Casting Call: 'Brighton Beach Memoirs'

Somerset Valley Players will hold auditions for Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs."

Auditions will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 14 and 18 at the theater, located at 689 Amwell Road, Hillsborough, NJ.

Neil Simon's comic semi-autobiographical tale of growing up in a 1937 Brooklyn Jewish household. We find a wise-cracking adolescent boy dreaming of baseball and girls and trying to make sense of his slightly off-the-wall but well-meaning family and the world around them.

Roles are:

Kate Jerome Early to Mid 40s	Practical woman and the caretaker of the family. She holds the family together.
Eugene Jerome Mid teens	Protagonist and narrator of the story. Depression in a working class Jewish family gives him stresses and wisdom beyond those of a typical teenager.
Stanley Jerome Late teens to early 20s	Older brother of Eugene. He looks out for Eugene but feels misguided, inadequate, and under-privileged.
Jack Jerome Late 40s to early 50s	Patriarch of the entire family and everyone turns to him for the answers to all their problems.
Blanche Morton Early to Mid 40s	Widow whose husband left her with nothing. She has difficulties making decisions.
Nora Morton Mid to late teens	Typical teenager. Lives by the philosophy that she will do what she wants regardless of what her elders want her to do.
Laurie Morton Early teens	Bookish.

The show will be directed by Todd Bennington and produced by Crystal Coddingotn.

Performances will take place on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays from March 6 to March 22 .