The Hot L Baltimore

Character Breakdown

Paul Granger III - A student, twenty. Blond, angular, and taut. His tenor voice is constrained by anxiety, he speaks and moves sporadically. Mrs. Bellotti - The of a former tenant, fifty-five. Round and thin-voiced; complains to get her way, she is a whining fighter. Neatly but not expensively dressed. A sigher. Jackie - Twenty-Four. Jeans, boots, her name written on the back of her denim jacket. Her manner, voice, and stance are those of a young stevedor. To her humiliation, she is, under the manner, both femininely vulnerable and pretty. Suzy - A prostitute, thirty. She is hopelessly romantic and hard as nails April Green - A prostitute, over thirty. A large and soft pragmatist with a mellow alto laugh and a beautiful face The Girl - A call girl, nineteen. Maddeningly curious; with a romantic enthusiasm and a youthful ebullience, which is perhaps unconsciously exaggerated for its appeal in her trade. Jamie- Jackie's brother. Pale, small, wiry. Slow, but alert. Always listening to his sister. Nineteen Millie - A retired waitress, sixty-eight, with good carriage and a lovely voice. Elegance marred by an egocentric spiritualism. Mr. Morse - Seventy, craggy, with a high, cracking voice. Morse moves slowly, with great energy and a sense of outrage Mrs. Oxenham - The day desk clerk-phone operator. Forty-five and firm; quick speaking with no commerce. Bill Lewis- The night clerk. Thirty, large featured, well built in a beefy way, a handsome but not aggressive face. He covers his difficulty in communicating his feelings for the Girl with a kind of clumsy, friendly bluster. Mr. Katz - The hotel manager. Thirty-five, balding a little but hiding it. Firm and wary and at times more than a little weary. In an inexpensive dark suit.