Sides
2024-25 Season
DRACULA: A Comedy of Terrors by Gordon Greenberg & Steve Rose
Contract Dates: September 23 – October 27, 2024
Director: Janet Mitchko
Packed with witty wordplay, pop culture references, and a nod to Mel Brooks and Rocky Horror, five actors sink their teeth into dozens of roles in this fast-paced, laugh-out-loud reimagining of this gothic classic. We are looking for actors who make bold comic choices in the zany yet grounded style of “Young Frankenstein”. Facility and fun with dialects, especially British and various UK, is essential.
DRACULA: male 30-40’s. Any ethnicity. (Transylvanian dialect) Hugely sexy, magnetically handsome, rock star presence with a great body, he is a narcissist whose greatest love is himself — and his leather pants. Bored with women falling all over him, he becomes obsessed with Lucy when he hears of her strength and adventurousness. The less she needs him, the more interested he is.
ACTOR ONE: HARKER/SUITORS/BOSUN/GRAVEDIGGER: Male 30’s-40’s, Any ethnicity. JONATHAN HARKER: (RP British dialect) Prim, proper and fear based, he follows the rules of life and does his best to stay away from anything dangerous. Engaged to Lucy and a bit out of his league. Real estate agent to Dracula. Once bitten he loosens up and becomes a Tom Jones style rock star in leather pants . LORD CAVENDISH: Lucy’s (Scottish dialect) suitor; LORD WINDSOR: (RP British dialect) Lucy’s posh, British suitor; LORD HAVEMERCY: (Elvis dialect) Lucy’s arrogant suitor from Memphis. BOSUN: (Irish dialect) A scurvy seaman who goes down with the ship in a storm. GRAVEDIGGER: (Cockney dialect) A drunk gravedigger with a secret.
ACTOR TWO: DR. WESTFELDT/RENFIELD/CAPTAIN: DR. WESTFELDT: Male 40’s-60. Any Ethnicity. (RP British dialect), Lucy and Mina’s Father, a self-important misogynist blowhard given to proclamations. A doctor and a recent widower, he runs a home rehabilitating the criminally insane. RENFIELD: (Cockney dialect and salivary issues) A mentally insane patient of Dr. Westfeldt who is learning how to be a butler and obsessively loves to eat bugs. CAPTAIN: (Sea Captain dialect) The salty captain of a doomed ship caught in a raging storm.
ACTOR THREE: LUCY/KITTY: Female 30’s. Any ethnicity. LUCY WESTFELDT: (RP British dialect) Intelligent, plucky, earth scientist daughter of Dr. Westfeldt, she is filled with the spirit of adventure and often underestimated because of her beauty. Engaged to Jonathan, but she is intrigued by Dracula’s bold nature and similar interests. KITTY: (Cockney dialect): A dotty kleptomaniac patient of Dr. Westfeldt’s who serves as a maid in his house. Think a servile and easily distracted Mrs. Lovett.
ACTOR FOUR: MINA/VAN HELSING/DRIVER: Male 40-60. Any ethnicity. MINA WESTFELDT: (RP British dialect) the less attractive, less intelligent Westfeldt daughter, she lives in her sister Lucy’ s shadow and is desperate for attention. She is pathetically receptive to Dracula’s charms . DR. VAN HELSING: (German dialect a la Mel Brooks): Strong, shmart, unt bold, she is a brilliant and sturdy German vampire hunting doctor from the University of Schmutz. Deadly serious in the way Germans can be, she is accustomed to people not believing she is a real doctor and determined to prove them wrong. DRIVER: (Eastern European or Russian dialect) A male Transylvanian carriage driver taking Jonathan to Dracula’s castle. Borat meets Boris and Natasha.
DRACULA Script – Password Protected | To read the script for DRACULA click the link. You will need to enter the password that was given to you. You may not print the script, but may download it onto your device. Full scripts are provided solely for the purpose of conducting auditions and may not be circulated.
SIDES
Dracula Side 1.pdf
Dracula CB.pdf
Due to these actors playing numerous roles. We have combined all the sides for each ACTOR into a single file for your convenience. Please pay careful attention to the breaks between sides. They are clearly marked at the top of the pages. Callback sides are separate files.
Actor 1 Sides
Actor 1 Sides Pack.pdf
Actor 1 CB.pdf
Actor 2 Sides
Actor 2 Sides Pack.pdf
Actor 2 CB.pdf
Actor 3 Sides
Actor 3 Sides Pack.pdf
Actor 3 CB.pdf
Actor 4 Sides
Actor 4 Sides Pack.pdf
Actor 4 CB.pdf – contains two different CB sides
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens adapted by Christopher Schario
Director: Christopher Schario
Contract Dates: December 2-15, 2024
This adaptation features a small cast playing multiple roles. All actors perform narration of Dickens’ text, as well as scene work in both British dialect and Standard American. Requires versatile playful actors, good with language.
BELLE/FAN: (Non-Equity) 20’s/early 30’s, any ethnicity. She has exuberance as Fan and idealism and warmth as Belle. Must be good with language, narration and dialects.
A Christmas Carol Script – Password Protected – To read the script for A CHRISTMAS CAROL click the link. You will need to enter the password that was given to you. You may not print the script, but may download it onto your device. Full scripts are provided solely for the purpose of conducting auditions and may not be circulated.
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HALFWAY THERE by Norm Foster
Director: Janet Mitchko
Contract Dates: February 24 – March 23, 2025
Four lovable ladies meet every day for coffee and a gab fest at the local diner in Stewiacke, Nova Scotia. When a young doctor comes to town and takes an interest in the youngest of the women, he must undergo a grilling by her three middle-aged wise-cracking friends. Imagine Steel Magnolias meets And Just Like That in this delightful rom-com celebrating the unshakeable bonds of female friendship.
RITA: Female 50-60. Any ethnicity. Sassy and sexy she appears to be a bit of a “vamp” aka Kim Catrall, as she rarely lets a sexual innuendo go by unnoticed. She is secretly nursing a broken heart from the loss of her son and marriage. She covers her pain and loneliness with her smart, sexy, provocative humor that keeps any new man in her life from getting too close and leaving her feeling too vulnerable again. She dances competitively for fun.
VI: Female 50-60. Any ethnicity. Quick-witted and down to earth, she is the wise-cracking ring-leader of the group never without an opinion or a witty comeback, aka Kathy Bates or Bea Arthur. She’s been living with a man for 9 years who now wants to marry her and she’s a bit flummoxed by her feelings.
MARY ELLEN: Female 50-60. Any ethnicity. The ”nice one”, she is reliable and tolerant to a fault, and often taken for granted, aka Georgia Engels in Mary Tyler Moore. She has been denying her own needs to meet her family’s for too long. Her sex life with her usually neglectful husband has been unexpectedly reignited and she is finding it equally thrilling and exhausting.
JANINE: Female mid-late 30’s. Any ethnicity. Intelligent, sassy independent, attractive and likable, she speaks her mind in true rom-com fashion. The waitress at the local coffee shop, she is the “baby” in this group of women she looks to for advice. Stuck in a relationship gone stale with a boyfriend who is working out of town, she finds herself in the dilemma of being attracted to the charming and new doctor in town who is persistently pursuing her.
SEAN: Male 42. Any ethnicity. A charming, likable, intelligent and handsome doctor. New to town, he enters the lives of these women for a month while he works in the local clinic and heals his recently broken heart from the fiancée who dumped him. A great sense of humor, wit and charm, aka Cary Grant in a classic rom-com or Tom Hanks or Blair Underwood.
HALFWAY THERE Script – Password Protected | To read the script for HALFWAY THERE click the link. You will need to enter the password that was given to you. You may not print the script, but may download it onto your device. Full scripts are provided solely for the purpose of conducting auditions and may not be circulated.
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Problems Opening Password Protected PDFs
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We have observed that when accessing these documents in Chrome, you may have to click “Submit” more than once to get the document to open.