We’re sending out a call to all community actors (and inspiring actors) for auditions for our production of Things My Mother Taught Me, by Katherine DiSavino, to be performed in May.
Auditions take place at Fantasy Playhouse Children’s Theatre on January 20th and 21st at 7:00 pm. Candidates will cold read from a script and can show up for either one or both days.
SYNOPSIS
Olivia and Gabe are moving into their first apartment together. They've just packed up all of their belongings and driven halfway across the country to start a new life together in Chicago. Their moving day doesn't go exactly as planned, though, and things become slightly more complicated when all of their parents show up to help! Can a two-bedroom apartment contain all of the love, laughs, worry and wisdom that's about to occur?
This play takes a generational look at relationships, and how sometimes parents are passing their best lessons on to their children without even meaning to. It's a comedy in which three couples love each other and value the things that make their partners special.
TIME PERIOD: Present Day
SETTING: An empty apartment in Chicago. At the top of the play, a very large armchair is stuck in the front door of the apartment.
CAST (3m, 3f, 1m or f)
OLIVIA KEEGAN - mid-late 20s; energetic, neat, slightly OCD; an architect.
KAREN KEEGAN - mid 50s-60s; free-thinker, open-minded; Olivia's mother.
CARTER KEEGAN late 50s-60s; distracted, a cell phone app fanatic; Olivia's father.
GABE LAWSON - mid-late 20s; good-natured, a planner but forgetful; a writer.
LYDIA LAWSON - mid 50s-60s; idiosyncratic, a clean-freak; Gabe's mother.
WYATT LAWSON - late 50s-60s; 'hail fellow, well met;' Gabe's father.
MAX MIROWSKI - mid-late 50s; Polish accent; understands more than lets on; good-hearted; building Super (man or woman).
Auditions will consist of readings of selected partial scenes from the script. No prepared material is required.
REHEARSAL and PRODUCTION NOTES
- Rehearsals will start on or about March 9th, 3 times per week for about 3 hours per rehearsal, and run through April 30th. Rehearsals take place at TH's rehearsal facility at 500 Plummer Road.
- Move-in to the VBC Playhouse will take place the weekend of May 1-3.
- Tech Week rehearsals will take place every night, Sunday through Thursday, May 3-7.
- The show will open, Friday, May 8, with additional performances Saturday evening, May 9, and Sunday afternoon, May 10. After a couple of days off and a Wednesday, May 13, brush-up rehearsal, performances will resume on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, May 14-16, with a matinee also that Saturday. Following the Closing Night performance, we will strike the set and move everything back to the rehearsal building.
You'll then get to enjoy the upcoming Memorial Day holiday and your summer vacation!
For more information, please contact the show's Director, John Hancock at John.Hancock@theatrehsv.org, or the Theatre Huntsville office at auditions@theatrehsv.org or 256-536-0807.