MadKap Productions
Crossing Delancey

Pay: Stipend

Description:

Thirty-something Izzy Grossman lives alone on the West Side of Manhattan, has a job at a prestigious independent bookstore, plenty of friends, and a handsome local author to dream about. None of this matters to her Bubbie, a strong-minded, fiercely loving, traditional Jewish grandmother, who worries about her living alone. She decides to take matters into her own hands and along with her friend the matchmaker, set out to find a good catch for Izzy. Crossing Delancey is a charming and heartfelt story exploring the bonds of family and tradition; the culture clash of old East Side and new West Side; and the romantic benefits of a new hat. Directed by Stephen M. Genovese

CHARACTER DETAILS:
-BUBBIE (50s-70s): a feisty, sharp-witted woman who immigrated to the United States as a young girl and has lived ever since in the shrinking community of New York City known as the lower east side.

-ISABELLE (Late 20s-40s): "Izzy" Grossman, her granddaughter, a bookish dreamer.

-HANNAH (50-70s): a professional matchmaker, a wheeler-dealer, and friend of Bubbie's.

-TYLER (Late 20s-40s): a well-known writer of fiction, handsome, exceedingly charming and self-involved.

-SAM (30-40s): a pickleman and a poet, an inhabitant of the lower east side, gentle, intuitive, appealing, and very wise for his years.

Time Commitment:

Rehearsals start mid Dec - break for the Holidays and resume in January Production Dates: February 3 - February 19, 2017 Fri, Sat at 7:30, Sun at 2:00 and Wed. Mat Feb 14

Material To Prepare:

Please prepare a comedic, or serio-comedic, monologue roughly 2 minutes in length. New York/Jewish dialect welcome within monologue, or simply prepare to say a few lines with said dialect (if requested). Callbacks will feature cold readings from the script.

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