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HUGHIE is a short two-character play by Eugene O’Neill set in the lobby of a small hotel on a West Side street in midtown New York during the summer of 1928. The play is about a small time hustler named Erie Smith lamenting to the hotel’s new night clerk how his luck has gone bad since the death of Hughie, the new night clerk’s predecessor. O’Neill wrote HUGHIE in 1942. The play was first presented on Broadway in 1964.

SEEKING THE FOLLOWING ROLES:

A Night Clerk
(early to mid 40s): While he is in his mid-40s, he looks older and spent beyond his years. He is the night clerk of a rundown hotel. Tall, thin, face is long and narrow, greasy with perspiration, sallow, could have thinning hair. His blank eyes seem to contain no discernible expression. One would say they had even forgotten how it feels to be bored. He spends the play half-heartedly listening and sometimes not at all to Erie. Most of the time he is lost in his own silent thoughts and desires; it is a lonely, boring life. While he does not necessarily need to be tall and thin, this is a true character man.

Erie Smith
(late 40s to late 50s): CAST – RICHARD SCHIFF. SEEKING UNDERSTUDY ONLY: A Broadway sport and a wise guy; the type of small fry gambler and horse player, living hand to mouth on the fringe of the rackets. While he would never admit to being lonely, he covers with a constant stream of conversation. There is something funny about how he perceives himself. There is a sentimental softness which does not seem to belong in hard-boiled picture. NOTE: THE ACTOR CAST WILL UNDERSTUDY BOTH ‘ERIE SMITH’ AND ‘A NIGHT CLERK’.