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ID # 52624
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Live Event
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Submission Type |
Open Call
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| Location |
Olympia, WA |
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Non-union
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| Rate/Pay |
n/a
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Release Date |
08-27-06
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| Audition Date |
12-31-69
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Submission Deadline |
09-18-06
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| Shoot Date |
12-31-69
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| Casting Category |
Theatre - Non-Equity
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| Market(s) |
Seattle, WA |
A writer of TV murder mysteries finds himself pressed to commit a real-life criminal act. But his "perfect crime" turns out to be anything but! Soon his house is crawling with detectives and district attorneys, all looking to point the finger somewhere, thus casting the writer in a role he never expected he'd have to play, the suspect!
Head shots and resumes appreciated but not required. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the play. Scripts are on-reserve at the Downtown Olympia, Tumwater, and Lacey branches of Timberland Library.
NOTE: ALL TALENT UNDER THE AGE OF 18 MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN AT ALL TIMES
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Elliot Nash (Male, late 30's-40s): TV who-dun-it writer, a man of creature comforts more suited to Manhattan but trapped in Long Island suburbia
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male
Age: from 35 to 50 |
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Harlow Edison (Male, late 30's-early 50s): Alec’s neighbor and friend, a district attorney with a sharp intellect and a deeply dry sense of humor
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Gender: Male
Age: from 35 to 50 |
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Matilda (Female, mid 20's-early 50's): the Nashs’ maid, she has a scream like an air raid siren
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Gender: Female
Age: from 25 to 55 |
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Nell Nash (Female, 20's-early 40's): Alex’s loving actress-wife, she is easily glamorous with a steel backbone.
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Gender: Female
Age: from 20 to 45 |
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Mrs. Chandler (Female, late 20's-early 30's): a driven real-estate agent
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Gender: Female
Age: from 25 to 35 |
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The Visitor (Male, 20's-50's): A mysterious visitor to the Nash household who causes all sorts of problems
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Gender: Male
Age: from 20 to 60 |
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Thorpe (Male or Female, 30's-early 50's): The groundskeeper at the Nash estate
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male Female
Age: from 30 to 55 |
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The Dook (Male or Female, 30's-40's): The alpha thug
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Gender: Male Female
Age: from 30 to 50 |
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Louie (Male, late 20's-early 40's): Dook’s not-so-bright minion
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Gender: Male
Age: from 25 to 45 |
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Jenkins (Male, 30's-50's): Senior detective, tightly wound and bull-headedly efficient
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Gender: Male
Age: from 30 to 60 |
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Dr. Wyner (Male, mid 20's-50's): Plainclothes police surgeon
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Gender: Male
Age: from 25 to 60 |
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Drucker (Male, 20's): junior detective, the earnest type
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Gender: Male
Age: from 20 to 30 |
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A cop (Male or Female, 20's-30's): a police officer
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Searchable talent specs:
Gender: Male Female
Age: from 20 to 40 |
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14 on Amazon She will not make monthly picks, but three to five choices a year "
Parini agreed that the novel is far from perfect, but called it a "magnificent failure" and praised it as "quite readable
Winfrey had suspended her club in April 2002 because she didn't have enough time to keep up monthly selections "
"The portrayal of women in the book is rather shockingly misogynistic by today's standards," said Steinbeck biographer Jay Parini "There's always a problem with women in Steinbeck's books "I wanted to lead people down this path without them thinking they're back in school "You can see right through her and it gives you a little sense of superiority because you can't believe the other characters don't see through her He didn't have much middle ground "East of Eden" jumped to No Oprah Revives Book Club With Steinbeck
Jun 18, 5:18 PM EST
Oprah Winfrey was sitting under an oak tree in California last summer, reading John Steinbeck's "East of Eden" and loving it, when she realized that just telling a few friends about it wouldn't do , when she read the novel Steinbeck's publisher, Penguin Group USA, has ordered a new printing of 600,000 for a book that usually sells 40,000-50,000 copies a year He could only do the Madonna or the whore and I realized that that was a conversation that would come up over and over again," said Winfrey, who was vacationing in Santa Barbara, Calif
"When I said, 'Do you know what it is?' They said, 'No,'" Blechman recalled The main female character, Cathy, is a ruthless prostitute of whom the author writes, "I believe there are monsters born in the world And Winfrey thinks women will love the book, if only to root against Cathy '"
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Associated Press writer Don Babwin contributed to this story "And when I said, 'Do you care?' They said, 'No Since founding her club in 1996, she has often highlighted sympathetic women characters, choosing such books as Jacquelyn Mitchard's "Deep End of the Ocean" and Toni Morrison's "Sula " Winfrey thinks "East of Eden" is a great way to get people interested in older books
"I was literally halfway through `East of Eden' and thought, `Gee, I wish I had a book club again,'" Winfrey told The Associated Press Wednesday in a telephone interview from Chicago, shortly after announcing on her TV talk show that Steinbeck's novel was her first pick after a 14-month hiatus
The Winfrey touch is apparently undiminished "
Winfrey said she wants to avoid the "self-imposed box" in which she found herself: the fewer expectations the better
By midmorning Wednesday, 20 copies from Winfrey had been purchased, along with 50 more the store had ordered, said Doris Blechman, the assistant manager And after first wanting to call her revived club "Traveling With the Classics," she settled for "Oprah's Book Club," just as it was called before But most critics regard it as contrived and awkward, beneath such Steinbeck standards as "Of Mice and Men" and "The Grapes of Wrath
She revealed in February that she would be starting her picks again and focusing on older authors
"She's a woman you love to hate," Winfrey said "I just want to read great books without it becoming controversial When you read something that's good and juicy and it's called literature, then you're not closed to the idea of it com within hours of her announcement "
But novels rarely come as manly as Steinbeck's epic, biblically influenced story about rival brothers
Winfrey acknowledged that "East of Eden" is a long way from the typical "Oprah" pick "
Winfrey agreed that she was "put off" by Cathy but says that she couldn't stop reading "
In a segment filmed Monday and aired on Wednesday's show, Winfrey personally delivered boxes of "East of Eden" to Anderson's Bookshop in the Chicago suburb of Naperville
"There are some who would argue that this (`East of Eden') is not really a `classic'
"It's not like Shakespeare, or even Faulkner; it's reader friendly," she said "
The revived book club means more good news for the publishing industry, which is already anticipating Saturday's debut of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix "
Steinbeck worked for years on "East of Eden," a best seller when first published in 1952
Blechman said that when the segment aired, the store's phones began to ring from people who wanted to order the book â€â€? simply on Winfrey's recommendation She will focus on authors of the past, but doesn't rule out living ones
