The Wilton Playshop Hosts Auditions For LIFE WITH FATHER 12/4-5

Wilton Playshop has announced auditions for LIFE WITH FATHER, directed by Rich Mancini.

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By Clarence Day

Audition Dates:
Sunday, December 4 at 7:30pm
Monday, December 5 at 7:30pm
Call-backs Wednesday, December December 7 at 7:30pm at The Wilton Playshop, 15 Lovers Lane, Wilton, CT.
Performance dates: February 10,11,12,16,17 and 18, 2012.

Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse's Life With Father opened on Broadway on November 8, 1939, and ran for almost EIGHT YEARS, compiling a then mind-boggling 3,224 performances; it is STILL the longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history. Based on Clarence Day's book of autobiographical stories about his father, the play is a picture of New York upper middle class family life in the 1890s, revolving around rambunctious, overburdened Wall Street broker Clarence Day, Sr., who demands that everything from his family (his long-suffering wife and 4 sons) should be just so. The more he rails against his staff, his cook, his wife, his horse, salesmen, holidays, his children and the inability of the world to live up to his impossible standards, the more comical and lovable he becomes to his own family who love him despite it all.

The principal characters:
"Father" - Clarence Day, Sr. (40s-50s); an "attractive man in his forties who fairly exudes vitality"; irascible, tyrannical, insufferable... but ultimately loveable.
Vinnie Day - (40s-50s); his wife, and mother to their four boys; she has the patience of a saint, but when she learns that Father was never baptized, she is shocked and determined that this wrong be rectified.
Their children:
Clarence, Jr. (17-ish); the oldest son. On the verge of becoming a man (and of entering Yale), he longs for a suit of his own... and falls head over heels for the visiting Mary Skinner. And the rest of the boys: John,15; Whitney, 13; and the youngest, Harlan, 6. And oh yes, all of the Days are redheads (at least as written)!

Additional roles:
Cousin Cora (30s); the Day's attractive cousin, a visiting houseguest (much to Father's chagrin).
Mary Skinner (16-ish); a lovely young lady who is visiting along with Cora - and who quickly falls for Clarence, Jr. (and he for her).
Supporting roles (some can be doubled if necessary:
Annie
(20s-40s): The Day family's new maid (the latest in a long line
Margaret, Nora, Maggie (domestics of various ages)
Dr. Sommers, Dr. Humphreys - Medical men, 40s+
The Rev. Dr. Lloyd (50s+): The family's minister

Auditioners will read scenes from the script.
Information: production@wiltonplayshop.org