Catch Me If You Can by Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert - Mystery
Director: Steve Credeur
Jan. 5 – Jan. 23, 2011
Overflowing with mirth, this Broadway whodunit is exciting from beginning to end. An advertising man, who has brought his bride to the boss's mountain lodge for a honeymoon, calls in the local police to investigate her sudden disappearance. Enter a pretty young girl who insists over his protests that she is the missing wife. A priest backs up her story. A funny little man who owns a delicatessen enters and before you know it there are two murders at the isolated lodge. "The final 15 minutes will reward you as a murder mystery should."-N.Y. Times.
Dearly Departed by David Bottrell and Jessie Jones – Comedy – 5 Men, 6 Women
Director: Bob LaSalle
Mar. 2 – Mar. 20, 2011 Auditions*: Jan. 9 – 10,
7:00 PM
Not since Steel Magnolias has a more colorful and dysfunctional group of Southern eccentrics gathered below the Mason-Dixon line. When the patriarch of the Turpin family keels over dead in the first scene, the struggle to get him buried involves the whole clan, including the not-so-grieving widow who wants to put "Mean and Surly" on the tombstone. "If you were amused by the kind of bucolic mayhem of…Greater Tuna, this more ambitious trip down a rustic main street could be just your dish of cola." —NY Post. "Dearly Departed is drop dead funny." —NY Daily News.
The Dixie Swim Club by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten Comedy/Drama 5 women
Director: Mary Lou Ardrey
April 27 – May 15, 2011 Auditions*:
Mar. 6 – 7,
7:00 PM
Five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage to catch up, laugh and meddle in each other's lives. The play focuses on four of those weekends and spans a period of thirty-three years. The team captain, the wisecracking overachiever, the pampered beauty, the acerbic fatalist, and the sweet new mother share their love, laughter, and strength. The Dixie Swim Club is the story of these five unforgettable women—a hilarious and touching comedy about friendships that last forever.
See Rock City by Arlene Hutton - Comedy/Drama - 1 man, 3 women
Director: Ron Bupp
June 22 – July 10, 2011 Auditions*: May 1 – 2,
7:00 PM
This play picks up a year after the ending of her critically acclaimed Last Train to Nibroc This tender and funny sequel follows May and Raleigh through the end of World War II and introduces the characters of their two mothers-in-law. A medical condition keeps Raleigh from military service. Faced with daily rejection letters for his writing, constant criticism from his mother, and taunts of cowardice from townspeople, Raleigh fights to find meaning in his new life. When tragedy strikes the family and May loses her job to returning soldiers, she discovers she must make an unimaginable sacrifice to save her relationship with Raleigh. This tender portrayal of married life, set against the backdrop of World War II, shows the best of the human spirit and its ability to overcome any and all obstacles.
* Note on auditions: All auditions are held at the Playhouse, 96 West Dearborn Street in downtown Englewood on the announced dates (usually Sundays and Mondays at 7 p.m.) Scripts are available for perusal at the box office during normal hours (10-2 p.m. daily) but advance preparation isn't required. In most cases, the director will ask you to read from the script. Callbacks are scheduled, if necessary, at the discretion of the director.
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