CLAGUE PLAYHOUSE Announces Auditions for "Miracle on South Division Street" LOCATION: Clague Playhouse, 1371 Clague Road, WestlakeTIME: December 15 & 16, 2015, 7:30 PM 3 Females 1 Male A comedy/drama by Tom Dudzick Directed by Rob Gibb Meet the Nowak family, a lovable clan of dysfunctional adults from Buffalo, New York whose matriarch, Clara, fervently protects the family’s 20-foot high shrine to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The statue was built by their grandfather who claims to have once had a vision of Mary in his barbershop. But now a deathbed confession begins to test the family’s hope and faith in miracles. Performance dates: March 11 – April 3, 2016Auditions will involve readings from the script. CHARACTERS: Clara Nowak: born in Poland but brought to the USA as an infant, the family matriarch, lives (present day) in an old rundown house in the “Hydraulics” section of Buffalo, NY; urban blight has settled in, and this particular dwelling sits behind a neighborhood soup kitchen which used to be a barber shop; there is a charmingly naive Old World peasant air about her.Jimmy Nowak: Clara’s son, the baby, unmarried, a blue-collar, knock-around kind of guy, a garbage man with a secret of his own who loves to tweak his two older sisters, not a dumb guy at all, just not college material.Beverly Nowak: Clara’s eldest daughter, unmarried, stereotypical bowling-mad character, frumpy, stirs up the (family) pot.Ruth Nowak: Clara’s middle child, unmarried, an aspiring actress, gangly, awkward, and not the type men throw themselves at, but she has an appealing positive energy, a little classier than her brother and sister, but not by much, wants to turn the family story into a work of art on stage.