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"Blithe Spirit" Comedy Play Needs Actors

Grand Rapids, MI, United States
ID: 214146Exp: 3/3/2023
online audition
Description:

Auditions for "Blithe Spirit" play. Actors wanted. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. Please see the breakdown below. About the project: "The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from playwright of Private Lives offers up fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting “happy medium,” one Madame Arcati.As the (worldly and un-) personalities clash, Charles’ current wife, Ruth, is accidentally killed,“passes over,” joins Elvira, and the two “blithe spirits” haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity." Additional info: For more information please see the document attached. If you are interested, please apply.

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7 roles

EdithBoth genders18-28 y.o.All ethnicities

Ruth and Charles’ maid.

Ruth CondomineBoth genders25-45 y.o.All ethnicities

Wife, and eventually ghost, of Charles.

Charles CondomineBoth genders30-45 y.o.All ethnicities

Cantankerous novelist. Currently married to Ruth and formerly married to Elvira.

Dr. BradmanBoth genders45-60 y.o.All ethnicities

Friend of Charles.

Mrs. BradmanBoth genders40-55 y.o.All ethnicities

Wife of Dr. Bradman.

Madame ArcatiBoth genders45-80 y.o.All ethnicities

Voice is high and clear.A striking woman, dressed not too extravagantly but with a decided bias towards barbaric. A medium who conjures up Charles' first, and eventually his second, wives .

ElviraBoth genders25-45 y.o.All ethnicities

Perfectly strange and very charming. The first wife, and now ghost, to Charles Condomine. She tortures and aggravates Charles, and continues to do so, even once joined by his second wife Ruth.