CHURCH BASEMENT LADIES and MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET CHRISTMAS - Mount Carroll, IL EPA
Timber Lake Playhouse | Mount Carroll, IL
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (C)
No break
Actors will be seen on a first-come, first served basis.
SPT
$690 weekly minimum (SPT 8)
Equity actors for roles in CHURCH BASEMENT LADIES and MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET CHRISTMAS See breakdown).
Please prepare a 90-second comic monologue and 32 bars of a song. An accompanist will be provided. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Timber Lake Playhouse
8215 Black Oak Road
PO Box 29
Mount Carroll, IL 61053-0029
Expected to attend:
Producer - Dan Danielowski
Music Director - Oliver Townsend
See breakdown for production-specific personnel.
See breakdown for production-specific dates.
OTHER
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
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Book by Jessica Zuehlke and Jim Stowell
Music and Lyrics by Drew Jansen
Directed by Courtney Crouse
First Rehearsal: August 24, 2023
Performance: September 8 – 10 & 13-17, 2023
Inspired by the book Growing Up Lutheran by Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann Nelson, this funny and down to earth musical comedy about four woman preparing food for multiple events at church will have audiences howling with laughter.
MRS SNUSTAD (VIVIAN), is 60 to 70 years old and a widow. She is the most conservative of the ladies, and she is the matriarch of the kitchen. She is the one that makes sure the food tastes good before leaving the kitchen and she is the one that washes the dishes. Her duties are well defined (by her). She sits at the center work table on a stool almost as a throne where she commands the work of the day. Her word is not to be tested and her decisions are final. She is a mix of Shirley MacLaine as “Ouiser,” Bea Arthur as “Maude,” “Doris” in Everybody Loves Raymond, and the Mom in Golden Girls. Vocally, hers is the highest voice of the ladies. Low – A-flat below middle C, no lower than a B-flat below middle C. High - E, a major 10th above middle C.
MRS ELROY ENGELSON (KARIN) is 40 to 45 years old and is second in line to take over the kitchen. Her cooking is fabulous. She is neat and tidy in appearance and quite pretty in a very conservative way, almost looking like Jackie Kennedy with everything perfectly in its place. She senses the world is about to change because she listens to her daughter, Signe, who without her influence on Karin’s life, might be as rigid as Mrs. Snustad. The middle voice. Low – A-flat below middle C, and High – D, a major 9th above middle C. Should have a comfortable belt.
MRS GILMER GILMERSON (MAVIS) is in her late 50s and is a farmer’s wife and a grandmother. She is not afraid of work and can fix anything mechanical, as well as do the books. She is the most physical comedienne of the three ladies because of her “jump in and work” attitude. She appears rather disheveled, even when dressed up for a wedding. She is somewhat butch, but not gay. Everyone loves her. The lowest of the voices – Low – A-flat below middle C. High - D, a major 9th above middle C.
SIGNE (Beverly) ENGELSON is the daughter of Karin, and has just started college at the University of Minnesota. She comes home to visit often, and loves working with her mother in the kitchen. She is 18 or 19 years old and ready to make her mark in the world. She represents change. Not only the change the church was going through in 1965, but the change the country was beginning to go through at that time. She would never really become a hippie, but she will like the styles once they are introduced at Sears in Minneapolis. She is pretty like her mother, and very sweet, but not afraid to challenge Mrs. Snustad and speak her mind in a respectful way. Low – A below middle C. High – G flat above middle C.
PASTOR E. L. GUNDERSON is the same age as Karin, but he has just married a young wife. The ladies all seem to have crushes on him in a respectful “pastorly” way. He is goaded by the fact that he comes from a family of Pastors, and his brother, not he, inherited his father’s church down the road. He is a bit competitive, and finds that he can truly relax when in the kitchen. He has a very friendly and intimate relationship with God, almost like “Tevye,” and he knows that the church runs best when the kitchen is happy. Low – B-flat, a major 9th below middle C. High – G-flat above middle C.
Book by: Colin Escott
First Rehearsal: November 16, 2023
Performance: December 1-3 & 6-10, 2023
Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley come together again to celebrate the holidays in this knock-out holiday musical experience that is Million Dollar Quartet Christmas! It’s a jam-packed evening of holiday hits.
Carl Perkins (singer/musician)
Johnny Cash (singer/musician)
Jerry Lee Lewis (singer/musician)
Elvis Presley (singer/musician)
Jay Perkins (bass player/singer)
W.S. “Fluke” Holland (drummer)
Sam Phillips (record producer)
Dyanne (Elvis’s girlfriend/singer)
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