Casting Teen Actors for "Our Town" Play
Auditions for "Our Town" play. Casting teen actors. Please see the breakdown below. Additional info: No preparation is needed. Directors will have sides to read from at the auditions. If you want to prepare a monologue, that’s fine, but not necessary. Performances: July 5 & 6 in Metuchen July 11-13 in Plainfield If you are interested, please apply.
8 roles
Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs' sixteen-year-old son, who discovers his love for Emily, marries her in the second act, and grieves for her loss in the third act.
Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs' daughter, who is four years younger than George. She realizes that Grover's Corners is part of New Hampshire, part of America, part of the world, the universe. This expanding image is central to Wilder's theme.
The Webbs' intelligent daughter, who grows up during the play, joins the two major families when she marries George Gibbs, and dies later during childbirth.
Emily's younger brother and one of the spirits in the last act. In Act III, we discover that he died suddenly from a ruptured appendix while on a Boy Scout trip.
Joe is the paper boy in the first act and also during the flashback, when Emily returns to life. A scholar at Massachusetts Tech, he is killed in France during World War I before he can use his education.
Joe's younger brother, who takes Joe's job as paper boy in Act II to indicate the passage of time.
The son of Julia Gibbs' sister Carey, he comes back from Buffalo after twelve years' absence. He provides exposition in the last act.
The town undertaker, who provides background information in the third act.
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