All auditions take place at The Sauk (240 E. Chicago St. in Jonesville, MI) unless otherwise noted. ​​​​​​

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Girls' Weekend

Audition will consist of cold readings from the script. No preparation necessary. No experience necessary. Please bring a complete list of conflicts with you to the audition. Chris Dube will direct. Sarah Gray will stage manage.

About the Play

​In this lightning-quick farce, four women travel to Dot’s Northwoods cabin to consume copious amounts of wine, laugh at their lives, trade stories and chat about their book club’s latest selection. However, after the third case of wine comes through the door, it becomes clear there will be more stewing than reviewing. Carol, who is monitoring her temperature for the best “window of opportunity” to get pregnant, gets a ride to the cabin from her husband, Rick, who is hoping the “time is right” for a quick tryst. She sends him home, frustrated, in a snowstorm, only to discover that her temperature shows she IS ready, and calls him to drive back and hide out in a shed until she can sneak him in with a special porchlight signal. Meg, recently widowed, is having a secret affair with Dot’s son, only to find he has shown up at the cabin unexpectedly and wants to further their relationship in stealth. Meg sends him to hide in a boathouse until he sees her special porchlight signal and the coast is clear to rejoin her in the cabin. Ellie, the youngest and Meg’s daughter, would rather not be a part of the weekend with her “elders” and meets a young townie, inviting him to hide out in a barn. When he sees her special porchlight signal, he climbs into her bedroom window and sneaks her out to a local bar after the other ladies retire. The only obstacle to each of the ladies’ secret endeavors is Dot, who wants to stay up all night and party with the girls. So they make sure they ply her with plenty of party favors, and Dot proceeds to pass out. The ladies move Dot’s lifeless body from floor to closet to room, as the bottles tip up, the secrets spill out and the men sneak in. The madcap, door-slamming chaos comes to a head when Dot wakes up and discovers her girls’ weekend is full of men!

Available Roles

• DOT: 50- to 6-something. Orchestrates the weekend. Has a 30-something-year-old son, Stephen. 
  
• MEG: 40s. Dating Stephen. Has a 20-something-year-old daughter, Ellie
  
• CAROL: 30s. Trying to have a baby with her husband, Rick. 
  
• ELLIE: 20s. Single. Free spirit. Doesn't really want to be there.
  
• STEPHEN: 30s. Dot's son. In a relationship with Meg.
  
• RICK: 30s. Carol's husband.
  
• SHERIFF TOM LANE: 40s. Divorced. Newly elected. 
  
• BUBBA: 20s. Townie. Went to college with Ellie. Currently working for his dad. 

The Outsiders

Auditions will consist of readings from the script. No preparation necessary. No experience necessary. Trinity Bird will direct this production. Mandee Leigh Howard will stage manage. 

About the Play

S.E. Hinton, who wrote this modern classic when she was 16 years old, comments: "The Outsiders, like most things I write, is written from a boy's point of view. That's why I'm listed as S.E. Hinton rather than Susan. (I figured most boys would look at the book and think 'What can a chick know about stuff like that!') None of the events are taken from life, but the rest—how kids think and live and feel—is for real. The characters—Dallas, who wasn't tough enough; Sodapop, the happy-go-lucky dropout; Bob, the rich kid whose arrogance cost him his life; Ponyboy, the sensitive, green-eyed Greaser who didn't want to be a hood—they're all real to me. Many of my friends are Greasers, but I'm not. I have friends who are rich, too, but nobody will ever call me a Soc—I've seen what money and too much idle time and parental approval can do to people. Cool people mean nothing to me—they're living behind masks and I'm always wondering "Is there a real person underneath?" This entirely practical stage adaptation deals with real people, seen through the eyes of young Ponyboy, a Greaser on the wrong side of life, caught up in territorial battles between the have-it-made rich kids—the Socs—and his tough, underprivileged "greaser" family and friends. In the midst of urban warfare, somehow Ponyboy can't forget a short poem that speaks of their fragile young lives:

          Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.
          Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour.
          Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief,
          so dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

"Robert Frost wrote it," Ponyboy tells Johnny. "I always remembered it because I never quite got what he meant by it." Cherry, a beautiful Soc, comes to share a special sensitivity with Ponyboy as she discovers that he remembers poems and needs to watch sunsets. At the same time, Cherry's attracted to the older, tougher Dallas, and in a sense she's caught in the violent space between the Greasers and the Socs. While the Socs appear to have everything, the only thing a Greaser has is his friends. As these young people try to find themselves and each other, as the sadness of sophistication begins to reach them and their battles and relationships reach a resolution, Ponyboy's dying friend, Johnny, sends him a last message … I've been thinking about the poem that guy wrote. He meant you're gold when you're a kid, like green. When you're a kid everything's new, dawn. It's just when you get used to everything that it's day. Like the way you dig sunsets, Pony. That's gold. Keep it that way. It's a good way to be. This is a play about young people who are not yet hopeless about latent decency in the midst of struggle.

Available Roles

• PONYBOY - in his early teens, a greaser
• JOHNNY - Ponyboy's friend, in his early teens
• BOB - a Soc
• RANDY - a Soc
• DALLAS - early 20s, a greaser
• TWO-BIT - early 20s, a greaser
• DARRY - Ponyboy's oldest brother, 20-years-old
• SODAPOP - Ponyboy's second oldest brother, mid teens
• SANDY - Sodapop' girlfriend
• CHERRY - a Soc
• MARCIA - Cherry's friend
• MRS. O'BRIANT - a parent
• JERRY - a parent
• DOCTOR - at the hospital
• NURSE - at the hospital
• MR. SYME - an English teacher
• PAUL - early 20s, a Soc

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

Audition requirements to be announced at a later date. Tim Ambrose will direct. 

About the Play
This dramatization of C.S. Lewis' classic work faithfully recreates the magic and mystery of Aslan, the great lion, his struggle with the White Witch, and the adventures of four children who inadvertently wander from an old wardrobe into the exciting, never-to-be-forgotten Narnia. The intense action features chases, duels and escapes as the witch is determined to keep Narnia in her possession and to end the reign of Aslan. All the memorable episodes from the story are represented in this exciting dramatization: the temptation of Edmund by the witch, the slaying of the evil wolf by Peter, the witnessing of Aslan's resurrection by Susan and Lucy, the crowing of the four new rulers of Narnia, and more. The supporting characters are also here: the unicorn, the centaur and other forest animals, along with Father Christmas, Mr. and Mrs. Beaver and Tumnus the Faun. This story of love, faith, courage and giving, with its triumph of good over evil, is a true celebration of life. 

Available Roles

• ASLAN - a great lion
  
• WHITE WITCH - an evil queen
  
• LUCY
  
• EDMUND
  
• SUSAN
  
• PETER
  
• MR. BEAVER
  
• MRS. BEAVER
  
• UNICORN
  
• CENTAUR
  
• TUMNUS - a faun
  
• FENRIS ULF - a wolf, head of the Witch's secret police
  
• DWARF - a servant to the Witch
  
• FATHER CHRISTMAS - a bringer of gifts
  
• ELF - Father Christmas' helper
  
• WHITE STAG - an elusive omen of good fortune. 
  
• ENSEMBLE consisting of Aslan's followers, the Witch's Army and Wood Nymphs. ​