Auditions Announced for 'It Was a Dark and Stormy Night' at Phoenix Stage Company

Auditions are announced for Phoenix Stage Company's production of

IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT

Auditions will be SUNDAY, JULY 27 and MONDAY, JULY 28 from 7 -9 pm at the theater. Production dates are October 4th thru the 18th

There's dirty work afoot at Ye Olde Wayside Inn, home of the eccentric Saltmarshes, Hepzibah and Arabelia, Cousin Ebenezer, and old Uncle Silas, oldest living lunatic in Massachusetts. The inn is also haunted by the ghost of an old soldier who deserted Washington at Valley Forge. Foul weather turns Cousin Ebenezer grim and dangerous, and he lures victims to the inn to get revenge for a past wrong. So when a storm forces several strangers to take shelter at the Inn, the chilling - or is it killing? - time begins! Among those forced to spend a grim night at the inn are a hard-nosed detective, some young nurses who think that Uncle Silas is their patient (he isn't), a couple of college students, a state trooper, and a key witness to a brutal crime. But not everyone is what he or she appears to be - and who is that skeleton in the wheelchair and why is it wearing a bridal veil? Who will survive this dark and stormy night?

Characters:

Hepzibah Saltmarsh, elderly spinster, eccentric
Arabella, her cousin, also eccentric
Olive, hired girl, quite odd
Ebenezer, another Saltmarsh cousin, insane
Jane Adams, job applicant and thief
Mary Shaw, another applicant
Snell, state trooper
Ed Perkins, cab driver, college student
Dorothy Blake, Mary’s younger sister
Belle Malibu, vital witness
Dawson, hard-nosed detective
Uncle Silas, oldest maniac in Massachusetts
Smiling Sam, the beauty man
Euphemia, aspiring nurse