The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
George Burns
Meridian Little Theatre 4334 Hwy 39 North, Meridian, MS 39301
***Purchase tickets from the Box Office Page***
***Purchase tickets from the Box Office Page***
Auditions are Mon. and Tues. Jan. 19
and 20 at 6:30 p.m.
Be prepared to read selected scenes from the script.
For more information, call MLT at 601-482-6371
The Red Velvet Cake War Character List
(Ages are subject to change)
Gaynelle Verdeen Bodine: a walking nervous breakdown (40s); she once had it all together, but after attempting to mow down her husband’s white trash mistress… things are not exactly going her way.
Peaches Verdeen Belrose: Gaynelle’s loud-talking, fun-loving, wildest cousin (30’s-40s); the saucy, number one mortuarial cosmetologist in the tri-county area.
Jimmie Wyvette Verdeen: Gaynelle’s “peculiar” cousin, rough-around- the- edges hearty good ol’ girl tomboy, (40s); The roughhewn store manager of Whatley’s Western Wear; rival to Bitsy for the affections of the newest widower in town, Newt.
Uncle Aubrey Verdeen: the good-natured, oxygen-dependent, cantankerous jokester patriarch of the Verdeen family (80s).
Aunt LaMerle Verdeen Minshew: well-dressed, sharp-tongued, self-serving matriarch of the Verdeen family (60s/70s), tries to keep the family reputation “shiny as a new coat of wax.”
Newt Blaylock: an eccentric Texan wig and bait salesman with a glass eye (50s).
Cee Cee Windham: sassy and stylish, local TV hostess and friend of the Verdeen cousins (40s/50s).
Bitsy Hargis: prissy, prim, nosey rival to Jimmie for Newt’s affections (40s).
Elsa Dowdall: tough European-born appointed psychologist there to evaluate Gaynelle (age is open).
Cousin Purvis Verdeen: loud obnoxious camera nut cousin who still wears plaid pants (50s/60s).
Sheriff Grover Lout: a laid-back, red neck, small-town sheriff (50s).
Mamma Doll Hargis: Betsy’s mother, “sweetheart” of Uncle Aubrey (80s).
Be prepared to read selected scenes from the script.
For more information, call MLT at 601-482-6371
The Red Velvet Cake War Character List
(Ages are subject to change)
Gaynelle Verdeen Bodine: a walking nervous breakdown (40s); she once had it all together, but after attempting to mow down her husband’s white trash mistress… things are not exactly going her way.
Peaches Verdeen Belrose: Gaynelle’s loud-talking, fun-loving, wildest cousin (30’s-40s); the saucy, number one mortuarial cosmetologist in the tri-county area.
Jimmie Wyvette Verdeen: Gaynelle’s “peculiar” cousin, rough-around- the- edges hearty good ol’ girl tomboy, (40s); The roughhewn store manager of Whatley’s Western Wear; rival to Bitsy for the affections of the newest widower in town, Newt.
Uncle Aubrey Verdeen: the good-natured, oxygen-dependent, cantankerous jokester patriarch of the Verdeen family (80s).
Aunt LaMerle Verdeen Minshew: well-dressed, sharp-tongued, self-serving matriarch of the Verdeen family (60s/70s), tries to keep the family reputation “shiny as a new coat of wax.”
Newt Blaylock: an eccentric Texan wig and bait salesman with a glass eye (50s).
Cee Cee Windham: sassy and stylish, local TV hostess and friend of the Verdeen cousins (40s/50s).
Bitsy Hargis: prissy, prim, nosey rival to Jimmie for Newt’s affections (40s).
Elsa Dowdall: tough European-born appointed psychologist there to evaluate Gaynelle (age is open).
Cousin Purvis Verdeen: loud obnoxious camera nut cousin who still wears plaid pants (50s/60s).
Sheriff Grover Lout: a laid-back, red neck, small-town sheriff (50s).
Mamma Doll Hargis: Betsy’s mother, “sweetheart” of Uncle Aubrey (80s).
