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Kentwood Players announces auditions for
“THE TALE OF THE ALLERGIST’S WIFE”
A comedy by Charles Busch
On Saturday, July 11 and Monday, July 13, 2009
At the Westchester Playhouse
Kentwood Players announces auditions for “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife,” a comedy written by Charles Busch, on Saturday, July 11 from 10 AM to 3 PM, and Monday, July 13 from 7 to 10 PM at the Westchester Playhouse located at 8301 Hindry Avenue in Westchester.
Please note there are no auditions on Sunday, July 12. The production is directed by Lewis Hauser and produced by Susan Goldman Weisbarth.
Performances are from September 11 to October 17 on Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM and
Sundays at 2 PM.
With more than twenty-five plays, three screenplays and numerous books, “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife” was Mr. Busch's first play written for mainstream audiences. In it he explores the Upper West Side milieu of aspiring intellectual and middle-aged upper class matron Marjorie Taub, who lives comfortably with her doctor husband Ira in an expensively furnished apartment near Zabar’s. Marjorie spends her mornings at the Whitney, afternoons at MOMA and evenings at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Marjorie's ongoing effort to improve her mind and soul has brought her to the conclusion she never will be more than mediocre. To make matters worse, her therapist has just died and coupled with her dissatisfaction with her life, her elderly mother's constant complaints and her husband's altruistic dedication to the homeless, she has an emotional outburst in a Disney Store resulting in considerable breakage.
Plunged into a mid-life crisis of Medea-like proportions, Marjorie’s shaken out of her lethargy by the reappearance of Lee, a fascinating and somewhat mysterious childhood friend. Unexpectedly Lee becomes entrenched in the Taub household as a seemingly permanent guest, not only drawing Marjorie out of her dark mood, but affecting her marriage as well.
CHARACTER BREAKDOWN:
MARJORIE ( 45 - 55 ) Attractive, stylish woman. Speaks in a somewhat studied manner. A New York accent with a strange overlay of affected theatricality.
MOHAMMED ( 21 - 25 ) A boyish and good looking doorman from Iraq .
IRA ( 45 -55 ) Marjorie's husband. A good looking, highly energetic man.
FRIEDA ( 70 - 80 ) Marjorie's mother, tough as cowhide
LEE ( 45 - 55 ) Energetic, beautifully groomed lady. She has a very comfortable sense of her own sensuality
The Kentwood Players general membership meetings are held at the Westchester Playhouse at 8:00 PM on the third Wednesday of each month and are open to the public. Attending will give you a chance to meet the
“The Tale of the Allergist's Wife” production team, learn more about this 60-year-old and highly successful community theatre group and our upcoming productions. Westchester Playhouse is located two blocks west of the San Diego Freeway and two blocks north of Manchester at 8301 Hindry Avenue in Westchester , CA 90045 .
