Auditions for the comedy Play On! by Rick Abbott will be 7 p.m., Nov. 17 and 18, 2025. (Callbacks, if needed, TBD.) The show directed by Mathew Barninger will be on stage March 20-22 and 26-29, 2026 (Tickets go on sale, Feb. 14)
Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Auditioners (18 and older only, please) will fill out an audition form and provide a list of scheduling conflicts. (Rehearsal schedules will be created based on cast availability.)
ROLES
AGGIE MANVILLE, presenting female or male, 40s-70s — The stage manager and prompter.
GERALDINE “GERRY” DUNBAR, presenting female or male, middle-aged — A community theatre director.
HENRY BENISH, presenting male, mid-50s — He is a character actor in the role of Lord Dudley.
POLLY BENISH, presenting female, mid-50s — She is a character actress in the role of Lady Margaret.
MARLA “SMITTY” SMITH, presenting female, 20s — She is a supporting player in the role of Doris the maid.
SAUL WILSON, presenting male, mid-40s — He plays a villain, Doctor Rex Forbes.
BILLY CAREWE, presenting male, 20s — He plays the juvenile, Stephen Sellers.
VIOLET IMBRY, presenting female, 20s — She is the ingenue, Diana Lassiter.
LOUISE PEARY, presenting female or male, mid-30s — This person is a sound and lighting and scenic technician.
PHYLLIS MONTAGUE, presenting female, 40s-50s — She is a novice playwright from the community.
SYNOPSIS: This hilarious story features a theatre group trying to put on a play in spite of interference from a haughty author who keeps revising the script. Act I is a rehearsal of the dreadful show; Act II is the near disastrous dress rehearsal; and the final act is the actual performance, in which anything that can go wrong, does. The audience is treated to a madcap climax and a thoroughly hilarious romp.
For questions, email info@hanoverlittletheatre.com or call 717-637-5297.