A Murder Is Announced
by Different Stages

Jul. 29 - Jul. 30

An announcement in the local paper states the time and place of an imminent murder. When an unknown visitor to Miss Blacklock’s Victorian home dies under the prescribed circumstances, Miss Marple turns up to solve the case.

 

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AUDITIONS    AUDITIONS    AUDITIONS

 

A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie

Adapted by Leslie Darbon

Monday, July 29 and Tuesday, July 30, 2024,  7:00 - 9:50 p.m.

VIOLET CROWN CITY CHURCH

1300 MORROW ST

AUSTIN, TX 78757

Casting 7 WOMEN AGES 18-65

4 MEN AGES 18-55

Director Norman Blumensaadt

DIFFERENT STAGES

6205 HANEY DR, AUSTIN, TEXAS 78723

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Production dates: NOVEMBER 22 – DECEMBER 14, 2024

at THE VORTEX, ON MANOR RD

Rehearsals Oct 12 to Nov 21, MON-THUR 7-10 PM, EITHER SAT OR SUN 1-4 PM

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POC AND ALL ETHNICITES ENCOURAGED TO AUDITION.  WE ARE ACTIVELY SEEKING A DIVERSE CAST!

ACTORS ARE STRONGLY URGED TO READ THE SCRIPT BEFORE THE AUDITIONS - 

Actor stipend provided

 

CHARACTERS: 

·       Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster and amateur detective.

·       Inspector Dermot Craddock, lead detective on the case.

·       Letitia Blacklock, lady of the house called Little Paddocks, in her sixties.

·       Dora Bunner, Letitia's fluttery childhood friend, usually known by her nickname, "Bunny".

·       Patrick Simmons, Miss Blacklock's young cousin. He calls her "aunt" due to the difference in ages.

·       Julia Simmons, sister of Patrick.

·       Mitzi, Miss Blacklock's foreign housekeeper and cook, a refugee from Europe.

·       Phillipa Haymes, a young widow with a young son, Harry, at boarding school. She is a paying guest at Little Paddocks and works nearby as a gardener.

·       Mrs. Swettenham, a widow who dotes on her grown son, Edmund.

·       Edmund Swettenham, a cynical young writer who is in love with Phillipa.

·       Rudi Scherz, a young man of Swiss extraction, the receptionist at a local spa hotel, and small-time thief.

·       Sargent Mellors, Craddock’s right-hand man.