Season: 2012 Main Stage Season

Author: John Patrick

Director: Don Wildsmith

Genre: Comedy

Location: Colleen O. Williams Theater

Synopsis:

THE STORY PER DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE: Fed up with the pressures and demands of her acting career, the famous Myra Marlowe leases a house in the tiny New England hamlet of Beaver Haven and settles down to write her autobiography. She is successful in turning aside the offers pressed on her by her long-time agent, but dealing with her nosy, omnipresent neighbors is a different matter. In an attempt to shoo them away, and gain some privacy, Myra invents a mad, homicidal sister—who is kept locked in an upstairs room, but who occasionally escapes long enough to scare off uninvited visitors. The ruse works well, at first, but complications result when the local handyman develops an affection for "Sister Sadie" (really Myra in a fright wig) and some of the more officious ladies decide it is their Christian duty to save the poor demented Sadie's soul. In desperation Myra announces that her imaginary sibling has suddenly gone off to Boston—which brings on the sheriff and the suspicion of murder! Needless to say, all is straightened out in the end, but the uproarious doings will keep audiences laughing right up to the final curtain, and then some.

Show Dates

• February 24, 2012 7:30 pm
• February 25, 2012 7:30 pm
• February 26, 2012 3:00 pm
• March 2, 2012 7:30 pm
• March 3, 2012 7:30 pm
• March 4, 2012 3:00 pm

Audition Dates

• December 11, 2011 6:00 PM
• December 12, 2011 7:00 PM

Audition Details

The audition will be a cold reading and is open to any interested actors.

Actor requirements are four women and three men, ages late 20s & up.

Call backs - if needed - will be December 15 @ 7:00 PM.

Rehearsals will begin in early January.

Please bring any conflicts you might have during January, February and early March.

Please bring a current photo or head shot to the Audition.

Roles

• Jenni Overbey as Assistant Director
• Kristi Torbert as Myra Marlowe
• Ken Greene as Tom Lamont
• Ruth Miller Hasty as Cora Gump
• Sharon Perdue as Reba Harper
• Kim Brusch as Willa Mae Wilcox
• Joel Lovinggood as Piney
• Dennis Dorsey as Sheriff

Community Service Recipient

WB Coalition for Adult & Continuing Education

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