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Auditions for YCP TheaterWorks' Arsenic and Old Lace

YCP TheaterWorks Announces Auditions for
Arsenic and Old Lace



Auditions for
the classic farcical comedy, Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph
Kesselring will be held February 24th and 25th with callbacks on the 27th at 7 pm at the Van Cortlandtville
School Theater.  The theater is located on Rt. 6, Mohegan Lake, directly
across from the Cortlandt Town Center Shopping Mall. Performances are scheduled
for early May. A cast of 12 with doubling is required. 



 The play will
be staged by experienced director and actor Richard Troiano,.  He has
directed over 26 shows, including YCP TheaterWorks’ The Glass Menagerie
and On Golden Pond. Other directing credits include Jake’s Women, The
House of Blue Leaves, A Chorus Line, Working, Lost in Yonkers, Gypsy
and
Our Town.

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 For further
information, call 845-596-1920 or visit our
website at www.YCPTW.org



 The play is
a farcical black comedy revolving around the Brewster family, descended from
the "Mayflower," but now composed of insane homicidal maniacs. The
hero Mortimer Brewster is a drama critic who must deal with his crazy, homicidal
family and local police in Brooklyn, NY, as he debates whether to go through
with his recent promise to marry the woman he loves. His family includes two
spinster aunts who have taken to murdering lonely old men by poisoning them
with a glass of home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and
"just a pinch" of cyanide; a brother who believes he is Theodore
Roosevelt and digs locks for the Panama Canal in the cellar of the Brewster
home (which then serve as graves for the aunts' victims); and a murderous
brother who has received plastic surgery performed by an alcoholic accomplice,
Dr. Einstein, to conceal his identity and now looks like horror-film actor
Boris Karloff.

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