Westport Community Theatre Announces Auditions for MOONLIGHT AND MAGNOLIAS, 7/18 & 7/18
By: Lauren Wolman Jul. 16, 2011
Auditions will be held on: Sunday, July 17 & Monday, July 18 at 7:00 PM at the Westport Community Theatre (Westport Town Hall, 110 Myrtle Avenue, Westport, CT)
The story: Based on true events. In 1939, three weeks into the shooting of Gone with the Wind, David O. Selznick has shut down production of what was the largest, most expensive movie of its day. George Cukor has been fired as director and the umpteenth draft of a script has proven to be unworkable. While fending off the film's stars, gossip columnists, and his own father-in-law, Selznick sends for famed screenwriter Ben Hecht and pulls formidable director Victor Fleming from the set of The Wizard of Oz. Selznick still has a problem: Hecht has never read the book and every day he keeps production idle, it costs Selznick fifty thousand dollars. To make matters worse, Hecht doesn't think much of the one page he did manage to read. Hecht and Fleming don't exactly hit it off and are more interested in sniping professionally and personally at each other than working on the script. Selznick locks the doors, closes the shades, and on a diet of bananas and peanuts, the three men labor over five days to fashion a screenplay that will become the blueprint for one of the most successful and beloved films of all time. Frankly, my dear, this is one funny play...a rip-roaring farce...[with] witty, pointed dialogue and hilarious situations..." -NY Daily News. Director's note: For those with Peanut allergies, the actors do consume Peanuts throughout the show. Performance Dates areSeptember 16 - October 2,2011 at 8:00 pmComments
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