The Dixie Swim Club Auditions Held at Grosse Pointe Theatre 12/11

Grosse Pointe Theatre and Director Kathy Conlon announce auditions for The Dixie Swim Club, a comedy by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten.

Auditions are Saturday, December 11, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and Sunday, December 12, 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (Note difference in times each day). Auditions will take place at the Grosse Pointe Theatre rehearsal studio, 315 Fisher Rd. (at Maumee/Grosse Pointe Boulevard) in Grosse Pointe.

For a refundable fee of $20, scripts are available for loan at the above address. Call the GPT Box Office, 313-881-4004, to reserve a script.

Performance dates for The Dixie Swim Club are March 6-19, 2011. The shows will be performed in the Fries Auditorium of the Grosse Pointe War Memorial.

Grosse Pointe Theatre will furnish head shots, costumes, makeup and refreshments. This is a community theatre production and actors are not paid.

Rehearsal days and times will be arranged with the director. Actors are requested to bring personal calendars to the auditions and resumés of their theatre experience.

This is a great ensemble comedy piece and an audience pleaser. Every summer five college swim-team friends rent a cottage on North Carolina's Outer Banks. We first meet the lively ladies in 1978, 23 years after college graduation, then again in 1983, 1988, and finally in 20ll. For most of the play the women should look like they're in their mid-forties to mid-fifties (one is pregnant). The brief final scene, when they are in their 70's.

Roles:

SHEREE HOLLINGER, the perennial team captain, is practical, supportive, and a fount of boundless energy. Never without her to-do lists or Pocket Scheduler, her tendency to be hyper-organized drives her friends a bit crazy. She is the eternal tomboy, a health nut and an all-American mom who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her family.

DINAH GRAYSON, the wise-cracking cynic of the group, has fought her way to the top and relishes the view. A lawyer in the biggest and most prestigious law firm in Atlanta, Dinah excels at everything...except romance. Armed with a dry martini and an even drier sense of humor, Dinah seldom reveals her softer side as she tackles life head-on.

LEXIE RICHARDS, a true Southern belle who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is the vain, youth-obsessed event planner for a chain of four-star hotels. She has never shied away from the occasional nip or tuck and keeps her cosmetic surgeon on speed dial. Always one to revel in her status as a man-magnet, Lexie can be counted on to share wild and hilarious tales of her romantic exploits.

JERI NEAL MCFEELEY is the dizzy ray of sunshine of the group. She's perky and naïve and always sees the positive side of everything. Having been a nun for many years, Jeri Neal has been protected from life's seamier side. Even though she appears to be predictable on the surface, Jeri Neal, recently located to Charlottesville, Virginia, continually makes life choices that surprise and amaze her friends.

VERNADETTE SIMMS is a hard luck case if there ever was one. Marriage and motherhood came shortly after college, and a dark cloud has hovered above her ever since. A public school teacher with limited finances and a problematic home life in Spivey's Corner, North Carolina, Vernadette is self-deprecating by necessity. She faces her tribulations with gallows humor and the unwavering support of these lifelong friends.

For more information about Grosse Pointe Theatre go to www.gpt.org or call 313-881-2258.

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