If you want to be on stage, here’s your chance.
Long-standing Lethbridge theatre company Playgoers of Lethbridge are holding open auditions this week for their October production of the Norman Barasch and Carroll Moore’s three act comedy “Send Me No Flowers.”
Send Me No Flowers is best known as the hit 1964 Norman Jewison directed comedy starring Rock Hudson, Tony Randall and Doris Day.
The play had a short run on Broadway in 1960. The title song was composed by Hal David and Burt Bacharach.
Elaine Jagielski, who directed last year’s dinner theatre “One for The Pot,” will be directing this farce about hopeless hypochondriac George who experiences chest pains and goes to the doctor when he overhears the diagnoses of a terminally ill patient and assumes they are talking about him.
Assuming he’s the one dying, he asks his friend Arnold to help find his wife, Judy, a new husband so he knows she won’t be alone.
So he finds her old college boyfriend Burt, a Texas oil baron. Comedy ensues as Judy assumes her husband’s actions are an attempt to cover up an affair and throws him out of the house.
A cast of 12 characters including six men and three women plus three passersby will be needed as well as back stage personnel.
Auditions will be Sept. 7 and Sept. 8 from 7-9 p.m. at the Bowman Arts Centre.
The dinner theatre will take place at the Sandman Inn, Oct. 26-29.
Playgoers of Lethbridge are also looking forward to their main production in February.
They will be performing Alan Ayckbourne’s comedy “How the Other Half Loves,” Feb 1-4 at the Yates Memorial Centre. Auditions have not been scheduled for it yet.
