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Santa Paula Theater Center announces auditions
Saturday Feb. 05 12:00 – 3:00 PM
Sunday Feb. 06 6:00 – 9:00 PM
Monday Feb. 07 6:00 – 9:00 PM
and callbacks Thursday Feb. 09 6:00 – 9:00 PM for the backstage production of FRIENDLY VALLEY by David Lewis Newman.
Auditions will be held via Zoom.
FRIENDLY VALLEY will play from April 8th-April 24th, 2022 with performances on Friday and Saturday Evenings at 8:00 PM and Sunday Matinees at 2:30 PM. No appointments necessary, cold readings from the script. This is a non- equity production. THERE IS NO PAY. Inquiries about auditions and play may be directed to Elixeo Flores at elixeo@gmail.com.
*All personnel, including actors, must be vaccinated to enter the theater.
In this dark family comedy, Andy, Mark and Ronnie Simonson gather at their parents’ home in the Southern California retirement community of Friendly Valley, while their mother, Ruth, lays dying in the next room. Their father, Jack, just wants to provide his wife with a peaceful, respectful passing.
But emotions run high, as Andy has recently left his wife and kids for a torrid new relationship, and Ronnie arrives with his new wife, Carmen, who may or may not be aware of a disturbing episode from her husband’s past.
Over the course of the night of Ruth’s death (Act 1) and the post-funeral gathering (Act 2), wounds are opened, secrets are revealed and characters are forced to confront realities they have long chosen not to see.
SETTING
Jack and Ruth Simonson’s 2-bedroom home in Friendly Valley,
a retirement community in Thousand Oaks, California. 2002.
CHARACTERS
JACK SIMONSON: a successfully retired CPA, seventy-four.
ANDY SIMONSON: the youngest son, runs the family accounting business, forty-four.
MARK SIMONSON: the middle son, a mid-level TV writer, forty-seven.
RONNIE SIMONSON: the oldest son, a government geologist,
fifty-one.
CARMEN HENRIQUEZ SIMONSON: Ronnie’s new wife, thirty-eight.
Click this link to register for auditions. https://bit.ly/FriendlyValleyAuditions
Sides available on our website at
http://www.santapaulatheatercenter.org/back-stage.html
ALL ROLES OPEN!
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