Brecksville Little Theatre Auditions

Auditions:

Auditions for the family musical,
Crossroads
will be held on
Tuesday, November 27 and Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
Blossom School
4400 Oakes Road, Brecksville, Ohio

Director: Ruth Wheaton
Musical Director: Gail Wirick
Choreographer: Dorothy Hetzel
Producers: Bob Rauch and Joe Vartorella

Roles are available for 3 women and 3 men with strong voices.
The action takes place in North Carolina, and southern accents will be required.
Please dress for movement and be prepared to read from the script
and to sing an upbeat song of your choice.
Bring your own sheet music - an accompanist will be provided.

Performance dates are
March 7, 8, 14, 15, 16 (a Sunday matinee), 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 2008.

Character description:

Miss Eva (age 40-50) - widow of a country doctor, practicing medicine without a license
Nell (age 13-18) - Eva's imaginative daughter
Grandpa (age 60-70) - Eva's father, a hellfire retired minister.
Lomax (age 30-40) - handyman
Lavinia (age 30-40) - schoolteacher and part time switchboard operator
The cowboy (age 30-50) - mysterious refugee from a train wreck

Synopsis:

The setting is a rural town in 1914. In the Potter home which is also the doctor's office, a boarding house and the telephone exchange, life is pretty humdrum until a train carrying Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show derails just outside town.
Buffaloes and Indians roaming the cornfields make the switchboard light up, and a cowboy with a nasty bump on his head wanders to the house. As he recuperates, he turns life upside down for the Potter household.
A Northeast Ohio premiere, this musical is based on an actual Wild West Show train wreck in North Carolina and is filled with toe-tapping music and heartfelt lyrics.

For additional information, please call the director at 216-524-6677.

Auditions are open, and are generally held 8 weeks prior to the opening of a show.