Accepting acting resumes prior to invitation-only auditions at the end of August. Please include headshot, name, age, clothing sizes, and contact info. Pay for cast members is $60 for full shooting days/$30 for half shooting days. Extras $20. Meals provided. Actors must be available for shooting Tuesdays and Wednesdays in September. There is also the possibility for actors of continuing with the series if we get picked up. Reply with email to rgplotner@gmail.com.
Cast List:
LEADS (4)
• Spunky Wisenheimer, male Caucasian, 8 to 10 years old. Central character. Innocent and good-natured, he’s oblivious to the havoc he creates around him.
• Tommy Wisenheimer, male Caucasian, 13 to 15 years old. Spunky’s older brother. Typical 1950’s teenager with a delusional streak of jealousy over Spunky.
• Hale Wisenheimer, male Caucasian, 35 to 45 years old. Husband to Blanche, father to Spunky and Tommy. Rugged looking film noir private detective. Somewhat dodgy. A hard drinker with an imaginary femme fatale that speaks through his left hand.
• Blanche Wisenheimer, female Caucasian, 30 to 35 years old. Homemaker wife to Hale, mother to Spunky and Tommy. An obsessive-compulsive with a cleaning disorder. The ‘straight-man’ to all the insanity that runs through the household.
FEATURED (11)
• Gay Christian Mumps: male Caucasian, 8 to 10 years old. Frail classmate and best friend to Spunky. Takes a reluctant role in Spunky’s schemes. [Note: his name has no significance to his character -- this is the 1950’s.]
• Toddler Tommy: male Caucasian, about 3 years old, flashback version of Tommy Wisenheimer
• Mamacita La Leche: Latino female, 20 to 40 years old. Very small, under 5 ft. Must be able to briefly hang upside down in a harness.
• General Richard Shrivel: male Caucasian, any ethnicity, 40 to 50 years old. Insane Army general.
• Major Mal Funkshun: male, any ethnicity, 25 to 35 years old, Army corporal with no-nonsense attitude
• Private Bidness: Male, any ethnicity, Army Private
• G-Man: male Caucasian, 35 to 45 years old. A Robert Stack clone.
• Snorgle: (puppet operator and voice over), male muppet-like character, a crazed mutant human from the nuclear test grounds.
• Bowel Baby (voice over): male, gravelly, cartoonish, 1930’s gangster voice
• Constipated Man: male Caucasian, 50 to 60 years old, pronounced European immigrant accent, balding, short and dumpy
• Constipated Wife: female Caucasian, 50 to 60 years old, pronounced European accent, homemaker
EXTRAS (5)
• Man in surgical gown: male, 30+ years old
• Rotund maid: female, 30+ years old
• Assorted townspeople
• Party clown: male, goofy looking clown
• 1950’s sci-fi robot: cardboard and tin foil cliché 1950’s robot
