Open Auditions for The Sugar Bean Sisters at Lake Whitney Arts
Written by Nathan Sanderson
Directed by Pam Dougherty
Performance dates March 11, 12, 17, 18, 19
AUDITION INFO
Monday and Tuesday, January 9 & 10, 6:30pm
ROLES AVAILABLE:
- Faye Clementine Nettles (40's-60's) -- The spinster daughter of the infamous mass murderer Papa Fate Nettles
- Willie Mae Nettles (40's-70's) -- Faye's exacting older sister, deeply devout, still looking for a "good Mormon husband."
- Miss Videllia Sparks (40's-50's) -- a strange meretricious woman from New Orleans. Freakish, eccentric, bizarre.
- Bishop Crumley (30's-50's) -- a Mormon bishop from Salt Lake City. Gentle, strikingly handsome.
- Reptile Woman (40's-70's) -- an eccentric swamp mystic
First rehearsal: Wednesday, January 18th
DIRECTOR'S NOTE
- Please note that age factors are flexible, but do make a difference. Expect to read for parts you might not think you're the right age for!
- I'd like EVERYONE, male and female, to read for the Reptile Woman, so please look at those sides.
In this Southern Gothic comedy of romance, murder and alien abduction, the Nettle sisters are determined to escape spinsterhood—Willie Mae by going to Salt Lake and finding a good Mormon husband and Faye by hopping on the spaceship when the "space people" return for another visit. We meet Faye and Willie Mae as they return home to their ramshackle swamp dwelling in Sugar Bean, Florida, after a disastrous daytrip to Disney World, where Willie lost her prized Eva Gabor wig on Space Mountain.
Having witnessed the landing of an alien space craft some 25 years ago in her daddy's sugarcane field, Faye prepares for the return of her celestial visitors on this night, the very anniversary of that fateful day. A disturbance in the sugarcane field lures the sisters outside to investigate, and Faye recalls how their infamous daddy claimed to have witnessed dead folk walking through Sugar Bean on a similar night many years before.
A strange bird-like woman suddenly appears out of the darkness of Buster Swamp, setting in motion a chain of extraordinary events. Lies begin to unravel and the truth is revealed as the Sugar Bean Sisters hatch a diabolical plot to ensure the space people's return.
Date and Time
Monday Jan 9, 2023
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM CST
Location
Lake Whitney Arts
500 S. Bosque (Hwy 22) in Whitney
