The Mobtown Players announce auditions for their fall production of Five Women Wearing the Same Dress!

During a grand wedding reception on the grounds of a Southern estate, five bridesmaids are holed up in an upstairs bedroom, determined to avoid the festivities at all costs. Written by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under, True Blood, American Beauty), this comedy offers a frequently hilarious, sometimes touching, look at the intricacies of friendship and love.

The show runs 9/24 through 10/16. Fridays and Saturday nights with TBD Thursday and/or Sunday shows.

Directed by Melissa O’Brien.

Please prepare a 60 to 90 second comedic monologue for the audition. You may also be asked to read from the script.

Please also bring your headshot and resume. We also ask that you come prepared to list any potential conflicts between now and the run of the show.

Initial auditions will be held July 5 from 7:00 to 9:30 pm
Callbacks will be held July 7 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm

For an audition appointment, contact the stage manager, Brian Kraszewski, at briankrasz@gmail.com. We may also be able to accommodate some walk-ins, but appointments are encouraged so that we may keep the evening running smoothly.

All roles are open. The play takes place in Knoxville, Tennessee, so the appropriate dialect will be required.

Female roles (in order of appearance):
Frances–early 20′s. A somewhat timid Christian, Frances looks down on the other women smoking and drinking–until she gets a bottle of champagne in her hands.
Meredith–early 20′s. Her tough exterior hides some pretty deep wound, the source of which is waltzing around picking up women at the reception.
Trisha–early 30′s. Glamorous and seemingly self-assured, Trisha’s claim to fame is being the one who’s slept with just about every man they know.
Georgeanne–early 30′s. Feeling trapped in an unhappy marriage, Georgeanne came to the wedding hoping to reconnect with a former lover.
Mindy–mid to late 30′s. Despite a tendency to ramble and a deep love of the Miss America pageant, Mindy is often the one who sees situations with the most clarity.

Male role:
Tripp–late 20′s. A guy who likes to have fun, he’s set his sights on Trisha, with whom he might just have a real connection.

So, what’s this supposed to be, besides a place for the presskit and audition announcements.

I have always been very interested in putting out there glimpses of the creative process. Just how does a show come together? What are the elements?

It’s not just a bunch of people getting together and memorizing lines. It’s a project, multi-threaded and with lots of people contributing their efforts and skills to the common effort. It’s really quite amazing when you get down to it – and when it works well a whole team of strangers come together to form a community that just really clicks – and there aren’t too many things in the world that are better than that.

It was always my intent to let people in on the experience. There’s a certain thrill at the first read through when you get the script cuts, or when the designers come back with their first sketches, or when you see the poster art for the first time, or when the set starts to get built.

Previously, it was a damned bear to try to craft pages for that stuff, though. Go home, fire up FrontPage, load some pictures, type some words, connect to the server and upload the new or edited page…. But WordPress’ blogging software makes this easy.

I can still come home and hop on the ‘Net and type out a quick blog post. But I can also – right from rehearsal with my cell phone – snap a picture of the set and upload it to the blog. I can use my iPhone to type a quick post at a break after the first run through. I can email links to the costume designs. I can post a series of links to source material. Lots of possibilities. I really hope the directors and their teams take advantage of it

Well, not really – only 11 – but I’m working away at the website again, trying to perfect the website, get some content in, and pretty the content that’s there up a little bit…..

Gonna be a couple of posts after this, just as a sort of test of the teaser feature and thumbnails. I’ll leave it to those posts to talk a little more in detail about what we’re planning on here.

Ta da!

Well, I’m laying in bed at midnight after a semi-long night of updating the “new” website, and I can’t tell you how excited I am by it! It does probably 90% of the old site, but it does it somewhat easier, and we now have the ability to do even more.

Case in point: I’m drafting this in bed on my iPhone, on a handy, free app called WordPress 2. And what I’m getting kinda jazzed about is the possibility of posting from rehearsal.

Another case in point. One of my biggest frustrations was when it came time to make the presskit. First, everyone who had stuff had to send it to me because I was the only one who could put stuff up. Also, I was routinely blowing away the old presskit to make room for the new. Now, what should happen, is myself, the director, or the producer can go into WP, and compose a post for the presskit, and categorize it as … Presskit. The QuickLink on the sidebar should then take you to a page that will pull the most recent set of presskits, and we can reference the post’s permalink in – for example – the show page. Pretty damned cool!

I cannot wait to get this thing live!