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Audition Notice: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The Rosewater Theatre in Roswell is holding non-equity Open Auditions for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams on Tuesday, July 8th from 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM & Saturday, July 12th from 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM.

Auditioning for 5 men aged 25 to 65 and 3 women aged 25 to 65 and 3 to 5 children aged 8 to 15. Parents please be aware that this play does have some coarse language. Cold readings from the script.

Headshot appreciated but not required.

Auditions to be held at The Rosewater Theatre, 633 Holcomb Bridge Rd, Roswell, GA 30076 (located on the corner of Alpharetta Hwy in the Roswell Village Shopping Center).

Check website for show dates and directions to our theatre. PLEASE DO NOT MAPQUEST THE ADDRESS AS IT IS INCORRECT.

In a plantation house, a family celebrates the sixty-fifth birthday of Big Daddy, as they sentimentally dub him. The mood is somber, despite the festivities, because a number of evils poison the gaiety: greed, sins of the past and desperate, clawing hopes for the future spar with one another as the knowledge that Big Daddy is dying slowly makes the rounds. Maggie, Big Daddy’s daughter-in-law, wants to give him the news that she’s finally become pregnant by Big Daddy’s favorite son, Brick, but Brick won’t cooperate in Maggie’s plans and prefers to stay in a mild alcoholic haze the entire length of his visit. Maggie has her own interests at heart in wanting to become pregnant, of course, but she also wants to make amends to Brick for an error in judgment that nearly cost her marriage. Swarming around Maggie and Brick are their intrusive, conniving relatives, all eager to see Maggie put in her place and Brick tumbled from his position of most-beloved son. By evening’s end, Maggie’s ingenuity, fortitude and passion will set things right, and Brick’s love for his father, never before expressed, will retrieve him from his path of destruction and return him, helplessly, to Maggie’s loving arms.

For additional info please visit www.rosewatertheatre.com or email lisa@rosewatertheatre.com or call 770-640-5500.

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Audition #2

This morning I had an audition for the Atlanta Classic Theatre at the 14th Street Playhouse. Unlike my first one where all I had to do was show up, this one I had to make an appointment. There were two plays being auditioned for: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams and I Am a Camera, by John van Druten, adapted from The Berlin Stories of Christopher Isherwood.

After filling out the necessary application, I was given a dialogue from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof to read with my “wife”. We had about 10 to 15 minutes to prepare before being called in. As it turned out, there were a lot more women than men (which I hear is typical) so I read my lines twice with two different wives. When I was rehearsing my lines, I kept stumbling over the words. When I actually performed I did well enough, lost my place the second time.

After the first reading, the director for I am a Camera gave me some instruction? sort of: He explained that the character was a lawyer. Well I gathered that, but what did he mean. Well I read my lines again and was dismissed. Thinking back on what he said, I realized that he meant I should be more logical about my reading. There is a monologue within this scene where I, the lawyer, am stating item by item what is going on. It is more logical and less emotional. I did read it with controlled emotion, but, I did hear other guys reading the same lines and were really putting a lot of emotion and volume into it.

I thought I did well and I am more hopeful than my first audition, but alas I do not thank I will get this ether.