Meet the Director of The Sweet Delilah Swim Club: Rachael Pike Upton
Meet the Crew of The Sweet Delilah Swim Club:
Meet the Cast of The Sweet Delilah Swim Club: Leslie Price
Meet the Cast of The Sweet Delilah Swim Club: Jana Hoffman
Coming Attraction: The Sweet Delilah Swim Club
South City Theatre will stage 7 performances of the Southern comedy, The Sweet Delilah Swim Club, August 18, 19, 20 and 25, 26, 27 @ 7:30 p.m. and August 21 and 28 @ 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $16 general admission and $13 seniors over 60 and students under 18. Call the box office at 205-621-2128 and leave a voice message for reservations or go online at www.southcitytheatre.com to purchase ticket in advance.
In this side-splitting comedy by the writers for The Golden Girls: Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, and Jamie Wooten, 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, the “Sweet Delilah” on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to catch up, laugh, and meddle in each other’s lives. The Sweet Delilah Swim Club is the story of five unforgettable women—a hilarious and touching comedy about friendships that last forever. Directed by Rachael Pike Upton and featuring Leslie Price, Donna Williamson, Jana Hoffman, Tara Bennett, and Destiny Clark.
Auditions: Death and Taxes
Ever wonder what goes on at a small-town city council meeting? In Hendricks, they’re looking for a murderer. Mayor Kathleen Lyles boldly announces that the meeting will be more like a coroner’s jury than the usual round of arguments. Not only was a man murdered, but he was an employee of the IRS. “Somehow I don’t feel that bad!” Carl Johansen says, as the sheriff clamps the cuffs on him, making him the prime suspect. Slowly it becomes apparent the entire city council had seen the man, and each of them seems to be hiding something. Who murdered the stranger? Was it Cora Sedgewick, who was still dizzy at the time from stepping on a rake and being thumped in the face with its handle? Or newspaper editor King, who’s right on the spot to report the facts, if he could only find a pencil? Or maybe the mayor herself, who was doing her laundry in the back of city hall?
Character descriptions:
Kathleen Lyles; the stylish mayor of Hendricks, 45
Eddie King; brash and pushy editor of the Hendricks Herald, mid 30’s
Lydia Kleft; secretary at city hall, 25
Wesley Thorne; sheriff, 30
Carl Johanson; a citizen, 40’s
Mattie Johanson; Carl’s wife, 30’s-40’s
Cora Sedgewick; the nosy neighbor, 50’s
Dr. Efram Bishop; the standard country doctor, 55
Evelynn Marindale; drama teacher, 30
Ages are suggestions in the script and not at all set in stone
Auditions:
August 20 at 1:00 p.m. and August 23 at 6:30 p.m. at South City Theatre. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Please bring a brief resume’ and list of potential conflicts.
Rehearsals will be held two weeknights a week and one Saturday morning or Sunday early afternoon.
Performances will be October 7, 8, 14, 15, 21 and 22 at 7:30 and October 9 and 16 at 2:00. Performances will be held at the Pelham Municipal Building and Homewood Library (specifics TBD).
Coming Attraction
South City Theatre is proud to present The Diary of Anne Frank, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, directed by Lisa Ponder and Sue Ellen Gerrells. Evening Performances are April 21-23, 2022 and April 28-30, 2022 at 7:30 PM Matinees are April 24, 2022 and May 1, 2022 at 2:00 PM All performances will be at South City Theatre. Tickets available at https://www.southcitytheatre.com/get-tickets/
Starring Michael Wilbanks, Katy Walker, Sharon Beiswenger, Todd Ponder, Jacob Dinkel, Robin Rushing, Abilgail Heuton, Campbell Pate, Tom Robinson, and Jim Billings.
The Diary of Anne Frank is one of the most famous and haunting stories to emerge from the 20th Century. The memoirs of this young Jewish girl, forced to hide for nearly two years to escape Nazi persecution, are an essential part of how we remember one of the darkest periods of our human history. Wendy Kesselman’s adaptation of the original, Pulitzer Prize award-winning script by Goodrich and Hackett draws from previously unpublished parts of Anne Frank’s real-life diary, allowing the audience to experience Anne in a way that breathes life into this passionate, complex young woman, allowing us to share her relatable experience of adolescence as a familiarly modern teenager. For nearly two years, Anne, her father, mother, and sister, joined with the Van Daan family, to hide in a secret annex space above her father’s former office in Amsterdam, as the Nazis deported the Jews of Holland to their deaths. In her secret attic, Anne comes of age: she laughs, plays, fights with her mother, and falls in love for the first time. In spite of her oppressive circumstances and the horrors that surround her, Anne’s spirit transcends, as she voices her belief, “in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” Anne’s dynamism, her luminous spirit, and her story of resilience continue to resonate deeply, making her story as vital today as when her diary first was published.
Auditions
The Coarse Acting Show by Michael Green
Directed by Dan Strickland
Auditions will consist of reading from the script and possibly some improv.
Location – South City Theatre, 2969 Pelham Parkway, AL
Friday 4/8 starting at 7:00 pm
Sunday 4/10 starting at 2:00 pm
The author defines a Coarse Actor as one who can remember their lines but not the order in which they came. In this hilarious journey through the season of a local theater company, everything that can go wrong, does. Props fail, the scenery malfunctions, sound and light cues are unreliable at best, and even the furniture can not be trusted. In the grand tradition of theater the cast plows ahead in the face of the onslaught and contribute their own comical difficulties due to nature of the Coarse Actor.
Show Dates:
6/10-11 at 7:30, 6/12 at 2:00, and 6/16-18 at 7:30 at South City.
***Bring your calendar with all your conflicts 4/25– 6/18 to the audition.***
Rehearsal:
Begin the first week in May, with a possible read thru the week before. The intention is to rehearse 3 days a week (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday or Sunday afternoon) until tech. If this works and what days will depend on the casts conflicts.
Looking for five men and six women to stage the five one act plays of various genres. There is physical comedy, so the physical ability to do that sort of thing will be a factor. Russian and British accents are a plus (even bad ones).
Also looking for an Assistant Director/Stage Manager and/or light and sound operator (light and sound cue misfires are an important part of the show.)
The scripts include:
Streuth (whodunit) 9 parts
A Collier’s Tuesday Tea (grim working class drama) 9 parts
The Cherry Sisters (Chekov pastiche) 10 parts
Oedocles, King of Thebes (Greek tragedy) 6 parts + chorus
Trapped (country-house, “reading of the will,” thriller) 9 parts
