Auditions for Winter Plays!
Published: November 25, 2024
Winter Plays 2025: Allow Me To Explain and Our Island Home by W. S. Gilbert
Produced by the Off-Monroe Players
Auditions and all rehearsals to be held at Downtown United Presbyterian Church, in the Hallock Lounge.
Auditions at 6:30 Monday Dec. 2 and Tuesday Dec. 3 in the Hallock Lounge at DUPC. Readings will be provided.
Click here for the audition form, which is also linked at the end of this announcement. Please feel free to download, print, and bring the completed form to auditions.
Directors: Tristan Berlet and Charles Palella
Performance Dates:
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Friday, January 31, 2025
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Sunday, February 2, 2025
Rehearsals:
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2024: December 10, 12, 17, 19
2025: January 7, 9, 14, 16, 21, 23
Cast for Allow Me To Explain:
- Mr. Cadderby, a gentleman, not yet of means
- Boker, Cadderby’s nephew, betrothed to Amelia Ann
- John Smith, Cadderby’s distant relation
- Waiter, a hotel servant
- Mrs. Anna Maria Cadderby, Cadderby’s wife
- Amelia Ann, Cadderby’s daughter
- Mrs. Simpkins, the hotel proprietess
Cast for Our Island Home:
- Mrs. German Reed, an actress with definite ideas, married to Mr. Reed
- Mr. German Reed, an actor who takes direction well, married to Mrs. Reed
- Miss Fanny Holland, another actress
- Mr. Arthur Cecil, another actor
- Captain Bang, a pirate monarch
Character notes: All roles are non-singing. The ages of the characters are not important. Character gender changes will be considered
About Allow Me To Explain:
The play is set in a hotel corridor, where three men are living: John Smith, John Smith and John Smith. Mr. Cadderby arrives with his wife, daughter, and nephew, looking for John Smith, and is pleased to find that he has his choice of three. It seems that James Smith, a distant relative of Cadderby, has settled property worth £300 a year on him for as long as James Smith's nephew, John, lives; and Mr. Cadderby wants to check up on this nephew, since his income depends on John Smith's remaining alive.
About Our Island Home:
Four actors on a cruise ship are left stranded on an island for performing one too many W. S. Gilbert plays. They split the island into equal parts. but unfortunately only one of the parts has food on it. A cask of anchovy paste and a misguided pirate stand between them and civilization.
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