Starkville Community Theatre




	Audition Dates for the 2011-2012 Season *Beau Jest (February 9-18, 2012)* Auditions: Noember 13th and 14th at 7 pm (Sunday and Monday) Directed by Christopher Walrath clw_73@yahoo.com Cast: 2 women, 4 men Sarah Goldman has called an escort service. Her date, Bob, shows up. What Bob doesn’t know is that Sarah wants him to pose as her Jewish and very serious (surgeon!) boyfriend, “Dr. David Steinberg,” for her parents and brother, Joel. Sarah doesn’t want her parents to know that she is still seeing Chris, who is NOT Jewish. It all ends up with Sarah trying to figure out if her lie is worse than her parents’ forcing her to be someone she is not. Second Samuel (April 12-21, 2012) Auditions: February. 12th and 13th at 7 pm (Sunday and Monday) Directed by Pattye Archer parcher@library.msstate.edu Cast: 5 women, 6 men All the town folk of 1940s Second Samuel, Georgia, are typical God-fearing, patriotic Americans. Miss Gertrude, described as “the sweetest woman that ever drawed a breath,” has died, and the whole town gets wrapped up in giving her a beautiful funeral when a secret is revealed about Miss Gertrude that brings an immediate halt to plans. The theme of the play is tolerance, and the beauty in it lies in how the residents of Second Samuel are forced to look at themselves and finally come to the realization of what being a Christian should mean Audition Dates for Our Extra Season Show: *Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas* *(December 8-11)* Auditions: October 23rd and 24th at 6 pm (Sunday and Monday) NOTE - auditions for this show begin at 6 p.m. Directed by Marianne Ulmer mau2@msstate.edu Cast: 3 women, 3 men Robert Fulgham’s Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas is a series of vignettes pulled from his two books All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It. Fulgham is a natural-born storyteller who can pluck at your heartstrings and tickle your funny bone, all the while pointing to a moral. He describes Christmas as “just real life – only a lot more of it at once. We will laugh and cry and pout and ponder… hug and kiss and make a mess… spend too much… and do it again and again. We ARE the Christmas pageant – the whole damn thing!” Audition Information for Earlier Shows: *See How They Run (September 8 – 17, 2011)* Auditions: July 24th and 25th at 7 pm (Sunday and Monday) Directed by Brenda Mayo brenda_j_mayo@yahoo.com Cast: 6 men, 6 women Galloping in and out of the four doors of an English Vicarage are an American actor and actress, a cockney maid who has seen too many American movies, an old maid who “touches alcohol for the first time in her life,” and four men in clergy-man’s suits presenting the problem of which is which, for one is disguised as an escaped prisoner and another a sedate bishop aghast at all these goings on! *She Loves Me* *( November 10-19, 2011)* Auditions: August 27th and August 28th at 2:30 pm (Saturday and Sunday) Directed by Paula Mabry paula.mabry@gmail.com Cast: 7 women, 9 men The setting is Maraczek’s Parfumerie in Budapest, where the expert sales staff is managed by Georg Nowack. On the staff is Amalia Balash - strongwilled, confident, and highly vocal in her disagreements with the boss, the dashing rake Steven Kodaly, and his love-sick sweetheart, Ilona Ritter. The ensuing romantic entanglements - caused by an exchange of heart-felt anonymous letters between the unsuspecting Amalia and Georg, Steven’s incorrigible womanizing, and Ilona’s impossible romantic dreams - are pure musical theatre gold.