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American Buffalo

AUDITION DATES: Saturday, September 21 at 2:00 pm

AUDITION LOCATION: Biloxi Little Theatre

PRODUCTION DATES: January 31-February 2 and 7-9, 2025

DIRECTOR: James Taylor

AUDITION REQUIREMENTS: Audition process will include discussion of the play and characters, time given to study sides, and readings with multiple scene partners.

THE SHOW

This volatile drama, which starred Robert Duvall in its original production, has been revived on Broadway several times, including productions starring Al Pacino and John Leguizamo. The 2022 Broadway revival features Laurence Fishburn, Sam Rockwell and Darren Criss.

In a Chicago junk shop, three small-time crooks plot to rob a man of his coin collection, the showpiece of which is a valuable “Buffalo nickel.” These high-minded grifters fancy themselves businessmen pursuing legitimate free enterprise. But Donny, the oafish junk shop owner, Bobby, a young junkie Donny has taken under his wing, and “Teach,” a violently paranoid braggart, are merely pawns caught up in their own game of last-chance, dead-end, empty pipe dreams.

ROLES TO BE FILLED

CHARACTERS (3 M)

All races/ethnicities will be considered

DONNY (age 40-65) Owner of the junk shop, and has a degree of authority over both Bobby and Teach. Don acts as a parental figure to the young and inexperienced Bobby. Furthermore, Don seems genuinely concerned with Bobby’s health.

TEACH (age 30-45) It is clear that Teach has strong opinions and is aggressive. Teach acts with the bravado of a confident thief, when in reality he in fact has little clue of what to do. He pressures Don to leave Bob on the outside of the operation. He constantly instructs the others in the ways that “business” is conducted.

BOBBY (age 15-25) Don’s “gopher” who serves him in the dual capacities of coffee-fetcher and surrogate son. He is not as talkative nor excitable as Don or Teach, but remains faithful to Don. He is not the most Machiavellian or pragmatic.