By Neil Simon
Directed by Matt Boyle
Audition Dates: 10/15 & 10/16 from 7 – 9pm
No preparation necessary
Performance Dates: 2/28-3/3, 3/15-3/17
Inspired by the playwright’s youthful experience as a staff writer on Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows, with all the attendant comic drama as the harried writing staff frantically scrambles to top each other with gags while competing for the attention of star madman “Max Prince”.
Characters:
Max Prince: Mid 40s to early 50s. He appears to be taller than he is because he exudes great strength. His strength comes more from his anger than from his physique. He dominates a room with his personality. He is quixotic, changing quickly from warm, infectious laughter to sullen anger. He is often monosyllabic, offering a word or two to convey his thoughts.
Lucas Brickman (New Writer): Mid 20s to Mid 30s, sincere and sensible
Milt Fields (Flamboyant): Mid 40s, Milt is 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. He is the most politically aware of all the writers.
Brian Doyle (Irish American): Mid 30s to Mid 40s. A heavy smoker, a heavy cougher and a heavy drinker, but with a biting sense of humor as caustic as his outlook on life.
Kenny Franks (Wiz Kid): Mid 30s. Boy genius and the most sophisticated of the writers.
Carol Wyman (The only woman writer on the show): Mid 30s, with a strong and quick defense system that comes with being the only female writer on the staff.
Ira Stone (Hypochondriac): Late 30s to early 40s. A hypochondriac who comes in late every day with a new ailment. His greatest wish in life is to have a virus named after him.
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