FLI Announce Auditions for THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL

The Footlighters Inc. to hold auditions for THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL

Friday, October 12, 7-9PM and Saturday, October 13, 2-4PM
Callbacks – Sunday, October 14, 1pm

The Footlighters Inc. will hold auditions for their winter musicalTHE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL at The Stained Glass Theater (802 York Street, Newport).

Auditions will take place on Friday, October 12thth (7-9PM) and Saturday, October 13th (2 – 4PM). Callbacks on Sunday, October 14th at 1PM

No appointment necessary. Auditioners will be taken in the approximate order of arrival. Auditioners should prepare a song in that best represents their vocal range. An accompanist will be provided. There will be a dance combination to learn so please be prepared to move.

Rehearsals will begin the week of November 5th. Show dates are January 31, – February 16, 2013.

Show Details: THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL
Book by Betsy Kelsco
Music and Lyrics by David Nehls

Directed by Jim Curtis
Music Director – Julie DeMatteis
Choreographer – Jules Shumate

The Great American Trailer Park Musical is a two-act musical, written by David Nehls and Betsy Kelso. It explores the relationships between the tenants at the Armadillo Acres Trailer Park in Florida, particularly between Pippi, “the stripper on the run,” the Dr. Phil loving, agoraphobic Jeannie, and Jeannie’s tollbooth collector husband, Norbert.

Cast needs 5 women and 2 men

THE LOVE TRIANGLE AND THE VILLIAN

• JEANNIE GARSTECKI, 35 – 45 years old. Jeannie has lived in a trailer at Armadillo Acres for 20 years with her husband and high-school sweetheart, Norbert. A faded beauty, she was 17 when she married, 18 when her son was born and 23 when he got kidnapped. That, coupled with a really bad perm, has turned her into an agoraphobic. She hasn’t left her trailer in all these years, and the man she loves is drifting further and further away and she’s determined to get him back…that is is she could manage to get out of the trailer to do it…(STRONG BELT / MEZZO-SOPRANO)
• NORBERT GARSTECKI, 35-45 years old. Jeannie’s husband Norbert collects tolls for a living and tries to be as good a husband as one can be to an agoraphobic. A former high-school football star, he has a rugged good looks marred by fatigue and the stress of his difficult marriage. He is a simple man who desperately wishes his wife could get out of the trailer, but he’s not equipped with the emotional or intellectual tools to help her do it. He has never loved or slept with a woman other than Jeannie. That is until he meets…(BARITONE)
• PIPPI, 35-45 years old. Pippi is a striking beauty with a great body and a taste for clothing that shows off. Up to this point, Pippi’s life has been about surviving. She is a professional stripper who has gotten by on her looks and talents for dancing and petty theft. She means no harm and is ready to stop making bad choices and start making changes, but first she has to get lost in a hick-town trailer park in North Florida so she won’t be found by her last bad choice…(STRONG BELT / MEZZO-SOPRANO)
• DUKE – 22 – 28 years old. Duke is Pippi’s obsessive, possessive and excessive Magic Marker-sniffing boyfriend; “ex”-boyfriend according to Pippi. Not so, according to Duke. Not the brightest guy south of the Mason-Dixie Line, Duke leaves a trail of disaster in his wake wherever he goes. His road trip to Starke is no exception and his arrival at the trailer park is full of surprises – even for a group of people who have had their share of excitement…(BARITONE)

THE GIRLS

• BETTY, 45-60 something. Betty has lived at Armadillo Acres most of her adult life. She now runs the leasing office and makes it her business to know everything about everybody who passes through the trailer park. Though a self-proclaimed “bad-ass,” Betty is really a mother hen to the denizens of the trailer park. Of all “The Girls”, Betty is the most grounded, earthy and dry. (ALTO – MEZZO-SOPRANO / STRONG BELT)
• LINOLEUM “LIN” late 30’s. So-named because her mother gave birth to her on the kitchen floor. Linoleum has a husband on death row at the Florida State Prison. His fate is an electric chair that doesn’t work properly unless most of the town’s electricity is turned off. So Lin watches everyone’s lights and appliances very closely in the hopes that she can keep the chair on the fritz. Sometimes self-absorbed and sometimes just a smart-ass, she hints at a wild, rock and roll past and is the fieriest of “The Girls.” (ALTO – MEZZO SOPRANO)
• DONNA “PICKLES” 17 years old. A newlywed. Donna is called “Pickles” because she is perpetually hysterically pregnant – that is, she so convinced she should be pregnant she is exhibiting symptoms. Her husband is a lot “fancier” than she is, as he is from a big city of Jacksonville. His parents haven’t been verysupportive of his marital choice, so Pickles is desperate to give her husband a family of his own-even if she has to fake it. The dimmest of “The Girls,” Pickles is airy, sweet and blissfully ignorant. ( MEZZO-SOPRANO / SOPRANO)

ADULT SITUATIONS and LANGUAGE

For more information about The Footlighter’s, please visit www.footlighters.org. or contact Jim Curtis at jjt9461@yahoo.com (513.207.7687)