"Our Town" Audition for the Theater
Looking for performers for the "Our Town" Show. Please see the details below. About the project: Described by Edward Albee as “the greatest American play ever written,” Our Town presents the small town of Grover’s Corners in three acts: “Daily Life,” “Love and Marriage,” and “Death and Eternity.” Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, the play depicts the simple daily lives of the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry, and eventually – in one of the most famous scenes in American theatre – die. Thornton Wilder’s final word on how he wanted his play performed is an invaluable addition to the American stage and to the libraries of theatre lovers internationally. Additional info: Please bring a photo, resume, and list of conflicts through November of 2025. Some degree of mime skill – not required but appreciated – for all principal roles. Some roles may be doubled. The show will be presented Friday and Saturday evenings from October 10th through November 1st at 8 pm, with some Sunday matinees at 5 pm. Rehearsals will begin in June. If interested, please apply.
23 roles
Narrator, commentator, and guide. Plays a number of other roles as well.
Female presenting. Ages from precocious young girl to a young woman in her mid 20s.
Male presenting. Ages from teenager to young adult.
Male presenting. Town doctor. To play middle aged or older. Kindly, plainspoken, a little tired.
Female presenting. Hard-working homemaker. Good friend and neighbor.
Local newspaper editor. Sardonic sense of humor.
Female presenting. Emily and Wally’s mother. Like Mrs. Gibbs.
Male presenting. local paperboys. One male-presenting actor to play both high school boys.
Male presenting. Choir director. Alcoholic. Embittered.
Male presenting. Milkman. Happy to stop and chat.
A long-winded lecturer.
Male presenting. The undertaker – any age from young adult to elder.
Male presenting. A visiting relative. Businessman.
Female presenting. Adult, church member – likes to gossip – cries at weddings.
Male presenting.
Male presenting adult.
Concerned with temperance.
Concerned with social justice.
Concerned with culture and beauty.
Ensemble
Ensemble
Ensemble
Ensemble Some people who appear as dead folk in the graveyard.
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