2023-2024 Season

Audition Forms available on the Links Page
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​​Misery

​Misery follows successful romance novelist Paul Sheldon, who is rescued from a car crash by his “number one fan,” Annie Wilkes, and wakes up captive in her secluded home. While Paul is convalescing, Annie reads his latest book and becomes enraged when she discovers the author has killed off her favorite character, Misery Chastain. Annie forces Paul to write a new Misery novel, and he quickly realizes Annie has no intention of letting him go. The irate Annie has Paul writing as if his life depends on it, and it does.

AUDITIONS
Monday, October 2, 2023
Tuesday October 3. 2023
6:00pm - 9:00 pm

Call backs, if necessary:
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Location TBD

Performances
Friday, November 17, 2023
Saturday, November 18, 2023
7:30pm

Sunday, November 19, 2023
3:00 pm
​Crimes of the Heart

​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
Monday, January 8, 2024
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
6:00pm-9:00pm
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Call backs, if necessary:
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Location TBD

Performances
Friday, March 8, 2024
Saturday, March 9, 2024
7:30pm

Sunday, March 10, 2024
3:00pm
​[title of show]

​Jeff and Hunter, two struggling writers, hear about a new musical theater festival. However, the deadline for submissions is a mere three weeks away. With nothing to lose, the pair decides to try to create something new with the help of their friends Susan, Heidi and Larry on the eighty-eights. With the cast in place, Jeff and Hunter begin a conversation about what to write about. Eventually, Jeff suggests they write about what to write about. They make a pact to write up until the festival's deadline and dream about the show changing their lives. [title of show] -- taken from the space on the festival's application form which asks for the "[title of show]." They write and perform their show at the festival and learn lessons about themselves as people, friends and artists.

AUDITIONS
Monday, March 11, 2024
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
6:00pm-9:00pm
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Call backs, if necessary:
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Location TBD

Performances
Friday, May 3, 2024
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Friday, May 10, 2024
Saturday, May 11, 2024
7:30pm

Sunday, May 5, 2024
Sunday, May 12, 2024
3:00pm​
All Shows are performed at the
Edna Boykin Cultural Center
108 Nash Street NE
Wilson, NC 27893