Our Next Auditions will be -
A LITTLE MURDER NEVER HURT ANYBODY
A Comedy by Ron Bernas
Directed by Robert C. Latino
Seeking 4 men and 2 women
Auditions will be held on:
Saturday, July 7 starting at 3:00 pm
Monday, July 9, starting at 6:30 pm
Although we will not turn away anyone who comes to audition, we do prefer that you pre-register when possible, which allows us to better manage our time and the time actors need to spend waiting for their turn to audition. Thank you.
SYNOPSIS: It’s New Year’s Eve at the Perry mansion, and Julia and Matthew Perry seem to have it all. But Matthew wants something more - to be rid of his wife Julia so he can have some real fun! He resolves to murder Julia by the new year’s end, and tells her so. She vows to stay alive, and tells him so. And so the game begins - an hilarious year-long match of wits and the witless!
But while Julia cleverly dodges Matthew’s devious murder attempts, the Perry friends and staff are dying off mysteriously - it seems Matthew is successful in murdering everyone but Julia! As the bodies are falling, dim-witted daughter Bunny contemplates calling off her wedding to unwitting Donald since all the intended gift-bearing guests are dying. Enter Detective Plotnik - a Sam Spade reincarnation who suspects everyone, but hasn’t a clue.
A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody is an homage to the screwball comedies of the 1930s and 1940s
ROLES:
- MATTHEW PERRY - Male - Mid-50s, a man who from birth has had more dollars than sense. He is facing a minor mid-life crisis
- BUTTRAM - Male - 40s-50s, the family butler for many years, though convinced he is above being a butler - at least for this family. He is given to crying jags, and harbors a terrible secret
- JULIA PERRY - Female - Mid-50s, Matthew’s wife. A classy, intelligent woman who loves her husband despite his many faults - and is always a step ahead of him!
- BUNNY PERRY - Female - Mid 20s, Matthew and Julia’s sweet, but dim-witted and deeply shallow daughter
- DONALD - Male - Mid-20s, Bunny’s fiancé. He is very earnest, and very much in love with Bunny, despite her lack of savvy
- PLOTNIK - Male - 30s-50s, a witless detective. He was born 40 years too late, and read too many Dashiell Hammett novels. He fancies himself a cynical gumshoe, but lacks the savvy to locate, let alone solve, a crime