"The Cemetery Club" - by Ivan Menchell - Calliope Productions (Boylston, MA.) - AUDITIONS
Calliope Productions
Will Hold AUDITIONS
for Ivan Menchell's
"THE CEMETERY CLUB"
Written by Ivan Menchell
Directed by Matt Carr
Casting: 4 females, 1 male
Audition Dates:
December 8, 2024 from 7:00pm - 9:30pm (arrive at 7:00)
December 9, 2024 from 7:00 pm - 9:30pm (arrive at 7:00)
Call-backs (if needed): December 11, 2024 at 7:00pm
All actors will be considered for all roles, regardless of gender identity/expression, ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, age, ability, etc.
Rehearsal Schedule:
Rehearsals begin Sunday, January 26, for two weeks. No rehearsals during the week of February 9. Rehearsals resume on Sunday, February 16, for four weeks. Sunday afternoons (2:00pm – 6:00pm). Monday and Wednesday evenings (7:00pm – 10:00pm). Tech Week begins Sunday, March 16, rehearsing every day during Tech Week.
REQUIRED:
Email your preferred audition date along with your resume to the director at mattcarr@charter.net. Include a recent photo; it need not be a professional headshot; a recent “selfie” will do.
Auditions will consist of prepared monologues and readings from the play.
Preparation: Read the play.
Prepare a short monologue from the play (2 minutes MAX).
Prepare selected readings from the play (to be provided a few days before auditions).
CALLIOPE THEATRE, 150 Main Street, in Boylston, MA.
CAST OF CHARACTERS (all in their late 50s - 60s):
Ida (Female) – Diplomatic, friendly, modest, well-mannered, and well adjusted. She had a close and happy relationship with her late husband. Ida is a nurturing and sweet person – but she delivers her share of wisecracks. She is ready to move on to find male companionship again.
Lucille (Female) - Outrageous, funny, and extroverted. Ida is the feisty girl with the big personality, who just wants to have fun. Although she often provides comic relief and competes for attention from men, she also hides her heartache which she covers up with humor.
Doris (Female) - Conservative, judgmental, and reluctant to change. She still lives for her late husband, although he’s been dead for four years. Sensitive and sometimes defensive, Doris disapproves of her friends who are trying to find love again - but values their friendship and shared bonds.
Sam (Male) - The neighborhood butcher, a widower. He is easy-going, a thoroughly nice person, and a people-pleaser. Sam loved his late wife, but he is lonely and wants to have female companionship again.
Mildred (Female) - Sam’s unexpected date for a wedding party he is attending along with the three widowed friends. She is chatty, intrusive, and totally out of sync with the other three women - and with Sam too.
Performances:
March 20, 2025 through March 30, 2025
(Contact Box Office for Exact Times)TICKETS:
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ABOUT THE SHOW
In Ivan Menchell's "THE CEMETERY CLUB" three Jewish widows meet once a month for tea before going to visit their husbands’ graves.
Ida is sweet tempered and ready to begin a new life; Lucille is a feisty embodiment of the girl who just wants to have fun; and Doris is priggish and judgmental, particularly when Sam the butcher enters the scene.
He meets the widows while visiting his wife’s grave.
Doris and Lucille squash the budding romance between Sam and Ida.
They are guilt-stricken when this nearly breaks Ida’s heart.
The Broadway production starred Eileen Heckart as Lucille.
It was made into a film, starring Ellen Burstyn, Dianne Ladd and Olympia Dukakis. (CONCORD THEATRICALS)
ABOUT CALLIOPE PRODUCTIONS
CALLIOPE PRODUCTIONS is a year-round non-profit theatre company founded in 1982 that serves the needs and interests of audiences and performers in the Central Massachusetts region. CALLIOPE PRODUCTIONS presents six main-stage productions each year, and operates performance training workshops for students (ages 9 - 18) and adults. CALLIOPE PRODUCTIONS is a member of the American Association of Community Theatre, the Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theatres and the Worcester Cultural Coalition.
150 Main Street
Boylston, MA. 01505
# 508-869-6887
