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A sharp, smart, cynical B-Movie Star who is now a failed middle-aged actor,
Margot Harwood launches her own private casting studio to make a living
and to take revenge on the casting directors she believes ruined her career.
Margot finds an entertainment complex and moves in next door to an actors’
agent on one side and a production company on the other, and across the
hall from a sleazy entertainment lawyer’s office.
The show is shot in the waiting room and the casting room, as well as
in stairwells, washrooms, and the café down the street where the
actors go for a smoke, and occasionally in the homes of Margot and the
actors, and in their cars or on subway rides on their way to auditions.
When Margot is doing larger casting campaigns, some of the shows will
be shot in other cities such as Vancouver, London, Los Angeles, and New
York, opening up many possibilities for co-production and for bringing
actors from those regions onto the show.
There is an infinite number of possible sketches for this show: One week
Margot must cast 13 clowns for a traveling circus whose clown bus has
crashed, the next week she must cast newborn babies for a soap commercial
(where we get introduced to the frightening concept of stage mothers),
the next a host of freakazoid aliens for a sci-fi TV series, the next
super-sexy studs for a hip 'twentysomething' show, and so on...
Every actor has dozens of hilarious and painful stories relating to their
experiences auditioning. And in Canada, even the top talent is forced
to audition. Many of our "auditioning stars" will make appearances
on Casting in skits reenacting some of their own tragi-comic experiences
of auditions... and in the meantime, get revenge of their own.
Situation Comedy Concept and Outline Written by Geneviève Appleton
Bible and Pilot Script Co-Written by Grant Sauvé and Charles Johnston
©White Wave Productions, 2000
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