . . . (what you make it) Five original one-act plays! House for Sale, written and directed by Diane Collins: It’s 1937 in a quaint little town in Upstate New York. A stranger from the big city shows up determined to buy the Malloy house, which is up for sale. An afternoon viewing and a visit with the owner reveal much more than just the interior of the house. For-Ever, written by Jay Fink, directed by Susan Horowitz: Two couples, one young and one older, dine at the same restaurant. While the younger couple looks ahead to the future, the older couple looks back at the past, until that moment when their lives intertwine. For You, written and directed by Jay Fink: An adult son and his aging mother face the trials and tribulations of life. A contemporary story of the ever-changing relationship of mother and son, which, even as it moves forward, is always colored by the past. Seventeen Come Sunday, written and directed by Bryan McHaffey: A cottage in the countryside, a doting grandmother, a dreamy young girl, a hungry yet demented spinster, a handsome stranger, a mild village lad, and his feisty sister - mix them all together on a moonlit night and watch what happens. The Erlenring Song, written and directed by Pamela Robbins: Quiet, teenaged Linnie and her exuberant friend Erika embark on a study abroad program in picturesque Charlottenburg, Germany. They have scarcely arrived when Linnie meets and falls for Matthias, an intense theology student who wants to put an end to political oppression. But who is Matthias really? Starring: Lucy Apicello- Ilene Biderman - Susanne Brinnitzer - Maria Camilo Andrew Colford - Dion Costelloe - Rhonda Goldstein - Evan Greene Marianne Hardart - Barbara Haspel - Maeve Kannar - James Lake Adam Lubitz - David Mackler - Margaret Montavon - Kristen Morale Diane Nardello - Fiona O'Loughlin - Sharon O'Neal - Stephanie Reyes Sharon Schiller - Cynthia Whitman- Warren Wyss Performances: February 22 and 23 at 8 pm, and Feb. 24 at 3 pm. 167 East 75 Street (Between Lexington and Third), Manhattan $20 for Adults, $10 for Seniors 65+ and Children to age 18 Tickets on sale via SmartTix or 212-868-4444 Also available at the door one half hour before curtain

For more information, see our website at www.stjeansplayers.org   The St. Jean's Players ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "One of New York's best-kept secrets!" -- Doug Strassler, off-off-online.com

Life Is (what you make it)

Auditions for our winter one-acts festival . . .

LIFE IS

(what you make it)

Featuring 5 one-act plays, four of them original:

House for Sale, written and directed by Diane Collins;
For You, written and directed by Jay Fink;
Andre's Mother, written by Terence McNally, directed by Susan Horowitz;
Seventeen Come Sunday, written and directed by Bryan McHaffey;
The Erlenring Song, written and directed by Pamela Robbins

• Thursday January 10 and Friday January 11 from 6:30 to 9:30 pm.
• No appointment necessary. Signup begins at 6 pm so please do NOT arrive earlier.
• You will be given the scripts for cold readings.
• 20 roles available, for men from age 20 and up, and women from age 17 and up.
• Rehearsals will take place on weekday evenings and on weekends.
• Performances will be February 22 and 23 at 8 pm, and Feb. 24 at 3 pm.

St. Jean's Auditorium at 167 East 75 Street
between Lexington and Third Avenues in Manhattan

Questions? E-mail us at stjeansplayers@gmail.com

(Do not submit headshots and resumes. We will not look at them. Just bring them to auditions!)

"My Fair Lady" Opening Soon!

The St. Jean's Players Winner, OOBR Award for Excellence presents Broadway's Most "Lover-ly" Musical! My Fair Lady Book and Lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER Music by FREDERICK LOEWE Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Play and Gabriel Pascal's motion picture "PYGMALION" Featuring "I Could Have Danced All Night, "On the Street Where You Live", "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face", "Wouldn't it Be Loverly" Director: Sharon Lowe Musical Director: Nancy Parish Choreographer: Diane Collins What happens when a pedantic professor of linguistics meets an ambitious Cockney flower girl? Often considered the greatest musical ever writtten, this classic Tony Award-winning musical based on George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" will delight theatregoers of all ages. WHEN: November 9-11 and 16-18, 2012. Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, Sunday matinees at 3 pm. WHERE: St. Jean's Auditorium, 167 East 75 Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues in Manhattan. HOW: $20 per ticket ($10 for Seniors 65+ and Children through age 18). Advance tickets available via SmartTix or (212) 868-4444. Tickets also available at the door 30 minutes before showtime. For more information, see www.stjeansplayers.org.

Warm regards, The St. Jean's Players ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "One of New York's best-kept secrets!" -- Doug Strassler, off-off-online.com