Picnic
Written by William Inge
May 2-4, 9-11, & 16-18, 2025
Friday & Saturday 8 pm, Sunday 3 pm
Directed by Gregg Vogelsmeier
On a sweltering Labor Day morning, the women of a small town in Kansas are preparing for the annual picnic. This seemingly placid environment is disrupted when Hal Carter, a muscular and charming young drifter, hops off the freight train. Hearts are broken and lives are changed in the following twenty-four hours, as Hal's lively, dangerous energy wakes up the sleepy community.
"Picnic" is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. www.dramatists.com
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$20 for adults,
$17 for seniors (60+),
$15 for students and teachers,
$10 for children (12-).
All prices include sales tax.
AUDITIONS:
Monday and Tuesday, February 17 & 18, 2025,
from 7-9 pm each night.
ROLES:
Madge Owens - The most beautiful girl in town, but feels that is all people see in her. Not book-smart, but warm and charming. She yearns for and is searching for an escape from small time life.
Hal Carter - A good looking, masculine, well-built vagabond. Can be a braggart, but is
lonely and wants desperately to fit in somewhere, with someone.
Millie Owens - Madge's younger sister. Very intelligent, an assertive and smart-mouthed tomboy, but also likeable and shy. Developing into a young woman with conflicting feelings.
Flo Owens - Fiercely protective mother with faded beauty and a hard exterior. Loves her daughters very much and wants better lives for them than she has had.
Rosemary - A schoolteacher. Bawdy, outrageous, boastful, and self-righteous on the outside, but desperate, lonely, and fragile on the inside. She feels she must change her circumstances and will do anything to get married.
Howard Bevans - Rosemary's longtime boyfriend, a local business owner. Meek, mild-mannered, a good friend and neighbor. Enjoys a drink and a pretty girl. He is satisfied with not being married, but genuinely cares about Rosemary.
Helen Potts - An older widow whose past is filled with heartache from long-lost love. Pleasant, warm, friendly, kind and a true
romantic.
Alan Seymour - Madge's home-town boyfriend who wants to marry her. Nice looking, smart, wealthy and polished. Awestruck by Madge, but can't get past her beauty to see any deeper.
Irma Kronkite - Also a schoolteacher. A loud, funny jokester who enjoys her single life.
Christine Schoenwalder - Also a schoolteacher. Quiet and shy; a follower.
Bomber - A newsboy and smart-mouthed bully who picks on Millie, but worships Madge.