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Grease
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ID # 31459
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Live Event
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Submission Type |
Open Call
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Bloomfield Conn. |
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Non-union
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n/a
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Release Date |
04-24-06
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| Audition Date |
12-31-69
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Submission Deadline |
05-06-06
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| Shoot Date |
12-31-69
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| Casting Category |
Theatre - Non-Equity
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| Market(s) |
Hartford, CT |
River Valley Youth Theater Collective, Inc. Presents Grease. Audition Dates: Saturday, May 6 – 11am -5pm; Wednesday, May 10 – 6pm-9pm; Saturday, May 13 – 11am – 5pm.
Performance Dates: July 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th.
NOTE: ALL TALENT UNDER THE AGE OF 18 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN AT ALL TIMES
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Seeking 8 talent(s) for this role
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NOTE: ALL TALENT UNDER THE AGE OF 18 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN AT ALL TIMES
Young Actors Ages: Pre-teen to 22.
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male Female
Age: from 10 to 22 |
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After the marriage broke up, Carney married Barbara Isaac in 1966
Carney married his high school sweetheart, Jean Myers, in 1940 "
Around Westbrook, where he and his wife had a waterfront home, Carney was known around town as "Mr and the Dixie Dance Kings," "The Late Show," "House Calls," "Movie Movie," "Sunburn," "Going in Style," "Roadie," "Firestarter," "The Muppets Take Manhattan" and "Last Action Hero His father was a newspaperman and publicist
With his turned-up porkpie hat and unbuttoned vest over a white T-shirt, Carney's Ed Norton with his exuberant "Hey, Ralphie boy!" became an ideal foil for Gleason's blustery, bullying Kramden His behavior became erratic while co-starring with Walter Matthau in the Broadway run of Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" in the 1960s "
Carney told a Saturday Evening Post interviewer in 1961 that strangers were always asking him how he liked it down in the sewer 4, 1918, and baptized Arthur William Matthew Carney "
He was drafted into the Army in 1944 and took part in the D-Day landing at Normandy ' In the winter: `I like it down there because it's warm A piece of shrapnel shattered his right leg "
Family friend Janice Buglini remembered how Carney came to cheer up her 11-year-old daughter, who had leukemia "In the summer: `I like it down there because it's cool No responsibilities, no remorse He dropped out of the show and spent nearly half a year in a sanitarium "I have seasonal answers," he said
His career resumed, and in 1974 he was cast in Paul Mazurksy's "Harry and Tonto" as a 72-year-old widower who travels from New York to Chicago with his pet cat That brought him to the attention of Gleason Carney won three Emmys for his role and his first taste of fame Another time, the loose-limbed Norton teaches Ralph a finger-popping new dance called the Hucklebuck "
"Art was, and is one of the most endearing men I have ever met," the late actress Audrey Meadows (the caustic Alice Kramden on "The Honeymooners") wrote in her 1994 memoir "Love, Alice
Carney returned to radio as second banana on comedy shows, then ventured into television on "The Morey Amsterdam Show" in 1948
The comic actor would be forever identified as Norton, Ralph Kramden's bowling buddy and not-too-bright upstairs neighbor on "The Honeymooners
Carney was born into an Irish-Catholic family in Mount Vernon, N You just couldn't wait for him to come through the door again He stopped drinking during the making of the film
The shows can still be seen on cable
After appearing in amateur theatricals and imitating radio personalities, Carney won a job in 1937 traveling with Horace Heidt's dance band, doing his impressions and singing novelty songs
"The first time I saw the guy act," Gleason once said, "I knew I would have to work twice as hard for my laughs "I was a huge fan of `The Honeymooners' and I loved Jackie Gleason, who was a genius He had been ill for some time
Carney died in Chester, Conn
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Later he won a job at $225 a week imitating Franklin D , on Sunday and was buried on Tuesday after a small, private funeral He was funny as hell I was an alcoholic, even then "He would bring ice cream over for her, and a lobster â€â€? anything she wanted," Buglini said
"There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler," he told People magazine in 1974 W Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and other world leaders on a radio show, "Report to the Nation ' We decided to give it a go again " She called him a "witty and delightful companion who went out of his way to help each new actor find his niche" on the show '"
After "The Honeymooners," Carney battled a drinking problem for several years Told to "address the ball," Norton gives a wave of the hand and says, "Hellooooo, ball!" In another episode, Norton inadvertently wins the award for best costume at a Raccoon Lodge party by showing up in his sewer worker's gear " The characters appeared in various forms from 1951 to 1956, and the show was revived briefly in 1971 C
When it won him his Oscar, Carney wisecracked: "You're looking at an actor whose price has just doubled "After our second divorces, it was sort of like the puppy coming home: `Oh, it's you, come on in ' Then I've got one that isn't seasonal: `Go to hell They divorced 10 years later, and in 1980 he and his first wife remarried
"I loved Art Carney," said actor Billy Bob Thornton Y "
In one episode, Norton and Ralph learn to golf from an instruction book 'Honeymooners' Icon Art Carney Dies at 85
Nov 11, 9:06 PM EST
Art Carney, who played Jackie Gleason's sewer worker pal Ed Norton in the TV classic "The Honeymooners" and went on to win the 1974 Oscar for best actor in "Harry and Tonto," has died at 85 , on Nov "He would order gin and grapefruit juice for us in the morning, and it was great He was left with a leg three-quarters of an inch shorter than the other and a lifelong limp
"We always kept in touch because of our three children," he said in a 1980 AP interview But I was probably more struck by Art Carney than Gleason
