Playgoers of Lethbridge is getting ready for their Oct. 22-25 production of their fall dinner theatre of Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten’s 2008 hilarious and touching comedy The Dixie Swim Club, so open auditions are happening at CASA, July 21 and 22 at 7 p.m.
Director Lee Prindle is looking for five women for the cast to play life long best friends who meet each other every August long weekend to recharge friendships forged on their college swim team.
Five Southern women, whose
friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage on North Carolina 's Outer Banks to catch up, laugh and meddle in each other's lives. The Dixie Swim Club focuses on four of those weekends and spans a period of 33 years.
Sheree, the spunky team captain, desperately tries to maintain her organized and "perfect" life, and continues to be the group's leader.
Dinah, the wisecracking overachiever, is a career dynamo. But her victories in the courtroom are in stark contrast to the frustrations of her personal life. Lexie, pampered and outspoken, is determined to hold on to her looks and youth as long as possible. She enjoys being married — over and over and over again. The self-deprecating and acerbic Vernadette, acutely aware of the dark cloud that hovers over her life, has decided to just give in and embrace the chaos.
And sweet, eager-to-please Jeri Neal experiences a late entry into motherhood that takes them all by surprise. As their lives unfold and the years pass, these women increasingly rely on one another, through advice and raucous repartee, to get through the challenges (men, sex, marriage, parenting, divorce, aging) that life flings at them. And when fate throws a wrench into one of their lives in the second act, these friends, proving the enduring power of "teamwork," rally 'round their own with the strength and love that takes this comedy in a poignant and surprising direction.
The actresses need to develop their characters by 33 years.
If you are not able to attend either of the audition nights personally contact Lee by e-mail:
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, or phone: (403) 320-1748.
If you are interested in working on the production in any way, please come out to CASA, and fill out a form.
