The Cedar Falls Community Theatre holds open auditions 4-5 times per year. The audition process is usually pretty loose and informal. Actors auditioning do not need to bring a prepared monologue. The actors will read from the script used in the show. On the night of auditions, actors will fill out an audition form with some basic information that includes education, acting background, show experience and any arts, acting, dance or musical training. Audition dates are set by the director and the theatre for each show about four months before performance is to begin. Actual auditions are usually held about eight weeks before opening night of that particular show. Check the blog on the home page on a regular basis for information about shows coming up, including information about auditions!

ROLES INCLUDE:

Ivan: a wandering misfit

Osip: his servant

Mayor: of a town where kickbacks are encouraged

Anna: his wife

Marya: their daughter

Grusha: their acerbic maid

Judge: always rules in favor of bribes

School Principal: runs a large athletic complex and a tiny school

Hospital Director: whose rooms are too small to fit the beds

Postmaster: who reads everyone’s mail

Dobchinsky: and

Bobchinsky: Bumbling country squires

Doctor: no one can understand a word he says

Waitress: a plain talker who’s been around a long time

Innkeeper’s Wife: her daughter who wears her higher station proudly

Svetsunoy: the corrupt police chief

Abdullin: spokesperson for the town merchants

Pentelaeyev: a town merchant

Chernaeyey: another merchant (they represent the other 99%)

3 Constables: they make up the town’s entire police force

Locksmith’s Wife: petitions on behalf of her husband who was sent to war

Corporal’s Widow: who is wrongfully flogged

Imperial Messenger: appears at the end with a message from the Tsar