Richmond Hill Players will hold auditions for the first three shows of their 2024 season on Saturday, Feb. 10 from 1-3 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 11 from 3-5 p.m. at the Barn Theatre in Geneseo.
Roles are available for 9-10 males and 10-12 females, ages ranging from late teens through 60s.
Plays conducting auditions are “Exit Laughing” (comedy by Paul Elliot), directed by Mike Skiles, with the show running April 11-21; “Laura” (mystery by Vera Caspary and George Sklar), directed by John Donald O’Shea, running May 30-June 9; and “84 Charing Cross Road” (comedy-drama adapted by James Roose-Evans from the book by Helene Hanff), directed by Jennifer Kingry, running July 11-21.
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More information about the shows:
- “Exit Laughing” — When the biggest highlight in your life for the past 30 years has been your weekly bridge night out with the “girls,” what do you do when one of your foursome inconveniently dies? If you’re Connie, Leona, and Millie, three southern ladies from Birmingham, you “borrow” the ashes from the funeral home for one last card game, and the wildest, most exciting night of your lives involves a police raid, a stripper and a whole new way of looking at all the fun you can have when you’re truly living.
- “Laura” — Detective Mark McPhearson is assigned to investigate the apparent shotgun murder of Laura Hunt, at the door of her upscale apartment. Hunt, a successful career woman, who earned her living creating advertising copy, was a woman with many male admirers. Not unexpectedly, McPhearson’s investigation focuses on the men in Laura’s life who admittedly loved her: Waldo Lydecker, her mentor; Shelby Carpenter, her fiancée; and the aspiring Julliard student, Danny Dorgan.
But McPhearson’s investigation suddenly takes a bizarre twist when Laura Hunt enters her apartment, alive and well. And now the evidence seems to point to Laura as the killer. Who was the victim? And who was the intended target? Will Mark be able to solve the crime in spite of his feelings for Laura?
- “84 Charing Cross Road” — In post-World War II New York City, struggling writer and would-be bibliophile Helene Hanff writes to the London “antiquarian” bookshop Marks & Co in search of rare titles she has not been able to find locally. Store manager Frank Doel responds politely to her chatty letter, and, over the course of two decades, a deep, long-distance friendship evolves.
In a sense, these are also love letters – they are about the love of books and of good literature. Through their letters, a unique bond develops between the delightfully dusty Englishman and the brash New Yorker, who shows her gratitude through the years by sending “care packages” to the whole staff of Marks & Co.
For more details about the shows and auditions, visit the RHP website HERE.
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