Presented by The Bluegrass Players
Ages:16 through adult
Directed by:Erika Howard
📅 Audition Date & Time:Monday, August 31 — 6:30 PM
📍 Location:The Spotlight Playhouse, 214 Richmond Road, Berea, KY
Have a Nice Doomsday is an end-of-the-world comedy about what happens when friends gather for Thanksgiving on what could be the last day on Earth. An asteroid a quarter the size of the moon is speeding toward the planet, but Joann Monroe is determined to serve the perfect holiday dinner anyway. As her husband Neil tracks the news and every guest arrives on schedule, the afternoon explodes into a flurry of emotions, attacks, and retaliations: a botched engagement, a phone call to an ex-girlfriend, a marriage on the rocks, and an impromptu wedding performed by a young man from The Eternal Light Society. You’ll laugh out loud when a looming global cataclysm brings out people’s worst, and also their best.
Audition Process:
- Cold reads are standard
- Monologues are optional (bring one if you’d like, but not required)
Rehearsals:Mondays & Thursdays, 6:30–8:00 PM (September through October)
Performance Dates:October 30, November 1, 6, 7, and 8
Character List (9 roles; 4 women, 5 men):
- Neil Monroe – a reasonable man trying to live a reasonable life, most unreasonably
- Joann Monroe – Neil’s wife; a life-loving good soldier
- Gary Underwood – a principled but hard-driven man
- Deidre Underwood – Gary’s wife; durable, with a desire to enjoy life
- Steve Winkler – an earnest young man with good intentions, weak eyes, and strong concerns
- Shelley Meadows – Steve’s fiancée; a pink rose with the requisite thorns
- Freida Winkler – Steve’s mother
- Max Hirschfield – Neil’s friend and former coworker
- A Young Man – soon to be The Eternal Light Society’s Employee of the Year
📩 Questions? Contact chad@spotlightactingschool.com or call 859-756-0011.
Produced by special arrangement with Heartland Plays, Inc., 88 Howard Beer Rd., Clancy, MT 59634 | www.heartlandplays.com