Community Theatre of Little Rock Announces
Open Auditions for its Spring Drama
On Golden Pond by Earnest Thompson
Auditions for Community Theatre of Little Rock's Spring Drama On Golden Pond by Earnest Thompson, will be held on February 20th at 2pm and February 21st at 6pm, at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, 310 W 17th St, in Downtown Little Rock. Directed by Ryan Whitfield.
There will be cold readings from the script.
Parts for 3 men, 2 women and 1 boy
Production dates for the show are June 5th - June 21st
Rehearsals begin immediately following casting
This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory—but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the grandchild the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness—and slang—in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.
Founded in 1956, the Community Theatre of Little Rock (CTLR) is Central Arkansas’s oldest and finest theater tradition. CTLR is a nonprofit, volunteer organization striving to enlighten, educate and entertain our community by providing live theatrical productions of the highest quality, as well as providing opportunities for talented people to perform and participate in all phases of producing live theater.
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