Auditions - On Golden Pond - Strongsville Community Theatre

About this event

On Golden Pond

By: Earnest Thompson

Presented by: Strongsville Community Theatre Directed by: Lindsay Pier

ON GOLDEN POND is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Dramatists Play Service. www.concordtheatricals.com

AUDITIONS

Auditions: Saturday, November 21st 12:30-4:00pm & Sunday, November 22nd, 12:30-3:00pm

Callbacks: tbd

Location: Strongsville Senior Center, 18100 Royalton Rd, Strongsville, OH 44136

Auditions will be a cold reading from the script. Actors are also welcome to bring a prepared monologue (optional).

Bring a list of all known conflicts, along with a current headshot and resume, if available.

** Sign-up to secure your audition date & time: strongsvillecommunitytheatre.com/auditions

REHEARSALS & PERFORMANCES

Rehearsals: Starting January 11th

Rehearsals will take place Monday-Thursday from 7-10pm. Possibility for additional rehearsals, as needed.

Performance Dates: February 26th-28th & March 5th-7th

Performance times are Friday & Saturday at 7:30pm and Sunday at 2pm.

All rehearsals and performances will take place in the Strongsville High School Little Theater, 20025 Lunn Rd, Strongsville, OH 44136 (door D).

If you have any questions or need additional information, please reach out to SCT at asksct@gmail.com .

ABOUT THE SHOW

This poignant play is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who have returned to their summer home on Golden Pond for the 48th straight year. He is a retired professor, nearing 80, 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 fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer.

It takes some adjustment, but the boy and Norman begin to bond, the kid awakening in the old man the curiosity and sense of purpose that have gone dormant. As Norman revels in taking his new charge fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness – and slang – in return, giving Ethel hope that she hasn’t yet lost her beloved husband to the dementia she fears will claim him. In the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together when he survives a frightening heart attack. Time, they know, may be against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.

On Golden Pond premiered on Broadway at the New Apollo Theatre on February 28, 1979. Directed by Craig Anderson, the show featured Tom Aldredge, Frances Sternhagen, Ronn Carroll, Barbara Andres, Mark Bendo and Stan Lachow. Famously adapted into an Oscar-winning film, this touching, funny play is a warmly perceptive study of a spirited and lovable elderly couple facing their twilight years.