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Director: Jill Tokac
Audition Dates: October 6 & 7, 2024
The Story: Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire, passionately pursues the elusive Daisy Buchanan. Nick Carraway, a young newcomer to Long Island, is drawn into their world of obsession, greed and danger. The breathtaking glamour and decadent excess of the Jazz Age come to the stage in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, and in Simon Levy’s adaptation, approved by the Fitzgerald Estate.
Rehearsals will begin on Monday, October 21st and will be held primarily on Monday, Wednesday evenings from 7:00-9:00 PM and Sundays from 4:00-6:00 PM. *Not all actors cast will be called to every rehearsal. Schedule may vary.
Tech week will run Sunday, January 12, 2025 – Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Performance dates include:
Thursday, January 16, 2025 @ 7:30 PM
Friday, January 17, 2025 @ 10:00 AM & 7:30 PM
Attendance is required for all tech week dates and performance dates set forth.
Stadium Theatre & Conservatory is dedicated to celebrating and cultivating a culturally diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment. We acknowledge that this process is a journey and that our commitment is essential and ongoing. Actors of all abilities, ages, ethnicities, genders, races, and sexual orientations are welcome to audition for any role that they are interested in playing.
Please be advised in order to enter the Theatre during auditions all individuals over 18 must provide a license or ID. Individuals under 18 must provide a license, school ID or parent's license. For all individuals entering the building bags will be checked by security.
Auditions will be held at the Stadium Theatre Performing Arts Centre, located at 28 Monument Square in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, on Sunday, October 6, 2024 and Monday, October 7, 2024 beginning at 6:00 pm with callbacks on Wednesday, October 9, 2024 if needed. Please register to audition no later than Friday, October 4th. Once registered, you will receive a confirmation email.
Please bring an actor resume and headshot to be submitted to the production team. All those auditioning should prepare two contrasting monologues. Both monologues should time out to 5 minutes or less. Actors 18+ are encouraged to audition.
Character Breakdown
JAY GATSBY
Ambitious and idealistic, Gatsby is the epitome of the “self-made man.” He is a reticent young millionaire who rose from humble origins in the American Midwest to a position of prominence among the Long Island elite. He hosts lavish parties that he never seems to attend and obsesses over the objects of his desire—especially his longtime love, Daisy. All of Gatsby's actions seem to be driven by that single-minded, even naïve, love. He is the protagonist of the novel, as his actions drive the plot.
DAISY BUCHANAN
Beautiful, frivolous, and rich, Daisy is a young socialite with no troubles to speak of—at least, that's how it seems on the surface. Daisy is self-absorbed, somewhat shallow, and a little vain, but she's also charming and high-spirited. She has an innate understanding of human behavior, and she comprehends the harsh truths of the world even as she hides from them. Her romantic choices seem to be the only choices she makes, but those choices represent her efforts to create the life she really wants (or can handle living). Daisy first encountered Jay Gatsby when she was a debutante and he was an officer on his way to the European front. The two shared a romantic connection, but it was brief and superficial. In the subsequent years, Daisy married the brutal but powerful Tom Buchanan. However, when Gatsby re-enters her life, she falls back in love with him. Nevertheless, their brief romantic interlude cannot overcome Daisy's sense of self-preservation and her desire for social status.
NICK CARRAWAY
Nick is a recent Yale graduate who moves to Long Island after getting a job as a bond salesman. He is relatively innocent and mild-mannered, especially when compared to the hedonistic elite among whom he lives. He is Daisy’s cousin, Tom's schoolmate, and Gatsby's new neighbor and friend. Nick is intrigued by Gatsby’s parties and eventually earns an invitation into the inner circle.
TOM BUCHANAN
Tom is the brutal, arrogant, and wealthy husband of Daisy. He is a deeply unlikeable character for reasons including his careless infidelity, possessive behavior. While we never learn exactly why Daisy married him, the novel suggests that his money and position played a significant role. Tom is the novel’s primary antagonist. Tom is openly engaged in an affair with Myrtle Wilson, but he expects his wife to be faithful and look the other way. He becomes enraged at the possibility that Daisy is having an affair with Gatsby. When he realizes that Daisy and Gatsby are in love, Tom confronts them, reveals the truth of Gatsby’s illegal activities, and separates them.
JORDAN BAKER
The ultimate party girl, Jordan is a professional golfer and the group’s resident cynic. She’s very much a woman in a man’s world, and her professional successes have been overshadowed by scandal in her personal life. Jordan, who dates Nick for most of the novel, is known to be evasive and dishonest, but she also offers a representation of the new opportunities and expanded social freedoms embraced by women in the 1920s.
MYRTLE WILSON
Myrtle is the mistress of Tom Buchanan. She engages in the affair in order to escape a dull, disappointing marriage. Her husband, George, is a serious mismatch for her: where she is vivacious and wants to explore the decade’s new freedoms, he is boring and somewhat possessive. Her death – being accidentally hit by a car driven by Daisy – sets into motion the final, tragic act of the story.
GEORGE WILSON
George is a car mechanic and the husband of Myrtle, whom he doesn’t seem to understand. George is aware that his wife is having an affair, but he doesn’t know who her partner is. When Myrtle is killed by a car, he assumes that the driver was her lover. Tom tells him that the car belongs to Gatsby.
MEYER WOLFSHEIM
Wolfsheim is Gatsby's business partner and friend. He is a gambler and has connections to organized crime. He apparently achieved notoriety for fixing the 1919 World Series.