Talent Needed for "Biloxi Blues" Show
The company is holding auditions for "Biloxi Blues" Show and looking for performers, please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. About the project: The second in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Neil Simon's trilogy which began with Brighton Beach Memoirs and concluded with Broadway Bound. When we last met Eugene Jerome, he was coping with adolescence in 1930's Brooklyn. Here, he is a young army recruit during WW II, going through basic training and learning about Life and Love with a capital 'L' along with some harsher lessons, while stationed at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1943 Rate: There is no pay for this production. Please apply if interested.
9 roles
(Lead): A writer and the narrator of the show. He is the alter ego of the youthful Neil Simon.
(Major Supporting): A confident man who thinks of himself as funny. He tends to take cues from others on how to behave and who to harass.
(Major Supporting): Big and tough - but not too smart and somewhat bigoted.
(Major Supporting): A private from New Jersey who irritates his bunkmates with his singing. He is not very good at making important decisions. Auditions for this role will require the actor to sing the song Happy Birthday, acapella
(Major Supporting): A sensitive, well-read and intelligent guy from New York City. He is mentally strong, but physically weak. He constantly feels the need to fight for something.
(Major Supporting): A Southerner. He is big and tough – he is smart and hardcore, old school “Army”, but he has his demons.
(Major Supporting): Big and tough - but not too smart.
(Minor Supporting): A world-wise, entrepreneurial Southern sex worker. She must have a flair for comedy.
(Minor Supporting): A USO dancer and Eugene's first love, she is young and pretty.
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