[NEohioPAL] Canal Fulton Players- Auditions- Closing Night An original play by Craig May, are on June 30-July 1

Mon Jun 22 10:38:36 PDT 2015

The Canal Fulton Players are proud to announce that they will be presenting Craig May's original murder mystery, Closing Night, on August 21-22, 28-29, 2015 at the SALT Box Ministries, 408 West Market Street, Canal Fulton, Ohio.  Auditions are scheduled for June 30, July 1 at Community Connections, 2381 Locust Street, Canal Fulton, Ohio (Next to Heritage Photography) at 7:00 pm  Persons wishing to audition should be ready to read from the script.  There are forty parts which are to be played by ten actors and actresses.  Thus, there are four parts per participant.  The reason is that there is a play within a play.  The parts are:

RON AARONS:twenties-thirties, down-to-earth player; portrays “Joe Tremaine”, crusadingdetective

JOHN WEBB: forties, friendlyand relaxed; plays “Sid Merryweather”, best friend to Raymond

NADINE DELACROIX:fifties, faded movie star and diva; plays “Lady Gabrielle Grimm”, sinister townauthority

WAYNE MCCLOUD:thirties-fifties, amiable; plays “Constable Slease”, corrupt law official

CLARENCE RINEHARDT:forties-fifties, perfectionist who won’t take direction; plays “Judge Pitts”,corrupt law official

LLOYD PICKENS:forties-fifties, practical joker, character actor; plays “Dr. Voglyn”, acorrupt (and mad) scientist

PAUL KLEMENS:thirties-fifties, acerbic character actor; plays “Hobbs”, Dr. Voglyn’s butler

DREW DAVID HOFFMAN: thirties, stage and television star and diva; plays “Raymond Beckwith”, sympathetic male lead who is in love with Muriel Culberson, as well as Raymond’s Mr. Hyde-type alter ego

MARGO TREADWELL: forties, fading stage star and diva; plays the nominal female lead, “Anne Culberson”, venal wife of Wilfrid Culberson and mother of Muriel

JOY VALENTINE: twenties, sweet-talking (and loose) ingénue; plays “Muriel Culberson”, the innocent heroine who is in love with Raymond

BEN GARBER: twenties, self-absorbed acting upstart; plays “Douglas Hightower”, bullying and arrogant suitor to Muriel

EDWARD PRESCOTT: forties-fifties, fatherly character actor; plays “Wilfrid Culberson”, weak patrician husband to Anne and father of Muriel

SALLY FOX: thirties-fifties, brassy good-time player; plays “Bernadette”, the Culberson maid

OTHER CHARACTERS INVOLVED IN DEADLY NIGHTFALL

ANTON CORSANNO:forties-fifties, director; egotistical, volcanic, yet charming

EMORY LOVELACE:forties-fifties, playwright/producer; mild-mannered, kindly

PETER:twenties-fifties, stage manager; meek and spineless

BOB:thirties-fifties, tech director/spotlight operator/sound designer; drunk,unreliable

MISS INGERSOLL:twenties-forties, assistant to Anton Corsanno, Drew David Hoffman, MargoTreadwell, and Nadine Delacroix; frantic, nervous

MRS. THORNBURY:forties, wardrobe coordinator; very no-nonsense

            STILL OTHER CHARACTERS NOT INVOLVED IN DEADLYNIGHTFALL

INSPECTOR CHARLES WINGATE:forties-fifties, detective in charge of murder investigation; shrewd,calculating

OFFICER TED BANKS:thirties-fifties, officer accompanying Inspector Wingate; stage-struck

GEORGE:forties-fifties, personal cook to Nadine Delacroix; very flamboyant gay man

DAKOTA: twenties,memoirist to Nadine Delacroix; very butch gay man

GRANT DAVIS:forties, soon-to-be-ex-husband of Margo Treadwell; violent, angry

ROY NEWHOUSE:twenties-forties, ambitious reporter; hopes for a juicy story on the murder

Other parts will be revealed at the auditions.

If you need directions or information, please call David Van Gaasbeek at 330-494-1022 or 330-854-4387.

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