Call Type
Equity Principal
Date of Audition
12/13/2011
Location
ZACH Theatre's Nowlin Rehearsal Studio
1426 Toomey Road
Austin, TX 78704
If auditioning after 6:30pm, please do not park in the lot at 1510 Toomey.
Time(s)
Tuesday, December 13th
6pm to 10pm
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
By appointment only. To schedule an appointment, email your name, contact information, and the character auditioning for to
auditions@zachtheatre.org
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Contract
SPT
$302/week
Seeking
Please see breakdown.
All roles available, except for the role of Mary Jo.
Preparation
Please be prepared to read sides from the play for the character for which you are interested in auditioning. Sides will be posted to the
www.zachtheatre.org/about/auditions when available.
Other Dates
Callbacks: December 17, 2011
1st Rehearsal: May 7, 2012
Opening: June 2, 2012
Closing: July 1, 2012
Other
Depending on tickets sales, we may expand to Tuesday evenings and/or Saturday matinees if needed.
Personnel
Director: Steven Dietz
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| Breakdown
SON – Lucille’s son, Pauline’s fiancee. He manages the Gordon estate and Stella’s finances. His ex-wife died in a car accident a year earlier. He dropped out of college after his father died to help run the estate.
STELLA GORDON – The no-nonsense octogenarian matriarch of the Gordon family. She refuses to allow her children to divide her land and assets while she’s alive. Though dementia dulls her memory, Stella is sharp-witted and sticks to her guns.
LUCILLE – Stella’s complacent daughter, a widow, who lives on the estate to help care for it with her son, Son.
MILDRED – a sassy black cook who works at the Gordon estate.
DOUG – a ninety-two year old black housekeeper who has worked at the Gordon estate since his father died when he was five. Though he is physically weak and mentally crazy, Doug wants to keep working.
LEWIS GORDON – Stella’s son and Lucille’s brother, an alcoholic gambler who is always begging for money from his share of the estate. He fools around with a high school girl, Irene Ratliff.
PAULINE – Son’s fiancée, a high school English teacher. Though she is more intellectual and worldly than any of the Gordons, she tries earnestly to make a good impression with the chaotic family.
CATHLEEN – A young, emotional black employee who attends junior college. Her abusive father is in jail.
SISSIE – Mary Jo’s self-absorbed daughter. Divorced from her husband the previous fall, she is already planning to remarry.
EMILY – Mary Jo’s snooty, materialistic daughter. Her parents annulled her week-long marriage to a boy she describes as “obnoxious.”
BOB – Mary Jo’s husband. An out-of-work realtor who says he wants to divide the estate to prevent the loss of thousands of dollars in taxes. He always has a scheme to get everybody rich.
IRENE RATLIFF – The dim-witted high school girl Lewis fooled around with. He paid $10,000 to her father so he wouldn’t kill Lewis.
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