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Auditions — MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS

Sunday, August 11, 3:00 p.m.
Tuesday August 13, 6:00 p.m.
First United Methodist Church, Oneonta, NY

The Catskill Community Players are pleased to announce OPEN AUDITIONS for MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, coming to the Wieting Theatre in Worcester, NY on November 1, 2, and 3. Written by Agatha Christie, adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig, and directed by Mary Fralick, this infamous play takes the audience on a twisted thrill ride through the European mountains during a snowstorm as Detective Hercule Poirot races against time to solve a murder aboard the Orient Express. With a train full of suspects, will he succeed in solving the case, or will the killer strike again?

We are seeking actors for:
5 female roles, age ranges 25-50
6 male roles, age ranges 23-65

All roles are available! Auditions will be held at the First United Methodist Church, in Oneonta. At your audition, you will be asked to read pages from the script, which will be provided.

Characters:
HERCULE POIROT: Male presenting, 40-65, Belgian accent, any ethnicity.
MONSIEUR BOUC: Male presenting, 40-65, Belgian accent, any ethnicity.
MARY DEBENHAM: Female presenting, mid 20s-30s, English (standard) accent, any ethnicity. Must be comfortable kissing on stage.
COLONEL ARBUTHNOT: Male presenting, 30s, Scottish accent, any ethnicity. Must be comfortable kissing on stage.
HECTOR MCQUEEN: Male presenting, 23-35, American accent (any), any ethnicity.
MICHEL: Male presenting, 40s, French accent, any ethnicity. This actor will double as the Head Waiter of the Tokatilian Hotel, and will also need to be able to do a Turkish accent.
PRINCESS DRAGOMIROFF: Female presenting, 60s-70s, Russian accent, any ethnicity.
GRETA OHLSSON: Female presenting, 30s, Swedish accent, any ethnicity.
COUNTESS ANDRENYI: Female presenting, 25-35, Hungarian accent, any ethnicity.
HELEN HUBBARD: Female presenting, 45-60, harsh American accent, any ethnicity.
SAMUEL RATCHETT: Male presenting, 35-50, American accent (mobster – possibly Brooklyn or Chicago style).

For detailed character descriptions or to review a script prior to auditions, please contact director Mary Fralick at cherryvalleymom@gmail.com. Those interested in auditioning must provide a list of conflicts from August 25 to October 31 for rehearsal planning purposes.

Murder on the Orient Express is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

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Auditions – THE PSYCHIC

UPDATE:

Unfortunately, due to inclement weather, the January 16 auditions had to be canceled.

If you are still interested in auditioning, or being involved in the production, please email Lissa Sidoli at sidoli19 at yahoo.com

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Stay warm!

The Catskill Community Players announce auditions for their spring production of “The Psychic” by Sam Bobrick.


PLAY: The Psychic, by Sam Bobrick
DIRECTOR: Lissa Sidoli
WHEN: Sunday, Jan. 14th, 3-5pm
AND Tuesday, January 16, 5-7pm
LOCATION: First United Methodist Church
66 Chestnut St., Oneonta, NY (use Church Street entrance)
Performances
will be held at the Wieting Theater in Worcester, NY
Friday 4/26 at 7:30
Saturday 4/27 at 7:30 pm
Sunday 4/28 at 2 pm

Play description:
“The Psychic follows the chaotic life of Adam Webster, a down-on-his-luck writer, who has put a sign in his apartment window, in desperation to make the rent: “Psychic Readings $25”. The sign soon draws the interest of the lovely and conflicted Laura, her shady husband Roy, Roy’s mistress, Rita, a gangster named Johnny Bubbles, and ace Detective Norris Coslow. In the surprising twists that follow, The Psychic entangles in a hilarious murder mystery that you won’t want to miss.”


Seeking Actors for:
2 female roles ages 25-50
4 male roles ages 30-65

Characters
Adam Webster – a down-on-his-luck mystery writer
Laura Benson – an attractive woman
Roy Benson – Laura’s husband
Rita Malone – Roy’s sexy girlfriend
Johnny Bubbles – a gangster type
Norris Coslow – an NYPD detective

We hope to see you at auditions!

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Auditions — THE SAVANNAH SIPPING SOCIETY

Open Auditions For November 3, 4, 5 Comedy!

The Catskill Community Players announce
auditions for
“The Savannah Sipping Society”
a Comedy by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten

Directed by Lissa Sidoli

The Catskill Community Players announce auditions for their Fall Comedy, “The Savannah Sipping Society”, a comedy by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten, and directed by Lissa Sidoli. Roles are available for four women, ages 50-70, at all levels of acting experience.

Auditions will be held at the First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St. (use Church Street entrance) on Sunday, August 13, @ 3:00PM, and Tuesday August 15, @ 6:30PM. Those who wish to audition should bring a schedule of conflicts from August 21 through November 5 for rehearsal planning purposes. Those auditioning will be asked to read pages from the script, which will be provided. If you would like to preview a script, contact the director, Lissa Sidoli, at sidoli19@yahoo.com. The play will be presented on November 3rd and 4th at 7:30 p.m., and November 5th at 2:00 p.m., with a possible additional matinée on November 4th at 2:00 p.m., at the historic Wieting Theatre in Worcester, NY.

Play Description:
In this delightful Jones, Hope, & Wooten comedy, 4 unique women all needing to escape day-to-day routine are brought together by Fate at a yoga class and an impromptu happy hour. Each is confronting her own individual, unexpected, and unsettling life event leaving each lost and uncertain. Over the course of six months, filled with laughter, hilarious misadventures, and occasional liquid refreshment, these middle-aged women successfully bond and find the confidence to restart their lives.

Character Descriptions:

Randa: -perfectionist/workaholic struggles to cope with surprise career derailment

Dot: -must restart new life from scratch after beloved husband’s death and at a loss as to how to begin

Marlafaye: -earthy, boisterous; leaves Texas after cheating husband leaves her for his 23 year old dental hygienist to start over in Savannah, but how?

Jinx: -spunky ball of fire offers services as a much needed life coach full of ambition but little experience.

For more info on The Catskill Community Players, a 48 year old company, go to www.catskillplayers.org, AND find Catskill Community Players on Facebook.

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CCP events are made possible with public funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a program of the NYS Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and administered by The Earlville Opera House.

CCP is a recipient of a Community Events Grant administered by the Otsego County Government.

If you can volunteer to help us in any way on the production we need you! (Stage Managing, Costuming, Lighting, Ushering, Sets, Painting, Props, etc.) please reply to this email or call/text Diana Friedell if you would like to participate. dianafriedell@gmail.com; Phone: ‭(607) 433-2089‬.

AUDITIONS:

WHEN:
Sunday, August 13th
3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
AND
Tuesday, August 15th
6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.

WHERE:
First United Methodist Church
Fellowship Room
(Located on the corner of Chestnut and Church Streets. Enter through the Church Street door on the left side of the building.)

or by Special Arrangement w/Director Lissa Sidoli

BRING: Your Calendar so you can note your conflicts- any times you are NOT available to rehearse for rehearsal planning purposes. MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

Performance Dates:
Friday, November 4, 2023 at 7:30 pm
(possibly) Saturday, November 5, 2023 at 2 pm
Saturday, November 5, 2023 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, November 6, 2022 at 2 pm

All performances are at the Wieting Theater in Worcester, NY. Rehearsals will be both in Oneonta and in Worcester.

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AUDITIONS — ‘OFFICE HOURS’

The Catskill Community Players announce auditions for their spring comedy, “OFFICE HOURS”, written by Norm Foster.

Director Nancy Bondurant-Couch invites all those who are interested to give it a try. Flexible casting allows up to 16 roles with a variety of genders and ages (20s and up.)

Auditions will be held in the fellowship hall of the First United Methodist Church, 66 Chestnut St., Oneonta.

Saturday, March 4 at 3:00

Sunday, March 5 at 3:00

Those who wish to audition may attend either of those dates.

Scripts will be provided at the Audition.  Nancy asks that you bring your calendar with you to audition, so you can submit your conflicts for creating a rehearsal schedule.

Performances will be held at

The Wieting Theatre

168 Main Street, Worcester, NY 12197

Friday, May 19 at 7:30 pm

• A possible matinee performance Saturday, May 20 at 2:00 pm

Saturday, May 20 at 7:30 pm

Sunday, May 21 at 2:00 pm

For further info please email Nancy Bondurant-Couch at nancybcouch@yahoo.com 

About the Play:

Office Hours is a full-length comedy by Norm Foster. Six separate stories are unfolding in six separate offices on one Friday afternoon. In true Norm Foster style, it makes us laugh at our humanity, cleverly linking a TV news producer, a pair of Canadian movie producers, a rather unsavory agent, an entertainment lawyer, a horse track owner. and a psychiatrist. This highly acclaimed theatrical comedy is a madcap race towards quitting time. It’s a wild ride with an ending that sends the audience into a collective howl.

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Auditions — ‘EXHIBIT THIS!’

Catskill Community Players

announce

AUDITIONS for:

“Exhibit This!”

a Comedy by Luigi Jannuzzi,

Directed by Nancy Bondurant-Couch

WHEN: PLEASE NOTE- TWO DIFFERENT LOCATIONS!!

Saturday, 8/20, 3pm at the Wieting Theatre, Worcester, NY

Sunday, 8/21, 3pm + Tuesday, 8/23, 5:30pm BOTH at the First United Methodist Church, Oneonta

This new comedic hit features SEVEN comedic plays and SIX monologues based on 50+ exhibits at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. Paintings, sculptures, antiquities, & fertility gods emerge from their molds & frames. Mix in some artists, guards, critics, lovers, curators, and one very special night. In fact, even the artwork speaks to the audience!

• A great opportunity for those ready to “dip their toes” into acting!!

• Roles for a variety of genders and ages (teens and up) are available.

• Choose to work alone on a monologue, or in a scene with others!

• Scripts provided at the Audition

• Bring your Calendar for rehearsal planning

PERFORMANCES: Friday, Saturday 11/4 & 11/5 at 7:30; Sat. & Sunday 11/5 & 6, 2pm

at the Wieting Theatre in Worcester, NY

Questions? Nancy: nancybcouch@yahoo.com, Director

Diana: dianafriedell@gmail.com, 607-433-2089, Producer

“Exhibit This! The Museum Comedies” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com

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Auditions — RUMORS

The Catskill Community Players host auditions for Rumors by Neil Simon, directed by Lissa Sidoli, and produced by Diana Friedell.

Auditions
Location: Foothills PAC (ATRIUM), 24 Market, Oneonta
Dates & Times: Wednesday, September 29, 5:30-7pm
Sunday, October 3, 3:00-4:30pm
And…….over Zoom by appointment
Thursday, September 30, 5:30-7

Performances will be held at the
Worcester Wieting Theater, Worcester, NY
April 29, 30, at 8 pm and May 1 at 2 pm (2022)

Seeking Actors for 4–6 female roles and 4–6 male roles, age range 30-70

Those who wish to audition should bring a schedule of conflicts from January 10 thru May 1 (2022) for rehearsal planning purposes. Those auditioning will be asked to read pages from the script, which will be provided.

Play Description:
“America’s premier comic playwright delighted audiences with this out-and-out funny offering.

Four couples are at the townhouse of a deputy New York City mayor and his wife to celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary. The party never begins because the host has shot himself in the head (it’s only a flesh wound) and his wife is missing. His lawyer’s cover-up gets progressively more difficult to sustain as the other guests arrive and nobody can remember who has told what about whom. Doors slam and hilarity abounds as the couples get more and more crazed.”

Character breakdown
10 roles
4-6 men
4-6 women

CHRIS GORMAN – attractive woman, beautifully dressed, 30-60, lead role
KEN GORMAN – husband to Chris, lawyer, smartly dressed, 40-70, lead role

CLAIRE GANZ – attractive woman, evening gown, 30-60, supporting role
LENNIE GANZ – husband to Claire, tuxedo, 40-70, tax attorney, supporting role

COOKIE CUSACK – wife to Ernie, cooking show host, 30-60, bad back injury, supporting role
ERNIE CUSACK – husband to Cookie, psychotherapist, deferential, 40-70, supporting role

GLENN COOPER – handsome, 40-70, running for Senate, featured role
CASSIE COOPER – very attractive, 30-60, well-dressed, featured role

OFFICER WELCH – strong vigorous 30-50 male or female, featured role
OFFICER PUDNEY – younger 30-40, female, featured role

More information on the Catskill Community Players, this 46 year old theater company, which has recently merged with the Catskill Theatre Works of Delhi, can be seen at www.catskillplayers.org, or find Catskill Community Players on Facebook.

For more information, to review a script, or to schedule Zoom audition, please contact Lissa Sidoli at sidoli19@yahoo.com.

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AUDITIONS — BLITHE SPIRIT

Catskill Community Theatre announces AUDITIONS for

“Blithe Spirit,” a comic play by Noël Coward

Director – Nancy Bondurant-Couch

Producer – Diana Friedell

Production Description:

The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his annoying and temperamental first wife, Elvira, after the séance. Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles’s marriage to his second wife, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost.

Roles:

Charles Condomine (Lead): Male, 30-70

Husband to Ruth and, before her passing, to Elvira. A sophisticated and urbane novelist who is dabbling in spiritualism to use it as a subject for a book.

Ruth Condomine (Lead): Female, 25-70

Charles’s second wife, and eventually a ghost. Ruth is witty and sophisticated but also a bit stuffy and predictable.

Elvira Condomine (Lead): Female, 25-50

The ghost of Charles’s first wife. She is spirited, outgoing, wild – and jealous of Ruth. She aggravates Charles, and continues to do so, even when joined by his second wife Ruth. 

Madame Arcati (Supporting): 30-80

Known as the local eccentric, she considers herself a spiritualist and a medium who conjures up Charles’ first wife and eventually his second. 

Doctor Bradman (Supporting): Male, 45-70

A good friend of the Condomines who is invited to dinner and a séance.  Skeptical of anything to do with the occult.

Mrs. Bradman (Supporting): Female, 40-70

Doctor Bradman’s wife.  Simple and naive, she is excited about being in the presence of a medium.

Edith (Supporting): Female, 18-28

The Condomines’ new maid. She is nervous and tears around at breakneck speed trying to do things right.

Audition, Rehearsal and Production Dates & Locations:

Auditions will be held at Institute for Spiritual Development, 41-45 Dietz St. Oneonta, NY.

  • Thursday, August 22 at 7:00 pm
  • Sunday, August 25 at 2:00

Scenes from the script will be provided for the audition

Those who wish to audition should bring a schedule of conflicts for dates from August 26 – October 27 for rehearsal planning purposes:

Rehearsals will be held in Oneonta until the first few weeks of October where the rehearsals move to the stage of the Wieting Theatre in Worcester, NY.

Performances held October 25 & 26 at 8:00 pm and Sunday, Oct. 27 at 2:00 pm in the Wieting Theatre, Worcester, NY  

If additional information is needed please email the director, Nancy: nancybcouch@yahoo.com

or the Producer, Diana B. Friedell:  dianafriedell@gmail.com, 607-433-2089

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AUDITIONS – THE GREAT KOOSHOG LAKE HOLLIS MACCAULEY FISHING DERBY

‘The Great Kooshog Lake Hollis McCauley Fishing Derby’
Written by Norm Foster • Directed by Nancy Bondurant-Couch
Produced by Catskill Community Players • Spring 2019

Performances will be held at
The Wieting Theatre
168 Main Street, Worcester, NY 12197
Friday, April 5 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, April 5 at 8:00 pm
Sunday, April 7 at 2:00 pm

Auditions will be held at the ISD
(Institute for Spiritual Development)
41-45 Dietz St., Suite #1, Oneonta, NY 13820 
Thursday, January 31 at 6PM
Saturday, February 2 at 4PM
Call-backs will be held Sunday Feb. 3

Rehearsals will be held in Oneonta until 2 weeks prior to the performance date.

Production Description
If you are growing tired of real-world stresses, then cast away your troubles and savor a Canadian comedy that traffics unabashedly in human goodness.

“The Great Kooshog Lake Hollis McCauley Fishing Derby” is a beautifully written story about one small town, five big hearted people and a big fish. Written by award-winning Canadian playwright Norm Foster, this quirky, funny, and heartwarming comedy comes complete with romance, broken hearts, and the hunt for the elusive catfish named Hollis McCauley. 


Uptight investment banker James Bell is on his way to present a very important speech, when his car breaks down in the wilderness town of Kooshog Lake.  Finding himself stranded with little to do, he is lured into participating in the annual fishing derby, which offers a prize of $92,000 to the angler who can catch Hollis McCauley, the legendary catfish named for its resemblance to the local high school shop teacher! Soon James realizes that he is the fish out of water, and we follow this city boy as he is bewildered and beguiled by the people he meets.  James gets a crash course in fishing, but the real lessons he learns are about life. There’s laughter all through this charming and funny fish story, a story that’s filled with real people and real heart.

CAST (3 Female, 2 Male)

SIENNA GREY: Female, 50-60+
dry-humored, divorced, and missing her only son, who moved away months before and still hasn’t called; she owns the only store in town; she and her store are the hub for the town’s news and gossip; she enjoys playing with out-of-towners, and James Bell is no exception.

JAMES BELL: Male, 30-35
focused, driven, slightly awkward investment banker, who gets stranded in Kooshog, on his way to a conference; by play’s end he’s learned how to fish, but he’s also learned how to live.

RHONDA BORKOWSKI: Female, 40-55
dry-humored, somewhat over-sexed local; she’s flirty, fun, and looking for love; she owns the only hotel in Kooshog which means that single banker James has to be on his guard while he’s stuck in town.

KIRK DOUGLAS: Male, 50-60+
the owner of the town’s garage and bait & tackle shop; he’s wise, witty, and sometimes a little confused. He has an interesting catalog of stories, analogies, and sayings; and he’s the founder of the Hollis McCauley Fishing Derby, based on the mighty fish story he tells.

MELANIE MORNINGSIDE: Female, 25-35
dry-humored, sunny, a little bit vulnerable, independent local, who owns the town’s antique shop. She’s fiercely protective of Kooshog’s friendly, slow-paced way of life. She was once in love with Sienna’s now-estranged son, and is nursing that heartache.