Auditions for Brighton Beach Memoirs

This cast is composed of four females and three males. Auditions consist of cold reads from the script and are open to anyone who would like to participate. Copies of the script are available in office 304 of the Howard Center for the Performing Arts building for overnight checkout. Callbacks will be held the following day, on Tuesday, February 10 at 7:00 PM. Performance dates for this production are April 22 – 25, 2015 and April 30 – May 2, 2015 in Stone Theatre. For more information, please contact the Louisiana Tech Theatre office at 318-257-2930.
 
This play is regarded as Neil Simon’s “funniest, richest and consequently the most affecting of his plays.” Eugene is a young teen growing up in Brooklyn in 1937. Dreaming of baseball and girls, he must cope with the mundane existence of Brooklyn: a formidable mother, an overworked father, and worldly older brother, Stanley. Throw into the mix his widowed Aunt Blanche, her two young but rapidly aging daughters, and you have a recipe for hilarity served up Simon-style. This bittersweet memoir evocatively captures the life of a struggling Jewish household where, as his father states, “If you didn’t have a problem, you wouldn’t be living here.”