Auditions!

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.

 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.