<div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Curtain Call Theatre- 210 Old Loudon Road, Latham will be holding auditions on September 12<sup>th</sup>, and September 15<sup>th <br></sup></p><p class="MsoNormal">at 7PM for <b><i>A
Tuna Christmas</i></b> directed by Chris Foster. Production dates are November
26<sup>th</sup> through December 31<sup>st</sup>. A Tuna Christmas is a broad
comedy set in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas and is both an
affectionate commentary and withering satire of small town, Southern life and
attitudes.</p><p class="MsoNormal">877-PLAY (7529)<br></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Auditions will consist of reading sides from the script. <u>Two
actors</u> are needed to play 22 eccentric characters of both genders and
various ages:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Actor 1 plays:</span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Arles</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> Struvie</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> - A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_jockey" title="Disc jockey" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">disc
jockey</span></a> at radio station OKKK. </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Didi Snavely</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> - Owner of Didi's Used
Weapons ("If we can't kill it, it's immortal") </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Petey Fisk</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> - Employee of the Greater Tuna <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humane_Society" title="Humane Society" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Humane
Society</span></a> </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Jody Bumiller</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> - Youngest child of Bertha
Bumiller </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Stanley</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> Bumiller</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> – Son of Bertha Bumiller. Aspiring <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxidermist" title="Taxidermist" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">taxidermist</span></a>,
fresh from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_school" title="Reform school" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">reform school</span></a>; twin to Charlene </span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Charlene Bumiller</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> - Daughter of Bertha
Bumiller and brother to Stanley and Jody; infatuated with Joe Bob Lipsey. </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Vera Carp</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> – Wealthy town snob and acting leader of the
Smut-Snatchers of the New Order ("until the Rev. Spikes gets out of
prison") </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Dixie</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> Deberry</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> - Controller of the Tuna Electric Company </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Helen Bedd</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> - A waitress at the Tasty-Creme </span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Farley Burkhalter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> - A "little
person" and a patron of the Tasty-Creme </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Garland Poteet</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">- A soda distributor and one
of Inita's many boyfriends </span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Actor 2 plays: </span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0in;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Thurston Wheelis</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> - A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_jockey" title="Disc jockey" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">disc
jockey</span></a> at radio station OKKK </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Elmer Watkins</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> - The victim of a tragic
flameshooter incident, Elmer was left with no eyebrows. </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Bertha Bumiller</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housewife" title="Housewife" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Housewife</span></a>
and mother to Jody, Stanley, and Charlene; member of the Smut Snatchers of
the New Order ("<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship" title="Censorship" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Censorship</span></a> is as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">American</span></a>
as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_pie" title="Apple pie" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">apple
pie</span></a>, so <span>shut up!"</span>)
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Leonard Childers</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> - Entrepreneur and radio
personality on OKKK </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">R.R. Snavely</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFOlogist" title="UFOlogist" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">UFOlogist</span></a>
and husband to Didi </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Pearl Burras</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> - Aunt to Bertha, former
riveter in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston" title="Houston" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Houston</span></a>
during <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">World War II</span></a><span> </span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Sheriff Givens</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> – A stereotypical small
town sherrif, fat and obnoxious, nicknamed "Rubber Sheets" due
to his having wet the bed at church camp </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Ike Thompson</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">- a slow-witted highway
worker </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Inita Goodwin</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> - A waitress at the
Tasty-Creme </span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Phoebe Burkhalter</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">- Farley's significant other
voiced by Actor 2, but onstage is a wig behind a window manipulated by a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagehand" title="Stagehand" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">stagehand</span></a>
</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN">Joe Bob Lipsey</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"> - the
"not-the-marrying-kind" director of the Tuna Little Theater's
"troubled production" of <span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol" title="A Christmas Carol" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">A Christmas Carol</span></a></span> </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span></li>
</ul>
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<span lang="EN">The plot of <i>A
Tuna Christmas</i> centers on the town's annual Christmas Yard Display Contest,
won 14 times in a row by Vera Carp. A mysterious "Christmas Phantom,"
known for vandalizing the yard displays, threatens to throw the contest into
turmoil. Among the subplots are Stanley Bumiller's attempts to end his
probation and leave Tuna, Bertha Bumiller's trying to hold her family together
at Christmastime, and Joe Bob Lipsey's struggle to successfully mount his
production of <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol" title="A Christmas Carol" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">A Christmas Carol</span></a></i> despite numerous
vexations and obstacles.</span>
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