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Cover Story The Most Interesting 18 Dan in the World 05 “Downton Abbey” star Dan Stevens goes uptown with Broadway’s “The Heiress” UPSTAGE Feature Tomorrow’s Power CDs News 22 The casting directors 05 Take Five you should know today What to see and where to go in the week ahead

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labor are going to be paid staff instead of unpaid volunteers.” Most actors may never notice the difference, yet some monitors are concerned about the restrictions becoming a staff member entails. Paid staff can maintain their Who Monitors union membership but are not allowed to serve on elected committees or councils, according to Equity bylaws, nor can they be employed under an Equity contract. Carpenter said this long-standing policy is designed to the Monitors? protect the membership and that, until now, audition monitoring was the only aspect of the union’s collective bargaining agreement not administered by its staff. Equity plans By Daniel Lehman While the union has offered all of its current monitors the n early October, certain members of the Actors’ Equity opportunity to stay on as paid monitors, several have decided to replace Association were surprised to find job listings on Playbill. to step down in order to maintain freedom to book paid acting com and other employment sites seeking audition work or stay on committees instead. Things also get com- volunteers I monitors in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago to plicated for those relying on unemployment. Carpenter said manage the union’s principal auditions and chorus calls. job openings have been listed online to ensure that Equity with staff, These part-time employees, who will be paid $8.25 per has enough qualified, professional monitors at all times. hour, are expected to work no more than 15–20 hours per Vinnie Costa, an Equity member who has served as a angering week and “manage lists of those auditioning for Equity volunteer monitor in New York since 2006, has already quit in shows both at Equity offices and other sites, collect and light of recent news. Bob Knapp and Linda Cameron, whom some distribute audition-related materials, work with produc- he characterized as model monitors who mentored many, ers and casting directors for the smooth flow of auditions, are also reportedly stepping down so members and ensure that all rules governing audition procedures that they can remain on the Equity “I want some are followed,” according to the job description. council. Costa understands the union’s assurance But the union already has these audition monitors. For decision but fears its effects—since from my decades, Equity members have volunteered to carry out monitors no longer need to be Equity union that these duties for their fellow actors, receiving a small sti- members at all to be on staff. He told the people pend for food and travel (as well as the ability to sign up for Backstage he was proud to coin the between me Equity auditions themselves) in return. Beginning in early term “McMonitor,” suggesting that and a job November, though, all monitors nationwide any new hires will be as dedicated as are there will become paid Equity staff members. While a minimum-wage fast-food employee to support this sounds like good news, a vocal portion of when it comes to protecting actors. me getting the current volunteer monitors opposes it. “I want some assurance from my that job.” “There’s really nothing that’s going to change union that the people between me and VINNIE COSTA, for Equity members in terms of how the au- a job are there to support me getting VOLUNTEER EQUITY MONITOR dition process works for them,” Equity that job,” Costa said. “I know that as a Eastern Regional Director/Assistant hungry young nonunion actor new to Executive Director Tom New York City, if I saw that ad in Playbill I would have jumped Carpenter told Backstage. at the chance to get that [audition monitor] job—to meet the “The only change is casting directors, to get an in at Equity, to get myself into going to be that Equity auditions. I would have made sure that it advanced my the people who career somehow.” He added, “It’s like they have to hire moni- are enforcing tors, and then they have to hire a monitor for the monitors.” a provision of Critical remarks such as Costa’s have surfaced on Facebook our collective and other sites. Carpenter characterized such comments as bargaining “misinformation,” and asserted that all applicants—which so

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1101 NEWS.indd 7 10/30/12 5:00 PM news 1101 NEWS.indd 8 ▶ I really want to continue to serve.” respect that and try to make this work. union. I’m hoping that the union will the heart of what we do within the and negotiation should always be at Leland said of the decision. “Compromise serve on Equity member committees. career Nov. 2 so that he can continue to his role but decided to end his monitoring ings in early October. He is passionate about policy “was dropped on us” at union meet- New York for nearly 17 years, said the new has volunteered regularly as a monitor in wish to seek employment in the industry.” employees as people who simply “no longer job. He characterized some existing Equity tatives of the union who are trained for the ing personnel—will be dedicated represen- AFTRA members, former actors, and cast- far have included qualified Equity and SAG- E ▶ Continue quity quity “They did not ask us—they told us,” Douglas Leland, an Equity member who Update M d onitors From From | pag L partnership was cemented over the last few months but had been on the horizon for some time. on e 7 g time c oll ab or a tor of what this union is trying to do.” to be involved is really critical to the success They know better. So having them continue an audition process that runs smoothly. know what members need in order to have don’t work under these contracts. I don’t continue to be involved in their union. I rent monitors. “We want the members to organization,” Carpenter said of the cur- monitors or in other capacities. to serve their union, either as audition the current volunteers will continue and other Equity officials said they hope is scheduled to be executed, Carpenter reached before Nov. 5, when the plan contracts and serve in union leadership. monitors to continue to work under union separate from other staff, that would allow given a special designation by Equity, stated goal is to have staff monitors be a monitor actually is. The petitioners’ council to redefine the type of staff member who are circulating a petition asking the “They are valued volunteers for this Whether or not a compromise can be Leland is part of a group of monitors s Jenny O’ H aver and James Levine have merged their casting shops to form

Guild Awards. eligible for theScreen Actors contract thatwould make it to signonto theunion Wild” hasmissed thedeadline film “Beasts of theSouthern Po Awards Deadline ‘Beasts’ Blows SAG FILM SAG-AFTRA officials said p ul a r in Quvenzhané Wallis Wallis Quvenzhané d in “Beasts of the the of “Beasts in e T Southern Wild” Southern p he new shop will have en d ent A ction! Casting. Levine said the for an Oscar. Kingdom and is in contention opened strongly in the United was released in June. It recently box office domestically since it more than $11 million at the to some estimates. around $1.8 million, according film to be made for a budget of of the roles, which allowed the nonprofessional actors in many the film’s young breakout star. including Quvenzhané Wallis, tion and benefits to the actors, providing additional compensa- compliance would’ve required film for consideration. Searchlight, did not submit the that the film’s distributor, Fox Budget Feature Agreement, and the film haven’t signed the Low they believe the producers of The film has brought in Director Benh Zeitlin used Bringing the film into N ew Y ork and L. — SEAN A J. . studios. MI LL 10/30/12 5:04PM E R

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labor was also addressed, but the details released were vague. The union said only that “discussions are Loose Ends, New Business progressing.” Roberta Reardon, co-president of SAG-AFTRA settles structure issue, looks ahead to commercials talks the union, informed the board that officials were in place for next year’s Federation of Television and Radio critical of staffing changes since the commercials contracts negotiation. By Sean J. Miller Artists, after which the two unions’ merger. Member meetings on the subject, AG-AFTRA’s national board original 33 locals were consolidated Actor Anne-Marie Johnson, a where performers have expressed took up some pressing into 25. SAG-AFTRA national board member, concern about ways to effectively housekeeping business, That governance structure will had some harsh words for the united monetize and track ad viewership, S including an orga- remain in place through September union, which announced that about began in September. nizational shakeup and 2013. Moreover, the number of 80 employees are departing through The W&W Plenary, which is lingering merger issues, national board seats allotted for a voluntary sev- considering the at the Sheraton Universal the 25 locals was set at 70. The erance program members’ input, Hotel last weekend in two largest locals, Los Angeles in September. will meet Nov. Los Angeles. and New York, will have 28 and “My heart 17–18 in Los Angeles The union has 16 board members respec- breaks for the to decide on the been in the process tively. The 10 national officers legacy of the proposals. of consolidating also serve on the SAG-AFTRA Screen Actors Guild,” Johnson told One bright spot of news that its staff following national board, bringing its Backstage in September. “You’ll was announced: General Counsel es

g the merger last total size to 80. definitely see more layoffs.” Duncan Crabtree-Ireland reported ma

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“A Christmas Story” / musical / Broadway / previews begin Nov. 6 / Casting: Stephanie Klapper In Production | “Dead Accounts” / play / Broadway / previews begin Nov. 3 / Casting: David Caparelliotis

theater The Sixth Borough No More With new award, Philadelphia is thriving on its own terms Brian Hissong, Robert Hager, and Kristine Philadelphia theater artist, Fraelich in Arden Theatre Company’s By Marissa Maier presented as part of the Barrymore production of “Next to Normal” ith more than 50 profes- Awards. Instead of honoring a sin- sional companies and gle artist, the Wolfsons viewed the nearly 1,000 members in new prize as a way to “nurture an The rise in theater companies “We see a lot of people moving W the Actors’ Equity union, emerging company or collective of and audiences also translates into here from all over the country who theater in Philadelphia is undeni- artists,” said Berkowitz. The award an increase in work for actors. are in their mid or late careers. ably booming. Proof? In addition to also recognizes the growing small “In Philly there is an upswing in They see that they can have the Barrymore Awards, Philly will theater scene in the city, which has employment,” Berkowitz said. a great quality of life and still now see the recently announced been expanding in tandem with Terry Nolen, producing artis- sustain a career,” Nolen said. June and Steve Wolfson Award the larger theater community. tic director for the local Arden The success of the industry was for an Evolving Theatre in 2013. Berkowitz attributes this Theatre, which is celebrating its evident earlier this year when The new prize is intended boom over the last 15 years to a 25th year, noted that actors are the Theatre Alliance of Greater to reward the creative growth supportive environment among attracted both Philadelphia, created in 1990 and and excellence of a local theater theater companies, the diversity by the thriving “In Philly tasked with fostering the city’s company, as well as promote and caliber of work on offer, and theater com- there is an theater community, decided to public awareness of and accessibil- the relatively inexpensive cost of munity and by unpswing in curtain its operations, claiming ity to the art form. The winning theater subscriptions and tickets. the city itself. employment.” its mission had been completed. theater will receive a $10,000 “Another big factor is the growth of He said many —Jay berkowitz, While the Barrymore Awards, award from the June and Steve Center City and a huge influx of not young theater barrymore which will be run by a new coali- awards voter Wolfson Family Foundation. only 20-somethings and 30-some- graduates tion, Theatre Philadelphia, will be “June and Steve have been things but empty nesters too. The who would on hiatus for the 2012–2013 season, active supporters of [Philadelphia] whole profile and energy of the have previously chosen to move Berkowitz promised it would con- theater for a very long time,” Jay city has changed,” Berkowitz said. to New York City are instead tinue in the future. He noted that Berkowitz, a five-year Barrymore Berkowitz also pointed out staying in Philadelphia to work. Theatre Philadelphia has already Awards judge and facilitator of that Philadelphia boasts at least Nolen pointed out that unlike hosted one town hall–style meet- the Wolfson award, explained. 40 Equity-contract companies, other cities, Philly is a place where ing on how to tweak the awards The prize was inspired by the F. a number unparalleled in other actors can find roles and have the and said the group has plans to Otto Haas Award for an emerging major cities, aside from New York. possibility of buying a home. arrange further meetings. es g ma N.Y. THEATER opportunities and add fresh perspectives,” I TEDx Back on Broadway producer Ken Davenport said in a statement. The panelists set to provide this new y: Ge t t y Organizers have announced the pan- perspective include President of NYC’s Eco- k es (2)

elists for this year’s installment of TEDxBroadway, be—on stage, in the community, and nomic Development Corporation Seth Pinsky; g ma to be held on Jan. 28, 2013. Some of the smartest throughout the world” in 20 years? Randi Zuckerberg, founder of Zuckerberg I minds in academia, entertainment, market- “We were encouraged Media and sister of Mark Zucker- Garvin; Pins ing, and media will travel to Off-Broadway’s from last year’s TEDx- berg; and Wall Street Journal k ar

New World Stages for the daylong event. The Broadway attendees drama critic Terry Teachout. M first TEDxBroadway, held earlier this year, to keep this discus- The event will be held from 11 sold out. This year’s speakers will address the sion going to examine Seth Pinsky a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission costs ormal”: N

question “What is the best that Broadway can other influences, new $100. —M.m. “ Kevin Winter/Getty

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industry Half the INDUSTRY On the Red Show Carpet at Artios “I would not have Goes On a career without casting directors. My Hurricane sandy career was started by a casting director scuttles N.Y. Artios and was propelled by casting directors. ceremony, but L.A. It’s not me.” —ARMIE HAMMER picks up slack Ben Affleck receives the Career Achievement Award from Jeremy Renner at the Artios Awards. “I really like getting in there and looking By Melinda Loewenstein for the nuances and urricane Sandy turned what speech is four pages, we’re actually the award, Kennedy spoke to the for the person who’s was meant to be a bicoastal only going to be hearing pages 1 and importance of the casting direc- really going to bring event into a West Coast eve- 3 even though you learned it all.” tor’s role: “We don’t cut anything, life into the role.” H ning when all of the winners Mindy Marin gave a heartfelt we don’t build anything, we don’t —LORA KENNEDY of the 28th Annual Artios Awards thank-you to actors in her ac- write anything, but we weave. We were announced Oct. 29 at the ceptance speech upon receiving weave people together. We weave Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. the Artios for big-budget feature these moments of inspiration Presenters included Atticus Shaffer, comedy casting. “I also really want together. That is our job, and it is a Nat Faxon, Anna Kendrick, Armie to thank the actor who gets up skill to look beyond what is in front Hammer, Cedric the Entertainer, every single morning, whose heart of us to see all the possibilities.” and Jean Smart. Jeremy Renner palpitates, who has read scripts, Judy Henderson (“Homeland”) presented the Career Achievement looked at their sides, wondered and Mark Saks (“The Good Wife”) Award, and Michael Hoffman tied for TV series drama cast- presented the Hoyt Bowers Award. “I want to thank the ing. “I shouldn’t have voted for The evening began with a video actors on planet Earth ‘Homeland,’ ” Saks joked. Libby introduction to each of the nomi- for giving so much of Goldstein’s hilarious poem about nees, finally putting faces to the their time and their losing Ben Affleck as director names of notoriously camera-shy hearts and their souls.” on “Homeland” was among the casting directors. Casting Society —MINDY MARIN, highlights of the evening. Jeremy Nat Faxon of America President Pam Dixon CASTING DIRECTOR Renner later presented Affleck kicked off the ceremony, saying how they’d do, left their families, with the Career Achievement es g the CSA would continue working to driven across town, paid for park- Award. “I had a goal to get in the “These are people that ma I add casting awards to the Academy, ing, come in,” she said. “I want to room with every casting director in I only kind of get to Tony, and BAFTA ceremonies, and thank the actors on planet Earth L.A., so I have a quick monologue see in high-pressure noting plans to launch a new CSA for giving so much of their time I’m going to do, one classic, one situations, when I’m y: Ge t t y k website. After announcing this and their hearts and their souls. contemporary,” joked Affleck. flop sweating and es (2)

g would be her final year as CSA presi- I’m very grateful because every Following Affleck, Jean Smart said walking around in ma I dent and thanking her colleagues, time you walk in the room, I have that she always felt casting direc- a hallway talking to she presented Gary Marsh with the a job and I’m so happy to see you.” tors really liked actors, then listed myself, so it’s really Garvin; Pins k first CSA Award of Recognition. Michael Hoffman presented Lora the New York winners, including nice to be able to ar

M Host Nicole Sullivan started Kennedy with the Hoyt Bowers multiple award winners Jennifer kind of converse ”: l off with some guidelines for the Award, saying that Kennedy Euston and James Calleri. Cedric normally with these rma winners: “If you’re accepting an advocates for the most talented the Entertainer wrapped up the people who I admire.” No “ Kevin Winter/Getty award tonight and your thank-you actor in a given role. Accepting ceremony with a few jokes. —NAT FAXON Firstname Lastname

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October 2012 Standing [Career Dispatch] Ovation

Performer Playing the Max Pomeranc From “Searching for Numbers Bobby Fischer” Age is no limit when “One of the greatest performances making a career I’ve ever seen is Max Pomeranc as Happy birthday to me. Yes, today is my birthday— the young boy in a day that most actors try to forget. It’s easy to feel your ‘Searching for Bobby age in Hollywood, a town that tries to convince you that Fischer.’ Something if you haven’t “made it by a certain age,” you’re done. about watching a child and his ability I once had an agent bring me in for my final interview to to be honest and Vanessa Claire Stewart be accepted into the agency. After my pre-interview with his desperation for es

g co-wrote and co-starred in “Louis him, he told me to lie about how old I was. At the time, I honesty even in ma I and Keely: Live at the Sahara” for the was 25, but he said I had the résumé of an 18-year-old. So the midst of all the Geffen Playhouse. She is a member for a while, I shaved four years off my age. I justified it adults surrounding of Sacred Fools Theater Company, by saying, “Everyone in L.A. does it.” It’s what is referred where she penned the acclaimed to as “Hollywood years.” Like dog years but in reverse. “Stoneface.” She has appeared on I thought I was done at 26 when I hadn’t yet booked a “Rules of Engagement,” “The Wanda major movie role. Nobody told me that I would actually Sykes Show,” and “Joan of Arcadia.” get my career when I turned 31.

tewart; Gyllenhaal: Getty Nobody told me that Annette Bening didn’t get her first S movie role until she was 30. Phyllis Diller became a comedian at 37. Most club owners told her she was too old to be a success. Glenn Close had a great Broadway career but them—which is didn’t get a break in the movies until she was 35, which essentially what that was also the age of the remarkable Colin Firth, whom I movie is about—and love, when producers finally decided to take a chance the performance For a while, I shaved on him. Famously, Nia Vardalos became a hit at 40 when itself is so present four years off her one-woman show “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” was and exists on its

o; Courtesy Vanessa Claire my age. It’s what turned into the movie that made her a star. own even today.” k is referred to as “Hollywood years.” These are all stories that defy the Hollywood belief that An Oscar nominee for Like dog years you have to turn in your dreams at 30. Keep on truckin’, “Brokeback Mountain,” Jake but in reverse. everyone. I’m gonna go blow out my candles. Gyllenhaal appeared Off- Broadway in “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet” and can

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[ Inside Job ] Brian Volk-Weiss Head of Production and SVP of Talent Management, New Wave Entertainment

By Daniel Lehman

How does a comic get funnier? 1 Practice, practice, practice. You might see the same comedian tell the same joke for years, and for two or three years it wasn’t funny, and then all of a sudden that same joke is funny.

How can talent On comics self- 2get discovered? 3 distributing If you have the option comedy specials on to stay home or go their own websites: out, go out. Go to that If the artist is someone with dig- party. Go to that meet- ital savvy and a very large audi- and-greet. It’s all about ence, then I really don’t see any knowing people, and downside. But one of the major talent will bring you to problems with self-releasing is, the top. If you’re in a you’re fishing in your own pond. laundromat performing When you do a special on HBO in front of six people or Comedy Central or Netflix, and you’ve got to drive you’re getting your work out 30 miles to get there, there to people that are not go. You never know familiar with you. And that’s who’s in the audience. how you make new fans.

Brian Volk-Weiss has 15 years of experience in the comedy business— first as a manager and now as producer at New Wave Entertainment, which represents talent and also shoots, edits, and distributes TV comedy specials for Bill Burr, Dane Cook, and Sinbad. He says, “Our unofficial slogan is ‘We have everything but the soundstage.’ ”

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opportunities for you. Re- member, most of the work ON TOPIC agents do to promote you This Week’s Thread goes uncompensated. Still, one agent-gen- Is drama school erated audition in five necessary to be months is lousy. You could successful? talk with your agent about the shortage of auditions, Due to my age I but I can almost predict don’t really feel like I what she’ll say: You need want to go down the new headshots. They love traditional route of [ The Working Actor ] saying that, because no agent wants to drama school. I feel admit he isn’t getting responses because that I could use three casting people don’t know him yet. years travelling, making Exit Strategy So, how long do you stay? It depends. contacts, and taking The managing of a professional acting independent lessons By Michael Dear Michael: I signed with a career requires constantly monitoring and training in acting. new agent a while ago. It’s a start-up one’s own place in the scheme of things. —ENIGMA_UK Kostroff agency, but I liked her passion and In the early phases, when credits and decided to give her a chance. It’s been experience are The fact that you’re about five months, and so far she has light, it’s unrealis- You could asking our guidance sent me out on one audition, whereas I go tic to expect any talk with your suggests that you out sometimes multiple times per week agency to find you agent about need...guidance. If by myself, and have given the agency a frequent auditions, the shortage that’s true in terms of percentage from a project I submitted or for a high-status of auditions, your career, it’s likely myself on and booked. agency to sign but I can to be all the more true How much longer should I stay before you—that hap- almost predict in regard to your craft. looking for a new agent? —THESPIAN28 pens, but it’s rare. what she’ll say: —STANISLAV MEINER But you also need You need new Dear Thespian28: You described to know when headshots. There is far less this as a start-up agency. That means it’s time to move correlation between they probably have limited clout with up. And that can be hard. We actors are training and success This week casting people; it takes time to build sometimes freakishly loyal to our repre- in our business than How long those relationships. If you’re early in your sentatives, to the point of ignoring signs in most businesses should career, a start-up agency can be a great we’ve outgrown them. you could name. I give a place to be, because you can grow with If you’re feeling you could do better —MICHAEL KOSTROFF start-up them. But it’s important to be realistic in elsewhere, there’s a very simple way to agency your expectations (they can’t be ICM). It’s test that theory. Try shopping. If you find [In America] it’s before also important to think like a team and not a more established agent who wants actually the norm looking resent generating your own opportunities to sign you, and you feel the rapport is that successful for new as well. It’s all good for the partnership. good, you should make the move without TV and film actors represen- You bring in your contacts; they bring in hesitation. If not, you should stay where didn’t go to drama

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a have trained in non- next week those commissions on work you’ve gener- ents to better agencies. But, until a move scholastic studios. hom When do ated. Each booking enhances your value becomes clear, I suggest a simultaneous, —FISHGURL n: T you let as a client, connects your agent with new two-pronged plan: invest fully in working tio

r a go of the contacts to whom she can pitch you in with your current agent while assertively Talk to TWA dream of the future, and helps her keep the doors shopping for a more established one who Join the fray at backstage.com llust Harry L ang I acting? open so she can continue seeking out can get you more auditions.

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1101 101.indd 17 10/30/12 2:22 PM an Stevens is learn- Ding to act American. When offered a cup of tea, the British star kindly requests coffee. He jokes about how his waiter at dinner last night the most interesting couldn’t understand his pronunciation of “water,” and just to prove that he’s got the accent down—the one he’s been perfecting dan for his upcoming Broadway debut—he slips into a faultless impersonation, right in the world down to the sarcasm. “I’m sorry, water,” he says with a laugh. He’s been working on this dialect for a while, using what he calls his “parrot-like” abilities to take on an “Downton Abbey” star American character for the first time as Morris Townsend in “The Heiress,” which Dan Stevens goes stateside opens Nov. 1 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. “It’s a warm and welcoming commu- in Broadway’s “the heiress” nity,” Stevens says of Broadway while sipping a Starbucks Americano. “You really get that community sense more than in London.” Stevens stormed onto the national scene as heartthrob Matthew Crawley

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“Downton Abbey” star Dan Stevens goes stateside in Broadway’s “the heiress”

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on cult-hit import “Downton Abbey,” though Morris and Matthew are entirely different beasts. Matthew is the Downton estate’s heir apparent, while Morris is an alleged fortune hunter. “There are different ways you can go with this role, and I think they wanted to go slightly against the conventional grain of the mustache- twiddling villain,” Stevens says of Morris. “If you think Morris is a gold digger in the first scene, the play becomes less interesting.” Based on the 1880 Henry James With Jessica Chastain novel “Washington Square,” “The in “The Heiress” Heiress,” by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, is set in 1850s Manhattan. Morris courts the plain Catherine countrymen in period dramas. to channel his energy and make or Beckett, was entirely student Sloper, the lone beneficiary of her While Stevens enjoys exploring for less distracting behavior. “It run. You maybe applied for a bit of wealthy father’s will, and Morris’ the foundations behind history— was a good outlet for me,” he financing from a college to make romantic intentions come into and can talk intelligently on the says. In high school, where he your $20 costume. It was produced, question when Catherine sug- subject—he’s also good-natured was a scholarship student among directed, publicized, lit, designed gests the pair elope, forfeiting her about it. “That’s one of the pur- wealthy pupils, Stevens met one by students. There were no teach- inheritance. The revival marks poses of period drama,” Stevens of his early supporters, his English ers telling you what to do, and the fourth on Broadway—the says. “Another purpose is just to teacher Jonathan Smith. Smith that was incredibly liberating. You last was in 1995, starring Cherry see people in very pretty dresses cast Stevens in the title role in could literally do anything.” Jones—and features Jessica Chastain in very beautiful houses, and “Macbeth” when he was 14. While at university, Stevens tried and David Strathairn under the there’s nothing wrong with that.” “He claims I strode into the his hand at directing a production direction of Moisés Kaufman. This sense of humor is what keeps room and said, ‘Let me audition for of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of ick Briggs “He’s a thinking man’s ac- Stevens playful in the rehearsal “Macbeth”!’ ” Stevens remembers. Being Earnest,” in which he played N

tor,” Kaufman says. “In casting room. Though the 30-year-old “But I’m convinced that’s not how Lady Bracknell. (“Maybe that’s a ens: Morris, you need an actor who became a father for the second time it was. It intensified the bug to role I’ll reprise someday,” he says v te S

can be very emotionally available in May, his youthfulness helps him want to do this.” semi-seriously.) The role that really ;

but also very smart. What I love as an actor. “He’s the troublemaker Stevens credits Smith with launched his career, however, was IECE P about Dan is that he’s an actor on the team,” says Kaufman, careful encouraging him to study at the same one that gave him his who has great emotional range, to clarify that “troublemaker” is Cambridge, where he got a degree start in high school. This time he ASTER but he also has great intellect.” not a pejorative. “You’re in the in literature and participated co-starred in the Scottish play with And that intellect is apparent middle of a serious scene and you in drama recreationally, as the Sir Peter Hall’s daughter, Rebecca, V for M

from the outside in. Sporting a fitted take a pause and he starts clowning university didn’t have a theater and as a result of meeting during IT navy suit as crisp as his accent, he around. It’s been very welcome.” department at the time. the production Hall cast Stevens as drops words like “aesthete” and This love of pranks initially “That was one of the great Orlando in his touring production “avuncular” into casual conversa- started as disruptiveness in the things about it,” Stevens says. of “As You Like It,” which marked ick Briggs/ tion, unconsciously acknowledg- classroom. His teachers ushered “Everything you did onstage, be Stevens’ U.S. stage debut in 2005. N ing his European etiquette and him toward the stage as a way it standup comedy or Shakespeare “If you don’t go to drama school, Cambridge education. Perched on a plush chair on the mezza- nine level at the Empire Hotel at “he’s a thinking man’s actor.… Lincoln Center, Stevens ignores the early morning hubbub in the lobby what i love about dan is that he’s an actor below. He rests his elbows on his knees and leans forward, giving who has great emotional range, but each question his full attention. His charisma and Prince he also has great intellect.” Charming looks make Stevens a —moisés kaufman, director winning candidate for well-dressed “Heiress”: Joan Marcus; “Downton”: 2011

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While at Cambridge University, Stevens was a member of the comedy troupe Footlights, as there was no drama department. The group has spawned such popular comedians and actors as Sacha Baron Cohen, John Cleese, Hugh Laurie, and Emma Thompson. There Stevens tried his hand at standup comedy, something he says he’ll never do again. “You’re getting up there doing your own words on your own, no costume—I mean, I was With Michelle Dockery in wearing clothes—but it’s just “Downton Abbey” raw you and your words which you somehow at some point foolishly thought were funny. “it took a while to go away. this sense, If you ever get up onstage again with somebody else’s ‘am i really allowed to stay doing this? words—who probably knows what they’re doing—with the this is amazing.’ ” support of a cast, it can never —dan stevens be as terrifying as that. I feel

and I know a number of actors who always looking for something dif- Stevens hasn’t quite achieved didn’t go to drama school who feel ferent, something a little strange. I’d the same household-name status like this, you always feel like maybe love to do something set in the fu- yet; fans recognize him by his you missed out on something or ture; I’ve done a lot set in the past.” “Downton” moniker, not his real ick Briggs N people won’t necessarily take you As for Stevens’ own future, he name, which he acknowledges is

ens: as seriously,” Stevens says of his says, “My life in my head goes up a common one. He jokes about the v work with Hall. “If you work with until about February when the play popularity of it on Twitter, which te S

; certain directors or you do certain finishes. It’s blank after that.” he actively uses to engage his incredibly comfortable going

IECE kinds of work, it kind of puts a It won’t be blank for long. fans. “There are some people on out onstage now knowing that P stamp on your passport. I think Stevens is rumored to be departing Twitter who call themselves ‘the,’ I have a lovely costume and a I’ve got over that feeling now. “Downton” after this season in and I didn’t like ‘the,’ ” he says. His lovely set and somebody else’s ASTER It took a while to go away. This favor of working more on Broadway. Twitter handle is @thatdanstevens. lovely words to say, and I don’t sense, ‘Am I really allowed to stay And he’s in good company. Stevens “I’m not ‘the Dan Stevens.’ There need to worry about ‘Are they V for M

IT doing this? This is amazing.’ ” is riding a wave of British actors who are lots of Dan Stevens. I’m just going to laugh at this joke that Chances are Stevens will be doing have been successful in the States, that one.” I wrote five minutes ago?’ You “this” for a long time, and maybe such as James Corden, who took “That one” is a pretty good have your five minutes or three more often on this side of the pond. home the Tony for “One Man, Two one to be right now, and Stevens minutes or whatever, and you ick Briggs/ N Within 24 hours of the opening Guvnors” this year, and the always encourages young actors to keep have to make those words of “The Heiress,” Stevens’ first appealing Colin Firth, who won his a level head and a sense of humor land, and by landing hopefully American film, “Vamps,” starring first Oscar in 2011 for “The King’s about the business. He learned the make them laugh. You get an Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Speech.” And people are starting importance of this childlike spirit immediate response. It’s almost Ritter, will hit theaters. Season 3 of to call Stevens the next Firth. from the most poised of actors, like speed theater. You just go “Downton Abbey” premieres in the “It’s a very flattering compari- Dame Judi Dench, when they out there and you’re like, ‘OK, U.S. in January, and when asked son,” Stevens says, listing other U.K. worked on “Hay Fever” in the West are they listening to me, and am what roles he would like to dig into actors who have been success- End in 2006. “We’re not proper I communicating well?’ That’s after that, his answer is surprising. ful stateside, such as Dominic grownups,” she told Stevens of ac- the raw essence. And that can “With Morris, we’re edging to- West and Damian Lewis. “These tors, and he has taken that to heart. be applied to anything you do ward a slightly more villainous terri- are guys whose careers I would “As grownup as I feel being a dad in theater for the rest of time. tory,” he says. “And I haven’t played love to have. It’s very hearten- and just turning 30,” he says, “I’d It was great training, terrifying

“Heiress”: Joan Marcus; “Downton”:too 2011 many villains, I suppose. I’m ing if people see you like that.” like to not be a proper grownup.” training but great.”

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Here’s a secret: Casting directors like you. They want you to succeed. When you walk into an audition room, the CD looks at you and sees a potential answer to all of his or her problems. The “I think people tend to forget we are on the actors’ side,” says casting director J.C. Cantu. “I want them to do really well. I want them to casting get the part. Then I can go home early and have a glass of champagne and celebrate.” directors Cantu, who founded Rising Phoenix Casting last year, is part of a new generation of CDs who are becoming major players in the casting community. Many of them found their career paths through acting, and all you should of them express affection for actors. After all, why get into a business like casting if not to have a chance to work with people like you? know today For actors, these are the names to remember, the people who in years to come will cast the parts that will make careers. They’re rooting for you.

Katja Blichfeld and With “30 Rock” coming to an end, the pair Jessica Daniels have partnered to form the casting office Blichfeld + Daniels Casting Blichfeld + Daniels Casting, and their first project as a team is the CW’s “Sex and Projects: “30 Rock”; “The Carrie Diaries” the City” prequel, “The Carrie Diaries.” Katja Blichfeld wanted to become a casting Whether casting veteran comedians or director so she could hang out with Christian raw talent, Blichfeld and Daniels are look- Slater. “I read in some teen magazine that his ing for “people who can approach dramatic mother [casting director Mary Jo Slater] was or comedic material with honesty and not responsible for his career, and I was like, ‘You condescend to their character,” Blichfeld says. get to hang out with Christian Slater? That The duo see countless actors for these high- sounds good,’ ” Blichfeld (pictured, right) profile shows and discover them in comedy eeg arden

remembers of her 12-year-old self. Blichfeld clubs, Off-Broadway theaters, school show- T moved to New York to pursue said career and cases, and other venues around New York. worked with CD Jennifer McNamara, who But they advise actors not to get discouraged mentored her and connected her with her if the first meeting doesn’t lead to a job. current casting gig on “30 Rock.” Blichfeld met “If we like somebody’s audition, we’re Jessica Daniels (pictured, left)—whose interest going to bring them back again,” says Daniels. in casting was sparked while an intern at “Don’t expect that this one audition is your hfeld and daniels: Menghistab

Backstage—while working on the NBC comedy. one shot. There will be others.” —Suzy Evans c bli boka: Menghistab; Cantu:

1101 FEAT1 Casting Directors.indd 22 10/30/12 11:09 AM Tomorrow’s Kate Boka J.C. Cantu Projects: “The Book Rising Phoenix Casting of Mormon” tour Projects: “Bullet to the Head”; “Gimme Shelter” Kate Boka was prac- Most actors’ first jobs in L.A. come in the service industry— ticing to be a casting the Cheesecake Factory, Starbucks, etc. But when J.C. Cantu ar- director before she even rived with B.F.A. in hand, he found work in a friend’s casting office, knew that it could be a first as an intern, then as an assistant. He never looked back. career path. She and her “I think it helped me friends would compile to have a background in hypothetical casts for acting and see where each musicals such as “Into actor was coming from,” the Woods,” mostly Cantu says. “I mean, there composed of classmates are no classes on how to from her college musi- become a casting director. cal theater program. “I It’s all life experience—and used to have a lot of fun watching tons of movies.” doing that,” Boka says. Cantu spent nine years “Even from those early working with casting direc- cast lists that I made for tor Mary Vernieu, whom myself, I knew that he calls “one of the greats.” casting was something With Vernieu, he helped cast that I was interested in.” films such as “The Killer Not long after the Inside Me,” “Machete,” and self-proclaimed “musi- “Spy Kids: All the Time in the cal theater nerd” moved World.” He opened his office, to New York to pursue Rising Phoenix Casting, an acting career, she just over a year ago, and got a job as an intern for recently cast the Sundance Jim Carnahan Casting crowd-pleaser “Safety Not at the Roundabout Guaranteed,” starring Mark Theatre Company. Duplass and Aubrey Plaza. Over the next Like most casting direc- eight years, Boka worked her way up to associate at the com- tors, Cantu has likely been pany, working on Roundabout Broadway and Off-Broadway asked countless times productions such as “The Paris Letter,” “Waiting for Godot,” what common mistakes “Arcadia,” “A Behanding in Spokane,” and “Boeing-Boeing.” actors make in the audi- “It was great to feel like part of the creative process, and I didn’t tion room. But he has an feel the need or desire to do acting anymore,” Boka says. “But being uncommon answer. eeg arden

T a casting director probably would make me a much better actor. One “Don’t hit the casting of the best classes you can ever take is just to observe the process.” director,” he says. “I’ve been She says the collaborative and inclusive environment that slapped, spit on, pushed. I’ve Carnahan and Gardner created gave her the confidence to strike had my baseball hat taken out on her own as a freelance casting director in 2011. Now off my head and smacked she’s the casting associate for “The Book of Mormon,” work- across my face. We just want ing with casting director Carrie Gardner to cast the hit show’s to be loved, like everyone hfeld and daniels: Menghistab

c Broadway, national tour, and Chicago companies. —Daniel Lehman else.” —Daniel Holloway — Continued on page 24 bli boka: Menghistab; Cantu: Casting Directors backstage.com upstage News | actor 101 | center stage cover story | features | downstage casting | reviews 11.01.12 backstage 23

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Joy Dewing — Continued from PAGE 23 Joy Dewing Casting Projects: “Catch Me If You Can” national tour The first check Joy Dewing wrote from her new company’s checkbook was for an H&M suit. Dewing, who formed Joy Dewing Casting in May, asked actor Stephen Anthony to wear a suit for his final callback for the first national tour of “Catch Me If You Can,” and when she found out he bought the suit for the audition, she reimbursed him. “He got the job,” she adds. Dewing started out as a performer, but she made the transition to casting in 2005. She took an internship with Dave Clemmons Casting and slowly moved up the ranks until she was a partner with Clemmons/Dewing Casting. “It was such a thrill to be doing every aspect of it,” Dewing says of the career transition. “Especially when I got to make the first phone call telling people that they had booked the job. That was sort of the drug that addicted me to casting.” Dewing uses her experience as an actor to create a warm and inviting audition room. “I know what it’s like to stand in line at 5 a.m. in the snow,” she says. “Those of us who have been there, we have compassion for what it is…. It’s never going to be a comfortable situation auditioning, but I try to make it as comfortable and inviting as possible and respectful.” Dewing wants actors to know that she’s rooting for them. “I want every person who walks in the door to be that person that we’re looking for,” she says, “because then I’ve done my job.” —S.E.

Jeremy Gordon new talent. “I’ve cast many actors in their first Jeremy Gordon Casting projects ever, and now here they are as leads in television shows; it’s pretty rewarding,” says Projects: “School and Board”; “Snuff” Gordon. He cast Robert Buckley (“One Tree Hill”), Syracuse University graduate Jeremy Gordon Hannah Marks (“Necessary Roughness”), and moved to L.A. to pursue acting, but along the way Jared Kusnitz (“Underemployed”) in their first he fell into his true calling: casting. “Looking back, projects. He also loves interacting with actors via I don’t think acting was really ever what I was social media like Facebook and Twitter. “I like supposed to be doing. I’m definitely not the in- being accessible,” he says. —Melinda Loewenstein front-of-the-camera type of guy,” he says. Turning from acting to education, he earned his master’s Stephanie Holbrook at Pepperdine and began teaching seventh grade. Stephanie Holbrook Casting While teaching, he and Joe Dain formed the production company Shoot Productions. He began Projects: Untitled Elmore Leonard film casting their projects, fell in love with the process, Stephanie Holbrook says that her first “discern-

and turned his attention to casting full-time. ing casting moment” happened when she saw eeg arden T Starting his casting career 10 years later than herself on videotape as a college actor. “I got a average didn’t slow Gordon down. After cast- sense that the actress I was watching just didn’t ing indie films on his own for years (“Spork,” get it,” she says. Wanting to be a part of the eeg arden

“Doll Graveyard”), Gordon has joined forces “theatrical process,” she got a job in San Francisco T with Beth Lipari. They met while working casting background and under-fives. After a as associates for Beach/Katzman Casting on stint in Los Angeles, she moved to New York. studio films such as “We’re the Millers” and Mentors there have included Ellen Chenoweth “The Wolverine.” They are already working and especially Douglas Aibel, with whom she on several projects, including web series “My worked on such films as “The Dying Gaul,” Synthesized Life” and feature “Final 3 Pegs.” “Margaret,” and “The Squid and the Whale.” Gordon’s favorite part of casting is work- Holbrook’s own projects vary from mainstream ing with actors in the room and encouraging films (an upcoming untitled Elmore Leonard dewing: Menghistab; gordon: holbrook, schubert: Menghistab; lewitt: Casting

1101 FEAT1 Casting Directors.indd 24 10/30/12 11:09 AM and worked on “Angels and Demons” and “Transformers,” Lewitt struck out on her own. Since she began in the business, Lewitt says, the CD’s role has changed. “Everyone wants a name,” she says. “So the pure art of casting—just bringing in great actors, and you and your directors sitting in a room, choosing whoever you want—that is pretty scarce these days.” Now that she works on her own, she says, “I specifically have a commit- ment to myself that I will only take on projects that I genuinely have some kind of passion for and with filmmakers that I genuinely believe in.” movie with Jennifer Aniston, Dennis Quaid, The proof is in the projects on Lewitt’s front and Mos Def) to indies (“Private Romeo”) to burner: the short film “Laboratory Conditions,” Julie Schubert web series. She thinks the last are “a really by screenwriting heavyweight Terry Rossio Projects: “House of Cards” on Netflix great way to segue into the business, because and co-directed by Jocelyn Stamat and “You look online to try to find a definition you can develop a reel by doing an Internet Rossio; indie comedy-drama “In the Sack,” to of casting, and it talks about metalwork,” project.” She also says, “There’s less pres- be directed by “Girlfriend” producer Shaun jokes casting director Julie Schubert. “No sure to get high-profile names” for them. O’Banion and starring Ross Marquand, who one really understands or knows what Holbrook believes in the importance of caught Lewitt’s eye via a YouTube screen we do. It is a very fluid profession.” spontaneity in the audition room. “I resist test; indie dramedy “The Irresistible Vincent Schubert says she was lucky to start her the overprepared audition,” she says. “Being Chang”; and the sci fi–drama directorial debut career with casting director Juliet Taylor, for open is really key, so you are able to take of Bryan Edward Hill (“7 Days From Hell”). whom she was a casting assistant on Woody adjustments.” Nevertheless, she wants to “I want to align myself with [inspir- Allen films such as “Match Point” and “Vicky see “strong choices. It could be the coming filmmakers] because it makes me feel Cristina Barcelona.” She was later an assistant pletely ‘wrong’ choice, but that’s OK.” inspired,” Lewitt says. “No one wants to or associate for CDs Ellen Lewis, Meredith Holbrook wants actors to know that she’s be the walking dead and just do things for Tucker, Denise Chamian, and more, and was in their corner. “I’m not afraid to fight for an a paycheck. Life’s too short.” —Sylvia Tan responsible for casting films including “Cedar actor if I really believe in them,” she says, even Rapids,” “The Devil Wears Prada,” and “The if that actor might not be right for a role as Taking of Pelham 1 2 3.” In 2009, she traveled written. “I’ll really push if I want my collabora- to Atlanta to cast the remake of “Footloose,” tors to take another look.” —Erik Haagensen her first feature film as casting director. Schubert recently served as Tucker’s associate Michelle Lewitt on “Sopranos” creator David Chase’s upcoming Projects: “Laboratory debut feature film, “Not Fade Away,” starring John Magaro and James Gandolfini. She’s now Conditions”; “In the Sack” the casting director for “House of Cards,” a

eeg arden If you can assemble a winning basketball new drama series developed by David Fincher T team, you can cast a successful film. Or so that stars Kevin Spacey as a ruthless politician. believed high school coach Michelle Lewitt, The series, which is scheduled to premiere whose instinct for talent landed her at the on Netflix in early 2013, shoots primarily in eeg arden

T storied Casting Company on the strength of a the Baltimore and Washington, D.C., area. cover letter and no experience. Indeed, instinct “It sort of opens up another market for has inspired her casting choices—such as regional actors, who wouldn’t necessarily plucking from her audition memory an outra- have the opportunity to be a part of the New geously charismatic dancer named Channing York acting community,” Schubert says. “I Tatum for a part in 2005’s “Supercross.” feel like I’ve been introduced to an amazing After a decade at the Casting Company, amount of the D.C.-Baltimore-Philadelphia where the native Angeleno was mentored talent, which is exciting. It’s more people to by Jane Jenkins and Janet Hirshenson know and to remember for future work.” —D.L. dewing: Menghistab; gordon: holbrook, schubert: Menghistab; lewitt: Directors

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••To schedule an audition appt., email ‘The 39 Steps’ pix & résumés to littlefishcasting@ ••Kentwood Players is casting “The 39 gmail.com. Steps,” the Tony‑award winning com‑ Southern •• Be prepared to cold read from the script. Ationudi edy thriller. Lori Marple‑Pereslete ••For more info, visit www.littlefishthe & Anthony Pereslete, prods.; Ben atre.org. Lupejkis, dir. ••Some pay provided for union actors. Highlights ••Performances run Jan. 11‑Feb. 16, 2013 California No pay for nonunion actors. Equity California at the Westchester Playhouse in 99‑Seat Plan. Fri. Nov. 2 Westchester, CA. ‘Beautiful’ ••Seeking—Richard Hannay: male, 35‑45, English dialect. Annabella Schmidt/ ‘Jingle Bell Rock’ Margaret/Pamela: female, 35‑45, NYFA, ‘Super Stalker’ German, Scottish, English dialects. UNION STAGE NONUNION STAGE ‘Party Girls’ Clown 1: male or female, 25+, English, North Country, Scottish, German CTG Monthly Local EPAs ‘45 Seconds from dialects. Clown 2: male or female, ••Center Theatre Group holds Broadway’ Sat. Nov. 3 25+, English, North Country, Scottish, monthly EPAs on the first or Eqit u y ••Conejo Players Theatre is ‘Hair’ German dialects. Note: Must possess second Monday. Erika Sellin casting Neil Simon’s “45 ‘Happy Together’ great comedic timing, physical agility, and Mark Simon, casting dir. Seconds from Broadway,” a and have a working facility with and can Ntiso ce ‘MasterChef’ ••Seeking—Equity Actors. Note: comedy. Mike & Elena Mills, demonstrate English, North Country, Actors must have current AEA card prods.; Dick Johnson, dir. ‘Steel Magnolias’ Scottish, and German dialects. to gain entry. ••Rehearsals start Nov. 21. Perfor ‘The 9th Step’ ••Auditions will be held Nov. 10, 11 a.m.‑3 • mances run Jan. 11‑Feb. 2, 2013 at the p.m. and Nov. 11, 6‑9 p.m. at the play‑ •Equity auditions will be held Nov. 5 ‘The Lisbon Traviata’ and Dec. 3, 9:30 a.m. (9 a.m. sign‑in) theatre in Thousand Oaks. house, 8301 Hindry Ave. in Westchester. at Center Theatre Group Music Center ••Seeking—All Roles Open. ‘You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown’ ••Be prepared to read sides which will be Annex, 601 W. Temple Ave., L.A. A mon‑ ••Auditions will be held Nov. 18‑20, 7 provided. Be familiar with the play and/ itor will not be provided. The producer p.m. at Conejo Players Theatre, 351 S. Sun. Nov. 4 or the characters from the 1935 movie of will run all aspects of this audition. Moorpark Rd., Thousand Oaks. the same title. Bring pix, résumés, and ••Prepare two contrasting monologues; ••Be prepared to cold read. Bring pix, ré ‘Steel Magnolias’ appointment calendar. each of the pieces should be one to two sumés, and a list of potential conflicts. ‘The 9th Step’ ••Callbacks will be held Nov. 12. minutes in length, preferably from ••For more info. and a complete break ••No pay. a published American play and not down, visit www.conejoplayers.org. an original composition. Bring pix & ••No pay. Mon. Nov. 5 ‘The 9th Step’ résumés. ‘Heaven Can Wait’ ••9th Step Productions is casting “The ••To get detailed audition schedule up ‘Heaven Can Wait’ ‘The Nerd’ 9th Step,” a gritty urban drama with • dates and parking suggestions, call the •Glendale Centre Theatre is casting ‘You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown’ music that tells the story of one man’s hotline at (213) 972‑7235. “Heaven Can Wait,” a comedy by Harry redemption in the midst of the crack ••Equity LORT Non‑Rep Contract Segall. Brenda & Tim Dietlein, prods.; cocaine epidemic of the ‘90s. Charles (Ahmanson: A+, Taper: A, Douglas: D). Diedra Celeste Miranda, dir. Wed. Nov. 7 McWells, playwright/prod.; Byron Nora, ••Performances run Dec. 31, 2012‑Feb. 2, Idaho & Lake Tahoe 2013 dir.; Earl Wooten, musical dir.; Monika 2013 at the theater in Glendale. DeYammer, choreo. Shakespeare Festivals, ID ••Seeking—Joe Pendleton: male, 22‑30, ••Rehearsals start early December. big, brawny, muscular boxer, person‑ Performances will be held late January/ UNION/NON STAGE able. Mr. Jordon: male, 50‑65, dignified, For the full auditions calendar, early February 2013 in L.A. intelligent, likeable. Max Levene: male, ••Seeking—Matthew: late 30s‑early 40s, visit backstage.com/auditionsw ‘Pick of the Vine’ 40‑45, shrewd, likeable, pugnacious, tall, intelligent, conservative, LEAD. ••Little Fish Theatre is casting “Pick of fight manager. Bette Logan: female, Brother Big: late 40s, with a gruff, the Vine,” a celebration of original 20‑28, lovely, sweet, has a mind of her Southern‑inflected voice that makes him one‑act plays selected from hundreds of own. Julia Farnsworth: female, 30‑35, male or female, 35‑50. Plain‑Clothes seem older, street‑tough gang leader. submissions from around the world. beautiful, sophisticated, cool charmer. Detective: male, 30‑50. Doctor: male, Isaac: mid‑50s to late 60s, street‑wise, Lisa Coffi, producing artistic dir.; Tony Abbott: male, 35‑40, hand‑ 40‑70, befuddled. Workman: male, fun‑loving, Matthew’s alcoholic neigh‑ Holly Baker‑Kreiswirth, prod.; some, suave, educated. Messenger 30‑45, sarcastic and funny. Note: All bor. Shenita: late 20s to mid‑30s, attrac‑ Stephanie Cotrin, James Rice, and 7013: male, 40‑55, little, meticu‑ roles require good comic timing. All eth‑ tive prostitute with lots of curves. Reroc: Bill Wolski, dirs. lous, slightly high‑strung. Mrs. nicities encouraged. mid‑teens to early 20s, cocky, street ••Rehearsals begin Nov. 26. Perfor Ames: female, 40‑50, maternal ••Auditions will be held by appt. only smart, jumpy, able to be intimidating, mances run Jan. 11‑Feb. 16, 2013 at the type, housekeeper. Ann: female, 18‑22, Nov. 5, 7‑10 p.m. at the theater, 324 N. Brother Big’s right‑hand man. Silky: theatre in San Pedro, CA. a housemaid. Susie: female, 18‑22, a Orange St., Glendale. Gang banger, has intimidating facade, ••Seeking—Males and Females: 25‑70, all chambermaid. Nurse: female, 25‑40, ••To schedule an audition appt. call (818) but is actually a coward. Ester: mid‑ to ethnicities, must be able to portray European, Swedish, big, pleasant‑look‑ 244‑8481. Sides will be provided. Bring many types of characters, and perform ing. Police Inspector Williams: male, pix & résumés. Visit backstage.com/casting comedy and drama equally well. 30‑50, authoritative yet confused. Lefty: ••For more info, visit www.glendalecen for full character breakdowns, script ••Auditions will be held by appt. only in male, 40‑50, fighter’s manager, earthy, tretheatre.com. sides and more casting notices early November. uneducated. First & Second Escorts: ••Some pay provided.

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late 60s, feisty. Georgia: mid‑ to late 60s, of the Off‑Broadway bound hit musical the theater, 1135 N. Church St., Redlands. sharp, determined, ambitious, show nurturing and protective, Ester’s sister. “Disenchanted.” Bonnie McMahan, Ari ••Bring pix & résumés. Polaroid may be man, considers himself the leader of the Figure: three different women, each has Fife, Howard Rosenman & Don Frantz, taken if no pix available ($2 fee re group, think young Steve Jobs. Mike: a distinct personality; one is stately and prods. quired). Prepare 16 bars of a song. Bring 20s‑30s, quiet, genius, bullied by the

Stage dignified; second is comical and play‑ ••Rehearsals start Nov. 14. Perfor sheet music in the preferred key; no group, loyal to a fault. Norm: 20s‑30s, ful; third is motherly. Tyrina: 20s‑30s, mances will be held Dec. 3 & 4 in L.A. transposing or CDs. shy, awkward, uncomfortable in his crack addict, haggard‑looking, nervous. ••Seeking—Females: mid‑20s to 40s, in ••For more info, visit www.lifehousethe skin, never speaks up, out of shape. Ernest: late 30s, crack addict, hag‑ cludes roles for Asian‑American and ater.com. Trey: 20s‑30s, bold, smart, sharp, thinks gard‑looking, stutters. Donte: 30s, crack African‑American women, all vocal ••No pay. he is the leader of the group, think addict. Leonard: early 40s, Matthew’s ranges, strong improvisational skills, young Bill Gates, must be able to speak sponsor. Ms. Ellard: early 60s‑late legit Broadway belt. Note: All sizes and ‘South Pacific’ to the height of intelligence and carry

M 70s. Joe the Bartender: any age. Lady ethnicities encouraged to submit. ••Welk Theatre is casting “South Pa some knowledge of physics, computers,

u Rochelle: lounge singer. Note: Singing ••Auditions will be held by appt. only cific.” Joshua Carr, prod./dir.; Ray Li and science. s • ical ability is a plus, but non‑singers are also Nov. 8 in L.A. mon, choreo.; Justin Gray, musical dir. •Email pix & résumés to thebridgemov encouraged to submit. ••To schedule an audition appt., email ••Rehearsals start Dec. 10. Performances [email protected]. No drop‑offs or ••Auditions will be held by appt. only pix & résumés to auditions@disenchant‑ run Jan. 4‑Mar. 17, 2013 at the theater in phone calls. s Nov. 3 & 4 in L.A. edprincesses.com. Escondido, CA. ••Professional pay, plus copy, credit, and ••To schedule an audition appt., email ••Prepare 16 bars of an upbeat, pref ••Seeking—Nellie Forbush: early 20s, meals provided. SAG New Media pix & résumés to charlesmcwells@ya‑ erably comedic song. naive, country girl struggling with Contract. hoo.com. ••For more info, visit www.disen her own racial intolerance, strong ••Some pay and credit provided. chantedmusical.com or www.face‑ actress; strong alto to C. Bloody Film book.com/disenchantedmusical. Mary: 40s, Asian, Tonkinese/ ‘Trainspotting’ Callbacks will be held Nov. 12. Islander in appearance, strong actress, ••Seat of Your Pants Productions is cast ••Stipend will be provided. character type, low G to C, strong alto. NONUNION FILM ing “Trainspotting,” the stage ad Luther Billis: mid‑20s to 30s, charac‑ aptation of Irvine Welsh’s book revolv ‘Fauntleroy’ ter actor, comes across as somewhat ‘Change of Heart’ ing around a group of Scottish friends ••Karic Productions is casting smarmy but in a likeable way, strong ••JVP Empire is casting “Change of who escape their lives through heroin. “Fauntleroy,” a new musical adapted singer. Capt. Brackett: 45‑55, old and Heart,” a DV drama short about a couple David Agranov, Pamela Pedder, Matt from the classic tale by Frances H. crusty but soft hearted, strong actor; finding truth and honesty in love and Tully, prods.; Roger Mathey, dir. Burnett. Kathy Fitzpatrick, book/ non‑singing role. Commander Harbison: life. A. Ji, coord. ••Rehearsals begin January 2013. lyrics/dir.; Eric Jacobson, music & 35‑45, singer/actor, good with dialogue. ••Shoot start is TBD in SoCal. Performances run Mar. 15‑Apr. 20, lyrics. Seabies: males, 20‑35, athletic, strong ••Seeking—Alex: male, late 20s‑early 2013 at the Elephant Theatre in ••Performances run Feb. 8‑10 at the singers who move well to play various 30s, any ethnicity, wealthy young play‑ Hollywood. Santa Monica Playhouse in Santa Seabie roles including Stewpot and boy type, yet with decency and a good ••Seeking—Mark Renton: male, Monica. McCafferty, and to understudy Cable. heart, mature and well‑mannered, 20s‑30s, Caucasian, thin heroin junk ••Seeking—Young Fauntleroy: boy or Nurses: females, to play early 20s‑35, LEAD. Linda: female, early 20s, a wait‑ ie, full frontal nudity required. Tom girl, 10‑12, sweet, charming, generous strong singers who move very well. ress, preferably blonde or black hair, me‑ my: male, 20s‑30s, all ethnicities, and loving, wise beyond his or her years, Note: All ethnicities encouraged. The dium height and weight, no taller than healthy, starts out in shape but ends up must have an excellent voice, move well, roles of Emile, Liat, and Cable have been 5’5”, funny, supporting. Simone: late a junkie, full frontal nudity required. and take direction, tap a plus. Earl of cast. 20s, any ethnicity, total playboy, no val‑ Francis “Franco” Begbie: male, 20s‑30s, Dorincourt: male, 50‑60, staunch, rigid, ••Auditions will be held Nov. 19, 11 ues, no passion, just lust, supporting. Caucasian, bruiser, likes to fight. Alison: cold and ruthless, evolves into sensi‑ a.m.‑4 p.m. at the theater, 8860 Law ••Auditions will be held by appt. only female, 20s‑30s, all ethnicities, thin tive, warm, loving grandfather, bass/ rence Welk Dr., Escondido. Nov. 8 in L.A. heroin junkie, topless nudity required. baritone. Mr. Havisham: male, 30‑50, ••Prepare a classical musical theater ••For consideration, email pix & ré Simon “Sick Boy” Williamson: male, legal council to the Earl, kind yet knows selection; an accompanist will sumés to [email protected] 20s‑30s, Caucasian, thin heroin junkie; his place with the Earl, tenor/baritone. be provided. No tapes or CDs. Be and state which role you are inter‑ to play various roles. Johnny “Mother Males/Females: all ages, all types, and prepared to move and read from ested in. No follow‑up emails. Superior” Swan: male, 30s‑40s, all voice ranges for various parts, must the script. Males: Be dressed to show ••Some pay, copy, credit, and meals ethnicities, heroin junkie; to play move well, tap a plus. physique. Females: Be dressed to move. provided. various roles. Gail Houston/Lassie in ••Auditions will be held by appt. only Bring pix & résumés. Bar/Sharon/Kelly: female, 20s‑30s, Nov. 10, 10:45 a.m.‑2 p.m. at 10850 ••Callbacks will be held Nov. 19. ‘Jester’ Caucasian, topless nudity required; Moorpark St., N. Hollywood. ••Pays: $350/wk. Lodging provided for ••Art of the Story is casting the feature to play various roles. Laura McEwan/ ••To schedule an audition appt., call non‑San Diego residents. “Jester.” Austin Chapman, casting dir. Veronica: female, 20s‑30s, Caucasian, (818) 381‑6253. ••Shoot is TBD in SoCal. full frontal nudity required; to play vari‑ ••Prepare 16 bars from a musical. An ac ••Seeking—Female: 18‑29, of mixed eth ous roles. Lizzie MacIntosh/Newscaster/ companist will be provided. nicity, young with an exotic face. Jane: female, 20s, all ethnicities, top‑ ••No pay. ••Email pix & résumés to casting@ar less nudity required. Mr. Houston/Mr. UNION/NONUNION FILM tofthestory.com. Renton: male, 40s‑50s, Caucasian, to ‘Hair’ ••For more info, visit • play various roles. Mrs. Houston/Mrs. ••At the Grove Productions is casting ‘Mastermind’ www.artofthestory.com. Renton: female, 30s‑40s, Caucasian, “Hair.” Richard Hochberg, dir.; Julio ••Tindell Productions is casting ••Professional pay provided. to play various roles. Note: Actors with Villegas, choreo. “Mastermind,” a short about Napoleon Scottish accents are preferred. ••Performances run Jan. 11‑27 at the Hill, author of “Think and Grow Rich,” ‘Scandals,’ NV ••Auditions will be held by appt. only Grove Theatre in Upland, CA. and his life’s work. Kevin Tindell, dir./ ••Scandals Productions is casting Nov. 11‑13, 1‑4 p.m. at the Asylum Lab, ••Seeking—All Roles Open: 18+. prod.; Lauren LoGrasso, co‑prod./extras “Scandals,” a feature length independ 1078 Lillian Way, L.A. ••Auditions will be held Nov. 3, 11 a.m.‑3 casting; Craig Campobasso, casting dir. ent to be filmed in HD 24p which the ••To schedule an appt., send pix & résu p.m. at 276 E. Ninth St., Upland. ••Shoots Nov. 10 in SoCal. producer describes as “a tale of love, més to Seat of Your Pants Productions, ••Prepare 16 bars of a pop or rock song ••Seeking—Males (5‑7): 40‑65, extras. lies, and ambition.” Erika Cowell, Inc., PO Box 10568, Bakersfield, CA (no traditional Broadway tunes) that ••Email pix & résumés to laure co‑prod. 93389, or email seatofyourpants@gmail. shows vocal range. Bring pix & résumés. 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Costa Mesa). USC, ‘The Good Priest’ ••Seeking—Kids: boys and girls, in Viral Commercial ••Seeking—Katie: very attractive young ••Thomas Evans (prod.) is casting “The fant‑17, all ethnicities, previous expe ••Summer’s Hero Films is casting a com woman, could believably seduce James Good Priest” a short for University of rience and professional headshots mercial for the purpose of pitching a easily, preferably darker hair, such as Southern California which tells the story required. Adults: male and female, film production company via YouTube. black, brunette, or red. Angela: average of an elderly Catholic priest who catches 40+, all ethnicities with strong come Summer Shoucair, prod.; Jake Lloyd, dir. Film to above average looking young woman, his replacement engaged in inapropri‑ dy skills. Precision Stunt Drivers: ••Shoots Nov. 11 in L.A. preferably blonde. James: young male, ate behavior with an altar boy. Robert male and female, 40+, all ethnicities, ••Seeking—Arab Male. French Female. looks like he could be a future movie Corna, dir.; Cooper Lewis, DP. with résumés. Stunt People: male and Persian Female. Note: All roles are 21‑45; star. Scott: young male, James’ sidekick. ••Shoots Nov. 10‑11 and Nov. 17‑18 at or female, 40+, all ethnicities, with résu‑ must have an accent from the country of Note: All roles are 18‑29. near the USC campus. més. Professional Dancers: male and origin and a great smile. ••Also seeking crew—Audio and ••Seeking—Father Tony: male, 65‑75, female, 40+, all ethnicities. Note: Not ••To submit, email pix to summer

T Lighting Assistants: to help with set large build, caring but tough, be‑ accepting talent between 18‑39 at [email protected]. V & & V up and breakdown. loved by his parish but forced into this time. For adult applicants an ••Audition info will be provided ••Email pix & résumés to knor an early retirement, heavy New York IMDB star rating of 50,000 or less upon invitation. v

ideo [email protected]. accent a plus. Father Edward: male, is preferred. All talent must be lo‑ ••No pay, but copy provided. ••No pay, but copy, credit, and meals 40‑50, good‑looking and well‑kept, per‑ cated in the greater L.A. area. provided. fect gentleman with a dark side. Ignacio: ••To submit, email pix & résumés to male, 14‑15, innocent altar boy. Stella: fe‑ [email protected]. SMC, ‘500 Days of Summer’ male, 65‑80, leader of the church women’s ••Agency receives ten percent com M Scene club, never misses a mass. Extras: males mission for union project earnings and ultimedia MUSIC VIDEOS ••Chucky Chan (dir.) is casting a scene and females, all ages and ethnicities, 15‑20 percent commission for nonun from “500 Days of Summer,” for Santa churchgoers. ion projects. Salary and union sta‑ ‘Blame’ Monica College. Director states: “This ••Email pix & résumés to falrapax@ tus vary depending on the project. ••Lost & Found Pictures is casting is a recreation of the bench scene from gmail.com. “Blame,” a narrative music video in the movie ‘500 Days of Summer.’ This is ••No pay. Copy, credit, and meals volving a couple preparing for one last a final conversation between Summer provided. SAG Student Film trip to reconcile their relationship. and Tina (Tom in the original movie). Agreement. Samir Desai, prod.; Van Ditthavong, dir. commercial And this is the first time they meet after MULTIMEDIA & ONLINE ••Shoot starts early December in the Summer married a man. Tina is still lov‑ greater LA area. ing Summer, yet Summer thinks that ‘Best Buds’ ••Seeking—Male: 20‑35, any ethnicity, they are not the right one for each other. ••West 10 Productions is casting 10 epi rugged and worn. Female: 20‑35, any However, Tina believes the only prob UNION/NON TV & VIDEO sodes of “Best Buds,” a 1080p HD web ethnicity, opinionated and confident. lem between them is just because she is series. David Hoofnagle and Ben Deeb, ••Auditions will be held by appt. only not a man. So, she shows Summer that MOD Media Professional Talent prods. early November. she has changed the genders for her.” ••Pacific Northwest‑based MOD Media ••Shoot start is TBD in L.A. ••To schedule an audition appt, email ••Shoots Nov. 7 at Santa Monica College. Professional Talent Agency, a registered ••Seeking—Mike: late 20s, smart, pix, résumés, and links to reels or web‑ ••Seeking—Females: 18‑29, Caucasian. SAG/AFTRA franchised agency, is seek‑ practical, worrier but can still let sites to [email protected]. ••Email pix & résumés to doublewai3@ ing new talent for ongoing union and loose, straight man, co‑owns marijua ••For more info and to view a recent mu hotmail.com. nonunion paying projects. Marcia Bell, na collective; LEAD. Tommy: late 20s, sic video, visit www.lfpictures.com/ ••No pay. owner. goofy, imaginative, always high, idiot blog/?p=687 or www.lfpictures.com. savant, scatterbrained, quixotic, but ••No pay, but copy, credit, and free head a botany genius, co‑owns marijua shot session provided. na collective; LEAD. Jenny: mid‑20s, comfortable in her own skin, rolls with the punches, bakes edibles at marijua na collective, love interest. Travis: 20s‑30s, overly laid‑back, med school COMMERCIALS & grad who wants an easy job, some what sardonic, works at marijuana INDUSTRIALS HOW TO GET CAST IN VOICE-OVER collective recommending weed. Dan: mid‑30s, functional stoner, would br E‑Commerce Commercial ing a toddler into a dispensary, regular ••Social media e‑commerce company at marijuana collective. Powerdogg: Carrotmob is casting a branding com mid‑20s, African‑American, threaten mercial intended to empower the com‑ CASTING DIRECTOR ing gang member, inexplicably wields munity. Steven Wasserman, dir. a katana. Sam: early 20s, stereotypical ••Shoots Nov. 2nd in Torrance, CA. stoner, wears the same dirty poncho. ••Seeking—Young Hipster: male or female, KATE McCLANAGHAN Middle‑Aged Man: 40s‑50s, health 18+, all ethnicities, interested in sustain‑ The Oprah Winfrey Network, inspector, easily frustrated. Harvey: ability but clueless how to act. Young Sprint, Honda, Chevy, McDonalds, 30s, marijuana collective member, Mother: female, 18+, all ethnicities, ridiculous conspiracy theorist. pressed for time and feels like no one is Six Flags, Bally Total Fitness, Bess: 20s‑30s, marijuana collective listening, worried about her children’s JC Penny, Sears, Best Buy, Remy member, militant feminist. Josh: future. Minimum‑Wage Employee: Martin, Walmart, CVS Pharmacy 20s, marijuana collective member, male or female, 18‑50, all ethnicities, just wants to get high. Anne: service or retail industry individual and Kellogg’s. 20s‑30s, organic farm‑loving who is powerless and wants things to hippie chick. Jake: 30s‑40s, loan change. Young Entrepreneur: male www.ccindustryseminars.com inspector, seems professional but or female, 18+, all ethnicities, socially is actually kind of a dick. Margaret: conscious, will wear fleece. Professor: 50s, somewhat frazzled, smokes a lot, male or female, late 30s‑early 40s, TH $ shares too much about her sex life. progressive. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14 • 7:30PM • 25 Neil: early 30s, sweaty drugged‑out ••To submit, email pix, résumés, and bong salesman. Barry: 40s, old‑school demos to labigtimecommercial@gmail. Attend a seminar based on and including the book The surfer, used to own an organic com. Problems of Work: Scientology Applied to the Workaday marijuana dispensary. Ralph: 60s, ••For more info, visit www.carrotmob.org. • World by New York Times best-selling author L. Ron Hubbard. businessman and father, stern and •No pay, but copy, meals, and travel uptight. provided. • Get the tools you need to start making a living as an actor. •Email pix & résumés to dave@west 10productions.com and benjamin. Visit backstage.com/casting [email protected]. for full character breakdowns, script Church of Scientology RSVP with Jenni Fairchild ••Some pay, copy, credit, and meals • sides and more casting notices Celebrity Centre International at (310) 817-9631 or provided. SAG New Media Agreement. 5930 Franklin Ave, Hollywood [email protected]

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Prerecorded accompaniment tracks or Actors: must have excellent timing and Rathburn, prod.; Trini Garza, creative lack of professionalism, saying or doing a cappella auditions are not allowed. Be ability to act, sing, harmonize, and dance dir. the wrong things, or just not understand prepared to learn a movement combina‑ (move well), example types are Nathan ••Performances are ongoing throughout ing how the audition process works are tion. Bring pix and résumés. Lane, Ernie Sabella, and Martin Short. California and the U.S. some of the ways actors talk themselves

Stage ••For more info, visit www.disneyaudi Female Dancers: advance technique in ••Seeking—Singers: male and female, out of the job…literally. This intensive tions.com. jazz and ballet, height 5’8”‑5’11”, beauti‑ 18‑40, all ethnicities, singers that dance workshop will allow the actor to actively ••Competitive salary, roundtrip airfare, ful body, confident presence, outgoing encouraged. Dancers: male and female, participate in exercises and discussions individual housing with paid utilities, personality. 18‑40, all ethnicities, all dance styles, designed to dissect the audition process. shuttle service to and from work, medi‑ ••Note: All singers must be 21+ and have dancers that sing encouraged. A questionnaire provided ahead of time cal and dental coverage, paid vacations Broadway and or national tour credits. ••Auditions will be held Nov. 8, 11 a.m. for will allow the actor to really discover, and sick days, and a daily living allow‑ ••Open call auditions will be held Dec. 2 at dancers, 1 p.m. for singers, (sign in be‑ among other things, how they are per‑ ance provided. 3:30 p.m. (for female dancers; sign gins at 10 a.m.), at Madilyn Clark Studios, ceived vs. how they perceive themselves, in at 2:30 p.m.) and by appointment Studios A and B, 10852 Burbank Blvd, what their strengths and weaknesses only (for all other roles) at STILETTO Hollywood. Singers should bring sheet are, and what issues they have that derail Entertainment, 5200 W. 83rd St., Studio music in the correct key and be prepared them during their auditions. Sides will be G, Los Angeles, CA. For an appt., call (310) to dance. Dancers should come prepared provided that will be used in a real world CRUISE LINES 957‑5757, ext. 209. to learn and perform a routine. audition during the workshop. The work‑ ••If you cannot attend the auditions, send ••For more info, visit www.liuproduc shop will provide an intimate, creative, Cruise Ship Print Ads, Europe pix & résumés and videos to tions.com. nurturing environment where each ac‑ ••Blaze PR is casting for print ads for a “Specialty Show” Casting, STILETTO ••Professional pay. tor will receive the individual attention cruise ship company. Matt Kovacs, exec. Entertainment, 8295 S. La Cienega Blvd., needed to have the most success. Pilot vice president. Inglewood, CA 90301. For more info, visit season is fast approaching, come and get ••Shoots mid‑ to late November in Europe. www.StilettoEntertainment.com. ready to kick ass!” ••Seeking—Male 1: 60, gray/graying ••Employment benefits: eight‑month ••The workshop will be broken into three hair, conventionally attractive, fit. contracts; officer status with room COMPETITIONS parts. Part One ‑ Preparation, to include: Female 1: 60, gray/graying hair, con and board provided aboard newly how to answer the annoying, terrifying ventionally attractive, fit. Male 2: renovated vessels; competitive sal‑ CD Carrie Audino, Consultation question, “Tell me a little something 50, salt and pepper hair, convention‑ ary; medical benefits; and worldwide Contest about yourself”?; how to handle yourself ally attractive, fit. Female 2: 50, salt itineraries as well as paid rehearsals ••MyTeeVee is seeking participants for in a professional manner; what to expect and pepper hair, conventionally attrac‑ with transportation provided. an online contest. Producers state: when you arrive at the office; how to use tive, fit. Female 3: late 20s, blonde/Nordic “MyTeeVee is offering a chance to re your nerves to your advantage; how to looking, conventionally attractive, fit. ceive a one‑on‑one consultation with eliminate the stress of being unprepared; Note: Must be available for international Emmy Award‑winning casting direc and an in‑depth review of your current travel in November; must have valid U.S. tor of ‘Mad Men,’ Carrie Audino.” headshot & resume. Part Two ‑ Percep passport. REALITY TV & Kevin Allen Jackson, president; Andres tion, to include: knowing how you per‑ ••Email pix & résumés to info@blazepr. Faucher, coord. ceive yourself; finding out how others com. No phone calls. DOCUMENTARY ••Semi‑finalist voting runs Nov. perceive you; identifying what roles ••Some pay, plus meals, travel, and lodg 26‑Dec. 9. Finalist voting runs Dec. you would be considered for today; ing provided. ‘MasterChef’ 15, 2012‑Jan. 4, 2013. Winners will identifying the right audition ma ••FOX is casting its fourth season of be announced Jan. 5, 2013. terial for you; learning the right ques ‘Specialty Show,’ STILETTO “MasterChef.” Natalie Silverman, casting. ••Seeking—Actors: males and females, tions to ask; examples of what not to do Entertainment ••Shoots January‑April 2013 for nine 18‑66+, any ethnicity, all types, located when you enter the audition room; and ••STILETTO Entertainment is casting weeks. throughout the U.S. Note: Participants how to create and maintain a dynamic “Specialty Show” (a new concept in ship‑ ••Seeking—Amateur Cooks: male and fe must sign‑up as a member of MyTeeVee presence. Part Three ‑ Audition, to in‑ board entertainment aboard Holland male, 18+, all ethnicities and back‑ to submit. clude: a real world one‑on‑one audition; America Line) and various other proj‑ grounds, talented, main source of in‑ ••Submit a webcam or smartphone a callback audition with re‑directs and ects. The centerpiece of the new enter‑ come cannot come from preparing or video of yourself performing a problem solving; a Q&A that will include tainment lineup is a musical repertory cooking fresh food in a professional short monologue Nov. 5‑25 via insightful anecdotes from Dan’s 25 years company, showcasing singers from two environment, open to contestants www.myteevee.tv/contests/ in the trenches. Dan Shaner, casting dir. distinct vocal styles (one operetta/le‑ with any type of cooking style from webcam‑monologue‑carrie‑audino. ••Session will be held by registration only, gitimate musical theatre and the other desserts to hefty main courses to fine ••Submissions will be viewed and voted Nov. 17, 10 a.m.‑5 p.m. at 7817 Melrose Broadway/contemporary pop), as well as French cuisine to burgers. Note: Must be on by members of the MyTeeVee web‑ Ave. (upstairs), L.A. On the north side of dancers and a musical comedy character a citizen or legal permanent resident of site. The 25 submissions with the most the street, one and a half blocks east of actor. Various combinations of perform‑ the U.S. votes will be deemed “semi‑finalists” Fairfax between Orange and Ogden. ers appear each night: from two classical ••Auditions will be held Nov. 3, 10 a.m.‑6 and will be viewed by a panel of industry ••Seeking—Participants. singers backed by a 14‑piece orchestra, p.m. at Le Cordon Bleu, 6370 Sunset professionals. The panel will select 10 ••To register, visit https://www.paypal. to a four‑man pop/rock doo‑wop group Blvd., Hollywood. Bring a prepared food finalists, from which MyTeeVee mem‑ com/cgi‑bin/ on a street corner, to a singing host and dish to be presented on one plate, prefer‑ bers will vote to select the top three. webscr?cmd=_s‑xclick&hosted_button_ his guests in a fictitious Vegas night ably your signature dish. Must provide ••Some pay provided for top three fi id=8DYUYANFM359L. club, to an ensemble for the ultimate your own serving plate and utensils in‑ nalists. Finalist with most votes also ••$149 workshop fee required. Variety Broadway tribute. James Nadeau & Jodie cluding knives, forks, spoons, etc. You receives a one‑on‑one Skype consulta Stinebaugh, casting dirs. will only be given a few minutes to plate tion with Emmy Award‑winning casting ••Eight‑month contracts begin on board your dish and you will not have access director, Carrie Audino. ship after rehearsals in Los Angeles, CA. to a kitchen to cook or warm your food, ••Seeking—Male Legit Opera Singer: tenor so prepare accordingly. Audition clothes Northern range, low B to high B flat, must be able with logos, photos, artwork, celebrity, to sing tight harmonies, 5’10”‑6’2”, band, or product brand name, will not be jacket sizes 38R‑42L. Male Broadway/ allowed. GROUPS & R eality Contemporary Pop Singer: bari‑tenor ••For more info and to pre‑register, visit California range, solid G and developed falsetto, www.masterchefcasting.com. WORKSHOPS 5’10”‑6’2”, jacket sizes 38R‑42L. Second ••Winning chef receives $250,000, a cook Male Broadway/Contemporary Pop book, and the title of MasterChef. Audition Tools: A Workshop Singer: bari‑tenor range, solid A flat and ••Bridge the Gap Actor Workshops is seek developed falsetto, dancing skills a plus, ing participants for “Audition Tools: A 5’7”‑6’2”, jacket sizes 38R‑42L. Female Workshop,” a one‑day intensive taught NONUNION STAGE Legit Opera Singer: soprano range, by casting director Dan Shaner. Casting low A to high B flat, with a strong belt/ director’s statement: “As a casting di‑ DPTC 2013 Season G TRADESHOWS & EVENTS

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s Broadway/Contemporary Pop Singers: Corporate Entertainment, film and television, I’ve seen actors take is casting its 2013 season, to include versatile voices with strong Broadway/ Singers & Dancers themselves out of the running for the “After Ashley” (perf. Jan. 25‑Feb. 17, Pop belt/mix to F, 5’6”‑5’9”, dress sizes ••Live it Up Productions is casting corpo job before they even start their audition. 2013), “Les Liaisons Dangereuses” 6‑10. Male Musical Comedy Character rate and high‑profile events. Tiffany Behavior, nerves, lack of preparation, (perf. Apr. 19‑May 12, 2013), “Becky’s

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New Car” (perf. July 12‑Aug. 4, 2013), Heart,” a DV drama short about “And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little” a couple finding truth and (perf. Aug. 30‑Sept. 22, 2013), and “Rich honesty in love and life. A. Ji, and Famous” (perf. Oct. 11‑Nov. 3, coord.

2013). Meredith Hagedorn, artistic dir. •• Shoot start is TBD in SoCal. Stage ••Playing at the theater in Redwood • ••Seeking—Alex: male, late City, CA. 20s‑early 30s, any ethnicity, ••Seeking—Males and Females, 18+, wealthy young playboy type, all ethnicities. yet with decency and a ••Auditions will be held by appt. good heart, mature and only Nov. 17, 10 a.m.‑5 p.m. at well‑mannered, LEAD.

the theater, 2120 Broadway St., Linda: female, early 20s, acal M

Redwood City. waitress, preferably blonde u • s •To schedule an audition appt., email or black hair, medium height i pix & résumés to soliaj.martinezsm@ and weight, no taller than 5’5”, gmail.com. funny, supporting. Simone: s ••For more info and complete break late 20s, any ethnicity, total down, visit www.dragonproductions. playboy, no values, no passion, net. just lust, supporting. ••Stipend provided. ••Auditions will be held by appt. only Nov. 8 in L.A. Film ‘Sherlock Holmes: The Final •• For consideration, email pix & Adventure’ résumés to jvpempire00@ ••The Douglas Morrisson Theatre is cast gmail.com and state which the ing “Sherlock Holmes: The Final role you are interested in. No Adventure.” Kendall Tieck, dir. follow‑up emails. ••Rehearsals begin Dec. 17. Perfor •• Some pay, copy, credit, and mances run Feb. 14‑March 2013 at the meals provided. theatre in Hayward, CA. ••Seeking—Males (6): 20‑60. Female (2): 20‑50. ••Auditions will be held by appt. only Nov. 17, 2‑6 p.m. & Nov. 18, 6‑9 p.m. CETITIONSOMP ••Prepare a two‑minute monologue; dialect encouraged. CD Carrie Audino, kids ••To schedule an audition, submit Consultation Contest pix & résumés via Backstage. ••MyTeeVee is seeking ••Callbacks will be held Nov. 26. participants for an online ••Stipend provided. contest. Producers state: “MyTeeVee is offering a chance to receive a one‑on‑one backstage.com/kids consultation with Emmy Award‑winning casting director NONUNIONSI MU CALS of ‘Mad Men,’ Carrie Audino.” Kevin Allen Jackson, ‘Legally Blonde’ president; Andres Faucher, ••Carmel’s Pacific Repertory coord. Theatre is casting “Legally Blonde,” •• Semi‑finalist voting runs the musical. Stephen Moorer, found‑ Nov. 26‑Dec. 9. Finalist voting er/exec. dir. runs Dec. 15, 2012‑Jan. 4, 2013. ••Performance dates are TBD in 2013 at Winners will be announced Jan. the theater in Carmel. 5, 2013. ••Seeking—Adults: LEADS. High School ••Seeking—Actors: males and fe are and College Students: featured. Note: males, 18‑66+, any ethnicity, All roles are males and females, all all types, located throughout ages, any ethnicity, and require singing the U.S. Note: Participants and dancing. must sign‑up as a member of ••Auditions will be held Nov. 11, 10 MyTeeVee to submit. a.m.‑5 p.m. (12:30‑3:30 p.m. break) ••Submit a webcam or smart at the Golden Bough Theatre, Monte phone video of yourself per‑ Verde St. (bet. 8th & 9th Aves.), forming a short monologue Nov. Carmel‑by‑the‑Sea. 5‑25 via www.myteevee.tv/con‑ ••Prepare a modern monologue and one tests/webcam‑monologue‑car‑ alright song (three minutes total for both). rie‑audino. •• Email pix & résumés to contact@ ••Submissions will be viewed pacrep.org. and voted on by members •• For more info, visit www.pacrep.org/ of the MyTeeVee website. auditions. The 25 submissions with the •• No pay. most votes will be deemed “semi‑finalists” and will be viewed by a panel of industry professionals. The panel will select 10 final NONUNIONM FIL ists, from which MyTeeVee members will vote to select the ‘Change of Heart’ top three. the new backstage. online and on newsstands. •• JVP Empire is casting “Change of •• Some pay provided for top g G

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▶▶ “Kong: A Goddamn Reviews Thirty-Foot Gorilla” “Now terrorizing audiences with uncontrollable laughter and audible guffaws, Adam Hahn’s parody is so delightfully bare-bones that it makes ‘Silence! The Musical’ look like ‘Les Miz.’ ” —Travis Michael Holder on “Kong: A Goddamn Thirty-Foot Gorilla” (SkyPilot Theatre Co.), backstage.com

PLAY N.Y. Bad Jews

By Erik Haagensen here is a ferocious whirlwind roaring through Roundabout Theatre Company’s Black Box Theatre, and its name is Daphna Feygenbaum, T a senior at Vassar College who’s dead serious about all things Jewish. Embodied by a symphonic Tracee Chimo in “Bad Jews,” Joshua Harmon’s strikingly perceptive comedy with claws, Daphna is one of the most memorable characters to come down the pike in some time. Harmon’s biting script, which unfolds in 100 minutes of real time under Daniel Aukin’s unerring direction, marks him as a new theatrical voice to be reckoned with. Tracee Chimo and Michael Zegen in “Bad Jews” Daphna is crashing at the Riverside Drive apartment of her cousin Jonah, having come to town for the funeral of their beloved grandfather, known as Poppy. About to arrive, also to exposes Daphna’s every raw nerve and insecurity with sleep there, are Jonah’s older brother, Liam, and his girlfriend unsparing insight yet also conveys the young woman’s Melody. They missed the services because they were on an tenderness and even sweetness, creating one great Aspen, Colo., vacation and Liam and satisfyingly human bundle of contradictions. Chimo is a wonder dropped his iPhone while on the Michael Zegen’s Liam is all pursed lips and icy attitude, as Daphna, ski lift, ostensibly causing him to melting convincingly in his love for Melody and downright whether flinging get the news of Poppy’s death too scary in his rage at Daphna. Both Zegen and Chimo handle her wild tangle of late to make it back in time. Daphna Harmon’s ranting run-on monologues, as nasty as they curly hair about has plenty of attitude about Liam’s are funny, with superb timing. The dim but kind Melody with abandon absence and his lack of interest skirts stereotype, but Molly Ranson gives her an intrigu- Critic’s Score

k as Daphna goes in his Jewishness, embodied she ing strength and an innate decency that complicate the A- ruthlessly on believes by his shiksa squeeze. character. Ranson’s Melody is also quite funny clinging PRODUCED BY in P ol

b the attack or Highly intelligent and articulate to her smartphone for dear life as she tries to ignore all Roundabout Theatre o

R becoming quiet but lacking a sense of humor, Liam that’s raging around her. As Jonah, Philip Ettinger gets to Company and still while loathes Daphna. An epic battle en- spend lots of his time chewing his fingernails and bottling sizing up an sues over who deserves custody of up his emotions as Jonah tries desperately to stay out of CAST BY opponent prior Poppy’s chai, a small gold image of the crossfire. The character’s passivity could cause him to Carrie Gardner to battle. two Hebrew letters that he always fade into the background, but Ettinger impressively keeps wore on a chain around his neck. him active and involved in a touching performance. SCHEDULE It has religious significance but is also much more than that. “Bad Jews” is not without flaws. It starts to run in Oct. 30–Dec. 16 Chimo is a wonder as Daphna, whether flinging her place just before Melody switches things up by assert- wild tangle of curly hair about with abandon as Daphna ing herself, and the ending is too predictable. Ultimately, LOCATION goes ruthlessly on the attack or becoming quiet and though, it’s a stunningly knowing work that sent me Black Box Theatre

“Bad Jews”: Joan Marcus; “Kong”: still while sizing up an opponent prior to battle. Chimo out of the theater on a cloud of pure exhilaration.

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to the New York stage. Despite being asked to play the unnamed woman at a rather unvaried, muted pitch, Allen exudes a vibrant stage presence that commands attention, even during long stretches observing scenes or repeatedly staring out a window. Allen Fosse eschews is particularly good with a climactic naturalism in speech describing the rescue search, favor of what he delivering it with mounting urgency. calls a “poetical The consistently fine Samantha reflection of the Soule is a credible past version of Allen’s basics of life,” character, full of a quirky energy and but his language adept at expressing the niggling anxiety is plainspoken Karen Allen in “A Summer Day” that is unaccountably getting under and repetitive the younger woman’s skin. Handsome enough to at times McCaleb Burnett simultaneously con- skirt banality. PLAY N.Y. what he calls a “poetical reflection of the veys the husband’s love for his wife and basics of life.” He makes liberal use of an inner uneasiness, perhaps despair, silences, pauses, breaks, and the like, but that is complicating that love. As the A Summer Day the language containing them is plain- younger friend, Maren Bush offers a By Erik Haagensen spoken and repetitive enough to at times charming, coltish girlishness that in skirt banality. “A Summer Day” exam- Pamela Shaw’s older friend has ma- ccording to the London news- ines the overwhelming effect of loss. In tured into a warm serenity. Carlo Albán eller ook H paper The Independent, as of summer, a middle-aged woman relives provides some welcome comic relief as C

May 2011 Jon Fosse was the most the autumn day many years ago when the younger friend’s husband, impatient in m A performed European playwright her husband disappeared during a rain- to be gone at first, then a reluctant but alive, with 900 productions in more storm while fishing from a rowboat on compassionate source of support. Critic’s Score

than 40 languages, outpacing such the fjord bordering their isolated rural John McDermott’s clean-lined, simple C+ day”: Shaela

names as Alan Ayckbourn and Tom home. It’s never determined what hap- set surrounded by mottled metal walls PRODUCED BY ms oo

Stoppard. “My plays travel extremely pened. Fosse intersperses monologues combines with Nicole Pearce’s nuanced Rattlestick Playwrights D well,” he told the paper. “And they have in the present with dramatized scenes lights and Leah Gelpe’s artful projec- Theater tein; “Break”: Benja been well received everywhere, except from the past and brackets the play tions to create a stunning stage picture s ucier; “ L in England.” Rattlestick Playwrights with a present-day encounter between that swirls hauntingly around Allen’s CAST BY ood G Theater’s production of Fosse’s “A the woman and a female friend who big monologue. There are also some Calleri Casting erry hantel

Summer Day,” in a translation from the also visited on the day of the tragedy. effective nonverbal moments, as when G C ”:

original Norwegian by its director, Sarah This is Sunde’s fourth Fosse out- Soule’s character momentarily sees her SCHEDULE s Cameron Sunde, is my first encounter ing as director-translator, and the older self, and when Allen’s character Oct. 25–Nov. 25

with the work of this 2010 winner of the confident production illustrates how physically comforts her younger version. panada”:

International Ibsen Award. I’m not con- attuned she is to his sensibilities. The Too often, however, despite all the loving LOCATION Em vinced that it has traveled all that well. excellent six-person cast is led by film care, “A Summer Day” feels like an intel- The Cherry Lane Theatre edlich; “Sowa’ R Fosse eschews naturalism in favor of star Karen Allen in a welcome return lectualized expression of emotion. or ak ; “ H

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House for Sale The Medium Sowa’s Red Gravy How to Break ou H Critic’s Score: D Critic’s Score: A- Critic’s Score: D Critic’s Score: C Schedule Oct. 24–Nov. 18 Schedule Oct. 25–Nov. 11 Schedule Oct. 28–Nov. 18 Schedule Oct. 18–Nov. 4 ont; “42nd Street”:

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Bottom Line Jonathan Franzen’s Deane Little Theater Bottom Line Lonette McKee gives a Bottom Line In Aaron Jafferis’ L insightful essay on the state of America Bottom Line A spooky operatic treat disappointing performance in Diane hip-hop love story, moments of and selling his late mother’s home makes just in time for Halloween, this highly Richards’ frustratingly chaotic and plot- standout choreography and some

an uneasy transition from the page to accessible chamber opera by Gian Carlo challenged look at a 110-year-old Harlem- good performances help balance er”: Sandra

the stage in this gimmicky production. Menotti is guaranteed to excite anyone based witch who lives in quantum time. the often-syrupy dialogue but can’t mm

with a bent for musicalized melodrama. rescue the moralistic script. “Su “Build”: Michael

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Valley squalor, too fixated or damaged (or both) to receive any help. Sadoski, clad in a ratty bathrobe, a dirty beard, his neck perpetually craned ostrichlike to the left, breaks the character out of potential ultra-nerd stereotyping but just barely. We can believe this is “Build,” the a guy who was seriously quirky even Edgerton before the roof fell in on him. Costume Foundation New designer E.B. Brooks helps complete American Play the effect, and the lighting (Daniel Award winner by Ionazzi) and sound (Vincent Olivieri) Michael Golamco, convincingly bring off Kip’s hidey-hole. poses deepish “Build” is a three-hander, but the questions in fairly less revealed about Laura Heisler’s simplistic ways. role the better. Hers is a character we encounter both on computer screen Thomas Sadoski in “Build” and in person, and Heisler negoti- ates a sweet division between the human and the virtual incarnation PLAY L.A. of Kip (Thomas Sadoski) bent on forc- (although Jane Krakowski set the bar ing his estranged partner to debug the pretty high a couple of decades back in sequel to a multibillion-dollar video Alan Ayckbourn’s “Henceforward…” Build game so that it can be sold to hungry at the Mark Taper Forum). That one eller ook H C by Evan Henerson subscribers. In this house Will discov- of Heisler’s personas is a character in ers empty soda cans, pizza boxes, and we’re supposed to root for is prob- m oom out,” Kip tells his wonders even more astonishing than lematic. Indeed, Will, Kip, and by friend and former video- the aforementioned game engine. extension Golamco seem to be relieved

day”: Shaela game compadre Will, who “Build,” the Edgerton Foundation when her story arc is concluded. Critic’s Score

ms is parsing the revelations of New American Play Award winner Confined as he is to the Geffen B oo “Z D the game engine that Kip has invented. by Michael Golamco, poses deepish Playhouse’s smaller Audrey Skirball PRODUCED BY Cities, worlds, and even universes questions in fairly simplistic ways. Kenis Theater, director Will Frears The Geffen Playhouse tein; “Break”: Benja s are expanding with every click, and There’s a moral dilemma at stake here may have been slightly hamstrung ucier; “ L ood Kip—who isn’t doing well and doesn’t (sort of) and a friendship that may be by the tech limitations of the space. CAST BY G have a lot to live for—nonetheless finds past rescue, but unless you invest in Ultimately, his production focuses its Phyllis Schuringa erry hantel

G this cyber-empire building more than the plight of the play’s third character, lens more keenly on human con- C ”: s a little bit thrilling. “Zoom out,” he the stakes aren’t particularly high. nections—built and repaired—than SCHEDULE repeats, his voice getting slightly more And the play’s final scene is a clunker. on the infinite power of possibil- Oct. 24–Nov. 18

panada”: impassioned with each instruction. Watchers of, say, “The Big Bang ity. So “Build” zooms in, not out,

Em Will (Peter Katona) gets it, but he Theory” can buy into the idea that indi- and quite frankly Will and Kip are LOCATION doesn’t. He has arrived at the Palo Alto viduals such as technological game- considerably less interesting than The Geffen Playhouse edlich; “Sowa’ R or ak ; “ home once owned by the grandmother changer Kip may be secluded in Silicon their horizon-busting dreams. H

also playing: L.A. Full reviews online. Visit backstage.com ”: Michael Von m ew Book”: Ben N egg; “Mediu s o a Brennan; “ R s ly A arol C e”: s ou 42nd Street How to Write a New Empanada for a Dream Doomsday Cabaret H Critic’s Score: A Book for the Bible Critic’s Score: B+ Critic’s Score: A Schedule Oct. 27–Nov. 11 Critic’s Score: C Schedule Oct. 27–Nov. 18 Schedule Oct. 27–Dec. 21 ont; “42nd Street”: oudert; “ Location Musical Theatre West Schedule Oct. 26–Nov. 18 Location Los Angeles Theatre Center Location The Blank Theatre m C a

L Bottom Line With bang-up singing and Location South Coast Repertory Bottom Line The jumble and Bottom Line Author-performer Michael dancing from its cast, the mother of all Bottom Line Playwright and Jesuit juxtaposition of memories in writer- Shaw Fisher’s Hollywood Fringe Festival backstage musicals—and Broadway’s priest Bill Cain’s latest play is an intimate performer Juan Francisco Villa’s true tale smash about the end of days is unique, up-

er”: Sandra salute to itself and all things musical autobiography that’s not only overlong of an unimaginable childhood catches roarious, thought-provoking, and superbly

mm theater—is lively, kinetic, and jubilant. but too self-indulgently personal and us off-guard and sometimes loses us performed, as effective a rock musical as

“Su “Build”: Michael specific to rise to the level of good theater. despite a powerful performance. anything since “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”

1101 REV.indd 37 10/30/12 3:02 PM reviews screen TV recap By Jordyn Taylor “Ben and Kate” Episode 5, “Emergency Kit”

Maddie (Maggie Elizabeth Jones) receives an invitation to a classmate’s birthday Denzel Washington in “Flight” party, which will purport- edly feature a bounce [ Screen Grab ] Nazi guard who tormented his father during the Holocaust. A meditation on house. When Maddie

revenge, forgiveness, and America, X starts enumerating the O High ‘Flight’ the English-language debut of Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino is highlighted potential dangers of said l asen/F By Tim Grierson by Penn’s fey turn as Cheyenne, a bounce house, Ben (Nat C musician hiding behind his white makeup er f “Flight” represents a It’s been a mediocre year and red lipstick. It’s a nervy, affected Faxon) becomes wor- return to form for two of its chief for animation, which makes the arrival performance, but there’s also real ried that Kate has raised architects: Denzel Washington, who of “Wreck-It Ralph” cause for sadness to it. (Penn wants you to see

delivers one of his best performances after celebration. Early in the film we meet past Cheyenne’s ridiculous surface to Maddie to be overly Kate”: Jenni d too many years in solid but conventional the disgruntled title character (voiced the bottomless regret underneath.) “This action-thrillers, and director Robert by John C. Reilly), who’s tired of playing Must Be the Place” ultimately proves Zemeckis, who is making his first live- the villain in his 1980s video game and too meandering and tonally erratic action film after a decade of iffy motion- treated like a pariah by the game’s other to fully connect, but you may end up Films; “Ben an

capture animated movies. The story inhabitants. Consequently, Ralph escapes respecting the effort, if not the execution. d n concerns Whip Whitaker (Washington), his game and goes into another in the E an alcoholic airline pilot forced to make hope of being the hero for once. Cleverly Music serves an even more a harrowing emergency landing, saving satirizing different genres and eras of crucial role in “A Late Quartet,” most of his passengers’ lives in the video games while still being user-friendly an intelligent drama that’s a sturdy process. But his heroism comes under for neophytes, “Wreck-It Ralph” mixes vehicle for several fine actors. The movie

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