Find current Auditions in your area
A Streetcar Named Desire - AZ
- Project
ID # 38587
| Project Type |
Live Event
|
Submission Type |
SRN
|
| Location |
Phoenix AZ |
Union |
Non-union
|
| Rate/Pay |
n/a
|
Release Date |
06-14-06
|
| Audition Date |
12-31-69
|
Submission Deadline |
06-14-06
|
| Shoot Date |
12-31-69
|
|
|
| Casting Category |
Theatre - Non-Equity
|
| Market(s) |
Phoenix, AZ |
Production Company: NVC Playhouse
Name of Show: A Streetcar Named Desire
Playwright/Screenwright: Tennessee Williams
Genre: Stage
Actor Level: Adult
Nudity: No
Director: Jeana Whitaker
Audition Date: June 28th or 29th
Audition Time: apointments
Headshot and Resume: Optional
Callback Time/Location:July 1st at 10:00 am
Prepare:Please prepare a one minute dramatic monologue. There will also be cold reads from sides. Actors will be asked to read with authentic New Orleans accents.
Rehearsals Begin: July 24th
Run Dates / Shoot Dates: September 7th-23rd
Show Synopsis: This Pulitizer prize winning drama first appeared on Broadway in 1947. It is set in 1947 in New Orleans and is one of Tennessee Williams unsurpassed portraits of a beautiful, sensitive woman in misplaced circumstances, Blanch DuBois, whose life is undermined by fantasy, the memory of a tragic love, and the resentment and passion she arouses in her brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski.
Crew Needed: Always in need of crew for set, props, lights, and stage management.
Additional Info: This production is the season opener for our fourth season. Please visit our website to find out more
Primary Contact: Jeana Whitaker
Contact Title: Producing Artistic Director
This is a self-response notification (SRN).
SUBMIT ONLY if you fit the role criteria.
NOTE: ALL TALENT UNDER THE AGE OF 18 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN AT ALL TIMES
|
|
|
|
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
|
| |
|
|
Blanche DuBois - Stella’s older sister, who was a high school English teacher in Laurel, Mississippi, until she was forced to leave her post.
|
Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Female
Age: from 30 to 40 |
|
|
|
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
|
| |
|
|
Stella Kowalski - Blanche’s younger sister, about twenty-five years old and of a mild disposition that visibly sets her apart from her more vulgar neighbors
|
Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Female
Age: from 21 to 28 |
|
|
|
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
|
| |
|
|
Stanley Kowalski - The husband of Stella. Stanley is the epitome of vital force. He is loyal to his friends, passionate to his wife, and heartlessly cruel to Blanche.
|
Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male
Age: from 30 to 40 |
|
|
|
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
|
| |
|
|
Harold “Mitch” Mitchell - Stanley’s army friend, coworker, and poker buddy, who courts Blanche until he finds out that she lied to him about her sordid past. Mitch, like Stanley, is around thirty years of age.
|
Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male
Age: from 30 to 35 |
|
|
|
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
|
| |
|
|
Eunice - Stella’s friend, upstairs neighbor, and landlady. Eunice and her husband, Steve, represent the low-class, carnal life that Stella has chosen for herself.
|
Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Female
Age: from 30 to 45 |
|
|
|
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
|
| |
|
|
Allan Grey - The young man with poetic aspirations whom Blanche fell in love with and married as a teenager. One afternoon, she discovered Allan in bed with an older male friend.
|
Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male
Age: from 24 to 30 |
|
|
|
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
|
| |
|
|
A Young Collector - A teenager who comes to the Kowalskis’ door to collect for the newspaper when Blanche is home alone.
|
Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male
Age: from 15 to 18 |
|
|
|
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
|
| |
|
|
Shep Huntleigh - A former suitor of Blanche’s whom she met again a year before her arrival in New Orleans while vacationing in Miami.
|
Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male
Age: from 28 to 38 |
|
|
|
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
|
| |
|
|
Steve - Stanley’s poker buddy who lives upstairs with his wife, Eunice. Like Stanley, Steve is a brutish, hot-blooded, physically fit male and an abusive husband.
|
Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male
Age: from 30 to 40 |
|
|
|
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
|
| |
|
|
Pablo - Stanley’s poker buddy. Like Stanley and Steve, Steve is physically fit and brutish
|
Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male
Age: from 30 to 40 |
|
|
|
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
|
| |
|
|
A Negro Woman - In Scene One, the Negro woman is sitting on the steps talking to Eunice when Blanche arrives, and she finds Stanley’s openly sexual gestures toward Stella hilarious.
|
Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Female
Age: from 30 to 50
Ethnicity: African American - |
|
|
|
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
|
| |
|
|
A Doctor - At the play’s finale, the doctor arrives to whisk Blanche off to an asylum. He and the nurse initially seem to be heartless institutional caretakers
|
Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male
Age: from 30 to 40 |
|
|
|
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
|
| |
|
|
A Mexican Woman - A vendor of Mexican funeral decorations who frightens Blanche by issuing the plaintive call “Flores para los muertos,” which means “Flowers for the dead.”
|
Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Female
Age: from 35 to 50
Ethnicity: Hispanic - |
|
|
|
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
|
| |
|
|
A Nurse - Also called the “Matron,” she accompanies the doctor to collect Blanche and bring her to an institution. She possesses a severe, unfeminine manner and has a talent for subduing hysterical patients.
|
Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Female
Age: from 25 to 35 |
|
|
|
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
|
| |
|
|
Shaw - A supply man who is Stanley’s coworker and his source for stories of Blanche’s disreputable past in Laurel, Mississippi. Shaw travels regularly through Laurel
|
Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male
Age: from 30 to 40 |
|
|
|
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role
|
| |
|
|
Prostitute - Moments before Stanley rapes Blanche, the back wall of the Kowalskis’ apartment becomes transparent, and Blanche sees a prostitute in the street being pursued by a male drunkard.
|
Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Female
Age: from 20 to 30 |
|
|
|
Find Auditions in your area - View this
Casting Notice
Find Auditions, Castings & Casting Calls
John will perform his show, "The Red Piano," when Dion is on vacation from her three-year, $100 million contract Comedian Jerry Seinfeld is scheduled in December parkplace
John and hotel officials wouldn't confirm contract details com/
"Let's just say, I'm very well paid," the entertainer joked
The Grammy-winner dismissed reports about throat problems, saying he canceled a recent event because of a minor medical procedure "
"The wild and wacky days are here again," said famed photographer David LaChappelle, the show's production designer, alluding to John's flamboyant stage shows of the past
To illustrate his health, John burst out singing, "My voice is fine Elton John to Be a Fixture in Las Vegas
Oct 21, 4:42 PM EST
Elton John promised the sequins will fly again when he kicks off a three-year gig at Caesars Palace in February "
The 56-year-old has signed a deal to perform 75 shows at The Colosseum at Caesars beginning February 2004, five times a week for five weeks a year in a deal reportedly worth more than $50 million com
Park Place Entertainment: http://www
"I cannot do this show anywhere else in the world except here," the entertainer said at a news conference Tuesday
â€â€?â€â€?â€â€?
On the Net:
Elton John's Web site: http://www "
Tickets for the performances were priced at $250, $175 and $100 The show is expected to generate $61 million in total ticket sales, Caesars Palace President Mark Juliano said eltonjohn
The $95 million, 4,100-seat Colosseum was built for singer Celine Dion and her extravaganza "A New Day " It has hosted performances by Mariah Carey, Tim McGraw and Gloria Estefan
Clad in purple sunglasses and a pinstriped suit, John described a production filled with an eclectic mix of songs and costumes, saying "there are not ostrich feathers, but there will be sequins flying around "It's back to costume changes and Velcro
