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The Drama Workshop and directors Dane Rogers and Sarah Louise Rogers are pleased to announce the revised audition dates for LIGHT UP THE SKY by Moss Hart.

Audition Dates:

• Friday Feb 13 7-10pm.
• Sunday Feb 15  7-10pm.

The Glenmore Playhouse – 3716 Glenmore Ave, Cheviot, OH 45211.

Please enter through the side door on Gamble Ave.

Please sign up at this link: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A094FA8A622A6FC1-62201838-auditions

Performance Dates. Performances are May 1-17, 2026 at 7:30 p.m. There are 10 performances over 3 weekends, including a Thursday performance the final weekend.

Synopsis: Set in a Boston hotel suite, Light Up the Sky contrasts the glamorous onstage life with the neurotic offstage antics of creating a Broadway show. This classic American comedy features flamboyant theatrical characters stretched to the manic breaking point. No one is safe from Hart’s loving mockery.

Audition Requirements

Headshots and resumes are appreciated. Please also bring your conflicts from March through May 2026. Auditioners may be asked to read from the script.

Character Descriptions

• Sidney Black — a flamboyant showman with no legitimate theater experience, who has sunk $300k into the play.
• Irene Livingston — a famous actress, self-adoring with a haughty manner and explosive temper, the star of the new play.
• Peter Sloan — a naive young playwright with a blue-collar background, who has idealistic notions. Hart’s memory of himself as a novice.
• Carleton FitzGerald — the temperamental director, whose tag-line is “I could cry”.
• Owen Turner — an older playwright, practical and calm, who has worked with the star and director before.
• Stella Livingston — the star’s tough mother, a pessimist who plays endless games of gin rummy with Frances Black.
• Frances Black — a former female athlete, a bit crass, now married to producer Sidney Black.
• Miss Nan Lowell — a likeable author, ghost-writing the star’s memoir; the linchpin of the first act.
• Tyler Rayburn — an out-of-place Ivy League-educated businessman, husband of the star, who treats him as a servant.
• Sven — a masseur, employed by the star, seen and heard briefly in the first act.
• Max, a Shriner — an unruly conventioneer, seen and heard briefly in the second act.
• A Plain-Clothes Man — a detective, who returns Peter Sloan to the suite at Sidney Black’s behest during the third act.
• William H. Gallegher — a Shriner from Elkhart, Indiana, a theatre lover, whose entry triggers the third-act climax.

Smaller roles might be combined to one actor.

If you have questions, please email directors at danerogers1@gmail.com and sarahhoback@gmail.com.