AUDITIONS! Neil Simon Comedy

Auditions are being held Sunday and Monday, August 11 and 12 for San Juan Community Theatre’s fall play: Neil Simon’s hilarious salute to the comedy writers of television’s golden age, Laughter on the 23rd Floor.

Director Michael McElrath will be casting seven males and two females during auditions scheduled at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday and 7:00 p.m. on Monday at the PARC Building, 70 Saltspring Drive off Beaverton Valley Road.

Perusal scripts are available at the SJCT Box Office with a $10 deposit. The SJCT box office is open Tuesdays through Fridays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Laughter on the 23rd Floor will be presented in the Whittier Theatre on October 17-20 and 24-27.

Laughter on the 23rd Floor characters*

• Max Prince (star of The Max Prince Show): Mid-40s+; dominates a room with his personality; quixotic, changing quickly from warm, infectious laughter to sullen anger.
• Lucas Brickman (new writer): Mid-20s+; sincere and sensible, eager to be accepted and make his mark
• Milt Fields (flamboyant): Mid 40s +; a gag man— a joke-a-minute wholesaler who deals in fast-paced patter.
• Val Slotsky (Russian head writer): Mid-40s+; the senior member of the staff; an emigrant from Russia when he was twelve, he still carries his accent.
• Brian Doyle (Irish-American): Mid-30s+; a heavy smoker, a heavy cougher and a heavy drinker; a biting sense of humor as caustic as his outlook on life.
• Kenny Franks (wiz kid): 30s+; boy genius and the most sophisticated of the writers.
• Carol Wyman: 30s+; has a strong and quick defense system that comes with being the only female writer on the staff.
• Helen (Max’s secretary): 20+; attractive.
• Ira Stone: Mid-30s+; a hypochondriac who comes in late every day with a new ailment. His greatest wish in life was to have a virus named after him.

*McElrath says that while there are several ages listed, character and pacing is more important than how old the actors are.

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