Auditions: Tuesday, August 13 & Wednesday, August 14 at 7:00pm
Production Dates: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 2 pm, Nov. 8 - Dec. 8, 2019 (no performance on Thanksgiving)
There
are parts for 6 women and 4 men. All are part of “small-town
Americana”. The play takes place in a dilapidated railroad station.
The characters are as follows:
Women
Hilda - station master, 40’s-50’s
Maggie - mail carrier, 20’s-50’s
Penelope - editor/reporter for the town newspaper, 30’s-50’s
Myrna - town mayor/choir master at local church, 40’s-60’s
Donna - Jerry’s wife, 20’s-30’s
Debora - Fairfax’s daughter, 30’s-50’s
Men:
Satch
-
Hilda’s assistant, 50’s-60’s
Leo Tannenbaum
-
a visitor 60’s-70’s
Fairfax -
railroad executive/Debora’s father, 60’s-70’s
Jerry -
Donna’s husband, 20’s-30’s
Hilda, Satch, Maggie, Penelope and Myrna are required to sing acappella.
The Story: “This
is the most hopeless place in the world!” Hilda intones as she and
Satch argue over what time it is. Hilda dreams of faraway places to
fight the tedium of running the Holly Railway Station until, that is,
Leo Tannenbaum drops in out of nowhere just before Christmas. Suddenly
an old radio springs to life and the local group of carolers begins to
sound like the Morman Tabernacle Choir. The whole town now gets into the
Christmas spirit. Coincidence? This nostalgic story is full of
eccentric small-town characters who begin to discover the true wonder of
Christmas, making us all wish that we, too, could take a ride on The
Christmas Express.