Main Street Theatre Works announces auditions for their 2017 Summer Season
Doublewide, Texas & The Crucible
Main Street Theatre Works will be auditioning actors for their 2017 Summer Season, which performs at the Kennedy Mine Amphitheatre in Jackson. All rehearsals are in Sacramento until tech week, and actors will be paid a $150 stipend. All roles are open. Auditions will be held on Sunday, 1/22 and Monday, 1/23 from 6:30 – 9:00pm, at the R25 Arts Complex at 1723 25th Street in midtown, Sacramento.
Auditions will be cold reads from the scripts. Below is a character breakdown & synopsis of each play. If you have further questions, contact interim Artistic Director, Julie Anchor, at
julieanchor@yahoo.com.
We look forward to another wonderful season (our 23rd) and hope you can join us.
Doublewide, Texas, by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope& Jamie Wooten, and directed by Allen Pontes. The show runs Friday and Saturday, 6/23 – 7/22.
Rehearsals will start the first part of May.
Synopsis:
Haywood Sloggett, the curmudgeon from across the road, who loathes their “trailer-trash” ways, especially their keeping a life-size illuminated nativity scene up year ‘round, plagues all the residents of the trailer park. But these friends, enemies, and neighbors realize they’ll have to work together to defeat the encroaching annexation if they, and their way of life, have a snowball’s chance to survive being swallowed up by “the big guys.” The comedy escalates as the residents attempt to secede from Texas, discover a traitor in their midst, and turn the tables in a surprising and side-splitting finale.
Character breakdown:
Female:
• Big Ethel Satterwhite, 50s - 60s
• Georgia Dean Rudd, 30s - 40s
• Lark Barken, 20s
• Jovetta Crumpler, 30s - 40s
• Caprice Crumpler, 60s - 70s
• Starla Pudney, 30s – 40s
Male:
• Norwayne “Baby” Crumpler, 30s - 40s
• Haywood Sloggett, 60s - 70s
• Lomax Tanner, 30s - 40s
The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, and directed by Susan McCandless. The show runs Friday and Saturday, 8/11 – 9/9.
Rehearsals will start the first part of July.
Synopsis:
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692: When the girls of this small, devout town, under the malign spell of their ringleader Abigail Williams, accuse countless decent people of witchcraft, fear, anger and injustice rip apart the village. Only gradually does it become clear that Abigail has her own motives for revenge.
Character breakdown:
Female:
10 roles, ranging from late teens to 70s
An African American woman, 30s- 50s, must be cast in the role of Tituba
Male:
10 roles, ranging from 30s to 70s
Some parts may be doubled.
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