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AACT ANNOUNCES OPEN AUDITIONS FOR
On Golden Pond
Directed by Steve Bice
March 13, and 14, callbacks on March 15, 6:00PM to 8:00PM
Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center
3 MEN, 2 WOMEN, 1 TEENAGE BOY will be needed for the cast. No experience or prepared readings required. Auditioners will read from the script. See the story below, or call Director Steve Bice for more information. 332-2620.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
Get involved! We always need help with props and costumes, sets, publicity, ads, hospitality, lights and sound, and stage management. Please come to auditions to learn about other volunteer opportunities. Call Director Steve Bice 332-2620 for more information.
THE STORY: This 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, nearing 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 fiancé, 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 in 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 still awaits.