CURTAIN CALL, INC. IS CASTING FOR GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER
Directed by Debra Lee Failla
Auditions will be held in The Kweskin Theatre, 1349 Newfield Avenue, Stamford, CT,
Sunday, June 4 and Monday, June 5, 2017 – 7:00pm to approximately 9:00pm each night.
Rehearsals will begin July 17. Show runs September 7 through 24.
NOTE: Tech Weekend is Labor Day Weekend.
Those auditioning should be prepared to read from the script.
This new stage adaptation is based on the Award-winning 1967 film of the same name:
A progressive white couple’s proud liberal sensibilities are put to the test when their daughter, fresh from a Hawaiian romance, brings her African-American fiancé home to meet them. Personal beliefs clash with the mores of the late 60’s in this warm and witty exploration of family and culture and knowing which of them has the greater hold on our hearts.
Non-paid, community-based production.
CASTING THE FOLLOWING:
DOCTOR JOHN WADE PRENTICE (stage age 30s, black): A medical research doctor, intelligent and respectful. He will not marry Joey without her parents’ approval. His life awareness makes him cautious, his love for Joanna makes him bold.
JOANNA DRAYTON (stage age mid-20s white): “Joey” is bold and imbued with her father’s passion. She is deeply in love with John and unwavering in her plans to marry him.
CHRISTINA DRAYTON (stage age 50’s – 60s, white): Mother to Joanna, married to Matt. Runs the Drayton Gallery. Having taught Joey to treat everyone as equals, her belief in those teachings is challenged when she meets John. She is fiercely loving and determined to keep her daughter in her life.
MATT DRAYTON (stage age 50’s – 60s, white): Father to Joanna, married to Christina. Publisher of the San Francisco newspaper, The Guardian. Dedicated to his work and his family, while a journalist and a liberal he finds reason to disapprove of Joey and John’s marriage. He struggles with the layers of truth.
MATILDA BINKS (stage age 50+, black): “Tillie” has worked twenty-seven years as a domestic for the Draytons. Suspicious of John, she is loyal and protective of the Drayton family.
HILARY ST. GEORGE (stage age 40s, white): Associate Director of the Drayton Gallery, an employee of Christina’s and happens to be working at the house when Joanna arrives with John, her casually racist remarks push Christina to fire her.
MONSIGNOR MICHAEL RYAN (stage age 65+, white): Longtime family friend of the Draytons, blunt and sees no issue with Joey and John’s marriage. Irish accent preferred but not necessary.
JOHN PRENTICE, SR (stage age 50’s – 60s, black): Protective and proud of his son, John, he at first strongly disapproves of the marriage as he sees it a threat to all John has worked and built for himself.
MARY PRENTICE (stage age 50’s – 60’s black): Having seen the hurt her son, John, has felt, she can neither approve nor disapprove of the marriage but is highly concerned about her son’s heart. She is a mother caught between her son and her husband.
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