Fort Wayne Civic Theatre AUDITIONS for
Over the River and Through the Woods
By Joe DiPietro
Director – Jeff Moore, Stage Manager – Cody Steele
(Comedy, Full Length, 3 men, 3 women: 6 total)
Performances: September 12-28, 2014 – Auer ArtsLab/Black Box Theatre
A hilarious family comedy.” —BackStage. Loaded with laughs every step of the way. —Star-Ledger.
Over The River… opened in 1998, and ran for 800 performances over two years at the John Houseman Theatre in New York City. It has been widely produced in regional theatres across the U.S. ever since. The author, Joe DiPietro, is the Tony Award-winning author and lyricist for the musical Memphis, as well as for his long-running off-Broadway show I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.
THE STORY: Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey. He sees all four of his grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has to tell them that he's been offered a dream job—across the country in Seattle – that would take him away from his beloved, but annoying, grandparents. Thus begins a scheme by the four grandparents to keep Nick around; a scheme which includes bringing to Sunday dinner the lovely—and single—Caitlin O'Hare as bait. Will it work?
Auditions: MONDAY, JULY 28TH, 7:00-10:00 p.m. Arts United Center, West Rehearsal Hall
Rehearsals: Mon.-Fri., August 11th – September 11th @ Plymouth Church, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Tech Reh: SUNDAY, SEPT. 7TH – 12 noon-11 p.m. (cast call-noon/Dinner break-5:00 to 6:00 p.m)
Tech/Mounting Rehearsals: Mon.-Fri., Sept. 8th–11th, at AUER CENTER ArtsLab - 6:00-11 p.m.
Final Dress Rehearsal: THURSDAY, SEPT. 11th, Auer Center ArtsLab, 6:00 call
Performances: FRIDAY, SEPT. 12th thru Sept. 28th (3 weekends)
Performance Times: Fridays & Saturdays @ 8 p.m., (7:00 call time),
Sundays @ 2 p.m. (1:00 call time)
Auditions Monday, July 28th at 7:00 p.m. at the Arts United Center, 303 E. Main St. Please arrive early to check in and fill out the audition forms. Please call Eunice Wadewitz to sign up to audition
(260-422-8641 ext. 226). Scripts may be signed out with a refundable $10 deposit.
CHARACTERS: 3 men, 3 women
Nick Cristano: (age range 25-35/40) should play late 20s to early 30s
Frank Gianelli: (age range 50-70) Nick’s maternal grandfather, eighty years old
Aida Gianelli: (age range 50-70) Nick’s maternal grandmother, in her seventies
Nunzio Cristano: (age range 50-70) Nick’s paternal grandfather, in his seventies
Emma Cristano: (age range 50-70) Nick’s paternal grandmother, in her seventies
Caitlin O’Hare: (age range 20-35) Attractive and charming, in her late twenties
From the Director
The play is fast-paced, with lots of back-and-forth dialogue and monologues by several characters. It is energetic, broadly funny, and also touching –it’s about family. Think Golden Girls meets Everybody Loves Raymond meets On Golden Pond. The ideal cast will have strong memorization skills and a good sense of both comic --and serious-- delivery and timing. Performances will take place in the new ArtsLab in the Auer Center, on Main Street—an intimate space with an estimated house size of 200 for this production.
SETTING: The Gianelli home in Hoboken, New Jersey. TIME: Early-mid 1990’s
If you would like to volunteer backstage for this show, call 422-8641 ext. 227 for Robert Shoquist.
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