Open Auditions

Monday and Tuesday
December 10 and 11, 2018
7:00 p.m


Produced by CHERYL KERN
Directed by CATHY CUTSHALL


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Buck Creek Playhouse will hold open auditions for MAKING GOD LAUGH, a comedy-drama by Sean Grennan, on Monday and Tuesday, December 10 and 11, 2018, at 7 p.m. at the playhouse, 11150 Southeastern Avenue.  Director Cathy Cutshall is looking for a diverse group of three men and two women for this production.  All roles are available.

AUDITION PREPARATION

• Please be prepared to read from the script.
• MAKING GOD LAUGH is scheduled for six performances, weekends March 29-April 7, 2019. Please bring a list of all conflicts from January through early April 2019.

Reading copies of the script may be purchased here.

MAKING GOD LAUGH follows one typical American family over the course of thirty years' worth of holidays. Starting in 1980, Ruthie and Bill's grown children -- a priest, an aspiring actress, and a former football star -- all return home, where we learn of their plans and dreams as they embark on their adult lives. The empty-nester parents contend with their own changes, too, as old family rituals are trotted out and ancient tensions flare up. As time passes, the family discovers that, despite what we may have in mind, we often arrive at unexpected destinations.

​As Woody Allen once said, "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans..."

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AVAILABLE ROLES

Casting requires performers to believably achieve a 30-year progression in age with the help of costumes
​and some make-up.

PLEASE NOTE:  Characters will age 30 years. Ages listed below are the ages of each character at the beginning of the play.

CHARACTER	SEX / ESTIMATED AGE	DESCRIPTION
RUTHIE	Female, late 40s to early 50s	She is the matriarch of the family.  She’s bossy, authoritative, means well but tries to steer the world more than is humanly possible.  She needles each of her children and even her husband, Bill, to an extent but at the bottom, way down there, truly loves them all.
BILL	Male, mid- to late 50s	He loves everyone and is a go-with-the-flow sort. Easygoing, wouldn’t hthreeurt anyone’s feelings, desperately in love with his kids and wife. Being the dad of these people and Ruthie’s husband is his life’s work and he’s successful at it.  He lives in fear of Ruthie but the worm turns when it must
RICHARD	Male, mid- to late 20s	The eldest son. An ex-football star who misses the spotlight, he’s still trying to find himself. He looks for get rich quick opportunities and is easily caught up in the newest fades.  He’s a good guy but has perhaps seen too many movies of how men behave rather than behaving as he would.
MADDIE	Female, mid-20s	The second child. She’s an aspiring actress. A strong-willed person who loves her family. She’s closest to Thomas and the two of them have a long-standing habit of picking on their big brother as a team. It’s good-natured except when it’s not.  Of all the kids, she’s the only one to have moved away from her hometown.  She lives in New York and struggles with the artist’s life as well as her life-life.  She and her mother have a difficult relationship.  They know how to push each other’s buttons, and often do.
THOMAS	Male, early to mid-20s	The baby of the family and the “good” son.  A nice, even-tempered guy, in the style of his father, who thought his life was on a plan.  A devoutly religious man studying for the priesthood at the beginning he’s nonetheless, funny, warm and not at all rigid in his approach to life. He means very well but like everyone has his life turn out differently than he planned.