Tongue in Cheek Theater (www.tictheater.com) is casting comedic character actors for OUR TOWN. Ms. Jake Lipman, producer and director. AEA showcase, approval pending.
The casting notice is up on Playbill.com and will be in the August 2 edition of Backstage.
Auditions will be held by appointment only from 12:30-5 pm, Saturday-Sunday, August 18-19 in midtown.
Rehearses Sundays from 1-5 pm, and Tue-Wed-Thurs evenings from 6:30-9 pm, also in midtown, starting September 9. Tech and final dress will be Monday and Tuesday, October 15 and 16 in the evening.
8 performances, Wednesday-Saturday for two weeks, October 17-20 and 24-27, 2012 at Theatre 54 @ Shetler Studios.
Availability from September 9 onward is important (not all actors will be called to all rehearsals, but the play is an ensemble piece).
Stipends for non-union actors $100, AEA actors $162. Singers $50 (Sunday rehearsals only).
Seeking:
2 YOUNGER WOMEN (actresses in their 20s, to play teenagers)
• EMILY (20s), smartest girl in her class, sensitive.
• REBECCA (20s), funny kid sister who idolizes her brother. Petite.
6 WOMEN (actresses in their 30s+)
• MRS. WEBB (30s-50s), once the second-prettiest girl in town, now sensible wife.
• MRS. GIBBS (30s-50s), longs to travel, devoted wife.
• MRS. SOAMES (20s-60s), town gossip, sings in the choir.
• PROFESSOR WILLARD (20s-60s), expert on local history.
• 2 FEMALE SINGERS (20s-70s) small speaking roles, singers in choir. (Attends Sunday rehearsals only.)
3 YOUNGER MEN (actors in their 20s, to play teenagers/young adults)
• GEORGE (20s), most popular boy in school, sincere.
• JOE CROWELL/SI CROWELL/SAM CRAIG (20s), youthful actor to play 3 comedic roles.
• WALLY (20s), determined kid brother. Wiry.
7 MEN
• DR. GIBBS (30s-50s), town physician, folksy.
• EDITOR WEBB (30s-50s), runs town paper, smart, funny.
• SIMON STIMPSON (30s-50s), choir director, alcoholic, melancholic.
• HOWIE (20s-40s), friendly milkman.
• CONSTABLE BILL WARREN/JOE STODDARD (30s-60s), town policeman/funeral director, take-charge.
• 2 MALE SINGERS (20s-70s) small speaking roles, singers in choir. (Attends Sunday rehearsals only.)
Monday, July 30, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
Plus One Summer 2012 July 28-29 - Interview #5: Sarah Aili
TIC's Plus One Solo Show Festival is at it again, firing up 4 seriously funny solo shows and a great musical guest this summer, July 28 and 29. Get your tickets now!
We recently interviewed our musical guest (and Plus One Solo Show Festival alum) Sarah Aili, whose songs and solo shows have touched our hearts with their honest and heart-wrenching notes. She'll sing three of her songs between the solo shows in the festival, and we thought we'd get a little more insight into what makes her, well, TICk.
TIC: When did you start writing songs, and do you remember the story of the first song you wrote that you really loved?
Sarah Aili: I used to make up songs when I was 3 or 4 years young and perform them for my family, although I can't say that I remember any of those all too well. I'm sure we have a VHS lying around somewhere. I wrote my first song song in my first year of college. A friend of mine taught me a few chords and told me to write a song with them. So during that Winter Break, all I did was hang out with my guitar morning, noon and night and wrote a song! It was called "Sunrise With You" and it was about wanting to see the sunrise with a sweetie by my side. Ahhh, love!
TIC: You've written solo shows (Glory of Love), perform regularly as an actress... what's your next project?
SA: Yes yes! Solo shows, musicals, straight plays and singer songwriter gigs, all! Currently, I'm hunkering down with the continuation of my solo show Glory of Love and performing songs from my recent EP and writing more music all the time.
TIC: If you were going to cast a movie of your life, who would you cast to play your grandmother, about whom you write in Glory of Love?
SA: I'd
cast myself. If it was imperative that I cast someone else to play the
role of my grandmother, I'd choose a young Judy Garland type who has the
ability to carry her core as a Jewish woman raised in the LES by an
immigrant mother who spoke little to no English. In my family, we call
it "pucch."
Join us for 3 of Sarah's original songs and 4 seriously funny solo shows (Rooftops by Jim Chu, The Circle Flying Dance by Myla Pitt, And She Bakes by Daliya Karnofsky and Welcome to the Hallmark Emporium by Megan Melnyk).
When? Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29 at 8 pm
When? Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29 at 8 pm
Where? Bridge Theatre (244 West 54th Street, 12th floor @ Shetler Studios).
Tickets: $20. Call 212-868-4444 or go to http://www.smarttix.com/Show.aspx?ShowCode=PLU7.
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Plus One Summer 2012 July 28-29 - Interview #4: Myla Pitt
TIC's Plus One Solo Show Festival is at it again, firing up 4 seriously funny solo shows and a great musical guest this summer, July 28 and 29. Get your tickets now!
We interviewed the inspiring and stunning Myla Pitt about her piece, The Circle Flying Dance, a remembrance of her girlhood in the sixties, and how she strives to recapture that time of freedom and anarchy.
TIC: You were a member of the first class to graduate from the Actors Studio Drama School MFA program... what was that like?
Myla Pitt: I enjoyed my graduate school experience. I had been pounding the pavement for awhile, so it felt good to be immersed in the process.
TIC: What's the best advice you got on creating a solo show?
MP: Write about what interests you. It's just you and the material--no other actors or play, so you need to like what you're doing.
TIC: Who or what inspires you?
MP: I get inspiration from people who stick with what they care about, despite the odds.
For a truly inspired and inspiring evening of solo shows and music, please join us for Myla's show and 3 other seriously funny solo shows (Rooftops by Jim Chu, Welcome to the Hallmark Emporium by Megan Melnyk, And She Bakes by Daliya Karnofsky and musical guest Sarah Aili).
When? Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29 at 8 pm
Where? Bridge Theatre (244 West 54th Street, 12th floor @ Shetler Studios).
Tickets: $20. Call 212-868-4444 or go to http://www.smarttix.com/Show.aspx?ShowCode=PLU7.
We interviewed the inspiring and stunning Myla Pitt about her piece, The Circle Flying Dance, a remembrance of her girlhood in the sixties, and how she strives to recapture that time of freedom and anarchy.
TIC: You were a member of the first class to graduate from the Actors Studio Drama School MFA program... what was that like?
Myla Pitt: I enjoyed my graduate school experience. I had been pounding the pavement for awhile, so it felt good to be immersed in the process.
TIC: What's the best advice you got on creating a solo show?
MP: Write about what interests you. It's just you and the material--no other actors or play, so you need to like what you're doing.
TIC: Who or what inspires you?
MP: I get inspiration from people who stick with what they care about, despite the odds.
For a truly inspired and inspiring evening of solo shows and music, please join us for Myla's show and 3 other seriously funny solo shows (Rooftops by Jim Chu, Welcome to the Hallmark Emporium by Megan Melnyk, And She Bakes by Daliya Karnofsky and musical guest Sarah Aili).
When? Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29 at 8 pm
Where? Bridge Theatre (244 West 54th Street, 12th floor @ Shetler Studios).
Tickets: $20. Call 212-868-4444 or go to http://www.smarttix.com/Show.aspx?ShowCode=PLU7.
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Plus One Summer 2012 July 28-29 - Interview #3: Megan Melnyk
TIC's Plus One Solo Show Festival is at it again, firing up 4 seriously
funny solo shows and a great musical guest this summer, July 28 and
29. Get your tickets now!
We interviewed the hilarious and sweet Megan Melnyk about her character-driven solo show, Welcome to the Hallmark Emporium, about three women working the card shop floor like they mean it.
TIC: What inspired you to write your solo show, Welcome to the Hallmark Emporium?
Megan Melnyk: Truly a combination of disbelief, fear and watching other people be brave. After a rough fall and with the whole end of the world Mayan make your life matter pressure I made a list of 12 things I wanted to do within the year. There were and are fun things (surf lessons, trapeze classes) but, I wanted to add things I was really afraid that I could not possibly do - and writing a piece was top of the list.
TIC: Are the characters based on any people in your life?
MM: Each character is a version of something I've felt with a safely distancing exaggerated version of how I've perceived myself in those moments. I thought - I've felt this, what kind of person would feel this way times 10,000 and what would be FUN. I want to do that! (Although, proper disclosure I am from a small farm town and am related to a few people who compete on the "chicken circuit", which may not be the professional terminology - but, we're distantly related.)
TIC: If you were to cast the characters in a sitcom, who would play each one?
MM: Maybe the love child of Joanna Lumley and Madeline Kahn for my aging underemployed starlet, for my love sick co-worker 100% the phenomenally gifted Christina Gausas, and for my chicken lady...Amy Sedaris would be eerily good. I would also like to add Phylicia Rashad to the sitcom because I adore her and after hanging out on the set of said fictional sitcom she'd probably realize she wants to adopt me.
Here's to brilliant comediennes! Join us for Megan's show and 3 other seriously funny solo shows (Rooftops by Jim Chu, The Circle Flying Dance by Myla Pitt, And She Bakes by Daliya Karnofsky and musical guest Sarah Aili).
When? Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29 at 8 pm
Where? Bridge Theatre (244 West 54th Street, 12th floor @ Shetler Studios).
Tickets: $20. Call 212-868-4444 or go to http://www.smarttix.com/Show.aspx?ShowCode=PLU7.
We interviewed the hilarious and sweet Megan Melnyk about her character-driven solo show, Welcome to the Hallmark Emporium, about three women working the card shop floor like they mean it.
TIC: What inspired you to write your solo show, Welcome to the Hallmark Emporium?
Megan Melnyk: Truly a combination of disbelief, fear and watching other people be brave. After a rough fall and with the whole end of the world Mayan make your life matter pressure I made a list of 12 things I wanted to do within the year. There were and are fun things (surf lessons, trapeze classes) but, I wanted to add things I was really afraid that I could not possibly do - and writing a piece was top of the list.
TIC: Are the characters based on any people in your life?
MM: Each character is a version of something I've felt with a safely distancing exaggerated version of how I've perceived myself in those moments. I thought - I've felt this, what kind of person would feel this way times 10,000 and what would be FUN. I want to do that! (Although, proper disclosure I am from a small farm town and am related to a few people who compete on the "chicken circuit", which may not be the professional terminology - but, we're distantly related.)
TIC: If you were to cast the characters in a sitcom, who would play each one?
MM: Maybe the love child of Joanna Lumley and Madeline Kahn for my aging underemployed starlet, for my love sick co-worker 100% the phenomenally gifted Christina Gausas, and for my chicken lady...Amy Sedaris would be eerily good. I would also like to add Phylicia Rashad to the sitcom because I adore her and after hanging out on the set of said fictional sitcom she'd probably realize she wants to adopt me.
Here's to brilliant comediennes! Join us for Megan's show and 3 other seriously funny solo shows (Rooftops by Jim Chu, The Circle Flying Dance by Myla Pitt, And She Bakes by Daliya Karnofsky and musical guest Sarah Aili).
When? Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29 at 8 pm
Where? Bridge Theatre (244 West 54th Street, 12th floor @ Shetler Studios).
Tickets: $20. Call 212-868-4444 or go to http://www.smarttix.com/Show.aspx?ShowCode=PLU7.
Monday, July 9, 2012
Plus One Summer 2012 July 28-29 - Interview #2: Jim Chu
TIC's Plus One Solo Show Festival is at it again, firing up 4 seriously funny solo shows and a great musical guest this summer, July 28 and 29. Get your tickets now!
We recently interviewed one of the four talented solo show artists in our summer festival later this month, including the handsome and brilliant Jim Chu. His solo show is called Rooftops and chronicles Jim's life as a sixteen year old growing up in the crack-infested tenements in the 1980s.
TIC: What inspired you to write your solo show, Rooftops?
Jim Chu: As an Chinese kid growing up in a Puerto Rican neighborhood, nothing really reflected the people I knew, and my whole life it has frustrated me the way that anyone who remotely looked like me is portrayed, if at all. As far as performers go, Whoopi Goldberg and John Leguizamo have lit the way.
TIC: You created your pieces with the help of solo show guru Matt Hoverman. What was the most valuable lesson you learned from him?
JC: The most valuable lesson I learned from Matt was to accept where I am with my work. Everything's a work in progress!
TIC: If your solo show were made into a movie with a full cast of characters, who would play Jim as a younger version of yourself?
JC: I don't know any teenage Chinese American actors. See Question 1.
[Editor's note: My vote would be for Leonardo Nam.]
Join us for Jim's show and 3 other seriously funny solo shows (The Circle Flying Dance by Myla Pitt, Welcome to the Hallmark Emporium by Megan Melnyk, and And She Bakes by Daliya Karnofsky and musical guest Sarah Aili).
When? Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29 at 8 pm
Where? Bridge Theatre (244 West 54th Street, 12th floor @ Shetler Studios).
Tickets: $20. Call 212-868-4444 or go to http://www.smarttix.com/Show.aspx?ShowCode=PLU7.
We recently interviewed one of the four talented solo show artists in our summer festival later this month, including the handsome and brilliant Jim Chu. His solo show is called Rooftops and chronicles Jim's life as a sixteen year old growing up in the crack-infested tenements in the 1980s.
TIC: What inspired you to write your solo show, Rooftops?
Jim Chu: As an Chinese kid growing up in a Puerto Rican neighborhood, nothing really reflected the people I knew, and my whole life it has frustrated me the way that anyone who remotely looked like me is portrayed, if at all. As far as performers go, Whoopi Goldberg and John Leguizamo have lit the way.
TIC: You created your pieces with the help of solo show guru Matt Hoverman. What was the most valuable lesson you learned from him?
JC: The most valuable lesson I learned from Matt was to accept where I am with my work. Everything's a work in progress!
TIC: If your solo show were made into a movie with a full cast of characters, who would play Jim as a younger version of yourself?
JC: I don't know any teenage Chinese American actors. See Question 1.
[Editor's note: My vote would be for Leonardo Nam.]
Join us for Jim's show and 3 other seriously funny solo shows (The Circle Flying Dance by Myla Pitt, Welcome to the Hallmark Emporium by Megan Melnyk, and And She Bakes by Daliya Karnofsky and musical guest Sarah Aili).
When? Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29 at 8 pm
Where? Bridge Theatre (244 West 54th Street, 12th floor @ Shetler Studios).
Tickets: $20. Call 212-868-4444 or go to http://www.smarttix.com/Show.aspx?ShowCode=PLU7.
Friday, July 6, 2012
Plus One Summer 2012 July 28-29 - Interview #1: Daliya Karnofsky
TIC's Plus One Solo Show Festival is at it again, serving up 4 seriously funny solo shows and a great musical guest this summer, July 28 and 29. Get your tickets now!
We recently interviewed one of the four talented solo show artists in our summer festival (July 28 & 29), starting with the beautiful and talented Daliya Karnofsky. Her show, And She Bakes, is an interactive baking show, involving sex and relationship advice based on the principles of baking and eating. Yum!
TIC: What inspired you to write your solo show, And She Bakes?
Daliya Karnofsky: One
summer I was super depressed about a boy, and I would come home and
bake for hours by myself in my kitchen, having dance parties with my
kitchen utensils and sometimes splattering the walls with cake batter,
if I felt so inclined. I'd always wanted to have a baking show, so I
decided to start filming these antics as if I were talking to someone
about my life while simultaneously teaching them to be the best baker in
the world. I then decided to take it live, and share my goodies and
stories and advice with real people. My show strives to teach that
perfection isn't necessary for edible and emotional deliciousness.
TIC: If your show were a baked good, what would it be?
DK: My
show would be a good old-fashioned chocolate chip cookie. It has all
of the elements to make you feel warm, cozy, comforted, and slightly
sugar buzzed. The eggs are my good solid advice that binds the show
together, the sugar is the giddy high you get from being a part of
really good theater, the flour is the hearty, substantial love that
backs it all up, and the chocolate chips are the delicious, well-placed
humor and anecdotes that complete the cookie.
TIC: If your solo show were made into a movie with a full cast of
characters, who would you want to play your sidekick/cookie taster?
DK: Ooooooh! My first instinct is Lucille Ball. I think
Lucy is who I'm striving to be, but maybe in a modern "New York" kind of way. She would be great as my older, kookier, fairy
godmother and coach. She could say archaic things from the fifties and
be shocked at how sarcastic and frank I am. And she would love my
cookies. Yeah, Lucy would be nice.
Indeed! Join us for Daliya's show and 3 other seriously funny solo shows (The Circle Flying Dance by Myla Pitt, Welcome to the Hallmark Emporium by Megan Melnyk, and Rooftops by Jim Chu and musical guest Sarah Aili).
When? Saturday and Sunday, July 28 and 29 at 8 pm
Where? Bridge Theatre (244 West 54th Street, 12th floor @ Shetler Studios).
Tickets: $20. Call 212-868-4444 or go to http://www.smarttix.com/Show.aspx?ShowCode=PLU7.
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