Open Auditions for Indigo Upcoming play, "You Can't Take It With You" by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, will be held Monday, December 1, and Tuesday, December 2, from 6-8 PM.
Auditions will be held at First Presbyterian Church (28 E Park Ave.) in Columbiana, OH. Ages 16+ and all experience levels are welcome! Whether you're a stage veteran or a first timer, we'd love to work with you!
ALL ROLES are available!
• Martin “Grandpa” Vanderhof: (male, 60s+) The peaceful patriarch of the Sycamore/Vanderhof/Carmichael family, he quit his work 35 years ago to enjoy life. He is the philosophical center of the family, preaching kindness and contentment over all material wealth.
• Penelope “Penny” Sycamore: (female, 40s-50s) The distractible mother who stumbled across a typewriter by accident and now uses it to write plays. Her true passion is mothering her strange, happy family.
• Paul Sycamore: (male, 40s-50s) Penny's husband and father of Alice and Essie. He spends his days happily manufacturing elaborate, noisy fireworks in the basement with Mr. De Pinna.
• Essie Carmichael: (female, 20s-30s) Paul and Penny's elder daughter who spends all her waking hours making candy and practicing terrible ballet. She is perpetually in motion, convinced she is a great dancer.
• Edward Carmichael: (male, 20s-30s) Essie's sweet, quirky husband who plays the xylophone to accompany her dancing and runs a small press to print silly and sometimes subversive sayings. He is a gentle, integral part of the household's artistic chaos.
• Alice Sycamore: (female, 18-20s) The most "normal" member of the Sycamore family, she is a Wall Street secretary who loves her job and is anxiously engaged to Tony Kirby. Her arc is defined by the tension she feels between her eccentric, beloved family and the rigid society of her fiancé's parents.
• Mr. De Pinna: (male, 30s+) The former iceman who came to the Sycamore house eight years prior and simply never left, becoming Paul's full-time apprentice in fireworks and Penny's favorite painting model. He represents the Sycamores' power to absorb others into their unconventional life.
• Rheba: (female, 20s+) The Sycamore family's kind and practical maid and cook. She treats the family's madness as completely normal and is a calm, sensible presence in the house.
• Donald: (male, 20s+) Rheba's boyfriend who is essentially a permanent fixture in the house, helping with odd jobs and providing gentle, observational comic relief. He is fully integrated into the Sycamore's chaotic acceptance.
• Mr. Anthony Kirby Sr.: (male, 40s-50s) Tony's father and the stiff, overly serious Wall Street mogul who is secretly miserable and repressed by his profession. He is the play's primary antagonist, representing the coldness of corporate conformity.
• Mrs. Kirby: (female, late 30s-40s) Tony's mother, who is extremely snobbish, formal, and concerned with maintaining social appearances. Her only outlet is a misguided and pretentious interest in spiritualism.
• Anthony “Tony” Kirby Jr.: (male, 20s) Alice's kind and open-minded fiancé and the Vice President of his father's powerful firm. He is the bridge between the two families, genuinely attracted to the Sycamores' freedom.
• Boris Kolenkhov: (male, age flexible) Essie's extremely loud and dramatic Russian ballet teacher and former nobleman. He is highly opinionated and uses booming theatricality to comment on the world.
• Gay Wellington: (female, age flexible) A severely drunk, washed-up actress Penny invites to read one of her plays. She provides a moment of theatrical chaos by collapsing, unconscious, on the family couch.
• Wilbur C. Henderson: (male, age flexible) A humorless tax investigator from the IRS who intrudes on Grandpa's life, representing the dull, oppressive intrusion of bureaucracy. He is confused and overwhelmed by the family's lack of fear or seriousness.
• Grand Duchess Olga Katrina: (female, 50+) A Russian expatriate and former royalty who now works as a waitress but retains her regal bearing. She is an illustration of the world's absurdity and the changing times.
• The Three Government Men: (age & gender flexible) Three federal agents who raid the house during the Act II dinner, mistaking the fireworks and communist printing press for illegal activity. They represent the ultimate, impersonal force of the government