XACT Announces Auditions for "On Golden Pond" by Earnest Thompson

Auditions for "On Golden Pond" by Earnest Thompson
 
Audition Dates:  July 6 & 7 at 7 p.m. 
 
Performance Dates:  September 4,5,11,12 at 7:30 p.m. 
and Sunday September 13 at 3 pm.

On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year.  He is a retired professor nearly eighty with heart palpitations and a failing memory -- but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever.  Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together.  They are visited by their divorced middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiance', who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer.  The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness -- and slang -- in return.  In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and the final deeply moving moments of the play.  Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack.  Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond awaits.

Needed:  Two Women 30-60+
                  Three Men  40- 65+
                  One boy  14 -17 
 
Auditions are cold readings, no preparation needed.
 
Xenia Area Community Theater
45 E. Second St.
Xenia, OH  45385   
372-0516