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 States.”

Rodriguez cited the region’s customs, dialect and food as examples of its uniqueness.

Rodriguez also said the purpose of the show was “to inject some spirit and vitality back in that area” following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

“It’s aspirational to bring something to that area,” Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez said the production company was looking for Gulf southerners — people from “the Louisiana bayou, swimming in the river and growing up with alligators” — instead of southerners from Tennessee or another region.z

“We’re looking for eight outstanding personalities from the Gulf area,” Allouche said.  “We’re looking for people who know who they are.”

Allouche said he wasn’t able to divulge information on the creative content of the show, but he said he expected the final casting decisions to be made in September and for the show to air in late 2012.

Albert Bows, a 2007 LSU graduate in construction management and current bartender at Metro nightclub in New Orleans, went to the Bogie’s audition and said he was asked to audition after making an impression with his video submission.

Bows said he had originally filled out the form “as a joke” because of the ridiculous things that happen to him on a weekly basis. He said he felt his life should be a television show.

Bows said the show’s casting directors called him and asked him to make a video.

He said he compiled video clips of his daily routine which includes working at a construction site, spending time with alligators and a night out at the club.

“I just wanted to show them I’m genuine and what sets me apart from everyone else,” Bows said.

Bows said he had a “wild factor,” but he’s not trying to fit into a stereotype for the show.

Psychology senior Kristen Helmer applied at Bogie’s with a group of her friends.

Helmer said she heard the casting directors were looking for a group of energetic, close friends.

She said she and her friends had always wanted to be on a television show and applied because they’re so close-knit.

“It’s not a fake society like you see on most television shows,” Helmer said.

Jennifer Geiger, a social work graduate student, said she thinks the media falsely portray southerners.

“It’s kind of playing into the stereotype that people already know,” Geiger said.

Geiger, who’s from Houma, said she doesn’t know anyone in the area who hunts alligators.

Sociology senior Suzannah Cassanova said she thinks television shows portray the south negatively.

“‘Swamp People’ is the worst thing ever,” Cassanova said. “It makes everyone look super redneck.”

Ben Carroll, an electrical engineering graduate student, said he thinks television shows showcase the uniqueness in an area which some people may mistake as stereotyping, and he doesn’t think shows purposefully portray a bias against any group of people.

Jordan Vernon, a biology sophomore, said television exaggerates things.

“It’s TV, so it’s dramatized,” Vernon said. “The Southern drawl ­— not everyone talks like that. New Orleans isn’t all about partying and voodoo.”