Casting Call for "Die Mommie Die!" Play
Production of "Die Mommie Die!" seeks talent. Please find the details below. About the project: DIE MOMMIE DIE! is a comic melodrama evoking the 1960s “Grande Dame Guignol” films that featured aging stars such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Lana Turner. Ex-pop singer Angela Andrews is trapped in a hateful marriage with film producer Sol Sussman. Desperate to find happiness with her younger lover, an out-of-work TV actor named Tony Parker, Angela murders her husband with the aid of a poisoned suppository. In a plot that reflects Greek tragedy as well as Hollywood kitsch, Angela’s Elektra-like daughter Edith convinces Angela’s emotionally disturbed son Lance that they must avenge their father’s death by killing their mother. Additional info: Auditions will consist of cold reads from a script. To be considered please apply.
6 roles
Female presenting. Daughter of Sol Sussman, and Angela Arden.
Female presenting. Sussman family housekeeper.
Male presenting. actor / gigolo.
Faded starlett, Sussman family matriarch. Originally portrayed by playwright Charles Busch; preference is to cast in same tradition.
Male presenting. Fading Hollywood film producer with chronic constipation. Husband to Angela.
Male presenting, liberal arts college student.
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