[NEohioPAL] Canal Fulton Players- Auditions for the original play, Closing Night by Craig May

David Van Gaasbeek via NEohioPAL neohiopal at lists.neohiopal.org
Mon Jun 29 17:32:55 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”, crusading detective
  JOHN WEBB : forties, friendly and relaxed; plays “Sid Merryweather”, best friend to Raymond
  NADINE DELACROIX : fifties, faded movie star and diva; plays “Lady Gabrielle Grimm”, sinister town authority
  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”, a corrupt (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, Margo Treadwell, and Nadine Delacroix; frantic, nervous
  MRS. THORNBURY : forties, wardrobe coordinator; very no-nonsense
  STILL OTHER CHARACTERS NOT INVOLVED IN DEADLY NIGHTFALL
  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 330-494-1022330-494-1022 or 330-854-4387330-854-4387.

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