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Location, Dates & Times
Production
Cast: (All Female)
Fanny Wild Cantrelle: (Age 60): Museum curator, fairly put together and very family
oriented. Feeling overwhelmed by the pressure of her job, taking care of her elderly
aunt and her impending 60th birthday.
Willa Wild: (Mid 50’s): A nurse who is looking for ways to unwind and relax.
Supportive sister of Fanny who is trying to get Fanny to take life a little less serious
and be there to help her take the load o.
Johnnie Faye “Jef” Wild: (Mid 50’s): The sister-in-law of Fanny and Willa. A recent
widow, she is ready to “come out of mourning” and find a new man. Less
predictable and controlled then the two sisters.
Interview Characters: (These can be played by individual actresses, or one actress can
play multiple interviews—These Characters will require minimal rehearsal time)
Doreen Whitman: 60’s
Betty Dunlap: Early 40’s
Glenda Bates: Late 70’s
Flo Hudson: Late 70’s
Nora Griin: 50’s
Edith Macklin: Late 40’s
Rehearsals will be 1-2 evenings a week and Sunday Evening. Full rehearsal
schedule will be available at auditions or by email. Limited rehearsals over
Christmas Break.
Tech Week (Must be available): February 9-14 2025
Show Dates: Feb. 15, 16 21, 22, 2025
Synopsis:
This joyful and exuberant, yet ultimately touching, comedy focuses on three women at
crossroads in their lives—the Wild sisters of Winedale, Virginia—Fanny and Willa and their
frustratingly quirky sister-in-law Johnnie Faye. This feisty and fun-loving trio has supported
and cheered one another through life’s highs and lows through the years, including the
early demise of two of their husbands. And they really need each other now, as Fanny
experiences a hilariously inappropriate reaction to her 60th birthday, while Willa is so
stressed out from her nursing job she resorts to vodka and speed-knitting to cope, and
Johnnie Faye, determined to put her year of fraught widowhood behind her, desperately
tries to find a man—preferably a man with a house, since hers is somewhere at the bottom
of a Florida sinkhole. These women’s lives are further upended by the responsibility of
caring for their free-spirited, ailing aunt and the realization that they are drowning under
loads of family keepsakes and possessions nobody wants—especially them! With equal
doses of hilarity and heart, these extraordinary women come up with delightful and
surprisingly unorthodox ways to clear the clutter from their lives, their homes and their
relationships so they can move their lives forward. Together they prove it’s never too late to
take another one of life’s paths for a grand new adventure.
This joyful and exuberant, yet ultimately touching, comedy focuses on three women at crossroads in their lives—the Wild sisters of Winedale, Virginia—Fanny and Willa and their frustratingly quirky sister-in-law Johnnie Faye. This feisty and fun-loving trio has supported and cheered one another through life’s highs and lows through the years, including the early demise of two of their husbands. And they really need each other now, as Fanny experiences a hilariously inappropriate reaction to her 60th birthday, while Willa is so stressed out from her nursing job she resorts to vodka and speed-knitting to cope, and Johnnie Faye, determined to put her year of fraught widowhood behind her, desperately tries to find a man—preferably a man with a house, since hers is somewhere at the bottom of a Florida sinkhole.
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