CASTING
OPEN CALL ALERT!
Monday, 10/21 12PM-5PM, 6-8PM
You do not need to be AEA to audition nor will AEA actors be given priority. It is first come-first served. Please come to Boston Court to sign up in the lobby to audition. You are also welcome to come to the lobby to sign up for a later time and come back. Doors to the lobby and the sign-up sheet open at 11:00AM.
Please bring a physical headshot and resume and prepare a one-minute contemporary monologue.
People at the Open Call will include Jessica Kubzansky (BCP Artistic Director), Margaret Shigeko Starbuck (Associate Artistic Director), along with Victor Vazquez (Casting Director for Frou-Frou).
LOCATION
Boston Court Pasadena
70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA 91106
Parking is located behind the building. The parking lot will open at 10:30am. There is also 1 and 2 hour street parking surrounding Boston Court. Please enter through the front of the building into the lobby.
No email or online submissions. No phone calls. Please email questions to: audition@bostoncourt.com
FROU FROU: A MENAGERIE OF SORTS
Written by John Anthony Loffredo
Directed by Zi Alikhan
A World Premiere Play
Produced by Boston Court Pasadena
First Rehearsal: Friday Jan 17th
Tech: February 13-16, 2025
Previews: February 20-28, 2025
Opening: Saturday March 1, 2025
Closing: March 30, 2025
Note: This production has an intimacy choreographer aboard.
Location: Pasadena, CA, all rehearsals at Boston Court Pasadena
Contract: AEA Los Angeles 99-seat Theatre Agreement.
Rate of Pay: Actors are paid $18.00 per hour. There is no pension and health under this agreement. 36 hours of rehearsal maximum / one, and occasionally two days off per week. Generally a nights and weekends rehearsal schedule, Mondays off, but weekday daytime rehearsals are possible depending on cast availability.
Performance weeks after opening are some combinations of Thursdays through Mondays, with matinees possible on both Saturdays and Sundays.
SYNOPSIS
L is a stoner with social anxiety, Harold is an aspiring ballerina, and their mother is a woman from another time. Driven by archaic dreams for her children, all Mamma wants is for a man to marry L to rescue the family from financial ruin. So when a big, burly traveler turns up at their doorstep, she thinks her prayers have been answered. But it is Harold, her tutu-wearing son, who seems most attracted to this strange man, while L, her chronically online “daughter,” doesn’t seem to want him – but wants to become him. By turns raucous, poetic, touching, and dangerous, Frou-Frou: A Menagerie of Sorts riffs on Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie in this story of two queer siblings yearning to be understood.
SEEKING
Boston Court Pasadena is committed to casting diversely. Actors of all ethnicities are strongly encouraged to audition.
[MAMMA] – (mid 40’s – 60’s, female identifying, any race/ethnicity) A woman from another time. Speaks with a thick Southern drawl. There’s a pastiche to her rooted in the Mothers of Tennessee Williams’s plays– a controlling, overbearing, lonely, and fading Southern Belle.
[HAROLD] – (25-35, male-identifying, any race/ethnicity, Queer/Gay) An aspiring ballerina. Feminine and flamboyant. He’s soft, lacks traditionally masculine physical prowess. Dances, not expertly, but with comfortability. Knows how to carry a tune. Partial nudity is likely (he bares his butt to Man).
[L] – (25-35, non-binary and/or transmasculine, any race/ethnicity) A stoner with social anxiety. Small and moody. The world refers to them as female but it’s a label that has never quite fit. Over the course of the play, their internal quandaries about their identity rise to the surface causing them to embrace their masculinity.
[MAN] – Mid 30’s – Early 40s, male-identifying, any race/ethnicity. A disturbance. A raw, unrelenting expression of traditional masculinity. Has a very present life force and vitality. Note: One moment of full frontal nudity (open to discussing comfort with Actor).
Play Submissions
L.A. New Play Submissions – Open for submissions OCT 1st.
Boston Court Pasadena invites you to submit your scripts during our 2023 open submission window beginning on October 1st, 2023. Submission makes you eligible for consideration to be included in our 2024 Playwrights Group, 2024 New Play Reading Festival, and for future production consideration. The submission window will close on October 31st, 2023, at 11:59 PM.
Before submitting your play, we strongly suggest that you visit our website and research the work we do to determine if your script is an appropriate fit for our theater. CLICK HERE to find more information about our production history.
Submission Guidelines
- Playwrights must be current residents of the Greater Los Angeles area.
- Full-length scripts only (70 min. or longer).
- Plays must need no more than five actors (more roles are fine as long as they can be doubled).
- We will only accept scripts that have not previously been submitted. No rewrites.
- One submission per playwright.
- Accepting scripts only through Submittable. No snail mail or email.
- Any submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines will not be read.
What is a Boston Court Play?
We’re passionate about the heightened, the lyrical, the never-seen-before, the boundary-breaking. We’re drawn to art that excavates the depth of human existence or dances in and out of ineffable wonder. We fall for the imaginative, the impossible, the incandescent. We love the absurd. We swoon for the cerebral. We bow down to heartbreak and humor, especially when we don’t see them coming. Show us the magic of what’s real and the tangibility of what’s ethereal.
If you’re thinking about submitting a “kitchen sink” play, ask yourself: can the sink be personified? Should your unit set explode into an ocean of dreams? Will the audience come away wondering at the mysteries of humanity? If the answers are “yes,” we can’t wait to read your script.
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THEATRE VISION
Boston Court Pasadena houses and produces passionate, artist-driven theatre that challenges both artist and audience. Boston Court urges its artists to fearlessly and passionately pursue their unique voice and vision. Play selection encompasses a wide variety of genres (classics, musicals and world premieres, with a special emphasis on nurturing playwrights and new play development) which are inherently theatrical, textually rich, and visually arresting.
QUESTIONS
For any questions, please email us at literary@bostoncourtpasadena.org call_made
Music Submissions
If you’re interested in contacting us about submitting yourself, band, or composition for consideration please email at music@bostoncourtpasadena.org call_made. We can’t wait to hear it!
QUESTIONS
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