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Open Auditions for ANGEL STREET by Patrick Hamilton

Directed by David Shough

Monday and Tuesday, January 27-28, 2025, 7-9pm
Beavercreek Community Theatre

You need only attend one night, but are welcome at both. If you cannot attend either audition date, contact the director at davids@pbstudios.com or 937-626-2674, and we will make time or permit a video audition. Performance dates: March 7-16, 2025; Friday – Sunday. Rehearsals will generally be Monday through Thursday evenings, subject to cast schedules.

Seeking:
2 men and 3 women, plus two non-speaking police officers who appear at the end of the play. Race is not relevant to any role. All races & ethnicities are encouraged to audition.

• Mr. Manningham – good looking, about forty-five. He is heavily moustached and bearded and perhaps a little too well dressed. His manner is suave and authoritative, with a touch of mystery and bitterness.
• Mrs. Manningham, Bella – about thirty-four. She has been good-looking, almost a beauty – but now she has a haggard, wan, frightened air, with rings under her eyes that tell of sleepless nights and worse.
• Elizabeth, a servant – strong, amiable, and subservient woman of fifty; loyal to Bella.
• Nancy, a servant – a self-conscious, pretty, cheeky girl of nineteen; she much prefers the master than the mistress.
• Detective Rough – Middle-aged, graying, active, brusque, friendly, and overbearing. He has a low warm chuckle and completely dominates the scene from the beginning.

The Play:
A 1938 play, originally titled Gaslight (and the source of the psychological meaning of that word), it had one of the longest runs on Broadway for a non-musical and was adapted into a notable 1944 film starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman in the Manningham roles, and young Angela Landsbury, in her film debut, as Nancy.

The full script is available online at
www.coldreads.wordpress.com/2020/09/15/angel-street

With the heroine in distress, the manipulative husband, and the sturdy detective here to save  the day, the play gives homage to the melodramas of the past but has more the sense of a thriller. The characters are vivid and their emotions on full display.

The Audition:
Audition sides will be available for download in early January.
British accents are required for all actors.
Please bring a resume and a list of all conflicts through March 16, 2025.

DIE MOMMIE DIE!
A Comic Thriller by Charles Busch

November 4th & 5th; 7pm
Beavercreek Community Theatre – 3868 Dayton Xenia Rd, 45432

• EDITH SUSSMAN : 20’s, female presenting. Daughter of Sol Sussman, and Angela Arden.
• BOOTSIE CARP : 40’s-70’s, female presenting. Sussman family housekeeper.
• TONY PARKER : 30’s-40’s, male presenting. actor / gigolo.
• ANGELA ARDEN : 40’s-60’s, faded starlett, Sussman family matriarch. Originally portrayed by playwright Charles Busch; preference is to cast in same tradition.
• SOL SUSSMAN : 50’s-70’s, male presenting. Fading Hollywood film producer with chronic
  constipation. Husband to Angela.
• LANCE SUSSMAN : 18 – early 20’s. Male presenting, liberal arts college student.

Auditions will consist of cold reads from script.

Directed and Designed by Chris Harmon
Angele Price-Maddah, Assistant Director
Andrew Darr, stage manager & lighting design

DIE MOMMIE DIE! is a comic melodrama evoking the 1960s “Grande Dame Guignol” films that featured aging stars such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Lana Turner. Ex-pop singer Angela Andrews is trapped in a hateful marriage with film producer Sol Sussman. Desperate to find happiness with her younger lover, an out-of-work TV actor named Tony Parker, Angela murders her husband with the aid of a poisoned suppository. In a plot that reflects Greek tragedy as well as Hollywood kitsch, Angela’s Elektra-like daughter Edith convinces Angela’s emotionally disturbed son Lance that they must avenge their father’s death by killing their mother.

Productions on Jan. 17-25