Auditions

General Info About OLT Auditions

Auditions are typically held on a Monday and a Tuesday evening, starting at 7:00 p.m or a Sunday afternoon and Monday evening. You do not have to attend both nights of auditions, but you are welcome to read both nights of auditions if you’d like. If callbacks are necessary, the director will schedule the date and time.

Audition appointments are not necessary unless you are unable to attend auditions on the regularly scheduled days and times. In that case, the Director may agree to schedule a separate audition appointment for you. This choice is entirely up to the Director.

Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. You do not need to have prepared monologues. Copies of the scripts for the current season’s plays are available at the Downtown, Lacey, and Tumwater branches of the Timberland Library. You may ask for a copy of the script at the information desk. Scripts are only available for use at the library and may not be checked out.

Headshots and resumes are welcome at auditions, but are not necessary.

Rehearsals are typically Monday through Thursday. Additional rehearsals and/or the rehearsal schedule are at the Director’s discretion. Performances are typically Thursday through Sunday; Sunday is the only matinee.

Olympia Little Theatre is a community theater and you need not have any previous experience, just passion and commitment!

UPCOMING AUDITIONS:

Ghost of a Chance

Directed by Dave Marsh

Auditions will be held on Sunday, July 21, 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm and Monday, July 22 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at Olympia Little Theatre

Character Descriptions:

BETHANY: (F  25-40)  A new woman. Bright, strong, independent, beautiful.  But she’s a locked vault, living life only for tomorrow, Unwilling to face her past; when it comes back to haunt her, she is unprepared to deal with it. An emotional roller-coaster that reverts her to the woman she was. Dependency – 10, self-esteem – 0,

FLOYD: (M 25-40)Beth’s fiancée, ‘The tortoise, Stable, Safe, Durable, Excitement and adventure are things he’s read about in books, But he loves Bethany, and when that is threatened he is going to break out of his shell, Even if it kills him.

 CHANCE:(M 25-40) Beth’s first husband. The hare. Wild and free. Living fast and hard. Adventure was his middle name. He loves Beth as well and he’s not about to let a little thing like his own death keep him from spending the rest of their life together. Not at any cost. Any.

VERNA:( F 45-60)  Floyd’s mother. Protective and suspicious. Looking at life in a rose-colored rear-view mirror. She’s convinced herself that her dislike of Beth is all for her son’s own good, not because she sees herself in Beth’s eyes.

CRYSTAL:( F 25-40)  Flamboyant with a capitol FLAM. Actually with a capitol BOYANT as well. Cigar-chomping, vodka-swilling kook,  squeezing the life out of each and every moment. A psychic with a sarcastic edge that’s Wilkenson sharp. But there’s a darkness behind that party girl façade.

ADAM: (M 45-60)Verna’s age. A Kris Kringle face, a happy-go-lucky charm that’s contagious. But he’s seen his one chance for an Easy Street address and is going to take it. Grandpa Walton turned reluctant Dillinge