Auditions Announced for PICNIC by The Footlighters Inc.

Footlighters is proud to announce auditions for

PICNIC
By William Inge
Directed by Dennis Murphy

AUGUST 10 and 11 From 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Call Backs will be AUGUST 13, 2015 Starting at 7:00pm

• Auditions will consist of readings from the script.
• Also bring a resume and head shot along with a short bio.

Show Dates are January 14 – 30, 2016

Sign up for an audition time:
http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0448aeae2babfc1-audition1

Please indicate role(s) you are auditioning for.

Description:

In William Inge’s Pulitzer Prize winning “summer romance”, a handsome young drifter stirs up passions in a small Midwestern town during preparations for a Labor Day picnic. Sensual, charming, passionate and delightfully funny, PICNIC is a timeless American classic about life, about love, about dreams…and about the line between restraint and desire. “In a small town, all dreams seem big…”

Characters:

• Flo Owens – mother to Madge and Millie, stage age 40. Flo has struggled to keep her daughters fed and clothed after their father left them. She hopes Madge will marry Alan, and have the charmed life she didn’t have.
• Madge – Flo’s pretty older daughter, stage age 18. Madge struggles with being the girl on a pedestal everyone wants her to be and finding out what she really wants.
• Millie – Flo’s younger tomboyish daughter, stage age 15. Smart, opinionated and living in Madge’s shadow, Millie struggles with finding her own identity.
• Helen Potts – Flo’s neighbor, stage age 60’s. Sweet and generous, close to the Owens family. Bears the weight of caring for her be-ridden mother.
• Rosemary Sydney – Flo’s tenant, schoolteacher, stage age 40-55. The “queen bee” of the maiden schoolteachers. Likes to dress well and be the life of the party.
• Irma Kronkite – schoolteacher, stage age 30-42. Rosemary’s loud, boisterous friend.
• Christine Schoenwalder – schoolteacher, stage age 28-40. New to town buts fits right in with Rosemary’s gang.
• Hal Carter *- drifter, former college football star, stage age 20. Though Hal is rough around the corners, he has a charm and natural sexuality that make him popular with women.
• Alan Seymour – Madge’s boyfriend, town rich-boy and fraternity brother of Hal’s, stage age 20. Alan is smart and has good manners and adores Madge.
• Howard Bevins – Rosemary’s boyfriend, local shop owner, stage age 40-60. Howard is an easy going bachelor who is more interested in his store than romance and likes things between Rosemary and him just the way they are.
• Bomber – newspaper boy, stage age 15. Obnoxious teenage boy.

*The role of Hal has been pre-cast.