Lost in Yonkers
by Gaslight Baker Theatre
Nov. 03 - Nov. 06 (2018)
By America's great comic playwright, this memory play is set in Yonkers in 1942. Bella is thirty-five years old, mentally challenged, and living at home with her mother, stern Grandma Kurnitz. As the play opens, ne'er-do-well son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady's doorstep. He is financially strapped and taking to the road as a salesman. The boys are left to contend with Grandma, with Bella and her secret romance, and with Louie, her brother, a small-time hoodlum in a strange new world called Yonkers.
Setting: Yonkers, New York. August 1942. The apartment just above "Kurnitz's Kandy Store."
Directed by Stephen Fleming
Assistant Director Sondra Schaible
Auditions for cast of 4m, 3f
JAY - 16
ARTY - 13 1/2
EDDIE - their father, 41
BELLA - mid-thirties, neat and sweet and pretty
GRANDMA KURNITZ - Eddie and Bella's mother, a big woman, buxom, with a strong and erect body, 70-odd years of age
LOUIE - her other son, 36, doesn't look like he'd be the hugging type
AUNT GERT - mid-to-late thirties, another of Grandma Kurnitz's children
No experience needed but preferred. No need for headshot or bio.
Audition Dates:
November 3rd Saturday @ 7:00 p.m.
November 6th Tuesday @ 7:00 p.m.
