
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Auditions: 2 to 5 p.m. Oct. 10
A couple struggles to produce a church Christmas pageant. They must cast the Herdman kids - the most inventively awful kids in history. You won't believe the mayhem! FAMILY
Directed by Shelli Long
Sponsored by Hyundai of St. Augustine
SHOW DATES & DETAILS
• December 11, 2015 - January 3, 2016
• Matuza Main Stage, Holiday/Family
• Preview: Dec. 10 - Terrific Tuesday; Dec. 15
• No shows: Dec. 24-25
• New Year's Eve Event: Dec. 31
ROLES
4 men, 6 women, 8 boys, 9 girls
• FATHER (Bob Bradley) - solid family man, 35-38
• MOTHER (Grace Bradley) - trim, attractive, 35ish
• BETH BRADLEY - the narrator, strong voice and presence, 10-11
• CHARLIE BRADLEY - traditional kid brother, 8-9
• RALPH HERDMAN - ragged, scroungy, slouching manner, touch of adolescent cool, 12-13
• IMOGENE HERDMAN - loud, bossy, crafty, 11-12
• LEROY HERDMAN - tough, sure of himself, 10-11
• CLAUDE HERDMAN - tough, combative, 9-10
• OLLIE HERDMAN - looking for trouble, Claude's usual partner in crime, 8-9
• GLADYS HERDMAN - smail, wiry, fiesty, 7-8
• ALICE WENDLEKEN - prim, proper, pain in the neck, 10-11
• MRS. ARMSTRONG - largish woman, managerial in voice and manner, 50ish
• MRS. SLOCUM - pleasant, motherly woman, 35-60
• MRS. CLARK - 35-60
• MRS. CLAUSING - 35-60
• MRS. MCCARTHY - a younger, less imperious version of Mrs. Armstrong, middle 40s
• MAXINE - 10-11
• ELMER HOPKINs - 12-13
• HOBIE - 9-10
• DAVID - 8-9
• BEVERLY - 7-8
• FIREMAN - 25-30
• FIREMAN - 25-30
• SHIRLEY - 5-6
• JUANITA - 5-6
• DORIS - 9-10
• REVEREND HOPKINS - middle to late 40s
• Extra angel choir members, baby angels, shepherds
REQUIREMENTS
• Audition requirements: Actors will perform cold readings from the script. Prepared dramatic monologues of 1 to 2 minutes are not required, but they will be accepted. Children can memorize a poem.
• Performances at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings; and 2 p.m. Sunday afternoons. One Terrific Tuesday performance at 7:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of the run.
• Rehearsal schedules will be determined by cast availability.
• Please bring a list of conflict dates for rehearsals.
• Performers cast in the show must be available for all performances.
• Box office: 904-825-1164
• limelight-theatre.org
Limelight Theatre
11 Old Mission Ave.
uptown St. Augustine
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