AUDITIONS – “The Boy Who Loved Monsters and the Girl Who Loved Peas” and “Crimes of the Heart”
March 16, 2025 - March 17, 2025
The Company OnStage is excited to announce that we are hosting auditions for “The Boy Who Loved Monsters and the Girl Who Loved Peas” by Jonathan Graham and “Crimes of the Heart” by Beth Henley.
Auditions will take place on Sunday, March 16th, and Monday, March 17th, 2025 beginning at 7pm at 5720 Bellaire Blvd, Suite G, Houston, TX 77081. We ask that participants arrive 15 minutes early to fill out paperwork and introduce yourself to the stage managers. If you have a headshot and resume, please bring it (not required). There are no audition appointments, and actors will not need prepared monologues. The evening will cover the auditions for both shows, beginning with the Young Audiences Production. During each show’s audition, all actors will have an opportunity to demonstrate their skills in a group setting with the director selecting sides and combinations of participants to read together or independently. Please be prepared to move and make bold choices!
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YOUNG AUDIENCES PRODUCTION – “The Boy Who Loves Monsters and the Girl Who Loves Peas” by Jonathan Graham
Directed By Mary Ann Janecka
Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois
First Rehearsal: Sunday, April 6th, 2025
Rehearsal Schedule: Sunday and Tuesday Evenings Beginning at 7pm.
(Additional Dates may be added, if needed)
Performance Dates: Saturdays June 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th, 2025 at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 22nd, 2025 at 2 p.m.
Strike Date: Sunday, June 29th, 2025 at 12 p.m.
CASTING REQUIREMENTS:
Total Number of Actors: TBD
Age Range: TBD
This is a Flexible Cast
All ethnicities are welcome.
LIST OF CHARACTERS, AGE RANGES, AND GENDERS:
EVAN: a boy of 8, Sue’s big brother.
SUE: a girl of 4, Evan’s little sister.
PEA: a big, green-headed monster, can be a man or woman, young at heart.
MOMMY: Evan and Sue’s mother, not particularly old. Also plays MOMMY PEA.
DADDY: Evan and Sue’s father, about the same age as Mommy. Also plays DADDY PEA
SYNOPSIS:
Left alone at the dinner table to finish the remains of his meal (a single, enormous pea), 8-year-old Evan wishes he had a real live monster to eat his peas and play with him. When a real live monster actually arrives, life is turned upside down for Evan and his family in this hilarious and heartfelt comedy. The monster, named Pea, immediately befriends Evan and his little sister, Sue. Pea helps clean, spies on the parents, acts out stories about princesses and space aliens and even takes Evan and Sue to visit Monster World—but the children have to keep talking the monster out of eating their parents! When Pea hides under the table during breakfast—and steals pancakes from people’s plates—the distracted, technology-addicted parents finally discover the monster under the table. The family has to decide whether to send the monster back to Monster World or accept it as a member of their family.
AUDITIONS FOR THIS PRODUCTION WILL CONSIST OF COLD READINGS FROM THE SCRIPT AND PHYSICALITY.
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EVENING THEATRE PRODUCTION – ” Crimes of the Heart” by Beth Henley.
Directed by Joseph “Chepe” Lockett
Produced by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing
First Rehearsal: Monday, April 7th, 2025
Rehearsal Schedule: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday Evenings Beginning @ 7pm.
(Additional Dates may be added, if needed)
Performance Dates: Fridays and Saturdays, June 6th, 7th, 13th, 14th, 20th, 21st, 27th, and 28th, 2025 @ 8:00 p.m., and Sunday, June 15th, 2025 @ 2:00 p.m.
Strike Date: Sunday, June 29th, 2025 at 12 p.m.
CASTING REQUIREMENTS:
Total Number of Actors: 6
Age range: TBD
2 men, 4 women
All ethnicities are welcome.
There are no roles for children in this production.
LIST OF CHARACTERS:
Margaret “Meg” Magrath
Lenora “Lenny” Magrath
Rebecca “Babe” Botrelle (Nee Magrath)
Chick Boyle
Barnette Lloyd
Doc Porter
SYNOPSIS:
The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who quickly outgrew Hazlehurst, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach. Their troubles, grave and yet, somehow, hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young lawyer who tries to keep Babe out of jail while helpless not to fall in love with her. In the end the play is the story of how its young characters escape the past to seize the future—but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the curtain has descended.
AUDITIONS FOR THIS PRODUCTION WILL CONSIST OF COLD READINGS FROM THE SCRIPT.
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