Performers Needed for "A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol" Show
The company is holding auditions for "A 1940s Radio Christmas Carol" Show and looking for performers, please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. Additional info: Rehearsals: Sundays, Mondays, and Thursdays from 7pm to 10pm Tech week December 6th - 10th. Performances are one weekend Friday December 11th at 730pm and Saturday December 12th at 2pm and 730pm Come prepared with 16-32 bars of a Christmas song and ready to read from the script. Please apply if interested.
11 roles
Mutual Announcer, front man for WOV's Nash-Kelvinator Mystery Theatre. Formerly producer of the "Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade," which Mutual removed from its lineup just after Christmas, 1942. Now broadcasts his Friday night "Man with No Tomorrow" private eye radio drama which originates from a studio near the transmitter in Newark, NJ. A pioneer in "spot advertising." Wears wire-frame glasses like Glenn Miller. Known for being cheap. Has a crush on Judith.
Retired star of stage and screen with a long list of Broadway credits, 46 films, including the 1916 British film, "The Right to be Happy," aka "Scrooge the Skinflint." With a great mane of dramatic white hair, William is a bit of a curmud- geon and looks down on radio as one of the bastard children of the stage.
Has a day job as a baker at Weequahic Diner (where his specialty is the nesselrode pie). A little stout. Lives in Jersey City, with his wife, Midge, has no kids, and has a hopeless and unrequited crush on Margie. As a regular, plays Mishke Bibble among other cameos.
Has a day job as a baker at Weequahic Diner (where his specialty is the nesselrode pie). A little stout. Lives in Jersey City, with his wife, Midge, has no kids, and has a hopeless and unrequited crush on Margie. As a regular, plays Mishke Bibble among other cameos.
Once an east-coast Florsheim Shoe salesman (and still plugs them whenever he gets an opportunity for a little commission), now a WOV regular, Fritz plays private eye Rick Roscoe, star of Clifton's usual (and very popular) Friday night offering, "The Man with No Tomorrow." Last year, Rick Roscoe had a Christmas show on Christmas Eve (called "Silent Knife, Holy Knife").
Although quite the cutup herself, Judith is the resident "leading lady" playing all such roles as a regular. Has two kids and two ex's and wants no more of either. Determined and stubbom, Lives in a brownstone on West 75th Street at Broadway in Manhattan. Considers herself a "legit" actress, Judith has appeared in two New York City stage productions including a role in the chorus of the Mercury Theatre production of "The Gradle Will Rock" four years ago.
Brassy, flippant, with a voice to match (think GingerRogers in "Stage Door"). As a show regular, plays the comic roles. This 30 year-old Irish-American comedienne lives with her two sisters, Zazu and Vi, in a two-room apartment in Queens. She works days as a bookkeeper/typist/stenographer/ receptionist for William Dougherty, MD, an oculist in Queens.
Lives on the lower east side of Manhattan. As a show regular, plays all animals, babies, insects, little kids. In addition to being a radio personality at WOV, Sally makes the long train ride to Babylon, Long Island, three days a week, to contribute to the war effort by working for Republic Aviation operating drill presses and riveting guns.
His life is his work. The 24 year-old "sound effectician" at WOV. Has a sharp wit and is always agreeable, whistling, and in a good mood. Born and raised in Bayonne where he was valedictorian at Bayonne High, Class of '37. Raised by his Aunts Lulu and Gilly. Moved back to Bayonne when the Cavalcade became Nash Mystery Theater and began broadcasting from Newark.
Backstage audio engineer and transmitter supervisor for WOV Radio.
Concierge of the Hotel Aberdeen in Newark.