TAPA auditions on tap

Published 3:16 am Friday, September 6, 2013

TILLAMOOK The Tillamook Association for the Performing Arts will hold auditions for hilarious Christmas comedy Inspecting Carol, by Daniel Sullivan at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7 at the Barn Community Playhouse at 12th and Ivy streets in Tillamook.

Almost broke, the pathetic Soapbox Theatre Company is having a dickens of a time with its annual winter production of A Christmas Carol. The cast is tired of it, as its been done with the same actors for so long that Tiny Tim has entered puberty. But the cash-cow is needed to impress the inspector from the National Endowment of the Arts into renewing the companys arts grant.

Enter an incompetent actor who gets mistaken for said inspector and everything goes wrong while hilarity is piled on hilarity.

For more information or to obtain an audition packet contact director Chris Chiola at 503-842-6305 or info@tillamooktheater.com

The following roles are needed:

Zorah Block: The founding director of The Soapbox Playhouse and extremely self-concerned.

Sidney Carlton: A founding member of the Company. Kind, but somewhat addled.

Dorothy Tree Hapgood: Sidneys wife, English and unable to lose her accent.

Larry Vauxhall: Tough, intellectually vain child of the 60s and still looking for a turn-on.

Phil Hewlitt: Very obsessive and usually plays the ineffectual character in any Soapbox production.

Walter E. Parsons: African-American and recently taken up acting again after a stint in the armed forces.

Luther Beatty: A large 11-year-old. Hes been playing Tiny Tim two years too long.

Kevin Emery: A nervous man in the impossible position of managing director.

MJ McMann: A realist. She long ago realized that the Company hit bottom. Now a bemused observer.

Betty Andrews: An inspector for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Bart Frances: A pleasant youth.

Wayne Wellacre: In search of a new career in acting, no training, less talent, affable and eager to please.

Positions are also needed in stage and production crew. This production contains some mild adult language. Rehearsals will be held mid-September until the shows opening and performance dates of Nov. 22, 23, 29, 30 and Dec. 1, 6, 7 and 8.

Also check out TAPAs website at www.tillamooktheater.com or on Facebook.