Open Auditions

Monday and Tuesday
April 2 and 3, 2018
7:00 p.m

Produced by BOBBI GRIFFIS
Directed by TIM SPRADLIN
Assistant Directed by TRACY FRIDDLE
Set Design & Technical Directed by JOHN WALKER
Lighting Design by ERIC MATTERS
Costumes by LYNN SANDERS
Properties by LINDA PARR and LINDA SUBA
Stage Managed by AMANDA LANE

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Buck Creek Playhouse will hold open auditions for THE RAINMAKER, a romantic comedy by N. Richard Nash, on Monday and Tuesday, April 2 and 3, 2018, at 7 p.m. at the playhouse, 11150 Southeastern Avenue.  Director Tim Spradlin is looking for a diverse group of six men and one woman for this production.  All roles are available.


AUDITION PREPARATION

• Please be prepared to read from the script.
• THE RAINMAKER is scheduled for six performances, weekends August 3-12, 2018. Please bring a list of all conflicts from June through early August 2018.

Reading copies of the script may be purchased here.

At the time of a paralyzing drought in the Depression-era West, we discover a girl whose father and two brothers are worried as much about her potential future as an old maid as they are about their dying cattle. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, appears a roguish, sweet-talking man with quite the sales pitch. Claiming to be a "rainmaker," he promises to bring rain--for $100. Meanwhile the rainmaker also turns his magic on the girl, and persuades her that she has a very real beauty of her own. She believes it, just as her father believes the fellow can actually bring rain. Rain does come...and so does love.

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AVAILABLE ROLES

CHARACTER	SEX / ESTIMATED AGE	DESCRIPTION
LIZZIE CURRY	Female, 20s to 30s	The single female character of the play. Headstrong yet uncomfortable around men. Is described as plain.
FILE	Male, 30s to 40s	Town deputy and gentleman caller of Lizzie.  A man who has been heartbroken because of the way his marriage ended.
BILL STARBUCK	Male, 30s to 40s	A drifter con man.
H.C. CURRY	Male, 50s to 70s	​Patriarch of the Curry family. Easy-going.
SHERIFF THOMAS	Male, 40s to 50s	The town sheriff.
JIM CURRY	Male, 19 to early 20s	Lizzie's flighty younger brother. He is every bit "Jethro Clampett."
NOAH CURRY	Male, 30s to early 40s	Lizzie's hard-bitten, realist older brother.