Cincinnati Landmark Productions will hold auditions for GREATER TUNA on Sunday, September 14 and Monday, September 15, 2014, 6:30 – 9:30 pm.
Auditions will be held at the Covedale Center for the Performing Arts, 4990 Glenway Avenue in West Price Hill.
Requirements: 2 Adult Male comedy actors. MUST HAVE A RESUME listing theatrical experience in order to audition. A headshot/picture is appreciated but not required. Auditionees will be asked to read from the script.
GREATER TUNA
By Jason Williams, Ed Howard and Joe Sears
January 22 – February 15, 2015
What do Arles Struvie, Thurston Wheelis, Aunt Pearl, Petey Fisk, Phineas Blye and Rev. Spikes have in common? In this hilarious send-up of small town morals and mores, they are all among the upstanding citizens of Tuna, Texas’ third smallest town. The play’s two actors play all twenty characters in a revolving parade of uproarious situations. This show’s so much fun you might want to move to the Lone Star state to meet all these crazy, fun folks! Greater Tuna is one of the most produced plays in American theatre history! Bob Brunner, Director; Laura Weil, Production Stage Manager
Rehearsals begin: Sunday, December 14, 2014
Performance dates: January 22 – February 15, 2015
Here are some of the characters:
- THURSTON WHEELIS, folksy radio host
- ELMER WATKINS, head of Klan 249
- BERTHA BUMILLER, beleagured housewife
- YIPPY, half rat-terrier, half chihuahua
- LEONARD CHILDERS, radio station owner and talk-show host
- PEARL BURRAS, chicken farmer known for poisoning dogs
- R.R. SNAVELY, drunken UFOlogist
- REV. SPIKES, cliche spouting preacher
- SHERIFF GIVENS, clueless long arm of the law
- HANK BUMILLER, Bertha’s philandering husband
- ARLES STRUVIE, wise cracking radio host
- DIDI SNAVELY, owner of Didi’s Used Weapons
- HAROLD DEAN LATTIMER, the weatherman
- PETEY FISK, the one-man Greater Tuna Humane Society
- JODY BUMILLER, Bertha’s youngest son who collects stray dogs
- STANLEY BUMILLER, Bertha’s other son, a reform school graduate
- CHARLENE BUMILLER, Stanley’s twin sister, a cheerleader reject
- CHAD HARTFORD, a reporter from Houston
- PHINAS BLYE, a near-sighted perennial political candidate
- VERA CARP, society matron and vice-president of the Smut Snatchers of the New Order
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