Audition Announcement

From The Center Players Community Theatre...
Audition Announcement for our next show, "1940s Radio Hour" by Walton Jones.

Auditions will be held in the Ridgeland High School Auditorium (586 Sunnybrook Road) on Monday & Tuesday, June 28th & 29th at 7pm.

You should be prepared with a monologue and a song to sing. Please bring your own music. Being able to play an instrument will be helpful but not required.

There are 14 parts in this show, 10 men and 4 women:
1 male character around 18 years old
1 female character also around 18 years old
1 male character in his mid 50s
All of the other characters are adults over 30

Show dates are Thursday through Saturday, August 26-28
For more information, contact the director J.C. Howell at jc@norocks.net or Betty Jo Mahaffey at bjmahaffey@yahoo.com

You can also email us at: thecenterplayers@gmail.com

Character Descriptions:
"Pops" Bailey - The stage doorman. Over 60. The traditionally wizened, crotchety, miserable, crusty, foul-tempered stage door keeper who makes book on the company phone and reads hidden copies of “Show Girls.” (does not sing)

Stanley - is about twenty. Lugs cable and runs around a lot and otherwise lives in the control booth. (does not sing)

Clifton A. Feddington - band leader, announcer, general manager, head-of-everything at WOV.

Zoot Doubleman - the bandleader and plays the piano in “the most versatile band in the land.” More at home with the musicians and shares jokes with them. About fifty and tired.

Wally Fergusson - poodle-eyed young hopeful from altoona, Pennsylvania who came to New York to work for his uncle at the drugstore and hopefully get his big break into show business.

Lou Cohn - busy keeping the true stage manager’s tradition by being the entrepreneur’s entrepreneur. About forty. Big shot. (does not sing, ability to play piano would be nice but not necessary.)

Johnny Cantone - is the featured vocalist with the Cavalcade, who is on Sinatra’s bandwagon. Ex-welterweight boxer. Rough guy.

Ginger Brooks - bubble-headed waitress-turned-star discovery of Lou’s who found her in a restaurant where she still works.

Connie Miller - A seventeen-year-old bobbysoxer from Ogden, Utah. Born about ten years to lat: would have been a great Berkley girl. Always in love. Taps and Jitterbugs

B. J. Gibson - the third of the Gibson brothers to work for Clifton. Tall, preppy, about twenty; a student at Yale who commutes to the weekend rehearsals and Monday night performances.

Neal Tilden - The comic who drives a cab. Son of the wealthy Tildens of Gramercy Park. Got cut-out of the will because he was “a bum in show business.”Lives with his mother.

Ann Collier - The old standard in Clifton’s Cavalcade: she’s been there since it started in 1936. She works during the day as a secretary for a larger corporation. A Redhead.

Geneva Lee Browne - beautiful, high-class, black singer from Kansas City where she played the Chesterfield Club with her own group, the Chocolate Drops. Started in New York at 15.

Biff Baker - Started with Zoot when the band was only a six-piece combo in 1936 on WOV. From Chicago. Plays trumpet and or sax in the band.