Audition Dates:
- Saturday, Nov. 30 @ 1 p.m.
- Sunday, Dec. 1 @ 6 p.m.
Performance Dates:
- Thursday, Jan 30 @ 7:30 p.m.
- Friday, Jan. 31 @ 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, Feb. 1 @ 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, Feb. 2 @ 2 p.m.
Characters: Non-traditional Casting
Amanda Wingfield (age 40+): Laura and Tom’s mother. A proud, vivacious woman. She is simultaneously admirable, charming, pitiable, and laughable.
Laura Wingfield (age 30+): Laura has limited leg mobility, requiring her to wear a brace and walk with a limp. Twenty-three years old and painfully shy, she has largely withdrawn from the outside world and devotes herself to old records and her collection of glass figurines.
Tom Wingfield (age 30+): An aspiring poet, Tom works at a shoe warehouse to support the family. He is frustrated by the numbing routine of his job and escapes from it through movies, literature, and alcohol.
Jim O’Connor (age 30+): An old acquaintance of Tom’s and Laura’s. Jim was a popular athlete in high school and is now a shipping clerk at the shoe warehouse where Tom works. He has goals of professional achievement and success.
Synopsis
In The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams created a colorful cast of outcasts and escapists—characters who invent beautiful fantasy worlds in order to survive their difficult and sometimes ugly lives. Yet, despite their circumstances, they speak in beautiful, lyrical language. The Glass Menagerie unfolds as Tom Wingfield remembers his past, his mother Amanda, and sister Laura. There is no father, the only sign being an enormous portrait hangs in the Wingfield apartment.
Amanda constantly talks about gentlemen callers who would visit her when she was a young Southern belle, and she is obsessed with finding a suitor for Laura, her physically challenged, insecure daughter. Amanda has enrolled her in a business college, but Laura, self-conscious about her limp, wants nothing more than to stay home and spend time with her collection of small glass animals.
Amanda decides that Laura’s last hope for a successful life is to get married. She tells Tom to find a suitable young man for Laura. He makes plans to bring home Jim, an acquaintance from work. Laura quickly realizes that Jim is the boy whom she loved in high school—though Jim never even noticed her. After dinner, Jim and Laura are left alone in the living room, talking intimately.
Auditions for 3 Tall Women Director: Mary Brandon
In Edward Albee’s award-winning play, the main character is a frail 91-year-old woman who mentally shifts from senile dementia outbursts to vividly recalling her extraordinary life. The other two female characters are her caretaker and a young woman from her financial firm. Her adult son (a silent role) is seen in Act 2. The conversations between the three women in Act I lead to a unique twist in Act 2. In a recent 2018 revival, the play won three Tony awards on Broadway.
Saturday, December 7 @9:30-11:30 am
Sunday, December 8 @ 6:00-8:00 pm
Monday, December 9 @6:30-8:30 pm
Tuesday, December 10 @6:30-8:30 pm
A woman in her 50s–B
A woman in her 20s–C
The adult son (silent but pivotal role)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Director: Dr. Dorothea Handron
Audition Dates:
- Friday, Mar. 14, 2025 @ 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, Mar. 15, 2025 @ 10 a.m.
- Sunday, Mar. 16, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Performance Dates:
- Thursday, June 5, 2025 @ 7:30 p.m.
- Friday, June 6, 2025 @ 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, June 7, 2025 @ @ 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
- Sunday, June 8, 2025 @ 2 p.m.
- Thursday, June 12, 2025 @ 7:30 p.m.
- Friday, June 13, 2025 @ 7:30 p.m.
- Saturday, June 14, 2025 @ 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Characters: Non-traditional Casting
Maggie: Maggie’s loneliness and Brick’s refusal to show her his desire, has made her hard, nervous, and irritable. A woman constantly posing in the mirror, Maggie is a woman desperate in her sense of loneliness, who is made all the more beautiful in her envy, longing, and dispossession.
Brick: The favorite son and mourned lover. Brick embodies an almost archetypal masculinity. At the same time, the Brick before us is also an obviously broken man because of his repressed homosexual desire for his dead friend Skipper.
Big Daddy: Brick’s father. Affectionately dubbed by Maggie as an old-fashioned “Mississippi redneck,” Daddy is a loud, brash, and vulgar plantation millionaire. Though his coming death has been quickly repressed, in some sense Daddy has confronted its possibility and tries to force his son to face his own desires.
Big Mama: Brick’s mother. A bit overweight, breathless, sincere, earnest, crude, and bedecked in flashy gems, Mama is a woman embarrassingly dedicated to a man who despises her and in feeble denial of her husband’s disgust. She considers Brick her “only son.”
Mae: A mean, agitated “monster of fertility” who schemes with her husband Gooper to secure Big Daddy’s estate. Mae appears primarily responsible for the “over-showing” of familial love and devotion that she and the children stage before the grandparents.
Gooper: A successful corporate lawyer. Gooper is Daddy’s elder and less-favored son. He deeply resents his parents’ love for Brick, viciously relishes in Daddy’s illness, and rather ruthlessly plots to secure control of the estate.
Reverend Tooker: A tactless, opportunistic, and hypocritical guest at Big Daddy’s birthday party. As Williams indicates, his role is to embody the lie of conventional morality.
Doctor Baugh: The sober Baugh is Daddy’s physician. He delivers Daddy’s diagnosis to Big Mama and leaves her with a prescription of morphine.
The Children: Mae and Gooper’s children. They appear here as grotesque, demonic “no- necked monsters” who intermittently interrupt the action on-stage. Under Mae’s direction, they offer up a burlesque image of familial love and devotion.
Synopsis
In Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the dysfunctional but wealthy Pollitt family gather to celebrate aging patriarch Big Daddy’s 65th birthday, but there is more to this gathering than a family reunion– Big Daddy, unbeknown to him, is dying of cancer. He is still to decide which of his sons will inherit the estate. His options include favorite son Brick, who drinks himself into oblivion in order to forget his desire for his friend Skipper and to try to bear the desires of his determined wife, Maggie. Or Big Daddy can choose his less-favored son Gooper, his fertile wife Mae, and their “no-neck monster” children. While sensuous Maggie “the cat” tries to work her wiles to secure a future for them, Brick spirals deeper into despair, crippled by both physical pain and emotional loss. As the hot summer evening unfolds the veneer of happy family life and Southern gentility gradually slips away as unpleasant truths emerge, and greed, lies, jealousy, and suppressed sexuality threaten to reach the boiling point. One of Williams’ most famous works and his personal favorite, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a masterful portrayal of family tensions and individuals trapped in prisons of their own making.