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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Hudson Players
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Auditions for</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:36.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Arsenic and Old Lace<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Written by Joseph Kesselring<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black">Directed by Anne Guffey</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Audition Dates:
</span><span style="font-size:16.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sept. 9 & 10, 2018 – 7:00 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Barlow Community Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">41 S. Oviatt St. Hudson, Ohio 44236</span><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Performance Dates:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:16.5pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Nov. 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 16 & 17, 2018<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:16.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">(8:00 p.m. curtain/*2 p.m. matinee)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><u><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1D2129">The auditions will involve reading from the script.<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">ALL ROLES AVAILABLE. Hudson Players does not pre-cast.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Written by Joseph Kesslring,
<i>Arsenic and Old Lace</i> is a timeless comedic gem of American theatre. Life is good for Mortimer Brewster. With a dream job as a drama critic for a prominent New York newspaper and recent engagement to his sweetheart Elaine, what could go wrong? Well,
what about finding out that his sweet, spinster aunts Martha and Abby have been poisoning lonely old men for years with homemade elderberry wine laced with a touch of arsenic. More? What about learning that his brother Teddy, who thinks himself to be Teddy
Roosevelt, has been burying his aunts’ victims in the basement thinking they succumbed to Yellow Fever at the Panama Canal. Had enough? How about Mortimer’s other brother, the maniacal criminal Jonathan, who decides to hideout from the police at his aunts’
house with alcoholic sidekick, Dr. Einstein, on the same night that the aunts were planning to bury their latest victim, which also happens to be the same night Mortimer stops by with his fiancée.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Insanity doesn’t run in the Brewster family – it gallops! Mix in multiple policemen, including one who wants to be a playwright, and Elaine’s pious minister father,
<span style="color:#333333">Mortimer must rally to help his aunts and protect his fiancé – all while trying to keep his own sanity and avoid his murderous brother’s intentions. An uproarious farce,
<i>Arsenic and Old Lace</i> is an American classic.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Character Descriptions:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">WOMEN<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Abby Brewster<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A darling lady in her sixties or early seventies who poisons elderly men, Abby is the sister of Martha and aunt to Teddy, Jonathan, and Mortimer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Martha Brewster<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A sweet elderly woman with Victorian charm who poisons elderly men, Martha is the sister of Abby and an aunt to Teddy, Jonathan, and Mortimer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Elaine Harper<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">An attractive girl in her twenties and Mortimer’s fiancée, Elaine is the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Harper. She is surprisingly wise in the ways of the world for a minister’s daughter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">MEN<o:p></o:p></span></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mortimer Brewster<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Nephew of Abby and Martha, Mortimer is a drama critic who is engaged to Elaine. A good-hearted cynic who is about to have his world turned upside down.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Teddy Brewster<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Nephew of Abby and Martha Brewster, Teddy is a man in his forties who thinks that he is Theodore Roosevelt.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Officer O’Hara<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A police officer, O’Hara is a would-be playwright who pesters Mortimer to read his play.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Jonathan Brewster<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Nephew of Abby and Martha Brewster, Jonathan is a psychopath who has numerous murders to his credit and no scruples whatsoever. Is bit oversensitive to his “new” appearance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Dr. Einstein<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A plastic surgeon and an alcoholic in his fifties, Dr. Einstein has changed Jonathan’s face three times, with his most recent work resulting in a Boris Karloff resemblance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Rev. Dr. Harper<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Minister and father of Elaine. A bit pompous and protective, very ministerial in his manner.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Officer Brophy /Lieutenant Rooney<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A flatfoot Brooklyn cop with the usual charm of a police officer / A tough and dominating police officer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mr. Gibbs/Mr. Witherspoon<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A man who wishes to rent a room from the Brewster sisters. The superintendent of Happy Dale Sanitarium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please visit us at
<i><a href="http://www.hudsonplayers.com"><span style="font-style:normal">www.hudsonplayers.com</span></a></i>. Or, call our box office at (330) 655-8522 for more information or write to Hudson Players at PO Box 2159, Hudson, OH 44236. For email inquiries send
to <a href="mailto:info@hudsonplayers.com">info@hudsonplayers.com</a>.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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