Talent Wanted for "The Crowd You're in With" Show
The company is holding auditions for "The Crowd You're in With" show and looking for performers, please see the details below. About the project: This engaging play takes place on the 4th of July at a Chicago Lincoln Park two flat. Jasper and Melinda, a couple who are contemplating pregnancy, decide to throw a barbecue for friends. They invite Dan and Windsong whose expected child is already the center of their lives, Karen and Dan an older couple who live upstairs who have deliberately chosen not to have children, and Dwight a neighborhood friend who is a stoner and offers some comic relief to the conversation in a tour de force monologue about the behavior of toddlers and their parents in restaurants. The play speaks to how much we can be unduly influenced, for better or worse, by those who are closest to us. Additional info: Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Please see the attachment. All those auditioning are asked to provide a resume of their onstage experience and must produce a list of all potential conflicts including travel. Any conflicts will be discussed with the Producer and agreed to by the director before casting can be confirmed. PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE: 12 total performances Friday and Saturdays – May 23, 24, 30, 31 June 6, 7, 13, 14 at 7:30 pm Matinees, May 25, June 1, 7, 8 at 2:00 PM
7 roles
Contemplating becoming pregnant. She is married to Jasper. They have just begun the process of trying to have a child which produces some stress in their relationship. She is very intelligent and does not want to quit work after she becomes pregnant. She is kind and somewhat soft spoken but is hiding hidden feelings of frustration in her marriage.
He is working on an economic textbook. He is intelligent, and a thinker. You find him analyzing how he feels about things in the play. He loves Melinda, but from Gilman’s script you begin to see he is questioning whether to have children and other areas of his marriage.
He is a Music critic for the Chicago Tribune. He is fun-loving who loves a good time. He loves music and has formed a band with Jasper and Dwight. They rehearse in the basement of the two-flat. He loves the prospect of becoming a father with Windsong and finds himself defending their decision to have children throughout the play.
She has her Masters in English. She works at the Polish American Museum as a Publications director. She is a child of hippies. She is looking forward to quitting her job and possibly working from home as an editor. She is totally consumed with love of her child that she and Dan will be bringing into this world.
He has been working on political campaigns all his life. He is married to Karen, whom he deeply loves. Both he and Karen feel that “they were enough” for each other, and did not want to have children. They fell in love while working on a political campaign together. Both driven in their careers and in their political positions. Their feelings toward children are well evident and brought out in the script.
She is very committed to the Unions and fighting the government for better programs for the working class. She also has feminist views on woman working and having children that she does not seem to have a filter when she is engaging in conversations. She loves Tom and loves their marriage to one another. There are wonderful conversations in the play that bring to the audience a look into their marriage, and their decision not to have children.
Neighborhood “stoner” friend as he is described in one of the reviews I read. He comes late to the party, but Gilman has given him a comic monologue that becomes the center of comic relief that breaks the tension at the party.
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