OPEN AUDITIONS

Over The River And Through The Woods

A Comedy of Family Ties..and Food!
by Joe DePietro
(writer of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change)

Directed by Michael Pevzner

Auditions - Mon, Feb. 6th & Wed, Feb. 8th - 7:00pm.
Come either night; no appointment necessary.

At the Alley Theatre in the Burt Wood School of Performing Arts
133 Centre St., Middleboro, MA
Minutes from Rts. 44, 24 and 495

Auditions consist of readings from the script.

Performances: Fri/Sat, April 20, 21, 27, 28, May 4, 5

Rehearsals begin week of February 27th.

Questions? Interested but can't make auditions? e-mail: [email protected]; 781-910-2938

Characters: 3 men/ 3 women. All but Caitlin are Italian-American. Nick is 2nd generation; his grandparents were immigrants to this land of opportunity. Older characters do not have to be played by old actors, but actors who can convincingly play and look old.

Nick - late 20's, early 30's. A young man looking to change his prospects...and his future.
Frank - Nick's maternal grandfather, 70's/80's.
Nunzio - Nick's paternal grandfather, 70's/80's.

Aida - Nick's maternal grandmother, 70's.
Emma - Nick's paternal grandmother, 70's.
Caitlin - A disarmingly attractive girl in her mid to late-20's.

The play:

Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey. His parents retired and moved to Florida. Both sets of grandparents, of course, still live in Jersey, where he dutifully comes every Sunday for a sumptuous and noisy meal. Then one day Nick tells his grandparents he's been offered a dream job in Seattle that will take him away... far away. His disheartened grandparents despair of the family breaking up and thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around. This leads the grandparents to bring in the lovely - and single - Caitlin O'Hare as bait. The play is an Italian-American Neil Simon-ish family comedy. It's very funny, but it also touches the right sentimental chord of family ties and inevitable change.