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Breakdown
2016-2017 shows, with all roles that may be on Equity contracts are listed below. All shows are produced under the Equity SPT Agreement.
STAGE KISS
by Sarah Ruhl
Director: Tim Altmeyer
1st rehearsal: Aug 12 Run: Aug 31 – Sept 25
She:
Mid 40s, a leading lady. Vulnerable, open, commanding on stage, but eccentric, with a sense of irony. Able to be in an old-fashioned stylized drama or act with effortless naturalness.
He:
Mid 40s, a leading man. Dashing, sexy, naughty, with a sense of irony, able to be in an old-fashioned stylized drama or act with effortless naturalness. A bit of a mess emotionally. The kind of man whom a mother would think Uh-Oh about if presented with dating her daughter.
Director:
40s-70s; a goofy intellectual. Takes himself seriously, but is often ridiculous
All other roles cast
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WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE: A Stage Horror Parody
by Dale Gutzman
Director: Lauren Caldwell
1st rehearsal: Sept. 23 Run: Oct. 14- Nov. 6
Based on the beloved movie. Jane Hudson is an aging child star left to care for her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche a former movie star. Stuck living together in a mansion in old Hollywood, Blanche plots to get even with Jane for the car crash that left her crippled years earlier. But Jane is desperate to keep Blanche imprisoned as she plans a new rise to fame, and tries to hide Blanche's existence from doctors, visitors and neighbors while she devises a way to get rid of her sister. As Jane slowly loses her mind, she torments her sister going to ever greater extremes. Who will prevail?
Jane Hudson: CAST
Blanche Hudson: CAST
Elvira: Any Age, the kindly housekeeper.
Edwin Flagg: 30s, a down and out musician who finds a patron and possibly more in Jane
Mother/ Mrs. Bates/ Mrs. Flagg: 30-40s, multiple roles
Dad/ Producer /Teller/Cop: Any Age, multiple roles
Little Jane / Abby: 10-13, should be able to tap dance
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THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW (Abridged)
By Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor
Director: TBA
1st rehearsal: Nov. 4 Run: Nov. 25-Dec. 18
SPT +9 Contract
Welcome to the Annual Holiday Variety Show and Christmas Pageant at St. Everybody's Non-Denominational Universalist Church, where all faiths are welcome because we'll believe anything. But there's a problem: none of the acts scheduled to perform have arrived, so three members are pressed into service to perform the entire Variety Show and Christmas Pageant by themselves.
Matt: 20s-30s. Youngest of the three, plays guitar and/or ukulele; Christmas = Presents!
Austin: 20s-40s. Loves Christmas, open and lighthearted
Reed: 20s-40s. Type A personality, trying to keep focused on the real meaning of Christmas
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
adapted by Janet Allard and Michael Bigelow Dixon from Charles Dickens
Director: TBA
1st rehearsal: TBD Run: Nov. 26-Dec. 22
SPT +9 Contract
Most actors play multiple roles.
Scrooge, CAST 50s-60s. Vicious old man.
Jacob Marley: 40s, narrator, back from the dead to guide (and torture) Scrooge
Marley’s Ghosts 1 & 2: any age, Marley’s companions, play Ghost of Xmas Past and Present and more
Bob Cratchit, 30s-40s, Hopeful middle-aged man
Mrs. Cratchit: 30s-40s, Kindly, hopeful, loving, strong
Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig: 30s, jolly, fun and funny, looking for Singers or actors who play instruments
Young Belle: 20s, in love with young Scrooge, strong and honest
Young Scrooge: 20s, torn by his love for Belle and his love of money
Children: Male and Female to play all Cratchit children, Fan, Scrooge as Boy, Belle as Girl, Dick, Turkey Kid, Want, Ignorance
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HAND TO GOD
by Robert Askins
Director: Lauren Caldwell
1st rehearsal: Dec. 13 Run: Jan. 13-Feb. 5
Jason/Tyrone:
18+. to play 17, seemingly mild-mannered and polite, retiring, inarticulate, and shy, has an alter-ego who is extremely aggressive, foul-mouthed, shameless, and highly articulate, expert puppetry skills and character voices required.
Margery:
40s-50s. to play 40, Jason’s mother, a jittery woman trying desperately to keep her family and life together after the death of her husband, has a warm, passionate nature, but all that is suppressed by her worries about her troubled son and by the day to day pressures of making a living for both of them, seems like a powder keg about to explode, and when it does, an aggressive sexuality comes flooding out.
Timmy:
18+. to play 17, a troubled kid, caught in survival mode at having to negotiate his dysfunctional family, he protects his fragility by forgoing any impulse control, probably in “special classes” because of his behavior problems, a combination of blatant assertiveness and underlying need make him at once full of sex and violence.
Jessica:
18+. to play 17, a complicated young woman, trapped in a small town with small ideas, smart, though somewhat introverted, does not suffer fools gladly, relates to outsiders like herself, supportive and kind to those who might need help, ruthlessly abrupt with those she perceives as selfish and arrogant.
Pastor Greg:
40s-50s. tries valiantly to fulfill his duties as the shepherd of his flock, seemingly supportive, underneath, however, it is clear that his altruism is fueled by needy loneliness and that he might resent that no one is ever there for him, despite it all, he has his meltdown point, and out of nowhere violence flares out.
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BECKY'S NEW CAR
by Steven Dietz
Director: TBD
1st rehearsal: Feb 3 Run: Feb. 24-March 19
Becky Foster:
40’s-50s. Works in a cubicle, LOVES her car but not sure about her life
Joe Foster:
40s-50s, Becky’s husband, a roofer, easy going, glass half full kind of guy
Chris Foster:
20s. their son, a psychology student, still living in their basement
Walter Flood:
60s. wealthy businessman, widowed and misses his wife, a bit lost
Kenni Flood:
20s, his daughter, struggles against what is expected of her which is not much
Steve:
40s-50s, Becky’s co-worker, tragically widowed and unable to move past it
Ginger:
50s. Walter’s neighbor, upper class woman, witty, sharp edged, looking for a new path
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HAMLET
by William Shakespeare
Director: Lauren Caldwell
1st rehearsal: March 24 Run: April 14-May 7
Hamlet: CAST
Claudius: 50s-60s. the King of Denmark, elected to the throne after the death of his brother, King Hamlet; Claudius has married Gertrude, his brother's widow.
Laertes: 20s-30s: escapes to France, where he has greater freedom, despite his father’s advancing age; rash, but brave, good-hearted and loyal, and finds the eventual path to good conscience; combat training a must.
Gertrude: CAST used to being queen; she is innocent of any knowledge of her husband’s murder; she is highly capable; she is a mother beneath it all; quietly smart
Ophelia: 20s. the daughter of Polonius, and Laertes's sister, who lives with her father at Elsinore; she is in love with Hamlet.
Polonius: Claudius's chief counselor, and the father of Ophelia and Laertes.
Horatio et al: 20s-30s. a good friend of Hamlet, from the university at Wittenberg, who came to Elsinore Castle to attend King Hamlet's funeral.versatile actor to play multiple roles
Rosencrantz et al: 30s a childhood friend and schoolfellow of Hamlet’s; neither a scholar nor a gentleman, between the two, Rosencrantz is the more shrewd, and prefers to do the thinking; and leads. versatile actor to play multiple roles
Guildenstern et al: 30s a childhood schoolmate and friend of Hamlet's and Rosencrantz's; he is largely in thrall to the plans of those around him, and is easily convinced;. versatile actor to play multiple roles
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Summer Musical TBD
Director: TBD. 1st rehearsal: May 12 Run: June 2-25
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