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Location, Dates & Times
Production
Five women: Three main cast members, plus two actresses to fill a combination of six smaller roles.
Main characters:
FANNY WILD (60s)
- Stylish and energetic
- Director of Research at Museum of Virginia
- Widowed 6 years
- Worried about getting older
- The rock of the family
WILLA WILD (50s)
- An experienced nurse, known as "wonder woman" at work
- Witty and pragmatic
- Highly stressed
JOHNNIE 'JEF' FAYE (50s)
- A cyclone of southern energy, drama always seems to follow her
- Lost her husband a year ago -- desperate to find a man
Minor characters - TWO actresses will fill these six parts:
Doreen (60s)
Dynamic lawyer, broke the glass ceiling as the first female partner of her firm. Learned to play the game by her own rules.
Nora (50s)
Became a historical re-enactment actor after burning out in her former job as an event planner in the hotel industry.
Edith (late 40s)
Mild-mannered, abandoned by her mother as a child.
Betty (40s)
Dishevelled mother of two sets of twins.
Glenda
Pleasant, elderly widow. Looks after her "little sister" Flo.
Flo
Pleasant, elderly widow. Has a secret that Glenda doesn't know ... yet.
Please Note:
- The January 13th auditions will be for Fanny, Willa and Jef.
- The January 15th auditions will be for the other 6 parts / 2 actors.
- You are more than welcome to attend both auditions.
- We will be using Southern accents, and a dialect coach will be part of the rehearsal process.
Our auditions and rehearsals will take place at our Backstage Theatre on the grounds of the Markham Museum.
The performance (April 30 - May 3) will take place at Flato Markham Theatre.
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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ACT-CO Callboard PDOVers. 4.1 Feb 08, 2024 [JBW]