The Wanderers

Audition Form

 

Audition Notice

Director: Susan Demers

Compensation: No Pay

Rehearsal schedule: To be determined after casting

Audition Dates: March 7 @ 2:00pm and March 8 @ 6:00pm

Location: West Coast Players 

Run: April 24 - May 10, 2026

Show times - Friday & Saturday @ 7:30pm, Sundays and 1 Saturday matinee @ 2:00pm

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Show Synopsis

Always, Patsy Cline, a musical based on a true story about Cline’s friendship with a fan from Houston named Louise Seger, who befriended the star in a Texas honky-tonk in 1961. The musical play, complete with down-home country humor, true emotion, and even some audience participation, includes many of Patsy’s unforgettable hits such as “Crazy,” “I Fall to Pieces,” “Sweet Dreams” and “Walking After Midnight”

Character Breakdown

Esther - A young, Orthodox Jewish woman in an arranged marriage who begins to question the constraints of her religious and social life.
Schmuli - Esther's husband, also Orthodox, who grapples with traditional expectations of masculinity and his own gentleness.
Sophie - A secular woman, married to Abe, who is also a writer but struggles with her career and the demands of family life.
Abe - Sophie's husband, a successful novelist, who begins an email correspondence with Julia Cheever, a movie star.
Julia Cheever - A famous actress who becomes involved in Abe's life through an email exchange, prompting him to question his own life choices.

 

What To Prepare

 

Auditions will be cold reading.

 

 

WCP seeks to include persons of every race, color, culture, age, gender, creed, physical disability, and sexual orientation. Character ages are not set in stone and all roles are open to all ethnicities unless otherwise stated. Actors should consider roles if they feel they can represent the characters and age range listed.

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