Free Casting Calls and Auditions

Auditions for The Heights Players’ January production of Richard GreenBerg’s Tony and multi-award winning play Take Me Out, directed by Fabio Taliercio, will be held on Sunday and Monday, November 8th & 9th at 7PM. Callbacks will be on Wednesday, November 11th. The director requests that all persons auditioning have a working knowledge of the play and characters. Please prepare a one-minute contemporary monologue, preferably from the play and character(s) desired. Additional scenes, if required, will be read and sides will be provided. All actors must be comfortable with straight comedy, adult language/situations.
CERTAIN ROLES REQUIRE NUDITY (SEE BREAKDOWNS BELOW).

Take Me Out, a hypothetical serio-comedy, explores with wit and compassion what might happen if a player on a major league baseball team were to announce that he is gay. The play is full of insights about baseball, masculinity, and identity in the twenty-first century, told with humor, and ending in tragedy. Performance dates are Friday & Saturday at 8PM, Sundays at 2PM from January 8th through the 24th, 2010, with brush-up rehearsals on Thursdays January 14th & 21st 2010. This is a Non-Equity, non-paying production. For more information please email us (use form below).
The Heights Players are located at 26 Willow Place, Brooklyn N.Y. 11201 (Between State & Joralemon Streets).

Kippy Sunderstorm – (Age Range: 20-35) (Caucasian) Darren’s closest friend on the team, Kippy has a reputation as the most intelligent man in baseball and serves as the author’s spokesman in ruminating about the sociopolitical impact of Darren’s coming out. Strong actor required. (Nudity required for this role)

Darren Lemming – (Age Range: 20-30) (Mixed Ethnicity) is the play’s central character and the star center fielder of the Empires. He is young, rich, famous, talented, handsome and so convinced of his popularity that when he casually announces that he’s gay, he assumes the news will be readily accepted by everyone. He is biracial, with a white father and a black mother, and is extremely intelligent and very self confident, almost conceited. Strong actor required. (Adult Situations & Nudity required for this role)

Shane Mungitt – (Age Range: 20-35) (Caucasian) is brought in from the minors to be a pitcher for the Empires. Shane’s skill is tied to certain psychological problems carried over from childhood. The only thing that he ever learned to do well is pitch. He has poor communication skills and refers to his teammates with derogatory slurs. He is a mysterious, almost simple guy that must be able to ignorantly deliver offensive dialogue. (Adult Situations & Nudity required for this role)

Skipper/William R. Danziger – (Age Range: 35+) (Caucasian) is the manager of the Empires. Known for his personal skills, ability to be tough when he needs to be and gentle when it is called for. After Darren publicly announces that he is gay, Skipper writes him a formal letter, expressing both his support and frustration. He is the paternal character of the show.

Jason Chenier – (Age Range: 18-30) (Caucasian) is a catcher who has been with the Empires for three weeks. He has been too shy to talk to the star player, but after Darren announces that he is gay, Jason feels that he can approach him. He should be somewhat younger and more naïve than his teammates. (Nudity required for this role)

Davey Battle – (Age Range: 20-35) (African American) Darren’s best friend and the star player for a rival team. Darren chides Davey for his middle-class religious values: his happy marriage, his three children, etc. Davey encourages Darren to keep no secrets, which leads to Darren’s announcement about his sexual orientation.

Mason Marzac – (Age Range: Open) is an investment counselor who is assigned to handle Darren money. He is socially challenged and a brilliant but repressed guy, who, despite everyone around him, blooms in the ecstatic discovery of baseball. He isn’t campy or noticeably swishy, but he is, from the start, distinctly gay. An outgoing, larger-than-life comedic actor is required for this role.

Toddy Koovitz – (Age Range: 20-35) (Caucasian) a member of the Empires, becomes belligerent after the announcement that Darren is gay. He feels uncomfortable with Darren and resents this fact. He is also an illiterate man, given to pronouncing words incorrectly, and has machismo ignorance about him. (Nudity required for this role)

Rodriguez – (Age Range: 20-35) (Latino) is never onstage without the other Spanish-speaking member of the Empires, Martinez. Their conversations together are a mystery to the other team members. Must speak fluent Spanish with an appropriate accent and have expressive, comedic skills. Physical humor encouraged. (Nudity required for this role)

Martinez – (Age Range: 20-35) (Latino) see description for Rodriguez. (Nudity required for this role)

Takeshi Kawabata – (Age Range: 20-35) (Asian-American) Star pitcher for the Empires. His Japanese is translated into English, giving his words meanings that fit an Asian stereotype. He later speaks to the audience in imperfect English revealing his awareness of his surroundings and willfully ignoring it. Familiarity with Japanese preferred. (Nudity required for this role)

PROJECT: “TAKE ME OUT”

CASTING CALL CATEGORY: THEATER AUDITIONS

LOCATION: BROOKLYN, NY

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