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Final Auditions for  IN THE BOOM BOOM ROOM
Saturday 8/3 12-3 PM & Monday 8/25 6-8 PM
Bakersfield Community Theatre – 2400 S. CHESTER AVE., BAKERSFIELD
(BETWEEN MING & WILSON enter through parking lot on S. O Street and Wilson)

David Rabe’s Tony Award nominated surreal drama features:


CHRISSY: Mid to late 20’s to early 30’s
Vulnerable, naive, confused, abused and used. Strives for a dance career while working as
a go-go dancer. There is a child-like essence about her. She is easily led and cares more about pleasing others then herself. Chrissy’s has a good spirit and a heart of gold. She was once Daddy’s little girl.

HAROLD: Chrissy’s father.  Late 50’s to early 60’s. Uneducated. A blue collar worker, when he worked.
In and out of jail for Petty crimes. A racist and former womanizer with a bizarrely romantic nature. He is both pathetic and sympathetic.

HELEN: Early to mid 50’s. Helen is comfortable in the role of the dutiful wife. Once a shapely beauty herself, she has maintained much of her beauty and sex appeal, but there is a worn and tired quality about her. She has wasted much of her life trying to “keep her man.” Today Helen pays less attention to her looks and figure and more attention trying to enjoy the companionship of her husband Harold She is finally getting some attention now that her daughter is no longer around much to steal Harold’s heart and attention.

AL: Chrissy’s off and on boyfriend. A good looking and rough drifter, jailbird and charmer.
Jobless, mostly homeless except when he finds a woman to take care of him, which is frequently.

RALPHIE: Al’s sidekick, partner in petty crimes and second fiddle for Al’s women.
An acid head who lives in an LSD reality of his own. A colorful caricature of a character.


SUSAN: Mid 30’s to early 40’s.Dance Captain and manager of the Boom Boom Room. Attractive, fit, Self confident, strong, bitter and bisexual.

GUY: Chrissy’s flamboyantly gay downstairs neighbor, who be-friend’s Chrissy.  Colorful, talkative, narcissistic with a well camouflaged hostility. Makes his living as a sperm donor.

ERIC: Cerebral and emotionally constipated. A suited suitor, searching for answers, love
 and the meaning of life.

The Boom Boom Room Dancers: Melissa, Sally & Viki.
Early to late 20’s, attractive, sexy, enjoy dancing.  (Will work with Choreogrpaher on mid 60’s go-go dances)
They befriend Chrissy, advise her dance with her and compete with her for  the attention of the male patrons of the Boom Boom Room.

THE MAN: Disheveled, lecherous emcee of another go-go club that caters to the lowest of the low-life.