Strongsville Community Theater is proud to announce... AUDITIONS Driving Miss Daisy By Alfred Uhry Directed by Chris Bizub Performing: March 8th- 17th, 2019 Fri & Sat @ 8pm and Sun @ 3pm Audition Dates: Mon, Dec. 10th, 2016 6:30pm – 9:30pm Tues, Dec. 11th, 2016 6:30pm – 9:30pm *Auditions are open - no reservation required* Preparation: Auditions will consist of readings from the script. What to Bring: A headshot and resume A list of your January-March 2018 conflicts Callbacks: Thurs, Dec. 13th, 2018 6:30pm - 9:30pm (invitation only) Audition Location: Strongsville Senior Center 18100 Royalton Road Strongsville, OH 44149 (behind the Target) Performance/Rehearsal Location: Strongsville Community Theater Strongsville High School (the little theater) 20025 Lunn Road Strongsville, OH 44149 (440) 879-8817 askSCT@gmail.com Rehearsals Mon–Thurs, January 28 - March 7, 2019 All roles available: Daisy Werthan - A rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two. (Female, can play age 72-97) Hoke Coleburn - A dignified, good-natured, & soft-spoken black man. (Male, African-American, can play 60s-80s) Boolie Werthan – Daisy’s son (Male, can play 40s-60s) Synopsis: The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Werthan, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she must rely on the services of a chauffeur. The person he hires for the job is a thoughtful, unemployed black man, Hoke, whom Miss Daisy immediately regards with disdain and who, in turn, is not impressed with his employer's patronizing tone and, he believes, her latent prejudice. But, in a series of absorbing scenes spanning twenty-five years, the two, despite their mutual differences, grow ever closer to, and more dependent on, each other, until, eventually, they become almost a couple. Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play. A warm-hearted, humorous and affecting study of the unlikely relationship between an aging, crotchety white Southern lady, and a proud, soft-spoken black man. A long-run Off-Broadway success and an Academy Award-winning film. "The play is sweet without being mawkish, ameliorative, without being sanctimonious." —NY Times. "…a perfectly poised and shaped miniature on the odd-couple theme." —NY Post. "Playwrights Horizons has a winner in this one…gives off a warm glow of humane affirmation." —Variety. "DRIVING MISS DAISY is a total delight." —NY Daily News. If you have any questions or cannot attend auditions, but would still like to set up a time to audition, please feel free to contact the director at cmb164@zips.uakron.edu for more information.