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Cry It OutBy Molly Smith Metzler
Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois February 4-13, 2022 Rated R
Director: Cheryl Clark
Audition Dates:
Sunday Dec 5, 6:30 PM and Monday, Dec 6, 6:30 PM Possible call-backs Wednesday Dec 8, 6:30 PM |
Cast of Characters
Jessie (lead): mid-30s. Married to a North Shore native; moved here (from the Upper East Side) to raise her family. Educated, articulate, lovely, warm. From the Midwest and has that Midwestern ready-smile. Can bend towards anxiety, though. Doesn't like empty days on calendars, or being disliked. Works 90 hour weeks in the city as a corporate lawyer -- or did, until Allie was born. Now she's in yoga pants.
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Lina (lead): Late 20s/early 30s. From Long Beach (on South Shore of Long Island), and you can tell immediately - she is very South Shore. Acrylic nails, big hoops, fluorescent yellow sneakers, Mets trucker hat on game days, huge Italian family. Failed out of community college, has a bad mouth, blasts Kanye from her car. But she is also fantastically winning. She's fun, funny, and refreshingly genuine. Works at St. Francis Hospital.
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Mitchell (supporting): Late 30s-40s. Adrienne's husband, works in investment capital. A math nerd who is amazing with numbers, but not people. Serious, shrewd, sensitive. The kid who ate lunch in the library because he was so shy. Mitchell grew up in a tough house in a tough part of Utica and scholarshipped his way to where he is now, so grades, status and success are his currency. But becoming a father has changed him. He makes goofy faces now. He stares out windows during meetings. His sentences end in question marks.
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Adrienne (supporting): Mid-/late 30s. Mitchell's wife. Elegant, powerful, aloof, and slightly rock n roll. Has eyes that are cat-like and assessing. Beautiful. Looks like she speaks lots of languages, and does. Grew up in a penthouse on Central Park, not that she looks the part. She wears big rings, vintage leather jackets, Sally Hershberger haircuts, a bold lip. She could give you the best-ever guided tour of MoMA. Ferociously smart, she has never signed an email with an x or an o. A jewelry designer (and a very successful one).
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Lina (lead): Late 20s/early 30s. From Long Beach (on South Shore of Long Island), and you can tell immediately - she is very South Shore. Acrylic nails, big hoops, fluorescent yellow sneakers, Mets trucker hat on game days, huge Italian family. Failed out of community college, has a bad mouth, blasts Kanye from her car. But she is also fantastically winning. She's fun, funny, and refreshingly genuine. Works at St. Francis Hospital.
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Mitchell (supporting): Late 30s-40s. Adrienne's husband, works in investment capital. A math nerd who is amazing with numbers, but not people. Serious, shrewd, sensitive. The kid who ate lunch in the library because he was so shy. Mitchell grew up in a tough house in a tough part of Utica and scholarshipped his way to where he is now, so grades, status and success are his currency. But becoming a father has changed him. He makes goofy faces now. He stares out windows during meetings. His sentences end in question marks.
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Adrienne (supporting): Mid-/late 30s. Mitchell's wife. Elegant, powerful, aloof, and slightly rock n roll. Has eyes that are cat-like and assessing. Beautiful. Looks like she speaks lots of languages, and does. Grew up in a penthouse on Central Park, not that she looks the part. She wears big rings, vintage leather jackets, Sally Hershberger haircuts, a bold lip. She could give you the best-ever guided tour of MoMA. Ferociously smart, she has never signed an email with an x or an o. A jewelry designer (and a very successful one).
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Synopsis
Four months ago, Jessie was a corporate lawyer. Today, she is trying to comfort a screaming newborn. Isolated in a suburb while her commuter husband works long hours, Jessie is desperate to talk to anyone. When she spies a fellow new mom and neighbor, Lina, at the local Stop & Shop, she vaults over the cantaloupe to introduce herself. The two moms meet for coffee during naptime in the sweet spot behind their adjoining yards where both their baby monitors get reception, and a fast friendship is born. But their intimacy is punctured when a stranger asks if they would include his wife, a new mom who is having “a hard time,” in their coffee klatch. Reluctantly, the duo tries to become a trio with mixed and surprising results. Cry It Out takes an honest look at the absurdities of being home with a baby, the power of female friendship, the dilemma of going back to work, and the effect class has on parenthood in America.