Lost in Yonkers
by Georgetown Palace Theatre
Jul. 10 - Jul. 11 (2021)
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, financially strapped and desperate son Eddie deposits his two young sons on the old lady’s doorstep. He is 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
Lost in Yonkers Audition Information
Director: Jacob Abrams
The production will open Friday, September 3rd, 2021 andcClose Sunday, October 3rd.
Casting 3 females and 4 males
JAY – 15 1/2
ARTY – 13
EDDIE – their father, 41
BELLA – mid-thirties, neat and sweet and pretty, exuberant, with the heart and intellectual development of a ten-year-old girl.
GRANDMA KURNITZ – over 60, Eddie and Bella’s mother, strong, domineering, and emotionally cold.
LOUIE – her other son, 36, doesn’t look like he’d be the hugging type, he’s a petty gangster, with an endearing tough-guy quality.
AUNT GERT – mid-to-late thirties, another of Grandma Kurnitz’s children
Auditions will be held Saturday, July 10th, Sunday, July 11th with Callbacks Monday, July 12th. Callbacks are posted on the Palace website.
Please prepare a comedic or dramatic monologue from the 1930’s/1940’s. It does not have to be memorized but should be prepared. We welcome auditioners 13 years old and up.
Auditions are located in the Palace Playhouse, on the Playhouse Stage 216 W. 9th street Georgetown TX 78626.
Auditions are scheduled online via the Palace website. You will fill out the audition form, sign up for a time, and fill out the conflict calendar, as well as upload a headshot and resume. Questions should be emailed to productions@georgetownpalace.com
You will receive an email confirming your appointment. If you are unable to attend any of the audition times, please send us an email and we will try to work with you to schedule an alternative time.
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Rehearsals will begin on/around July 19th. We will distribute scripts the week after auditions.
Rehearsals are typically held Monday through Thursday from 7:00-10:00 pm and Saturday 1:00-5:00 pm. Performances are Friday and Saturday at 7:30 pm, and Sundays at 2 pm. Sometimes ticket demand causes us to add Saturday Matinee performances at 2 pm. Two Saturday rehearsals will be moved to an alternate date/time TBD, predicated on the conflict calendar.
Background checks: Everyone involved with the production must submit to a background check at the Palace’s expense. If you are cast, you will receive a secure link where you can fill it out. There is no cost to you.
The Georgetown Palace Theatre is a 501c3 non-profit organization. There is no compensation for any of the actors. The Georgetown Palace Theatre is committed to creating an inclusive and safe environment in which all community members feel a sense of belonging and does not discriminate in casting practices on the basis of an individual’s ethnicity, age, gender, physical and cognitive ability, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, country of origin, or other factors.
If you have any questions, please email productions@georgetownpalace.com.
