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Stagecrafters will be holding auditions for the 2013 – 2014 Season on June 26 & 27 from 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm at the Sharonville Fine Arts Center, 11165 Reading Rd.

There will be cold readings from the script. Please bring resume and headshot if you have them. If you have questions please use the contact form at www.stagecraftersinc.org.

BUS STOP by William Inge, directed by Eve Bolton. Cast – 5 M, 3 W.
Production dates – Sept. 28 & 29, Oct. 4, 5 & 6, 2013.

• Elma Duckworth, a waitress – Must be able to play mid – late teens
• Grace Hoylard, owner of the restaurant
• Cherie, a chanteuse
• Bo Decker, a young rancher and cowboy
• Will Masters, a Sheriff
• Dr. Gerald Lyman, a former college professor
• Carl, a bus driver
• Virgil Blessing, a ranch hand 

In the middle of a howling snowstorm, a bus out of Kansas City pulls up at a cheerful roadside diner. All roads are blocked, and four or five weary travelers are going to have to hole up until morning. Cherie, a nightclub chanteuse in a sparkling gown and a seedy fur-trimmed jacket, is the passenger with most to worry about. She’s been pursued, made love to and finally kidnapped by a twenty-one-year-old cowboy ready to sling her over his shoulder and carry her, alive and kicking, all the way to Montana. As a counterpoint to the main romance, the proprietor of the cafe and the bus driver, at last, find time to develop a friendship of their own; a middle-age scholar comes to terms with himself; and a young girl who works in the cafe also gets her first taste of romance.

THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB by Nicholas Hope, Jessie Jones & Jamie Wooten, directed by Karen Vanover. Cast – 5 W (must be able to play 40s to 60s).

Production dates March 8, 9, 14, 15 &16, 2014

• Sheree – the spunky team captain, desperately tries to maintain her organized and “perfect” life, and continues to be the group’s leader.
• Dinah – the wisecracking overachiever, is a career dynamo. But her victories in the courtroom are in stark contrast to the frustrations of her personal life.
• Lexie – pampered and outspoken, is determined to hold on to her looks and youth as long as possible. She enjoys being married – over and over and over again.
• Vernadette – self-deprecating and acerbic, acutely aware of the dark cloud that hovers over her life, has decided to just give in and embrace the chaos.
• Jeri Neal – sweet, eager to please, experiences a late entry into motherhood that takes them all by surprise.  

Five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to catch up, laugh and meddle in each other’s lives. THE DIXIE SWIM CLUB focuses on four of those weekends and spans a period of thirty-three years.

DEARLY DELOVED by Hope, Jones & Wooten, directed by Michael L. Morehead. Cast – 4 M, 7 W (doubling)

Production dates May 10, 11, 16, 17 & 18, 2014

• Frankie Dubberly- youngest Futrelle sister, mother of the bride
• Honey Rae – oldest of the Futrelle sisters, the floozy black sheep
• Twink – middle Futrelle sister, desperate to get married
• Geneva Musgrave – wedding coordinator & owner/operator of a florist
• shop/bus depot
• Tina Jo – oldest twin daughter of Frankie and Dub
• Dub Dubberly – Frankie’s husband, father of the bride
• Justin Waverly – delivery boy and seminarian
• Gina Jo – Tina Jo’s identical twin sister, the bride
• Nelda Lightfoot – local psychic
• Patsy Price – Tina Jo’s future mother-in-law
• John Curtis Waverly – highway patrolman, Dub’s best friend

The Futrelle Sisters, Frankie, Honey Raye and Twink, are throwing a wedding. Frankie has almost made herself sick with elaborate preparations for her daughter Tina Jo’s antebellum-inspired wedding, and the rumor mill in their small town of Fayro, Texas, is working overtime.  No surprise there, the Futrelle Sisters have never been strangers to gossip. After all, they did survive the scandalous breakup of their almost-famous gospel singing trio, The Sermonettes. In spite of her own marital problems, Frankie has held steadfastly to the hope that she can pull off one “final Futrelle occasion” with elegance and style with the help of the cantankerous wedding coordinator, Miss Geneva, who runs the local floral shop/bus depot. But on the day of the nuptials, Frankie’s hope begins to dim. Will the wedding come off without a hitch and what has Clovis Sanford’s House of Meat got to do with it? Will the Sermonettes reunite? You’ll just have to see this rollicking comedy to find out.

All 3 plays are presented through special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc.