Audition Information

My Favorite Year

Auditions:

Friday, February 9th – 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Sunday, February 11th – 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Call Back: Friday, February 16th – 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

For Questions & Audition Appointment:
Call Bunny Arszman 513-325-7842

Anyone not having an appointment must wait for first available time slot.

McKie Recreation Center
1655 Chase Ave.
Cincinnati, Ohio (Northside) 45223

Audition requirements: 16-32 bars of two contrasting songs. Bring sheet music. An accompanist will be provided. Head shots and resumes are welcome but not required. Prepare a short monologue (maximum 2 minutes). There will also be a light dance audition. Character information below.

We will be casting the following:
BENJY STONE – A young man in his mid-twenties.  Eager, alert; the way we'd like to think we all were at twenty. Freshman writer on King Kaiser's Comedy Cavalcade.
KING KAISER – A big bear of a man in his  thirties-fifties; physical, loud. He used to be a Catskill Comic, now he's  the host of America's number one t.v. show.
SY BENSON – Head writer on the Comedy  Cavalcade. Dyspeptic, bullying to all...except King.
ALICE MILLER – A writer on Comedy Cavalcade. Lois  Lane with a better sense of humor. She has no problem going toe-to-toe  with King...or anybody else for that matter.
HERB LEE – A writer on Comedy Cavalcade.  Rumpled, silent but expressive. He communicates through Alice.
K.C. DOWNING – Assistant to the producer. A  bright, attractive career girl... with a secret; she's the only straight  man in a world of funny people. Pretty enough to be The Breck Girl.
LEO SILVER – The gray-haired, well-dressed,  antacid chewing producer of the Comedy Cavalcade. Physically smaller than  King, but the only one who can come close to controlling him.
ALAN SWANN – A handsome, albeit well-traveled,  Hollywood leading man, a star for more than thirty years. Cut in the Errol  Flynn mode with panache to spare. Not necessarily British.
BELLE MAY STEINBERG CARROCA – Benjy's mother. A substantial beacon of Brooklyn society. Generous of nature and proportion. In her matronly forties/fifties, but a lady shouldn't be asked.
"ROOKIE" CARROCA – Belle's husband, Betty's  step-father. A compact Filipino in his forties/fifties. He held the bantam  weight title for well over six months.
TESS – Swann's estranged daughter. A very pretty, very Grace Kelly sort of sixteen-year-old. Quite a young lady. (Doubles:Cigarette Box Girl; Crowd member in "Manhattan.")
UNCLE MORTY – Benjy's uncle (Belle's brother). Rather round, rather thick, rather bald, but the sort of uncle you run to when family gatherings get too dull. (Doubles: Cameraman)
AUNT SADIE – Benjy's aunt, Morty's wife. You would have absolutely no problem picking them out as a couple. (Doubles:  Wardrobe Lady; Crowd member in "Manhattan"; Passerby at Waldorf)
ALSO: Chorus Girls, Male Dancers, Sketch Actors, Stage Hands, Floor Manager, Grips, Cameramen, Wardrobe People,  Secretaries, Assorted Denizens of Manhattan, Tess's Classmates, Brooklyn Neighbors, and a Doorman.