Open Auditions

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

MARCH 1 AND 3, 7 TO 10PM, CALLBACKS 3/3 AFTER AUDITIONS

AT BRYN MAWR HALL, 20 BUCKINGHAM RD. YONKERS (OFF LOCKWOOD AVENUE)

ALL ROLES OPEN - NO APPOINTMENT REQUIRED. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND 3/1 OR 3/3, CALL ACT AT 391-6558 FOR POSSIBLE ALTERNATE DATE.

Directed by Tom Kramer

Performances May 6, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16

Characters

Martha Brewster, Teddy Brewster, Rev. Dr. Harper, Elaine Harper, Officer Klein, Mr. Gibbs, Abby Brewster, Mortimer Brewster, Jonathan Brewster, Mr. Witherspoon, Officer Brophy, Officer O'Hara, Dr. Einstein, Lieutenant Rooney

Plot
A farcical black comedy revolving around Mortimer Brewster, a marriage-hating drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal family and local police in Brooklyn, NY, as he debates whether to go through with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves (Elaine Harper). His family includes two spinster aunts (Martha and Abby) who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and "just a pinch" of cyanide; a brother(Teddy Brewster) who believes he is Teddy Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster home (which then serve as graves for the aunts' victims); and a murderous brother(Jonathan) who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice (Dr. Einstein) to conceal his identity and now looks like Horror-film actor Boris Karloff.