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PUSSY VALLEY (Niiiiice. I see where this is going...)
Non-Union Theatre
v/t: LARK PLAY DEVELOPMENT CENTER, NYC (Theatre space TBA)
DEVELOPMENTAL WORKSHOP
NON-UNION
Pay Rate: $500 flat

Playwright: Katori XXXXX
Director: Patricia XXXXX
Casting Director: Travis XXXXX
Audition Dates: May 8, 2011; May 9, 2011
Callback Dates: May 9, 2011
1st Rehearsal: May 23, 2011
Performance (Invited): June 3, 2011 only (Only 1 performance and it's invited only?)
Location: NYC

SUBMIT ELECTRONICALLY TEL: XXX-XXX-XXXX X5070

There is nudity in this project.

NOTE: This is a developmental workshop and not a fully staged production. WE ARE LOOKING FOR POLE DANCERS WHO CAN ACT OR ACTORS WHO HAVE POLE DANCING EXPERIENCE. (Who isn't?)

PLAY SYNOPSIS: Down in the Dirty South a quartet women are working hard for their money at the Pink Pony shake joint. AUTUMN NIGHT, MERCEDES, GET 'EM GIDGET, and MISS MISSISSIPPI all have dreams of taking their cash and flying far away from their gilded cage (their "cage" is "gilded"? At a strip joint?), but the current recession is hitting the Mississippi Delta hard and a group of right wing Christians may run them out of town. What will happen to these women whose only option is to shake it to survive? Despite the town's shrinking pockets and anonymous bomb threats, these women fight to take pole dancing to another level. To them pole dancing isn't just about exotic dancing. Pole dancing is an art form, the art of seduction, the art of war...

ROLES:

[ AUTUMN NIGHT ]
going through a quarter life crisis, an elementary school teacher who wants to explore her sexuality. While a little prudish, she's desperate to prove to herself and others that she has what it takes to own the Pink Pony pole dance world.

[ MERCEDES ]
a PK, Preacher's Kid, on the verge of retiring. A fan of reading National Geographic, her intelligence is only matched by her ferocious attitude and her incredible knowledge of the pole dance game. Though she tries to lock it inside a metal box, her gentle heart, at times, explodes out. (That is a terrible metaphor. Ew.)

[ GET 'EM GIDGET ]
the white girl, a 2nd generation pole dancer, has 'love' and 'pain' tattooed across her knuckles. The top white girl in a black establishment, Gidget has no trouble running with the best of them. Even if she's reigning queen of the Pink Pony, she's still retaining her southern ol' Miss charm.

[ MISS MISSISSIPPI ]
three children and a man that beats her, pole dancing isn't a choice, it's the only choice. (I think you mean option - it's not a choice, it's the only option...) You gotta be tough as nails to do what Miss Mississippi do and she does it well. Desperate to get out of the pole dancing game and on to bigger and better things, she'll do anything.

AUDITION NOTE: AUDITIONS WILL BE HELD AT NYLA'S STUDIO OF HARLEM. PLEASE BE PREPARED TO PRESENT A 2-5 MINUTE MONOLOGUE, A 2-5 MINUTE POLE DANCE ROUTINE, AND READ AN AUDITION SIDE. WHILE THERE IS NUDITY IN THE PROJECT, NO NUDITY WILL BE REQUIRED AT THE AUDITIONS.

A 2-5 minute monologue AND pole dance routine? Yowser.

This could be fun though. Obviously the recession has driven play producers to cleverly mix blatant sexual exploitation with "art." I wish them luck.
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