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Call Type
Non-Required Principal
Date of Audition
1/24/2013
Location
La Jolla Playhouse
2910 La Jolla Village Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037
Time(s)
January 24, 25 and 26, 2013
By Appointment ONLY--See Appointments for details
- A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
To submit for this project, send headshot/resume to
auditions@ljp.org. Please include role you are submitting for.
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Contract
LORT Non-Rep
LORT Non Rep - minimum $765/week
Seeking
Male and female, Local San Diego Actors (must reside and have housing and transportation within 50 miles of La Jolla 92037) Equity (AEA)
Preparation
Send headshot/resume to
auditions@ljp.org for preparation instructions.
Other Dates
SIDEWAYS
Rehearsal starts - June 11, 2013
First Preview - July 16, 2013
Close - August 18, 2013
Other
www.lajollaplayhouse.org
Personnel
Sideways
By Rex Pickett
Directed by Des McAnuff
Local Casting Director - Marike Fitzgerald
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Breakdown
About the Show: When friends Miles and Jack head to Santa Barbara wine country for one last blowout before Jack’s wedding, their journey through wine, women and disappointment becomes the definitive mid-life road trip. This honest and touching comedy comes from Rex Pickett, author of the novel from which the Academy Award-winning film was made, and Playhouse Director Emeritus Des McAnuff (Jersey Boys, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots).
MILES (40) – A deeply introspective, introverted thinking type. He’s a connoisseur of wines, a bit grandiloquent in speech. Like many introverts he uses alcohol to access feelings, and when he does he can come roaring out of his shell. He’s wildly, off-the-wall funny with a biting, trenchant outlook on life.
JACK (40) – He’s good-looking, a jock, a little dumb-appearing. Jack has soul and heart, if still lacking depth. He’s the classic extroverted feeling type a man of action. He operates on instinct, and moves often without apparent conscious aforethought.
MAYA (30-40) – Left an unhappy marriage and moved to a small town to get away from everything, including whatever ambitions she had. Book smart, but has a laissez-faire philosophy toward life, born from a certain jadedness toward relationships. She is earthy, close to her feelings, an introverted intuition type. She’s a good listener, then suddenly awes you with rapier flashes of insight.
TERRA (late 20’s – early 30’s) – Terra is the wild one, the carefree, insouciant one. She falls in love too quickly and too easily. As a sexual creature she’s a carnivore. She loves sex. Terra maybe made it through a two-year college before dropping out and going to work to support herself. She’s a working class girl. Terra is hot and she ignites men’s libido.
BRAD (mid 20’s) - SoCal working class, construction worker type who gets blindingly drunk on the weekends and his days off. He’s a twisted guy who likes to fuck with people just for the hell of it to get a rise. Because he’s a drunk he often doesn’t realize the consequences of his twisted lunatic actions.
PHYLLIS (60’s) – Miles mother who lives a comfortable life in a bluffside house. Having spent too much time by herself, she’s prone to bouts of melancholy interspersed with giddiness brought on by too much champagne. She has given up on ever marrying again. Drolly funny with idiosyncratic mannerisms. Doubles with EVELYN - An anomaly: an agent who has feeling for her clients. Comes from experience, success.
BABS – (30- 35) - The kind of girl who works hard for her money as a top-flight costume designer. She’s organized. She’s controlling but patient, represses her feelings up to a point, and you wouldn’t believe anyone would cheat on her if you saw her. Dresses like many costume designers: retro hip, mixing and matching non-matching items of vintage clothing.
VICTORIA (40) – She’s Maya in another occupation, another dominion, probably has relocated to the East Coast, where she might be from, or went to school. She’s Miles’s equal in every way, except his artist fucked-upness. Dresses stylishly. Well put-together in every way.
CHRIS (40’s-50’s) – A failed rock-and-roll musician who moved to wine country because he wanted to continue to medicate himself, legally and without guilt. Dresses anachronistically like a hippie.
CHARLIE (35+) – A guy who landed in a small town, found a sweetheart job at the burgeoningly successful Hitching Post and never left. Divorced probably. Dresses in bar uniform costume: white shirt, black pants
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