COOKIN' WITH GUS
BY JIM BROCHU
Directed by Darin Mielke
Comedy | Audience Rating: 13+ years
AUDITIONS:
December 9 & 10, 2024 from 7 - 9 pm
Possible Callbacks December 12 at 7 pm
SYNOPSIS:
Gussie Richardson is a famous food columnist and cookbook author. Her agent comes to tell her she's been offered her own daily network television show. She wants to do it, but her husband Walter is dead set against it and Gussie discovers she has stage fright and can't open her mouth in front of a camera. Everybody tries to help her overcome it through various and hilarious ways, but just when Gussie thinks she's cured, the taping turns into a comic nightmare concluding in an all-out food fight that almost ends the
show and her marriage. Cookin' with Gus brings together four unlikely characters in a stew of hijinks and hilarity.
Performances run from February 7 - 23, 2025
Fridays, Saturdays at 7:30 pm, Sunday Matinees at 2:30 pm and Thursday, February 13 at 7:30 pm
REHEARSALS:
Rehearsals are typically three times per week on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 7-9:30 pm.
There will be a Sunday rehearsal at 2 pm on January 26.
Tech week is scheduled every day from Sunday, February 2 - Thursday, February 6, 2025.
CASTING REQUIREMENTS:
2 women, 2 men
Gussie Richardson (30s-50s) - A robust, outgoing woman
Walter Richardson (30s-50s) - A complacent teddy bear
Bernie Luskin (20+) - A fast talking, hip theatrical agent
Carmen (40s-60s) - A fun loving, tippling gypsy