Auditions

Auditions: Sept. 15 & 16, 6:30-10 pm

Callbacks: Sept. 20, 1-4pm

Rehearsals begin Dec. 27, with a full cast read-through prior to that date.
*There will be some flexibility for those with holiday travel plans.
Performances: Feb. 13 - March 8
All actors will be paid a $100 stipend.

Auditions will be located at the Mounds Theatre, 1029 Hudson Rd, St. Paul, MN 55106. Appointments will be scheduled in half hour increments. To schedule an audition, please call 651-645-3503 and press option 2, or email richard@startinggate.org Please indicate role(s) in which you are interested, your preferred audition date and all times for which you are available.

All actors are strongly encouraged to read the script prior to auditioning. If you need a copy for perusal, please contact michael@startinggate.org to make arrangements.

Characters (Ages are approximate):

Mr Katz: 35 - The hotel manager. Balding a little but hiding it. Firm and wary and at times more than a little weary.

Mrs. Oxenham: 45 - The day desk clerk-phone operator. Firm; quick-speaking with no commerce.

Bill Lewis: 30 - The night clerk. A handsome but not aggressive face. He covers his difficulty in communicating his feelings for the Girl with a kind of clumsy, friendly bluster.

Paul Granger III: 20 - A student. Angular and taut. His tenor voice is constrained by anxiety, he speaks and moves sporadically.

Mrs. Belotti: 55 - The mother of a former tenant. Round and thin-voiced; complains to get her way, she is a whining fighter. Neatly but not expensively dressed. A sigher.

The Residents

Mr. Morse: 70 - Craggy, with a high, cracking voice. Morse moves slowly, with great energy and a sense of outrage.

Millie: 68 - A retired waitress with good carriage and a lovely voice. Elegance marred by an egocentric spiritualism.

The Girl: 19 - A call girl. Maddeningly curious; a romantic enthusiasm and a youthful ebullience, which is perhaps unconsciously exaggerated for its appeal in her trade.

April Green: Over 30 - A prostitute. A large and soft pragmatist with a mellow alto laugh and a beautiful face.

Suzy: 30 - A prostitute. She is hopelessly romantic and hard as nails.

Jackie: 24 - Jeans, boots, her name written on the back of her denim jacket. Her manner, voice and stance are those of a young dock-worker. To her humiliation, she is, under the manner, both femininely vulnerable and pretty.

Jamie: 19 - Jackie’s brother. Pale, small and wiry. A little slow (one suspects browbeaten). Alert but not quick. Always listening to his sister.

Cab Driver
Delivery Boy
Suzy’s John
(These roles may be played by one actor)

Audition Sides

The following is an excerpt from the playwright’s introduction:

The theater, evanescent itself, and for all we do perhaps itself disappearing here, seems the ideal place for the representation of the impermanence of our architecture.