Auditions for 'Murdered to Death' at Phoenix Stage Company

MURDERED TO DEATH

Directed by Ed Bassett

Monday, June 25, 2012 from 7:00-9:00pm

Tuesday, June 26, 2012 from 7:00-9:00pm

Auditions will be held at Phoenix Stage Company

, Naugatuck, CT

PERFORMANCE DATES:

Saturday, September 8 - Saturday, September 22, 2012

Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00pm/Sundays at 2:00pm

All roles are open to audition. We are seeking 5 men & 5 women for this production. Auditions will be readings from the script. The production is directed by Ed Bassett. For additional information, please call (203) 632-8546.

ABOUT THE SHOW:

This hilarious spoof of the best of Agatha Christie traditions is set in a country manor house in the 1930s, with an assembled cast of characters guaranteed to delight—Bunting, the butler; an English Colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip; a shady French art dealer and his moll; the bumbling local inspector and a well-meaning local sleuth who seems to attract murder wherever she goes—they're all here, and all caught up in the side-splitting antics which follow the mysterious death of the house's owner. It soon becomes clear that the murderer isn't finished yet, but will the murderer be unmasked before everyone else has met their doom, or will readers and audiences die laughing first?

CHARACTER BREAKDOWN:

MILDRED - The lady of the manor, in her 50’s

DOROTHY: Companion and Housekeeper to Mildred. In her 20’s

BUNTING: The Butler

COLONEL CHARLES CRADDOCK: In his 60’s, he has a blustering manner

MARGARET: The Colonels somewhat younger wife.

PIERRE MARCEAU: A French art dealer with an exaggerated accent.

ELIZABETH HARTLEY-TRUMPINGTON: Very high society, in her 20’s or 30’s

JOAN MAPLE: In her 50’s or 60’s. Knowledgeable about crime scenes.

INSPECTOR PRATT: An inept, posing and clumsy walking disaster area.

CONSTABLE THOMPKINS: A typical young village policeman.