LOTTY V.O., Child Female - the ghost of a little girl heard as a Voice Over.
EVELYN V.O., Female - Heard first as Voice Over. We will meet her in Act 1 Scene 2
SANDRA, Female - 20s to 30s, a stage actress.
VOICE on phone, Male - an evil demonic voice heard as voice-over.
MONSTER, Male - 20s to 40s, a stage actor.
GERALD, Male - 30s to 40s, a theatrical director, wiity, affected, arrogant, irritable, condescending.
PHIL, Male - any age 20+, long suffering theatre technician whose voice is heard from off stage.
JIM, Male - late teens to 20s, stage hand
CORWIN
HAYGOOD, Male - late 20s to early 30s, slick, rich-voiced radio
announcer from the "Golden Age" of radio must have a similar height and
build to the ACTOR in Act 2 Scene 1.
PRESTO, Male - 40s to 50s+, a stage and slight-of-hand magician, the "Amazing Kreskin" of his day.
ROGER, Male - 30+, A businessman enjoying a night "on the town".
TOM, Male - 20, A factory manager, somewhat skeptical.
EVELYN, Female - Over 30, A well-to-do, gregarious, bubbly woman, whose light airy humour masks a dark secret.
CIGARETTE GIRL - 20+, A sexy presenter and assistant on Corwin’s radio broadcast.
CHARLOTTE V.O., (appearance optional) – the ghostly voice of a little girl. (she may appear as well if desired).
P.A.,
Male – 20+, a flamboyantly effeminate and amusingly bitchy film
production assistant whose job is to coordinate the extras on a movie
shoot.
IAN, Male – 30+, Production Accountant responsible for keeping production costs on target.
JIMMY, Male - 20+, A theatre technician who is on set to help out and observe.
SET DRESSER, Female - Any age, cranky, militant anti-smoker
ACTOR
Male - 70+ but in great shape, may appear younger – this is CORWIN
HAYGOOD as an old man, so height and general physique should be similar.
WRANGLER, Male or Female - Any age
TERRY, Male – 30+, Motion picture director, a nice guy under a lot of pressure.
SCRIPT GIRL, Female – 20+, sweet and sincere, able to cry convincingly
JENNA - Female - 30+, A mature, savvy real estate agent
THOMAS FOX – 60+, The grown son of JIM the stagehand from Act 1, Scene 1. A man on a mission he knows makes him appear crazed.
MARTIN, Male - 30+, Jenna’s male friend
MERLIN BLACK aka "The Juggler", Male - a sleight of hand Magician
Minimum cast size requires only 5 Male and 2 Female with
doubling/trebling. The child role of Charlotte is optional. She need not
appear onstage, her lines can be handled by voice only whether live or
recorded. Cast is expandable up to 24 individual speaking roles.
Additional walk-ons, or extra roles (no lines) can be created by
populating scenes 1, 2, and 3 with stage, radio or movie crew working in
the background. Several of the male roles including (but not limited
to) Ian, the production accountant and the P.A. in Act 2 Sc. 1, could be
gender-flipped easily. While two of the scenes take place in the first
half of the 20th Century in what would be sterotypically
White-predominant scenarios, the Author encourages open-ethnicity
casting wherever possible.