Sunday, June 30th from 6:00pm-9:00pm
Monday, July 1st from 7:00pm-10:00pm
Auditions by appointment only
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Tacoma Little Theatre is holding auditions for its production of the comedy, Calendar Girls, written by Tim Firth, and directed by Victoria Webb.
Auditions will be held Sunday, June 30th and Monday, July 1st at Tacoma Little Theatre. Audition appointments will be set between the times of 6:00pm-9:00pm on Sunday and 7:00pm-10:00pm on Monday in five-minute increments. Callbacks will be held on Tuesday, July 2nd.
When Annie’s husband John dies of leukemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new sitting area in the local hospital waiting room. They manage to persuade four fellow Women’s Institute (WI) members to pose nude with them for an “alternative” calendar, with a little help from hospital porter and amateur photographer Lawrence. The news of the women’s charitable venture spreads like wildfire, and hordes of press soon descend on the small village of Knapeley in the Yorkshire Dales. The calendar is a success, but Chris and Annie’s friendship is put to the test under the strain of their new-found fame.
Actors are asked to prepare a 1-2 minute memorized comedy monologue of their choice.
Actors of all ethnicities are encouraged to audition and all roles are available: Chris (female 50-60), Annie (female 50-60), Cora (female 40-50), Jessie (female 60-70), Celia (female 35-50), Ruth (female 40-60), Marie (female 40-60), John (male 50-65), Rod (male 50-65), Lawrence/Liam (male 20-35), Lady Cravenshire/Brenda (female 40-60), and Elaine (female 20-30).
To reserve an audition time, follow this link (http://castingmanager.com/audition/info/lq7765r3QxUIrNk), or call our Box Office for assistance at (253) 272-2281.
Once cast, Calendar Girls will run from Friday, September 13, 2019 to Sunday, September 29, 2019.
ROLES:
Role Title: Chris
Gender: Female
Age Range: 50 - 60
Description: You want Chris at your party. She will talk to people she doesn’t know, and things to say to all silences and generate laughter. Part of this is because Chris is at home in crowds, holding court, being the center of attention. Without Chris in her life, Annie would be better behaved, her life less fun. The two of them are like naughty schoolgirls. Ideal car — who cares, as long as it’s a cabriolet. Ideal holiday — Algarve.
Role Title: Annie
Gender: Female
Age Range: 50 - 60
Description: Annie will join in mischief but is at heart more conformist and less confrontational than Chris. After Chris has put a waiter’s back up in the restaurant, Annie will go in and pour calm. The mischievousness Chris elicits saves Annie from being a saint. She has enough edge to be interesting, and enough salt not to be too sweet. Ideal car — who cares, as long as it’s reliable. Ideal holiday — walking in English countryside.
Role Title: Cora
Gender: Female
Age Range: 40 - 50
Description: Cora’s past is the most eclectic, her horizons broadened by having gone to college. This caused a tectonic shift with her more parochial parents. She came back to them pregnant and tail-between-legs, but Cora has too much native resilience to be downtrodden. She is the joker in the pack, but never plays the fool. Her wit is deadpan. It raises laughter in others, but rarely in herself. Her relationship with her daughter is more akin to that between Chris and Annie. Cora doesn’t need to sing like a diva but must be able to sing well enough to start the show with Jerusalem and sing the snatches of other songs required. Ideal car — who cares, as long as the sound system is loud. Ideal holiday — New York.
Role Title: Jessie
Gender: Female
Age Range: 60 - 70
Description: Get on the right side of Jessie as a teacher and she’ll be the teacher you remember for life. Get on the wrong side and you will regret every waking hour. A lover of life, Jessie doesn’t bother with cosmetics — her elixir of life is bravery. Jessie goes on rollercoasters. Her husband has been with her a long time and is rarely surprised by her actions. Jessie bothers about grammar and will correct stallholders regarding their abuse of the apostrophe “s”. Ideal car — strange-looking European thing which is no longer manufactured. Ideal holiday — walking in Switzerland or Angkor Wat.
Role Title: Celia
Gender: Female
Age Range: 35 - 50
Description: The fact that Celia is in the WI is the greatest justification of its existence. A woman more at home in a department store than a church hall, she may be slightly younger than Chris or the same age, but she always feels like she’s drifted in from another world. Which she has. She is particularly enamored of Jessie, and despite the fact Jessie has very little time for most Celias of this world, there is a rebelliousness in Celia to which Jessie responds. It’s what sets Celia apart from the vapid materialism of her peer group and made her defect. Ideal car — Porsche, which she has. Ideal holiday — Maldives, where she often goes.
Role Title: Ruth
Gender: Female
Age Range: 40 - 60
Description: Ruth’s journey is from the false self-confidence of the emotionally abused to the genuine self-confidence of the woman happy in her own skin. Ruth is eager to please but not a rag doll, and despite being Marie’s right-hand woman she is desperate to be the cartilage in the spine of the WI and keep everyone happy. She has spine herself — if she was too wet, no-one would want her around. But they do, and they feel protective of her because they sense there is something better in Ruth than her life is letting out. They are proved right. Ideal car — at the start, whatever Eddie wants; at the end, whatever she wants. Ideal holiday — at the start wherever Eddie is, at the end wherever he isn’t. The Rabbit Costume: Ruth made this last night. It should be a cocktail of good intention and not enough time.
Role Title: Marie
Gender: Female
Age Range: 40 - 60
Description: Marie has gradually built the current ‘Marie’ around herself over the years as a defense mechanism. She went to her Oz, Cheshire, and found Oz didn’t want her. She came back scorched. The WI is a trophy to her, which justifies her entire existence. There is a lingering part of Marie that would love to be on that calendar. Ideal car — something German and well-valeted. Ideal holiday — a quasi-academic tour of somewhere in Persia advertised in a Sunday Supplement which she could then interminably bang on about.
Role Title: John
Gender: Male
Age Range: 50 - 65
Description: John is a human sunflower. Not a saint. Not a hero. Just the kind of man you’d want in your car when crossing America. When he dies it feels like someone somewhere turned a light off.
Role Title: Rod
Gender: Male
Age Range: 50 - 65
Description: You must be a certain kind of guy to stick with Chris and Rod loves it. He can give back what he gets, and has a deadpan humor which has always made Chris laugh. He drinks a lot but never so much as to have a problem. He would work every hour to make his shop a success. And John was his mate, even though the relationship was originally channeled through their wives.
Role Title: Lawrence/Liam
Gender: Male
Age Range: 20 - 35
Description: LAWRENCE=Hesitant without being nerdy, Lawrence is a shy young man with enough wit to make a joke and enough spirit to turn up at the WI hall in the first place. When he arranges the shots, he is close to female nudity but sees only the photo. LIAM=Liam would like to be directing other things than photoshoots for washing powders. He’s not so unprofessional as to let it show, but we can sense a slight weariness at having to deal with these women. There’s a resigned patience to his actions and each smile he makes we feel is professional. For Liam, this photoshoot is a job. And not the job he wanted.
Role Title: Brenda/Lady Cravenshire
Gender: Female
Age Range: 40 - 60
Description: Marie’s favorite speaker. This person will also play Lady Cravenshire, local dignitary who judges Women’s Institute events.
Role Title: Elaine
Gender: Female
Age Range: 20 - 30
Description: Elaine really doesn’t mean to be so patronizing. But Jessie seems from another world. The world of her grandma.