Performers Needed for Theatre Audition "Lost in Yonkers"
Audition for "Lost in Yonkers". Seeking talent. Please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. About the project: The play won the 1991 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Set in 1942, the play opens when the ne’er-do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the doorstep of Grandma Kurnitz. He is financially strapped and taking to the road as a salesman. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella, her mentally-challenged daughter, and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers. Additional info: Callbacks on the 25th if needed) by appointment; Performance dates: February 20-March 1. If interested, please apply.
5 roles
Skill: Actor must be able to do or be willing to learn a German accent. The matriarch, a German immigrant, embodies a strict and unforgiving nature, stemming from a difficult past. Her harsh parenting style has left lasting scars on her children, creating a tense and emotionally stunted family dynamic.
Jay and Arty's aunt is portrayed as loving and kind but mentally arrested. Bella has a tendency to make little to no logical sense when holding a conversation, jumping back and forth between the present and previous experiences and getting overwhelmed with what is happening in the moment. She yearns for love and connection, dreaming of creating her own family. Her childlike behavior and emotional vulnerability stem from her mother's coldness and lack of affection.
Grandma's eldest son is a flamboyant, jovial uncle who is involved with the mob. He is portrayed as a survivor, but also exhibits a volatile temper and some of his mother's cruelty. He acts as the boys' male authority figure while their father is gone. Louie is smooth-talking, erratic, and clearly mixed up in some crooked schemes.
Eddie, the father of Arty and Jay, recently lost his wife to cancer and now finds himself with a massive amount of debt. This forces him to leave for 10 months to earn money to pay off his debts, leaving his boys with his mother and his sister, Bella. He is described as being a loving father to his sons and is an emotional, sensitive man, tearing up and crying on multiple occasions. He resents his mother for how she treated him and his siblings growing up.
Jay and Arty's aunt, experiences difficulty speaking due to a childhood trauma inflicted by their grandmother never allowing her to cry. This breathing tic, which causes her to suck in her breath in the middle of her sentences, is a physical manifestation of the psychological damage caused by Grandma Kurnitz. Gertrude acts as the referee between siblings, particularly for Bella and Louie, and is arguably the closest sibling to Bella.
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