The Elora Community Theatre (ECT) is holding auditions for Brighton Beach Memoirs, the second show of its 2010-11 season. Directed by Bronwyn Allen Hill, the well-loved Neil Simon comedy runs Feb. 11 to 13 and 17 to 19.
Auditions will take place on Oct. 27 at 7pm and, Oct. 30 at 9:3am, with callbacks on, Oct. 31 at 2pm.
Those are all at St. James Anglican Church, 171 Queen Street West, in Fergus. No preparation is necessary as those auditioning will read from the script.
Required for the cast are two adult females who can play ages 38 to 45, one adult male to play ages 45 to 50, two teen girls to play ages 12 to 14 and 15 to 16, and two teen boys to play ages 14 and 19.
Brighton Beach Memoirs centres around Eugene Morris Jerome, a 14 year old aspiring writer and baseball fanatic, and his family. The family lives in Brighton Beach, an ethnic neighbourhood in Brooklyn, New York, inhabited by Jewish, Polish, and Irish families. In 1937, with the depression at its height, with war looming in Germany, and extended family living and working together, the family deals with the situation with fatalistic good humour, and, Eugene’s reminiscences spell hilarity for the audiences.
