Auditions for "On Golden Pond" by Ernest Thomas

Name: Auditions for "On Golden Pond" by Ernest Thomas
Start: 2026-02-05T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-02-05T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Columbia Street Baptist Church

Schedule

Thu Feb 05 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Columbia Street Baptist Church | Bangor, ME

BCT is proud to announce auditions for their spring production of On Golden Pond written by Ernest Thompson and directed by Tracy Green. Auditions will be held at the Columbia Street Project next to Columbia Street Baptist Church in Bangor, and will consist of cold readings from the script. Performances are May 1, 2, 8 and 9 with two shows each Saturday.
This poignant play is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who have returned to their summer home on Golden Pond for the 48th straight year. He is a retired professor, nearing 80, with heart palpitations and a failing memory - but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for. As Norman revels in taking his new charge fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness - and slang - in return. In the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.
The 1981 film version won 3 Academy awards and was nominated for 7 others.
NORMAN THAYER, JR: Nearing his eightieth birthday, Norman is flirting with senility and is aware of it enough to use it to his advantage, usually in a humorous way. He is a curmudgeon, as he feels his age entitles him to be. He is very much in love with Ethel, his wife, but doesn't quite know what to do about their daughter, Chelsea.
ETHEL THAYER: Ten years younger than Norman, Ethel is a spritely, active woman who loves her husband completely and who is in love with simply being alive. She is a caregiver, sweetheart, and a friend to Norman.
CHARLIE MARTIN: The local deliver-by-boat mailman, Charlie is a long-time family friend and a typical Maine down-Easterner. Still single, he has had a life-long crush on Chelsea.
CHELSEA THAYER WAYNE: Attractive, divorced, and in her forties, Chelsea is still dealing with the lack of closeness between her and Norman. She is engaged to Bill Ray, whom she brings to meet her parents.
BILLY RAY: The fourteen-year-old son of Bill Ray, he is a typical California teenager who comes to spend a month with Norman and Ethel on Golden Pond while his father and Chelsea are in Europe.
BILL RAY: Chelsea's fiancé and Billy's father, Bill is definitely not the outdoors type. He is trying his best to make a good impression on Norman and Ethel.