The vomit and broken beer bottles littering the floor of Bogie’s Bar proved to students and residents reaching for their 15 minutes of fame that reality isn’t always glamorous.
 
Auditions for 495 Productions’ new Southern-centric reality show “Party Down South” were held in  Baton Rouge at Bogie’s Bar on Aug. 11 and the Texas Club on Aug. 13, which together drew about 100 applicants, according to Alicia Rodriguez, a casting representative for the show.
 
Josh Allouche, the show’s casting director from Doron Ofir Casting, said a network has agreed to air the show, but he couldn’t disclose which network it is.
 
While the show has interviewed nearly 300 people across the southern states including Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, Allouche said Baton Rouge and Lafayette have had the most promising candidates.
 
“There’s a self-sufficiency down here. There’s more of a connection to the real America,” Allouche said, referencing the contrast between “Party Down South” and other shows set in extraordinary locations like Los Angeles.
 
Rodriguez said the Gulf region was chosen because, like the Jersey Shore, “it’s such a small area that it’s unlike anywhere in the United voodoo.”
 
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