Auditions

Please Note:

• This is a non-professional production and the actors do not get paid
• The GTC does not have understudies for any roles and actors are required to be present for ALL performances
• Next to all character profiles is the singing range - Please audition for the part which is most suitable for your range, age group and personality
• To audition: you will need to contact the director to get the music for a song(s) from the show and be confident to perform this at the audition with a pianist, you may also be required to sing a song of your choice (unaccompanied) and read a scene from the play
• You will also need to complete the audition form ahead of time and send it with a photo to the director and secure an audition timeslot
• Below is a list of characters from the script. We may double the parts as suggested, but at this stage I hope we will have a larger cast. I would like an extra 3-5 women and 1-3 men to form a chorus

Director's email: Debbie Smith ladies@genesiantheatre.com.au phone 0437937802

Auditions

To request an audition please download an audition form and email the completed form along with your CV and headshot to ladies@genesiantheatre.com.au.

Characters

Lisa 16. A thin, shy bookworm, who is described as having neither style nore beauty, yet emerges with both at the end of the story. G#3-D5

Myra / Dawn Myra is Fay's best friend - buxom, cheerful and out for a good time. Dawn is Patty's sister - forthrignht, cynical and rough round the edges. A3-B4

Patty 32 year old, unhappily married shop assistant at Goodes. She has failed to have a baby and her husband is chronically uncommunicative. G3-Eb5

Frank Patty's 35-40 year old husband. Described by others as 'gormless' Frank is a tile salesman with little ambition or vitality. G#2-G4

Magda An exotic Hungarian of about 40. In charge of Model Gowns at Goodes, she is the embodiment of European style, glamourous, educated and beautifully presented. A3-E5

Rudi / Lloyd / Fred Potentially all played by one actor in his mid to late 30s. Lloyd and Fred are two Australian men on the look-out for a good time. Rudi is Hungarian refugee on the look-out for a wife. He is charming, well-read, irrepressible, a beautiful dancer and a genuine lover of women. C3-A4

Mrs Miles Lisa's mother, in her late thirties or forties. She dotes on her daughter, is proud of her and wants the best for her. D4-A4

Miss Cartwright / Joy / Customer A potential double for an actress of about 40. Miss Cartwright is the blue-stocking, crisply authoritative manager of the Ladies Department at Goodes. Joy is Patty's older sister. Exhausted by motherhood and housework, she doesn't live up to her name A3-C#5

Miss Jacobs / Mrs Crown A potential double for an actress in her sixties. Miss Jacobs has worked in Goodes her whole life. Mrs Crown is Patty's mother. E3-C5 / A3-A4

Fay 29 year old shop assistant at Goodes. Pretty and cheerful, but has had a series of unfortunate relationships with unsuitable men. G3-Eb5

Mr Miles / Stefan Both are in their 40's. Me Miles is stiff, conservative and authoritarian. Stefan is an ebullient Hungarian intellectual and bon vivant. G2-D4 / D2-C4