Arsenic and Old Lace: Cast List

Abby Brewster – Dorothy Saitz

understudy Heather Blanchard

Martha Brewster – Annie Blanc

understudy Anne Schreckengost

Mortimer Brewster – Daryl Moline

understudy - Evan White

Jonathan Brewster – Evan White

understudy – Peter Konopak

Teddy Brewster – Steve Slay

Elaine – Kathleen Nicole

understudy - Krysten Coursey

Dr. Einstein – Aaron Wesley

Dr. Harper – John Slate

Officer Brophy – Brian Cosner

understudy – Heather Boster

Officer Klein – Eric Yeager

understudy - Adam Evereett

Officer O'Hara – Kevin Anderson

understudy – Curt Danhauser

Lieutenant Rooney – Andy Konopak

understudy – George "Andy" Anderson

Mr. Gibbs – George "Andy" Anderson

understudy – Adam Everett

Mr. Witherspoon – Curt Danhauser

understudy – Richard Jackson

Dead Bodies – Adam Everett, Krysten Coursey

Police Officers – Richard Jackson, Heather Boster

Arsenic and Old Lace: Audition Notice Press Release 2

CLOTA COSTUMES GET AUDITIONED, TOO.

“Arsenic and Old Lace” costumer Judy Ditzler, right., gets approval from Production Director Elena Vitale, far left, and Assistant Director K. Pearl Woolam for a late-Victorian, lace-collared gown to be worn in the Community Light Opera and Theater Association's next production.

Actors’ tryouts for the classic comedy’s 11 male and 3 female roles will take place this Friday, August 27 beginning at 6:00 p.m. An afternoon session will start at noon the next day—all at Center Stage, 1425 N. Inyo.

Red Rock Books and the Kern County Library have perusal script copies.

For more information, call the CLOTA hotline: 1+760-446-2411.

Arsenic and Old Lace: Audition Notice Press Release

CLASSIC COMEDY AUDITIONS

With the floorboards still sizzling from the completely sold-out three-week run of “Cabaret,” veteran Production Director Elena Vitale is preparing auditions for the Community Light Opera and Theater Association's next production, “Arsenic And Old Lace.” Vitale promises that this memorable American farce, a perennial favorite since its record-breaking Broadway début in 1941, will keep Center Stage’s roof beams bouncing with uproarious audience laughter as a pre-Thanksgiving holiday treat.

Friday, August 27 tryouts for 11 male and 3 female roles will begin at 6:00 p.m., followed by a Saturday, August 28 session starting at noon—all at Center Stage, 1425 N. Inyo.

Male actors will be vying to play Mortimer Brewster, a hilarious leading-man role that Cary Grant made famous in the 1944 film adaptation. Mortimer has family problems, including two spinster aunts who feel sorry for lonely old men and have taken to easing them out of their solitude by serving them home-made elderberry wine laced with arsenic, strychnine, and "just a pinch" of cyanide.

Mortimer’s murderous brother, who resembles horror film actor Boris Karloff, and another brother who believes himself to be Teddy Roosevelt illustrate the peculiarity that runs rampant in the Brewster clan. “Is it any wonder,” Vitale asks, “that Mortimer questions whether he should marry his lovely fiancée and start his own family?”

Rounding out the cast are a maniacal plastic surgeon, a quartet of not-too-competent policemen, and an assortment of lovable old geezers with a hankering for elderberry wine.

Vitale and Assistant Director K. Pearl Woolam (fresh from her knockout performance as Fräulein Schneider in “Cabaret) say the characters range in age from the 20s into the 70s. Performance dates are November 5, 6, 12, 13, 14,19 and 20. For more information, leave a call-back request at the CLOTA hotline, 760-446-2411.

Cabaret is sold out!

Tickets for all performances of CABARET - including the recently added 8/22 matinee - are sold out!

One more chance to see Cabaret!

"Because of public demand, there will be one final performance of CABARET on Sunday, August 22, at 2 P.M.

Ticket sign ups start this morning at Red Rock Books.

TICKET PRICES WILL BE $12 GENERAL AND $10 DISCOUNT since this is a special extra performance.

All other performances, including the previously added Thursday performances, are already sold out.

Tickets for this one will go fast."