Auditions for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a Dramatic Play by Central Park Players
Schedule
Mon Aug 12 2024 at 06:30 pm to 09:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
421 Columbus Ave. , Grand Haven, MI, United States, Michigan 49417 | Grand Haven, MI
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August 12 & 13, registration at 6:30PM, auditions at 7PMOnline registration preferred, link to be posted in late May.
Learn more: https://centralparkplayers.org/2024-2025/cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof/
August 14-15, read through & dialect workshops (TBD), headshots, costume measurements, forms
OPEN AUDITIONS
Auditions will open with selected monologues, followed by sides. Accents are required to be used, they do not have to be perfected for auditions, but they must be attempted to be considered. Most characters are from Mississippi, with the exception of Maggie and Mae, who are from Tennessee.
Casting is open to all gender identities. The characters will present as they are written.
MAGGIE (late 20’s)- The “cat” in the play. Maggie’s loneliness and Brick’s refusal to make her his desire, has made her hard, nervous, and irritable. She is desperate in her sense of loneliness, who is made all the more beautiful in her envy, longing, and dispossession. Female presenting. Open to performers 18 to 35.
BRICK (late 20’s to mid 30’s)- The favorite son and mourned lover. Brick is an obviously broken man attempting to hold onto his archetypal masculinity while harboring repressed homosexual desire for his dead friend Skipper. Male presenting. Open to performers 18 to 35.
MAE (Mid 30’s to Mid 40’s)- An agitated “monster of fertility” who schemes with her husband Gooper to secure Big Daddy’s estate. Mae attempts to orchestrate a picturesque familial picture with her children and husband. Female presenting. Open to performers 30 to 45.
GOOPER (Mid 30’s to Mid 40’s)- A successful corporate lawyer. Gooper is Daddy’s elder and less-favored son. He deeply resents his parents’ love for Brick, and plots to secure control of the estate. Male presenting. Open to performers 30 to 45.
Reverend Tooker – A tactless, opportunistic, and hypocritical guest at Big Daddy’s birthday party. Male presenting. Open to performers 18 to 40.
DOCTOR BAUGH – The sober Baugh is Daddy’s physician. He delivers Daddy’s diagnosis to Big Mama. Male Presenting. Open to performers 30 to 99.
Director Note: The roles of Big Daddy and Big Mama have been cast ahead of time due to the demanding nature of the script.
ABOUT CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
In a plantation house, the Pollitt family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate hopes for the future spar with one another as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds.
Maggie, Big Daddy’s daughter-in-law, wants to give him the news that she’s finally become pregnant by Big Daddy’s favorite son, Brick, but Brick won’t cooperate in Maggie’s plans and prefers to stay in a mild alcoholic haze the entire length of his visit. Maggie has her own interests at heart in wanting to become pregnant, of course, but she also wants to make amends to Brick for an error in judgment that nearly cost her her marriage. Swarming around Maggie and Brick are their intrusive, conniving relatives, all eager to see Maggie put in her place and Brick tumbled from his position of most-beloved son.
Contains strong language and mature themes.
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists
Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)
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Where is it happening?
421 Columbus Ave. , Grand Haven, MI, United States, Michigan 49417Event Location & Nearby Stays:
