"Our Town" Play Looking for Performers
The company is holding auditions for the "Our Town" Show and looking for actors, please see the details below. About the project: A landmark in American drama, Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town tells the story of a small town, Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, in order to tell us the story of every town, the whole world over. Narrated by the “Stage Manager”, we follow the Gibbs and Webb families, residents of Grover’s Corners, through twelve years of life changes -- from the mundane in Act I, “Daily Life,” to the romantic in Act II, “Love and Marriage,” to the devastating in Act III, “Death and Eternity.” Through the young lovers Emily and George, their strong and loving parents, and the many other Grover’s Corners’ locals, Wilder delivers universal truths about what it means to be human. “Oh, earth,” Emily Webb exclaims towards the play’s end, “you’re too wonderful for anyone to realize you.” With humor, wit, and exceptionally powerful storytelling, Our Town offers a unique opportunity for audience members to make precisely that realization. Additional info: Show dates are: 9/22/23 to 10/8/2023 Cold readings from the script.
16 roles
Very little crime in Grover’s Corner but Constable Warren watches over the townspeople. Takes care of drunks and rowdy kids.
Along with the Crowell brothers, Howie Newsome, and Joe Stoddard, Sam brings the news-of death.
Town’s newspaper boys. Up early.
Loving father and kind husband. Knows everything about everybody in town and is content to live his life in Grover's Corner. Similar in function to Charles Webb.
Loving father and kind husband. Knows just about everything and everyone in Grover’s Corners. Content to spend his life there.
The All-American boy, or more appropriately, what some people think of as the typical boy--nice and polite, but not very good at book and school learning; loving, but not very good at expressing those emotions; and perfectly happy to stay on the farm. Loves Emily. He wants to just marry Emily, stay on the farm, have kids and live happily ever after.
Wife and mother. Content with life, however, Julia would like to take a vacation to Paris with funds she receives after selling an antique.
George’s younger sister.
The milkman. Town’s early riser. Friendly and chatty. Delivers gossip with milk.
Town chatterbox. Always has something to say, even when she’s dead. She reveals Simon Stimson’s drinking problem and gushes at wedding of George and Emily.
Most important character in the play. Has no name and little importance in the action of play. BUT he/she has the longest part. Sort of like an omniscient narrator. Folksy wisdom and embodiment of common sense. He/She acts as a Greek chorus in that he stops the action, intervenes in story, and moves back and forth in time. Also plays the prim Mrs. Forest, old fashioned and conservative Mr. Morgan, and the solemn minister.
Church organist with drinking problem and is the focus of much of the gossip. The conversation between the undertaker and Emily’s cousin reveals that Stimson committed suicide and instead of an epitaph on his grave stone, there are just notes of music. Only character who is always unhappy. He is bitter.
Brings news of death.
Like Dr. Frank Gibbs, Charles Webb is a loving father and a kind husband with a sense of humor that survives the strain of their children’s marriage. Editor for paper. While each man has some interest that differ (Gibbs’ fascination with Civil War battlefields and Webb’s fascination with Napoleon).
All-American girl. Bright, articulate, and despite the anxiety she shares with her mother, a beautiful creature. She is the focus of the action of the play. In Act 1, she is a naive schoolgirl, Act 2, maturing young woman, Act 3, the mother who has died in childbirth. We track time through Emily. Presents life-affirming ideas.
Wife and mother. Interchangeable with the character of Julia Gibbs. Each worries about husband and children.