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<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Independence Community
Theatre is pleased to announce auditions for “<b>Southern Fried Funeral</b>”. </span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Friday,
December 9 from 7 to 9 pm</span></div>
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December 10 from 8 to 9 pm</span></div>
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</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Sunday,
December 11 from 1 to 3 pm</span></div>
<div style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:2.25pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Location: Independence Old Town Hall, </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">6652 Brecksville Rd, Independence OH
(upstairs). </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:10.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.2pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">All auditions are a cold reading from the script.</span></div>
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Saturday, <span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">March 3, 4,
10, 11, 17, 18 with Sunday matinee on March 12.</span></span></div>
<div style="margin-top:10.2pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:10.2pt;margin-left:0in;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Rehearsals: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
from 7 - 9 pm starting on January 9. Tech
Week will be February 22 through March 2.<b><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"></span></b></span></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">For additional
information, contact Richard Todd, Director, at </span><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:rtoddassocinc@gmail.com"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></a><a href="mailto:rtoddassocinc@gmail.com">rtoddassocinc@gmail.com</a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">.</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(13, 13, 13); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Show
Synopsis: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Dewey Frye is dead and his wife Dorothy is left behind to
pick up the pieces and hold her family together. Her daughters are at each
other’s throats, Ozella Meeks from the SonShine committee is trying to take
over the funeral, and Dewey’s brother is trying to take away her house.
Funerals bring out the worst, the best, and the funniest in people, and the
Frye family is no exception. A big-hearted comedy about family- Southern Style.</span></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242"> </span></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">The cast consists of 6
women and 5 men. All roles are unpaid.</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">Character Descriptions</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242"></span></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">DOROTHY FRYE (50s/60s): </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Dewey Frye’s widow and the matriarch of
the family. </span></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in;font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> </span></strong></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">SAMMY JO LeFETTE (30s): </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">The middle child and future president
of the Junior League. </span></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242"> </span></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">HARLENE FRYE (30s/40s): </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">The oldest child and prodigal daughter.</span></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242"> </span></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">DEWEY FRYE JR (20s): </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">The youngest child and not the
brightest bulb. </span></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242"> </span></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">DUB FRYE (50s/60s): </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Dorothy’s brother-in-law. </span></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242"> </span></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">ATTICUS VAN LEER (30s/40s): </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Family lawyer and on-again-off-again
love interest of Harlene. </span></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242"> </span></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">BEECHAM LeFETTE (30s): </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Sammy Jo’s husband.</span></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242"> </span></div>
<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">MARTHA ANN FOX (50s/60s): </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Dorothy’s best friend; first name
pronounced “Marthann”. </span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">FAIRY JUNE COOPER: </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Contemporary of Dorothy and Martha Ann.
All friends since high school. </span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">BENNY CHARLES GREENWOOD
(50s/60s): </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Best friend of Dewey Frye
Sr. </span></div>
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<div style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white;vertical-align:baseline"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in">OZELLA MEEKS: </span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0D0D0D;mso-themecolor:text1;mso-themetint:242">Chairwoman of the SonShine committee at
the church, a position she does not take lightly. </span></div>
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