Casting Call: 'Boeing Boeing'

Please close your snack trays and bring your seat backs to an upright position: Somerset Valley Players' auditions for "Boeing Boeing," high-flying farce of the swinging '60s, will begin tomorrow.

It’s the 1960s, and swinging bachelor Bernard couldn't be happier, with a flat in Paris and three gorgeous stewardesses all engaged to him without knowing about each other. But Bernard’s perfect life gets bumpy when his friend Robert comes to stay and a new and speedier Boeing jet throws off all of his careful planning. Soon all three stewardesses are in town simultaneously, timid Robert is forgetting which lies to tell to whom, and catastrophe looms.
Female auditionees will need to be comfortable in high-heeled shoes. All actors must be comfortable with physical comedy.

Bernard (30s+)	An American architect living in Paris. Handsome, well-educated, charming, and engaged to three air hostesses whom he manages to keep in the dark about one another by managing their visits on a strict timetable. Takes boyish pleasure in the success of his devious doings, until his careful planning starts to fall apart, deflating his confidence.
Robert (30s+)	Bernard's schoolmate from back in the States; hasn't seen Bernard in many years. Shy, small-town, Midwestern, and sweet– a nerd by today's standards. Views Bernard's whirlwind juggling act of three fiancées with awe and admiration until he gets wrapped up in it himself and his anxiety spins out of control.<!--br --/>
Berthe (40s+)	Bernard's long-time live-in maid and cook. Although devoted to Bernard, she is tired of keeping up with his revolving-door lifestyle, and by play's end she has been pushed as far as she will go. Dry and fantastically sarcastic; never afraid to say what's on her mind. French accent.
Gabriella (20s-40s)	Bernard's Italian fiancée, an air hostess for Alitalia. Sultry and full of fire, she is much smarter and more self-reliant than she first appears. Italian accent.
Gretchen (20s-40s)	Bernard's German fiancée, an air hostess for Lufthansa. Has an intense Teutonic passion that can spin on a dime: one moment she can be soft and cuddly, and the next barking out orders and breaking furniture. Inspires equal amounts of lust and fear in those around her. German accent.
Gloria (20s-40s)	Bernard's American fiancée, an air hostess for TWA. The epitome of a go-getter American woman, she has a vigorous appetite for food and love. Completely adorable and supremely confident, but she might punch you if you dared call her "cute". New York accent.

Auditions will occur at 7 p.m. March 15 and at 3 p.m. March 20. Performances will be at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays June 3 through 19.

Somerset Valley Players is located at 689 Amwell Road, Hillsborough.