AUDITIONS FOR “DEARLY DEPARTED”

Sunday, February 23, 3-6 p.m. &  Monday, February 24, 6-9 p.m. 

Auditions will be held at the Spotlights Theater building, 9543 Broadview Road (next to the Police Department). The show is directed by Tyson Douglas Rand. Auditions will consist of reading from the script. All auditioners will be asked to fill out an audition form listing any conflicts between auditions and performance dates. Resumes and headshots are welcomed but not required. Show dates are Friday and Saturday nights from April 24 - May 9 and one Sunday matinee on May 3.

ABOUT THE SHOW: In the Baptist backwoods of the Bible Belt, the beleaguered Turpin family proves that living and dying in the South are seldom tidy and always hilarious. Despite their earnest efforts to pull themselves together for their father's funeral, the Turpin's other problems keep overshadowing the solemn occasion: Firstborn Ray-Bud drinks himself silly as the funeral bills mount; Junior, the younger son, is juggling financial ruin, a pack of no-neck monster kids, and a wife who suspects him of infidelity in the family car; their spinster sister, Delightful, copes with death as she does life, by devouring junk food; and all the neighbors add more than two cents. As the situation becomes fraught with mishap, Ray-Bud says to his long-suffering wife, "When I die, don't tell nobody. Just bury me in the backyard and tell everybody I left you." Amidst the chaos, the Turpins turn for comfort to their friends and neighbors, an eccentric community of misfits who just manage to pull together and help each other through their hours of need, and finally, the funeral.

For character breakdowns, visit the Spotlights' website: http://www.broadview-heights-spotlights.org