Auditions: Five Women Wearing the Same Dress

Barefoot Productions announces auditions for our upcoming spring comedy: Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by Alan Ball

Auditions will be held Monday, March 10 and Tuesday, March 11 from 7:00 to 9:00pm at Barefoot Theatre: 240 N Main St. Plymouth, MI, 48170

We are looking for 1 Man (late 20s-early 30s) and 5 women (20s-30s)

Performances will run April 25 through May 4, 2014

The Characters:

Meredith Marlowe (22): The bride's nosy, pot-smoking sister who is very sarcastic and much annoyed with the whole fiasco downstairs. Sporting an outwardly tough attitude, she has a lot of hurt and insecurity to hide.

Georgeanne Darby (32): Tracy's "ugly sidekick" in middle school. Accepted the invite to be a bridesmaid even though her relationship with Tracy is strained because Tracy's boyfriend once knocked Georgeanne up.

Trisha (31): One of Tracy's former friends with a supposed bad reputation. She's been with a lot of guys, but not any that measure up. She is, however, a mainstream beauty.

Frances (21): The very naive and religious cousin of the bride.

Mindy McClure (37): The groom's clumsy, outspoken lesbian sister.

Tripp Davenport (Griffen Lyle Davenport the third) (28): An usher who falls for Trisha. The only male in the show.

The Story:

During an ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee estate, five reluctant and identically-clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below. They are Frances, a painfully sweet but sheltered fundamentalist; Mindy, the cheerful, wise-cracking lesbian sister of the groom; Georgeanne, whose heartbreak over her own failed marriage triggers outrageous behavior; Meredith, the bride's younger sister whose precocious rebelliousness masks a dark secret; and Trisha, a jaded beauty whose die-hard cynicism about men is called into question when she meets Tripp, a charming bad-boy usher to whom there is more than meets the eye. As the afternoon wears on, these five very different women joyously discover a common bond in this wickedly funny, irreverent and touching celebration of the women's spirit.

"…[a] wonderfully entertaining play…" — New York Post. 
"Five Women Wearing the Same Dress is a fresh-as-a-daisy comedy, funny as can be…" — New York Daily News. 
"Ball has the comic writer's requisite talent for dialogue that ricochets snappily around the stage." --TheaterWeek.