PLEASE NOTE: All auditions are for those 18 years and older. Thank You!
The Line-Up and Auditions for the remainder of HLT’s 77th Season are:
Comedy: Play On by Rick Abbott
Directed by: Mathew Barninger
SHOW DATES: March 20-22 and 26-29, 2026
AUDITION DATES: 7 p.m., Nov. 17 and 18, 2025. Callbacks, if needed, TBD
Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Auditioners 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.
Comedy: The Oldest Profession by Paula Vogel
Directed by: Shane Miller
SHOW DATES: June 5-7, 11-14, 2026
AUDITION DATES: 7 p.m., March 23 and 24, 2026
Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Auditioners will fill out an audition form and provide a list of scheduling conflicts. (Rehearsal schedules will be created based on cast availability.)
ROLES:
VERA, presenting female, 30s-plus — The youngest in the group, she is loyal, sensitive, no matter her years, still a girl. She is a devout Catholic and has a strong work ethic.
EDNA, presenting female, 30s-plus — She is a good time girl who loves her work and is assigned to the more adventurous clientele.
LILLIAN, presenting female, 30s-plus — She turns the heads of much younger men and is a woman of great style and great audacity.
URSULA, presenting female, 30s-plus — She believes in rules, merit promotion, and supply-side economics and doesn’t suffer fools gladly.
MAE, presenting female, 30s-plus — A self-made woman, she is the group’s leader who finds the management of men ridiculously easy, and has mastered the management of women as well.
SYNOPSIS: In the mid-1980s, five aging practitioners of the oldest profession are faced with a diminishing clientele, increased competition, and aching joints. With wit, compassion, and humor, they struggle to find and learn new tricks as they fight to stay in the “Life.”
For questions, email info@hanoverlittletheatre.com or call 717-637-5297.