CASTING NOTICE
The Jewish Theatre Workshop Presents
"You Can't Take It With You"
by Moss Hart & George S. Kauffman
Performances:
August 12th at 7pm
August 15th at 2pm
August 16th at 7pm
Auditions:
May 23rd 2-5pm JEA Room, Weinberg PH JCC
May 25th 6-9pm Call Backs if needed, Room B-02, Weinberg PH JCC
What to prepare:
Please come and tell us a memorized clean joke. You may also be asked to read sides from the script.
Call Backs:
If you are called back, you may be asked to do improvisation in addition to reading sides from the script.
Rehearsals:
Sundays 1-5
Tuesdays 6-9:30
Wednesdays 6-9:30
Thursdays 6-9:30
No rehearsals on Fridays, Saturdays or Mondays until Tech week.
Rehearsals to begin June 20th
Inquiries:
gavriel@jewishtheatreworkshop.org Gavriel Lewin, Director (Artistic Director of JTW)
Available roles:
All roles are available at the open audition. They include:
Penny Sycamore - mid 50's, a playwright, painter and mother
Essie Carmichael - late 20's, her daughter, a "ballet dancer" and candy maker
Rheba - 20's-40's an African American maid, really part of the family
Paul Sycamore - mid 50's, Penny's husband, he makes fireworks in the basement
Mr. DePinna - mid 40's-50's an ice man (one who brings ice to homes) who came and stayed with the family ever since. He helps Paul make the fireworks
Ed Carmichael - late 20's, Essie's husband, likes to print things, deliver Essie's candies and play xylophone
Donald - 20's-40's Rheba's boyfriend, also African-American.
Martin Vanderhof - 70's, Penny's father, the patriarch of the family, attends commencements at Columbia and enjoys his pet snakes.
Alice Sycamore - early-mid 20's, Penny's other daughter, "normal" works at Kirby and Co. Vivacious, lovely and in love.
Wilbur Henderson - 40's, a government IRS employee, sent to collect back taxes from Martin Vanderhof
Boris Kolenkhov - 30's-40's a Russian immigrant and a choreographer, not a Communist
Gay Wellington - 30's-50's a drunk actress
Anthony (Tony) Kirby, Jr. - 20's-30's Alice's soon-to-be fianc nice young man
Anthony Kirby - 50's Tony's father, a business man who raises prized orchids
Miriam Kirby - 50's Tony's mother, prim and proper, believes in spiritualism
3 G-men - Three FBI agents
The Grand Duchess Olga Katrina - 40's-50's once a Grand Duchess of Russia, now is a waitress at a Manhattan greasy spoon
Synopsis:
At first the Sycamores seem mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, the rest of the world is madder.
In contrast to these delightful people are the unhappy Kirbys. The plot shows how Tony, attractive young son of the Kirbys,
falls in love with Alice Sycamore and brings his parents to dine at the Sycamore home on the wrong evening. The shock sustained
by the Kirbys, who are invited to eat cheap food, shows Alice that marriage with Tony is out of the question. The Sycamores,
however, though sympathetic to Alice, find it hard to realize her point of view. Meantime, Tony, who knows the Sycamores are
right and his own people wrong, will not give her up, and in the end Mr. Kirby is converted to the happy madness of the
Sycamores, particularly since he happens in during a visit by an ex-Grand Duchess, earning her living as a waitress. No
mention has as yet been made of the strange activities of certain members of the household engaged in the manufacture of
fireworks; nor of the printing press set up in the parlor; nor of Rheba the maid and her friend Donald; nor of Grandpa's
interview with the tax collector when he tells him he doesn't believe in the income tax.