Casting Call for "Our Town Roles" Play

The omniscient narrator of the play. The Stage Manager exercises control over the action of the play, cueing the other characters, interrupting their scenes with their own interjections, and informing the audience of events and objects that we cannot see. They occasionally assume other small roles in the story.

Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs’s son. A decent, upstanding young man, George is a high school baseball star who plans to attend the State Agricultural School after high school. His courtship of Emily Webb and eventual marriage to her is central to the show.

Mr. and Mrs. Webb’s daughter. Emily is George’s schoolmate and next-door neighbor, then his fiancée, and later his wife. She is an excellent student and a conscientious daughter. Emily suffers an untimely death and the show continues to follow her in the afterlife.

George’s father and the town doctor. Dr. Gibbs is also a Civil War expert. He and his family are neighbors to the Webbs.

George’s mother and Dr. Gibbs’s wife. A homemaker with desires to travel to Paris, a wish never fulfilled. Mrs. Gibbs must find her satisfaction within this small town.

Emily’s father and the publisher and editor of the Grover’s Corners Sentinel. Mr. Webb’s gives a news report that breaks the fourth wall with the audience in Act 1.

Emily’s mother and Mr. Webb’s wife. At first a no-nonsense woman, Mrs. Webb later shows her innocent and caring nature.

A gossipy woman who sings in the choir along with Mrs. Webb and Mrs. Gibbs. Mrs. Soames helps give a sense of the intertwined lives of the citizens of Grover’s Corners.

The choirmaster, whose alcoholism and undisclosed “troubles” have been the subject of gossip in Grover’s Corners for quite some time. Mr. Stimson appears in the land of the dead souls in Act III having committed suicide by hanging himself in his attic.

The local milkman. Howie reappears during every morning scene—once each in Acts I, II, and III.

A professor at the State University who gives the audience a report on Grover’s Corners. Professor Willard appears once and then disappears.

A local policeman. Constable Warren keeps a watchful eye over the community.

Emily Webb’s cousin, who has left Grover’s Corners to travel west, but returns for her funeral in Act III.

The town undertaker. Joe prepares Emily’s grave and remarks on how sad it is to bury young people.