Open Call for Auditions - The Night I Died at the Palace Theatre

The River City Community Players announces an Open Call for auditions for The Night I Died at the Palace Theatre.

Written by Pat Cook

Directed by Richard S. Bayse

The Palace Theatre actors are just getting ready to rehearse the final scene for their latest production, "I Ain't Got No Body," when they run into a snag.

The director who wrote the play is found dead onstage. Lois is shocked into an allergy attack! Ava faints! Luther orders a pizza! There's a lot of disbelief among the troupe until it becomes quite evident that Dexter Allan has, indeed, shuffled off this mortal coil. Not only that, he owed several of the actors a lot of money. "I know you can't take it with you," Gordon moans, "but apparently you can take somebody else's!"

And then Frances dies! Only she doesn't really die. And then the pizza kid shows up. Only he really isn't the pizza kid. The one thing they all are sure of is their director is dead … or is he?

Timothy accuses Gordon! Glenda accuses Dana! Luther can't figure out where his pizza is. And baby-faced detective Jimmy Todd has to put together all the clues.

Maybe, thinks Jimmy, there are clues in the play they are producing. After all, Dexter wrote it. Was he trying to leave a hint? Or was he murdered for what was in that missing final scene?

Clues intermingle with unveiled threats as cast member turns against cast member. Who heard Dexter's final words?

Who kept threatening him for all to hear? And just when is Luther going to get his pizza anyway?

AUDITION DATES: Monday, March 11 and Tuesday, March 12, 2013 from 7 - 9 p.m.

Open auditions will consist of cold readings from the script.

LOCATION: River City Community Players, 5th & Delaware Streets, Leavenworth, KS 66048

PRODUCTION DATES: April 19, 20, 26, 27 and May 3, 4, 2013 at 8 p.m., and an April 28, 2013 at 2 p.m., matinee.

BRING: Current Resume and a complete list of conflicts from 13 March – 4 May.

Dedication and commitment to River City Community Players, the director and fellow actors is of utmost importance.

Headshots are welcome, but not required.

Rehearsals will start on Wednesday, March 13 and run Sunday-Thursday.

CAST OF CHARACTERS
Theodore Butler Swiss janitor with a secret, mid-40s
Dana Pugh - mousey assistant director, late 20s to early 30s
Lois Birdwell - emotional hypochondriac, mid-30s
Kalene Cooper - egotistic actress, mid- to late 30s
Gordon Donnell - complaining actor, late 30s to early 40s
Ava Donnell - Gordon's southern belle wife, mid- to late 30s
Glenda Howard - sarcastic dowager, 50+
Luther Wallace - not-to-bright actor, 30ish
Timothy Price - pompous actor, 40ish
Frances Preston - tomboy of an actress, mid-30s
Jimmy Todd - baby-faced but brilliant policeman
Sgt. Mike Mallory - by-the-book cop, 40ish

Leavenworth Performing Arts Center, 500 Delaware St, (913) 651-0027, www.rccplv.com

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