Auditions for Lost In Yonkers by Neil Simon (Apex fall studio show)

Auditions for our fall studio show, Lost In Yonkers by Neil Simon. By America's great comic playwright, this memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942. Bella is thirty-five years old, intellectually-disabled, and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne'er-do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady's doorstep. He is financially strapped and taking to the road as a salesman. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers. ROLES AVAILABLE: JAY - 16. ARTY - 13 and a half. EDDIE - Their father, BELLA - neat and sweet and pretty. GRANDMA KURNITZ - Eddie and Bella's mother, a big woman, buxom, with a strong body, 70-odd years of age. PLEASE NOTE THIS ROLE WILL BE PLAYED BY A TEACHING ARTIST LOUIE - Her other son, doesn't look like he'd be the hugging type AUNT GERT -another of Grandma Kurnitz's children. Rehearsals Mondays and Thursdays 5:30-7:30 p.m. Saturdays 1:00-3:15 Production week (October 19th) every night Performances are October 22nd (7:00 p.m.) October 23rd (7:00 p.m.) October 24th 3:00 p.m.) Tuition: $350 (35 contact hours/$10 per hour)