Making God Laugh
by Lee County Center for the ARTS (LCCA)

Sep. 09 - Sep. 10

Auditions for a role in Making God Laugh with Lee County Center for the ARTS (LCCA) on Sep 09 through Sep 10.

Auditions for Making God Laugh
by Sean Grennan | directed by Gayle Hargis
 
Auditions
Monday-Tuesday, September 9-10, 2024, 7:00-9:00 pm

  • Cold reads, no appointment necessary

 
Rehearsals
Monday-Thursday, September 16-October 17, 7:00-9:30 pm

  • No rehearsal October 14 (Indigenous Persons Day)

Monday-Thursday, October 21- October 24, 6:30-10:00 pm

  • Tech Week

Pick-up rehearsal (if required) Wednesday, October 30, 7:00-9:30 pm

Performances
October 25-November 3, 2024

  • Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm (cast call 6:30 pm)
  • Sundays at 2:30 pm (cast call 1:30 pm)


Available Roles (Characters age 30 years over the course of the show)


Ruthie, the matriarch of the family. She starts the play in her late forties or early fifties and ages thirty years as does everyone. She’s bossy, authoritative, means will 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 bottom, way down there, truly loves them all.
 
Bill, our patriarch. He loves everyone and is a go-with-the-flow sort. Easygoing, wouldn’t hurt 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 a little in fear of Ruthie, but the worm turns when it must.
 
Richard, eldest son. Mid-to-late twenties as we start. He wants to conquer the world and is always looking for ways to do that. Not a plugger, more of an entrepreneur. He buys the latest everything and dresses “up to the second” stylish. He’s a good guy but has perhaps seen too many movies of how men behave rather than behaving as he would. A one-time football hero, he misses that kind of spotlight.
 
Maddie, second child. Mid-twenties at the top. 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.
 
Thomas, son two, 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 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 had his life turn out differently than he planned.

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