Auditions!! The Outsiders (play)
Schedule
Mon, 24 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 25 Nov, 2025 at 10:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
201 W Jefferson St, Joliet, IL | Joliet, IL
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Please prepare a 30-60 second monologue. You will also do some cold reads at the audition. Sign up for a time slot using the link below. We will be holding callbacks on Wednesday if needed. https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/kfryf
Show dates are Jan 23-25 and Jan 30-Feb 1st.
Rehearsals will be Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 6:00-9:00 and Mon-Thursday during tech week.
S.E. Hinton, who wrote this modern classic when she was 16 years old, comments: "The Outsiders, like most things I write, is written from a boy's point of view. That's why I'm listed as S.E. Hinton rather than Susan. (I figured most boys would look at the book and think 'What can a chick know about stuff like that!') None of the events are taken from life, but the rest—how kids think and live and feel—is for real. The characters—Dallas, who wasn't tough enough; Sodapop, the happy-go-lucky dropout; Bob, the rich kid whose arrogance cost him his life; Ponyboy, the sensitive, green-eyed Greaser who didn't want to be a hood—they're all real to me. Many of my friends are Greasers, but I'm not. I have friends who are rich, too, but nobody will ever call me a Soc—I've seen what money and too much idle time and parental approval can do to people. Cool people mean nothing to me—they're living behind masks and I'm always wondering "Is there a real person underneath?" This entirely practical stage adaptation deals with real people, seen through the eyes of young Ponyboy, a Greaser on the wrong side of life, caught up in territorial battles between the have-it-made rich kids—the Socs—and his tough, underprivileged "greaser" family and friends. In the midst of urban warfare, somehow Ponyboy can't forget a short poem that speaks of their fragile young lives:
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.�Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour.�Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief,�so dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
"Robert Frost wrote it," Ponyboy tells Johnny. "I always remembered it because I never quite got what he meant by it." Cherry, a beautiful Soc, comes to share a special sensitivity with Ponyboy as she discovers that he remembers poems and needs to watch sunsets. At the same time, Cherry's attracted to the older, tougher Dallas, and in a sense she's caught in the violent space between the Greasers and the Socs. While the Socs appear to have everything, the only thing a Greaser has is his friends. As these young people try to find themselves and each other, as the sadness of sophistication begins to reach them and their battles and relationships reach a resolution, Ponyboy's dying friend, Johnny, sends him a last message … I've been thinking about the poem that guy wrote. He meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep it that way. It's a good way to be. This is a play about young people who are not yet hopeless about latent decency in the midst of struggle.
Character breakdown:
Ponyboy - The youngest Curtis brother, 14 years old, gets good grades and runs track early teens, a greaser.
Johnny - Ponyboy's best friend, 16 years old, extremely quiet, lives with his alcoholic and abusive parents.
Bob - A soc, 18 years old, Cherry's boyfriend, bestfriends with Randy.
Randy- A soc, 18 years old, Bob's bestfriend, Marcia's boyfriend.
Dallas - A 17-year-old juvenile delinquent, the roughest of the greasers, close with Johnny.
Two-Bit - 18 years old, a greaser, wisecracker, likes Marcia.
Darry - The oldest Curtis brother, 20 years old, has been caring for his brothers since their parents died in a car crash.
Sodapop - The middle Curtis brother, 16 years old, high school dropout, works at a gas station, dating Sandy.
Sandy - 16 years old, Sodapop's former girlfriend.
Cherry - A soc, 16 years old, Bob's girlfriend, befriend's Ponyboy and Johnny, bestfriends with Marcia.
Marcia - A soc, 16 years old, Randy's girlfriend, befriends Two-Bit, Cherry's bestfriend.
Mrs. O'Briant - Member of the burnt down church.
Jerry - Member of the burnt down church.
Doctor at the hospital
Nurse at the hospital
Mr. Syme - Ponyboy's favorite teacher, his English teacher
Paul - A soc
Extra characters include greasers, socs, hospital workers,
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Where is it happening?
201 W Jefferson St, Joliet, IL, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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