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Call Type
Non-Required Principal
Date of Audition
1/7/2013
Location
ZACH Theatre's Nowlin Rehearsal Studio
1426 Toomey Road
Austin, TX 78704
In grey ZPACC building. Parking also available at 1510 Toomey Rd.
Time(s)
Monday, January 7, 2013
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
- A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
Actors will be seen by appointment only. Please email your name, phone number, and the character auditioning for to
auditions@zachtheatre.org.
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Contract
SPT
SPT 5 - minimum $349/week
Seeking
Betty Chumley
Dr. William Chumley
Judge Omar Gaffney
Nurse Ruth Kelly
EJ Lofgren
Dr. Lyman Sanderson
Myrtle Mae Simmons
Wilson
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 ZACH Theatre website when available.
Other Dates
First Rehearsal: April 22, 2013
Performance Dates: May 15, 2013 - June 16, 2013
The show runs Wednesday through Sunday Matinees.
Other
www.zachtheatre.org
Personnel
Director: Dave Steakley
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Breakdown
Betty Chumley (the doctor's wife) - more concerned with socializing than with science: told that her husband has to examine a patient, she tells him, “Give a little quick diagnosis, Willie — we don’t want to be late to the party.”
Dr. William B. Chumley- an esteemed psychiatrist and the head of the sanitarium, “Chumley’s Rest,” to which Veta has Elwood taken. He is a difficult, exacting man, feared by his subordinates, unwilling to tolerate his mistakes.
Judge Omar Gaffney - an old family friend of the Dowds, a representative of the people in town who are accustomed to seeing Elwood talking to Harvey and who do not think anything of it.
Miss Johnson - listed in the Cast of Characters as “a cateress,” but her dialog in the play is tagged “Maid.” She only appears briefly in the first act.
Nurse Ruth Kelly - a sympathetic character, a pretty young woman who appears to have some sort of love/hate relationship with Dr. Sanderson.
E. J. Lofgren- the cab driver who, at the end of the play, makes Veta realize that the treatment that is supposed to make Elwood stop seeing Harvey might drain him of his kind personality.
Dr. Lyman Sanderson- young, for a psychiatrist, but very qualified — Dr. Chumley has picked him out of the twelve possible assistants that he tried. He is just as infatuated with Nurse Kelly as she is with him, but he only reveals his concern indirectly.
Myrtle - a young woman, the daughter of Veta. The main reason why she and her mother are concerned about their standing in the community is that they both are concerned that Myrtle find a man to marry.
Wilson - the muscle of Chumley’s Rest, a devoted orderly responsible for handling the patients who will not cooperate voluntarily.
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