To the Lakewood Theater Thespian:

As usual, prepare to have fun and be challenged for the 112^th Season of Lakewood Theater.  We are offering 1 mystery/comedy, 2 dramedies, 2 farces, 2 comedies, and 2 musicals.

Again we will be offering nine outstanding main stage productions with parts for 64 men, 60 women and 10 youth.  It’s a year of old favorites and brand new shows to Lakewood.

 

THE SEASON 

Pageant Play May 24 – June 2

Enchanted April June 7 – June 16

9 to 5: The Musical June 21 – June 30

And the Winner Is July 5 – July 14

The Fox on the Fairway July 19 – July 28

The Music Man August 2 – August 11

Murdered to Death August 16 – August 25

The House of Blue Leaves August 30 – September 8

Who Goes Bare September 13 – September 22

Auditions, Call Backs and First Call will all be held at the Margaret Chase Smith School on Heselton Street in Skowhegan.

Musical auditions for 9 to 5: The Musical and The Music Man will be held:

Saturday March 17 from noon to 3:00 pm.

Sunday March 18 from 1pm to 3:30pm.

 

Actors auditioning for singing roles in the musicals who have not auditioned for Lakewood Theater before should bring a prepared song and sheet music.  A ballad or an upbeat number are preferred.  If music is not available, we will teach you a song.  People interested in lead musical roles and have not been in a lead role at Lakewood previously should be prepared to sing a solo.  We provide an accompanist or you may bring your own.

Auditions for all straight plays will be held:

Saturday March 24 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Sunday March 25 from noon to 4:00 pm

 

Actors will meet individually with each director on a “first come” basis for cold readings from the script. If you have appeared at Lakewood and would be satisfied with any role offered, just let us know and you do not have to attend auditions. We’ll pick the part for you.

 

CALL BACKS will be Saturday March 31.     FIRST CALL will be Saturday April 7.

If you are unable to make any of the audition dates but still wish to be considered for a part please e-mail us lakewoodtheatre1901@gmail.com.  We will make every effort to accommodate you at another time for an audition.

 

Pageant Play(satirical farce)

Welcome to the hilarious, terrifying and surreal world of child beauty pageants. Pinky Corningfield will do anything to make sure her little angel wins the ultimate title, Supreme Queen. When Marge, a newcomer to the pageant circuit, shows up and starts grabbing all the glory, PInky and her minions, Bob and Bobby, use some unorthodox methods in order to ensure her darling, Chevrolet, is victorious. Glitz. Glamour. Kidnapping. Money. and really small false teeth.                                         

2 men, 2 women

Actor One         Pinky, mother of Chevrolet. A very wealthy southern "Belle" who is always dressed impeccably, with lots of diamonds and feathers and pink. Lots of pink!

Actor Two          Marge, mother of Puddles, wears things like stonewashed tapered jeans.

                          PInky's Mother a flashback to 1987, constantly nurses a gin and tonic

Actor Three      Bobby, pageant coach and co owner of "Touch the Sky Finesse Coaching"

                         Buddy, Marge's abusive husband, currently in county jail.

Actor Four        Bob, pageant coach & shyer than his flashier partner, Bobby

                         Gunnar, husband of Pinky

 

Enchanted April  (dramedy)            

 

When two frustrated London housewives decide to rent a villa in Italy for a holiday away from their bleak marriages, they recruit two very different English women to share the cost and the experience.  There, among the wisteria blossoms and Mediterranean sunshine, all four bloom again—rediscovering themselves in ways that they—and we—could never have expected.

(3 men 3 women)

 

Lotty Wilton                           thirty, a Hampstead housewife

 

Mellersh Wilton                      thirty-two, her husband, a solicitor

 

Rose Arnott                            thirty-eight, a Hampstead housewife

 

Frederick Arnott                     forty-five, her husband, a writer

 

Caroline Bramble                    25, a socialite

 

Antony Wilding                      25, an artist

Mrs. Graves               Older woman, paces regally, highly proper and walks with the aid of  a stick.

 Costanza                                 60s, an Italian housekeeper

 

 

  

  

 

And the Winner Is  (feel good comedy)

 

Mitch Albom’s And the Winner Is tells the comic story of Tyler Johnes, a self-obsessed movie star, who is finally nominated for an Oscar, then dies the night before the awards.  Outraged at his bad luck and determined to know if he wins (even though he’s dead), he bargains with a heavenly gatekeeper to return to earth for the big night.  Along the way, he drags his agent, his acting rival, his bombshell girlfriend and his ex-wife into the journey, in a wildly twisting tale of Hollywood, the afterlife, and how we are judged.   (4 men & 2 women)

 

 

 

Tyler Johnes                            early 40s Oscar nominated actor. A player     

 

Seamus                                    an old Irishman barkeep.

 

Teddy LaPetite                         Tyler’s agent, a short tense man

 

Kyle Morgan                            late 20s, well built, actor friend of Tyler.

 

Sheri                                        Tyler’s wife.

 

Serenity                                   Tyler’s date to the Oscars. Young starlet.

 

 

 

 

9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL

What a way to make a living!

9 to 5: The Musical is a hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era. It tells the story of three unlikely friends who conspire to take control of their company and learn there’s nothing they can’t do – even in a man’s world.  Outrageous, thought-provoking and even a little romantic, 9 to 5 is about teaming up and taking care of business… it’s about getting credit and getting even….

 (7 Men & 8 Women, 3 male chorus and 3 female chorus)

 

Violet Newstead*                                40’s smart and efficient,                                                       (F below middle C to 2^nd D above middle C)alto

 

Doralee Rhodes*                                  late 20’s sexy as hell country gal, warm and personable   (E below middle C to 2^nd D above middle C) alto

 

Judy Bernly*                                       Mid 30s, a bit meek                                                              (A below middle C to D above middle C) alto

 

Franklin Hart, Jr.*                                smarmy, pompous boss                                                    (low C to 1st F above middle C)baritone

 

Roz Keith*                                          company snitch and second only to Mr. Hart                       (G below middle C to C above middle C)alto

 

Joe*                                        handsome, young accountant, smitten with Violet, the older  woman.(G to 2^nd C above middle C)tenor

                                                           

Dwayne Rhodes                                  Doralee’s husband

 

Josh                                                     Violet’s teenage son

 

Missy                                        Mr. Hart’s wife, fluttery and ditzy and is clueless to his true nature.

 

Maria                                                   young and vibrant secretary

 

Dick                                                     Judy’s husband, average middle-aged guy

 

Kathy                                                   the office gossip

 

Margaret                                              the office lush

 

Bob Enright                                         Mr. Hart’s “golden boy”

 

Tinsworthy                                          has the bearing of an army general, Hart’s boss

 

Detective

 

Doctor

 

Candy Striper

 

An assortment of office secretaries and accountants

*          Principal singers



 

THE FOX ON THE FAIRWAY    (comedy)                                      

 

A tribute from Ken Ludwig to the great English farces of the 1930s & 1940s, Fox takes audiences on a hilarious romp which pulls the rug out from underneath the stuffy denizens of a private country club. Filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors, and over-the-top romantic shenanigans, it’s a furiously pace comedy that recalls the Marx Brothers’ classic.

 (3 Women & 3 Men)

 

Justin                                       About 25, offbeat, sweet, anxious, a bundle of nerves with unruly hair

 

Louise                                                 A waitress at the golf club. Early 20s, good-natured, and a little ditzy.

 

Mr. Bingham                           Owner of the Quail Valley golf club

 

Richard Bell                            Owner of the rival Crouching Squirrel golf club.

 

Pamela Peabody               Blondly beautiful, impeccable clothes and clearly a member of the club 

                                          Ex-wife of Richard

Muriel                                  Wife of Mr. Bingham, a rather sturdy woman who wears a porkpie hat

 

THE MUSIC MAN 

           

76 Trombones lead the big parade!

 

An affectionate nod to Smalltown, USA of a bygone era, The Music Man follows fast-talking traveling salesman Harold Hill as he cons the people of River City, Iowa into buying instruments and uniforms for a boys’ band he vows to organize – this despite the fact he doesn’t know a trombone from a treble clef.  His plans to skip town with the cash are foiled when he falls for Marian the librarian, who transforms him into a respectable citizen by curtain’s fall.  (6 Men & 9 Women & 1 young girl & 1 young boy 1 teenage boy and 2 teenage girls & chorus of townspeople and youth)

 

* Principal Singers

 

Harold Hill*           The ultimate con artist ( 2^nd A flat below middle C to F above middle C) baritone

 

Mayor Shinn                                        flustered Mayor of River City

 

Marcellus Washburn*     A former sidekick of Harold Hill (G below middle C to A above middle C) tenor

 

Tommy Djilas                      Older teenager who becomes Harold’s protégé. The town’s “bad” boy

 

Marian Paroo*                     Cold uptight librarian (G below middle C to high A) soprano

 

Mrs. Paroo*                                          mother to Marian and Winthrop (A flat – E flat)

 

Amaryllis*                                            One of Marian’s piano students (middle C to 2^nd E) 

 

Winthrop Paroo*                  Marian’s much younger brother who speaks with a lisp, shy.       (middle C to 2^nd e flat)

 

Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn                 the mayor’s  peacock wife

 

Zaneeta Shinn                                      the mayor’s daughter

 

Gracie Shinn                                         the mayor’s daughter

 

Alma Hix                                              gossipy townsperson 

 

Maud Dunlop                                                       “

 

Ethel Toffelmier                                                  “

 

Mrs. Squires                                                          “

 

Constable Locke                                  

 

The Buffalo Bills                                 The barbershop quartet has been cast.          

 

Traveling Salesmen, Kids of River City, Men of River City

 

 

 

  

 

MURDERED TO DEATH (mystery/comedy)                     

 

This hilarious spoof of the best of Agatha Christie traditions is set in a country manor house in the 1930s, with an assembled cast of characters guaranteed to delight—Bunting, the butler; an English Colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip; a shady French art dealer and his moll;  the bumbling local inspector and a well-meaning local sleuth who seems to attract murder wherever she goes—they’re all here, and all caught up in the side-splitting antics which follow the mysterious death of the house’s owner.  It soon becomes clear that the murderer isn’t finished yet, but will the murderer be unmasked before everyone else has met their doom, or will readers and audiences die laughing first?

 

(5 men & 5 women)

 

 

Mildred Bagshot                         late 50s, wealthy owner of Bagshot Manor

 

Dorothy                                      late 20s, plainly dressed, companion and housekeeper to Mildred

 

Bunting                  late 60s to 70s, the butler whose speech and demeanor is slow and measured

 

Colonel Charles Craddock   

                                       early 60s, dressed in tweeds and has a confident but blustering manner.

 

Margaret Craddock         somewhat younger than Charles. Unhappily married.

 

Elizabeth Hartley-Trumpington          20s, stunningly dressed and speaks with an exaggerated high society accent.

 

Pierre Marceau                        30s, art dealer that speaks in a rather exaggerated French accent.

 

Joan Maple                      60s, neighbor to Mildred. Death seems to follow her wherever she goes.

 

Constable Thompkins      Very young, by the book village police officer

 

Inspector Pratt                  An inept, posing, and clumsy walking disaster area. 45 and up.

 

 

 

THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES  (Comedy)            

 

 

Artie Shaugnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory. Toiling by day as a zoo-keeper, he suffers in seedy lounges by night, plying his wares at piano bars in Queens, New York where he lives with his wife, Bananas.  Who is, much to the chagrin of Artie’s downstairs mistress, Bunny Flingus who’ll sleep with him anytime but refuses to cook until they are can be married.  On the day the Pope is making his first visit to the city, Artie’s son Ronny goes AWOL from Fort Dix stowing a homemade-bomb intended to blow up the Pope in Yankee Stadium.  Also arriving are Artie’s old school chum, now a successful Hollywood producer, Billy with starlet girlfriend in tow, who holds the key to Artie’s dreams of getting out of Queens and away from the life he so despises.  But like many dreams, this promise of glory evaporates amid the chaos of ordinary lives. (5 men & 6 Women)

 

Artie Shaughnessy                                           Late forties, wannabe songwriter and singer

Ronnie Shaughnessy                                        His eighteen year old son

Bunny Flingus                                                 His girlfriend, pretty, electric woman

Bananas Shaughnessy                                      His schizophrenic wife           

Corrinna Stroller                                              Hollywood actress and deaf, girlfriend of Billy

The Head Nun                                                

Second Nun                            

The Little Nun                                                

The Military Policeman                                   

The White Man                                               

Billy Einhorn                                            Artie’s childhood best friend and Hollywood movie maker

 

 

 

WHO GOES BARE (Hilarious farce)

 

 

Running a Health and Strength Home in a large and somewhat decaying country mansion can be a hazardous undertaking at any time, as Eddie Manchip knows.  When one is further beset by a sinister crook to whom one has signed away the deeds of the house as payment of a gambling debt; a complete desertion of the staff except for one half-witted and generally hysterically excited maid; an erring, pompous brother; his suspicious wife; a tennis-player in the nude; a quick-change artist who appears as someone different every ten minutes or so; the tennis player’s kilted Scottish husband; and a hearty countrywoman grabbing second-hand clothing—then the result can be, in a word – chaos. (6 men & 4 women)

 

Edward Manchip                     40s, tall, usually elegant, dilettante ladies’ man if somewhat unctuous charm.

 

 

Brian Manchip         Shorter, tubbier, stodgier, than his brother. A pompous prig dressed formally.

 

 

Joan Manchip                          Wife of Brian, an attractive woman, fashionably dressed.

 

 

Nancy McSmith                       An attractive woman who wears the miniest of clothing.

 

 

Angus McSmith                       Husband of Nancy, tall and wears a Tam o’shanter and kilt, serious

 

 

Maxie Maudlin                        50ish, very twitchy, a famous quick change artist

 

 

Minnie                                     A short lumpy woman, and wears thick pebble glasses. The maid.

 

 

Mrs. Court-Bending                 A hale and hearty, middle aged country lady

 

Mr. Butcher                             A large square man dressed in black with mob connections

 

Police Sergeant                       Officer who takes his job seriously