Auditions slated for comedy

Community Playhouse has set open auditions for the 50th Anniversary Season’s opening show. Auditions for the classic comedy “Arsenic and Old Lace” will be held Aug. 1, at 2 p.m. and Aug. 2, at 7 p.m. at the South Jackson Civic Center in Tullahoma. The show will be directed by Glendale Swann.

This Joseph Kesselring play was a smash hit in New York and has continued to be a theater favorite for almost 60 years. Taking place in the 1940s, it centers around the kindly Brewster sisters and their three nephews. On the surface the Brewsters seem like a normal Brooklyn family. However, in reality, Jonathan Brewster is a psychopathic killer, and his brother, Teddy, thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt. Mortimore Brewster, a New York drama critic, fears for his own sanity when he discovers his elderly aunts have been “helping” lonely old men find their final resting places with a little arsenic and old lace!

Parts are available for 11 men and three women. Everyone auditioning is requested to bring a wallet size snapshot and arrive a few minutes prior to the audition time in order to register.

For more information about auditions, call (931) 454-0020 or send an e-mail to [email protected]. Updates will be posted on the Community Playhouse web site at www.communityplayhouse.org.

Production dates for “Arsenic and Old Lace” are scheduled Sept. 17, 18, 19, 24, and 25. Ticket prices are $10, adults; $9, 65 and older; and $8, students. Discount group rates are for 10 or more. For ticket reservations, call 455-0620 or e-mail information to [email protected] and get $1 off regular ticket price.