2008 Oak Grove Season Auditions

Where:
Fletcher Collins Theatre (The Black Box)
Deming Hall
Mary Baldwin College,
Staunton, Virginia

Schedule

Honestly Now
Thursday, May 29 - Wednesday, June 4, 2008
By Jack Sharkey
Directed by Sam Koogler and Produced by Michael Lafferty
Rich, socialite wannabe, Carlita Umbro, and her “challenged” son, Hector, just want to throw a fancy dress party at a posh French Riviera hotel. However, there are jewel thieves about! Who’s really who and what’s really what? Schemes abound in this hilarious crime comedy.
(actors needed 4 men & 4 women)

Jake's Women
Thursday, June 19 - Wednesday, June 25, 2008
By Neil Simon
Directed by Morgan Alberts Smith
America’s premier comic playwright makes another foray into the world of modern relationships. Jake, a novelist who is more successful with fiction than with life, faces a marital crisis by daydreaming about the women in his life, past and present. The sometimes comic and often moving flashbacks played in his mind are interrupted by visitations from actual females. Jake’s women include a revered first wife who was killed years earlier in a car accident; his daughter, at age 12 and 21; his boisterous and bossy sister; an opinionated analyst; his current wife who is on the verge of leaving Jake for another man; and a prospective third wife.
(actors needed 1 men & 7 women)

Die Fledermaus "The Bat"
Thursday, July 10 - Wednesday, July 16, 2008
By Johann Strauss
Directed by Frank Southerington
Romance, intrigue, comedy, hidden identity, and spectacle come together in one of the most popular of all operettas, variously described as “magical,” “intoxicating,” “sumptuous,” and “effervescent.” If you don’t know the plot, you will most certainly recognize the music, but we prefer you not to waltz during the performance.
(actors needed: principals - 5 men & 3 women.
A large singing chorus is also needed)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Thursday, July 31 - Wednesday, August 6, 2008
By Dale Wasserman from the novel by Ken Kesey
Directed by John Harrison
An adaptation from the classic 1960’s novel, the play is an exploration of the injustices present in the mental health system during that time. The main character, made famous by Jack Nicholson, is R. P. McMurphy, a loud, charismatic alpha male who finds himself a patient on the ward. McMurphy rallies the other patients around him in this classic tale of anti-establishmnet and goes head to head with the Big Nurse…with an outcome which is startlingly dramatic.
(actors needed 11 men & 4 women)

The Underpants
Thursday, August 21 - Wednesday, August 27, 2008
By Steve Martin
Directed by Darren Ralston
Steve Martin, everyone’s favorite “father of the bride” and “jerk” has adapted Carl Sternheim’s play set in the early 1900’s to meet the sensibilities of the present. The result is a humorously bawdy play about one very confused and under-appreciated housewife whose underpants change the lives of her and her very staid husband.
(actors needed 5 men & 2 women)