Children's Playhouse of MD
AUDITIONS
For
Our 2016-17 Season Production of
Steel Magnolias
If you have not been cast in a CPM show before - Please bring a photograph of yourself to attach to your audition. This does NOT need to be a formal headshot. Any size photo will work.
PLEASE NOTE: This show is auditioning FEMALE students age 12 - 18, if age 18, you must still be in high school. (Younger than 12 must get permission from the Director to audition.)
We ask that you list all conflicts that you have between September 24 and October 28 on your audition form.
PLEASE NOTE:
Conflicts during Tech Week (October 22 - 28) will affect casting decisions. We prefer no conflicts during this week.
Rehearsals are normally three weeknights from 6:30 to 9:00pm and 12:00 to 6:00pm on Saturdays, except Oct 22 - 28 when they will be 12:00 to 6:00pm on Sat. and Sun. and weeknights from 6:00pm to 10:00pm.
WHO:
Children's Playhouse of MD
WHERE:
CCBC Essex
J Building (by parking lot #4)
Lecture Hall/Auditorium
Please follow all parking guidelines when on campus.
WHEN:
Tuesday, September 20
6:30 - 8:30pm
(You need to be signed in by 8:30pm in order to audition. Each audition group will take about 30 minutes.)
PLEASE NOTE:
Performance Dates
October 29, 30, November 5, 6 @ 1:00 pm
PERFORMANCE CONFLICTS ARE NOT ACCEPTED.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:
Steel Magnolias is a non-musical with an all female cast. You will be given a reading from the script and time to review it before you are called on to audition.
Synopsis
Steel Magnolias is a comedy-drama about the bond among a group of Southern women. Truvy Jones runs a successful beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies in the neighborhood have a standing Saturday appointment: wealthy widow and former first lady of Chinquapin, Clairee Belcher, local curmudgeon Ouiser Boudreaux, intelligent and compassionate career woman M'Lynn, and her daughter Shelby, the prettiest girl in town. Shelby's engagement is the talk of the town, but the joy and excitement of her wedding quickly turn to concern as she faces a risky pregnancy and a myriad of health complications. As the women of Chinquapin make their ways over life's many hurdles together, they find comfort (and a fair amount of verbal ribbing) in one another.
