AUdition dates for the 2024-25 season

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For performances in June 2025

Directed by Carlotta Rutledge

All auditions will be held at The Annex;  47 Oak St. Belleville,

Please prepare a piece to showcase your voice.

Schedule

Children 8 to 12 years 

• Saturday November 23rd; 10 am to 12 pm
• Parents: please stay for this audition.

Adults and Teenagers

• Sunday November 24th, 2 pm to 5 pm 
• Tuesday November 26th, 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm  

Cast of CHARACTERS 

• ELLA - Though no one notices her beneath her rags and quiet demeanour, she is opinionated, charismatic and funny.  Determined to see the best in everyone despite her hardships and suffering,we see her blossom into a confident young woman.
• TOPHER  - A misguided and lost prince who longs to do  something important with  his life.  Though brave and heroic he feels lonely and unfulfilled.  Charming but not the stereotypical ladies man, he is thoughtful and  appealing.
• MADAME - Ella's selfish stepmother .The  epitome of vanity and fashion.   Unapologetically dismissive and  sometimes cruel, Madame schemes her way up the social ladder.
• SEBASTIAN - The kingdom's Lord Chancellor. Though he is Topher's trusted advisor , he is devious and selfish 
• MARIE - A friend to Ella and the town's crazy lady and beggar women. Marie is actually Ella's fairy godmother in disguise.
• GABRIELLE - Ella's  stepsister and Daughter of Madam. Quietly empathetic and witty she is drawn to Ella and Jean-Michel.  Ironically aware that she doesn't fit in.
• CHARLOTTE-  Ella's stepsister and daughter of Madam. Brash, self-centred, sassy  and loud she never passes up an opportunity to be the centre of  attention .
• JEAN-MICHEL- Feisty , passionate peasant determined to make a change for the starving class. A firebrand , but lacks the authority to be taken seriously as a revolutionary. Has a  crush  on Gabrielle though their courtship is forbidden because they are  from different  social classes.
• LORD PINKLETON - The Lord Chancellor's right hand man . Announces royal balls, banquets and even the weather to the villagers.
• CHORUS:  fills the roles of footmen, coachmen, knights, townspeople, ladies and gentlemen of the Court, servants, etc

Note:  In this show, the race of the characters is not pivotal  to the plot.  I will consider diversity and inclusion in my casting  choices.

Director Carlotta Rutledge. 

Carlottarutledge@gmail.com 

For performances in April 2025

Directed by Moira Nikander-Forrester

Auditions for "The Wayside Motor Inn" -   All Auditions will be held in the Steve Forrester Lounge, Pinnacle  Playhouse, 256 Pinnacle St. Belleville ON.

Schedule

• Sunday January 5th, 2025 2 pm  
• Monday January 6th, 2025 7 pm 

The  play by A.R. Gurney is best described as a 'dramedy', both comedy and  drama combine to make this extremely interesting script come to life. It  is composed of five separate subplots which take place simultaneously  in one room of a suburban motor lodge outside of Boston during the late  afternoon and early evening of a spring day in the last 1970's.

The  play is about ten ordinary people who find themselves at the wayside of their lives, wondering which turn to take. Their difficulties and  conflicts are commonplace, but to give dimension and resonance to their  situations their stories are presented side by side, and in some cases,  simultaneously, on stage. In this way the playwright has made the  ordinary seem somehow extraordinary.

Cast Required:  6 men and 4 women, adults of all ages: 

Characters: 

• RAY, early thirties, a sales rep for a large corporation
• FRANK, late sixties, a retired executive
• JESSIE, late sixties, Frank's wife
• PHIL, early twenties, a student
• SALLY, early twenties, a student
• VINCE, early fifties, a businessman
• MARK, late 'teens, his son
• ANDY, early forties, a doctor
• RUTH, early forties, his wife
• SHARON,  thirties, a waitress

Please  come to audition with a prepared, modern era monologue of no more than a  page in length. There will follow cold reads of the script against  other potential actors. 

We look forward to putting this artistic, challenging, intriguing show together. See you at auditions!

Moira Nikander-Forrester

Director, "The Wayside Motor Inn"