Auditions
Tupelo Community Theatre is excited to announce upcoming auditions for multiple productions! Whether you’re a seasoned performer or stepping on stage for the first time, we welcome all to be part of the magic.
Check back later to see if there are any new audition announcements!
Roles:
3 women (in the following age ranges; can be altered)
Dorothea-50s, Artie-30s, Echo-teens
How:
Read the audition material and be ready to perform every selection in your age range. Remember that age is a number and you can play a range of ages. Audition with a full character. Use your body language, voice, and emotions to create their personality.
Please don’t hesitate to ask questions.
The Story:
The play follows three generations of women—eccentric grandmother Dorothea, scientist and estranged mother Artie, and brilliant teenage daughter Echo—as they struggle with the complicated legacy of love, independence, and abandonment. As their stories unfold, the women confront the choices that have separated them and begin to find a way to reconnect and break the cycle.
Eleemosynary Auditions (MTA Competition Show)
Audition Details
AUDITION DATES:
Sun, Nov 8 @2pm OR Mon, Nov 9 @6pm
*Call backs will be Nov 12 @6pm by invitatio
Production Dates:
The MTA Competition show will travel to Meridian on Jan 15-18.
Location:
TCT Off Broadway | 213 E. Franklin Street
Questions:
Allana Austin
Character Breakdowns:
Dorothea (grandmother) is intelligent, eccentric, energetic, strong-willed, and fiercely independent. She has intentionally created an unconventional life for herself. She believes strongly in independence and in pushing women to think for themselves. She has raised Echo and has had an enormous influence on the young woman she becomes.
Artie (mother) is brilliant, educated, and successful. She is a scientist and has deliberately created a life that is very different from her mother’s. Where Dorothea is unconventional and imaginative, Artie is much more controlled and analytical. But underneath that control is a woman carrying a great deal of emotional pain.
Echo (granddaughter) is exceptionally intelligent and sensitive. She has been raised by Dorothea and has developed an extraordinary ability with language and spelling. She is preparing for a national spelling competition. But the spelling competition isn’t really what the play is about. Echo wants to connect with her mother.
Daddy’s Dying Whose Got the Will by Del Shores
Audition Details
AUDITION DATES:
Monday, December 14 and Tuesday, December 15
6:00 pm each night
Production Dates:
February 25, 26 and 27
Location:
TCT-Off Broadway, 213 East Franklin St., behind the arena
Director:
Jennifer Cummings
Characters:
Lurlene Turnover – preachers wife, school teacher, stylish, very Christian – but has a strict biting attitude
Sara Lee Turnover – struggles with her weight, the town beautician, single, still lives at home, has a strong will and wonderful sense of humor
Evalita Turnover – six times married, loves to shock her family, she is a wounded soul
Mama Wheelis – The Turnover children’s grandmother, feisty, speaks her mind and rules the household
Orville Turnover – harsh and neglectful to his wife Marlene, the only brother in the Turnover family, he is a trash collector
Marlene Turnover – Orville’s wife, she has just lost 62 pounds which can boost a girl’s confidence
Harmony Rhodes – Evalita’s latest fiancé, a musician and vegetarian,off beat hippie type, has a past
Buford “Daddy” Turnover – the father, stroke victim, walks with a slight limp because of the stroke, has occasional moments of coherency.
No advance preparation is needed.
For more information contact the director at:
5 women – ages 18 and up
3 men – ages 18 and up
Plot:
The story centers around the Turnover family who have gathered because their father, Buford, has suffered a mentally disabling stroke. In essence, this story is not about the impending demise of the father or of the drafting of his will, but of a rebirth of the spirit of the family unit. This story shares many fast paced, hilarious, tense and touching moments, with characters you care about.
GREASE brings the fun-loving senior class of Rydell High to life, featuring the slick “Burger Palace Boys,” the stylish “Pink Ladies,” and a story centered on Danny Zuko and Sandy Dumbrowski as they navigate young love in the 1950s. This high-energy musical includes classic songs such as “Summer Nights,” “Greased Lightnin’,” and “It’s Raining on Prom Night,” inspired by the sounds of Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, and early rock and roll.
For more information or questions, email director Christi Houin at christih_3@comcast.net.
Grease The Musical!
Audition Details
Tupelo Community Theatre will hold auditions for GREASE on January 25 and 26 at 6:00 PM at the St. James Family Life Center on North Gloster Street.
AUDITION DATES:
Sunday, January 25 at 6:00 PM
Monday, January 26 at 6:00 PM
Production Dates:
TBD
Location:
St. James Family Life Center on North Gloster Street
Directors:
Christi Houin
Casting:
There are 8 named female roles, 9 named male roles, and a small ensemble. Anyone age 18 and up is welcome to audition. No advance preparation is required. Auditions will consist of scene readings, singing, and a brief choreography combination.