PERFORMANCE DATES:

• February 6th at 7:00 PM
• February 7th at 7:00 PM
• February 8th at 2:00 PM
• February 13th at 7:00 PM
• February 14th at 7:00 PM
• February 15th at 2:00 PM

All rehearsals and performances will take place at the STG Studio (180 NW Oldham Parkway, Lee’s Summit MO)

AUDITION AND CALLBACK INFORMATION

Summit Theatre Group is pleased to announce open auditions for The Great American Trailer Park Musical!! A country-rock and blues musical about agoraphobia, adultery, ’80s nostalgia, spray cheese, roadkill, hysterical pregnancy, a broken electric chair, kleptomania, dancers, flan, and disco, The Great American Trailer Park Musical centers around regular guy Norbert and his agoraphobic wife, Jeannie, whose marriage is threatened by Armadillo Acres’ newcomer, the hot young dancer Pippi. The trailer park also plays home to a Greek-chorus-like trio of women, Linoleum, Betty, and Pickles, each dysfunctional in her own right. The Great American Trailer Park Musical may be loud and lewd, but it also has a giant heart!!

Auditions are Saturday, November 15th from 1:00 – 5:00 PM at the STG Studio (180 NW Oldham Pkwy, Lee’s Summit MO)

Callbacks will take place on Thursday, November 20th from 7:00 – 10:00 PM by director invitation only.

WHAT TO PREPARE/BRING

• Complete the audition form: The Great American Trailer Park Musical Audition Form
• Prepare a 1-minute cutting from a musical theatre or country/rock/blues song in the style of the show (no songs from the actual production). Please bring marked sheet music for the provided accompanist. No acapella songs or music tracks will be used for auditions.
• There will be a short dance call at auditions, so come in suitable attire and prepared to move!
• Bring a list of all anticipated rehearsal conflicts from January 4th to January 30th. No conflicts will be accepted from February 1st through the end of the run. An excessive amount of conflicts will affect our ability to cast you in the show. Please keep conflicts to a minimum.
• Attach a headshot (if available) and resume of recent theatre experience to your audition sheet, or bring them with you to the audition. If you do not have a headshot or resume, please do not let that stop you from auditioning!  We will take a photo and get additional information when you arrive!

VIDEO AUDITIONS

Video auditions will be accepted until November 14th at 11:59 PM. There is a field on the audition form where you can upload your 1-minute video. Please ensure your video captures you from the waist up so we can see your full interpretation of the song and not just hear your vocals!

REHEARSALS

• Rehearsals begin on Sunday, January 4th and will typically be Mondays through Thursday evenings at the STG Studio.
• There will be a Sunday rehearsal on January 4th from 6:00 to 10:00 PM
• There will be a Sunday load-in and technical rehearsal on February 1st from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM (actors may not be needed until the afternoon, but that will be determined at a later date)

ABOUT THE SHOW

There’s a new tenant at Armadillo Acres — and she’s wreaking hurricane-like havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. When Pippi, a stripper on the run from her unhinged ex-boyfriend, comes between agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth collector husband, the storms begin to brew.

A trio of trailer park women guide the narrative, playing many characters and genders while breaking the fourth wall at a whim to air their own dirty laundry. ​Beyond broad comedy and Jerry Springer-worthy confrontations, the show is about rising above our impulses, mistakes, and surroundings to make a future we can believe in, despite the past.

ROLES: The production calls for 5 female-presenting and 2 male-presenting roles

JEANNIE GARSTECKI – 35 to 50 (female-presenting), Belt and Mezzo

Jeannie has lived in a trailer at Armadillo Acres for 20 years with her husband and high-school sweetheart, Norbert. A faded beauty, she was 17 when she married, 18 when her son was born and 23 when he got kidnapped. That, coupled with a really bad perm, has turned her into an agoraphobic. She hasn’t left her trailer in all these years, and the man she loves is drifting further and further away and she’s determined to get him back … that is if she could manage to get out of the trailer to do it.

NOBERT GARSTECKI – 35 to 50 (male-presenting), High Baritone

Jeannie’s husband Norbert collects tolls for a living and tries to be as good a husband as one can be to an agoraphobic. A former high- school football star, he has rugged good looks marred by fatigue and the stress of his difficult marriage. He is a simple man who desperately wishes his wife could get out of the trailer, but he’s not equipped with the emotional or intellectual tools to help her do it. He has never loved or slept with a woman other than Jeannie. That is until he meets …

PIPPI – 25 to 35 (female-presenting), Big Belt

Pippi is a striking beauty with a great body and a taste for clothing that shows it off. Up to this point, Pippi’s life has been about surviving. She is a professional stripper who has gotten by on her looks and talents for dancing and petty theft. She means no harm and is ready to stop making bad choices and start making changes, but first she has to get lost in a hick-town trailer park in North Florida so she won’t be found by her last bad choice…

DUKE – 20s to 30s (male-presenting), Rock Tenor

Duke is Pippi’s obsessive, possessive and excessive Magic Marker–sniffing boyfriend; “ex”-boyfriend according to Pippi. Not so, according to Duke. Not the brightest guy south of the Mason-Dixon Line, Duke leaves a trail of disaster in his wake wherever he goes. His road trip to Starke is no exception and his arrival at the trailer park is full of surprises — even for a group of people who have had their share of excitement.

BETTY – 35 to 50 (female-presenting), Rough Belt

Betty attended high school with Norbert and Jeannie Garstecki and has lived at Armadillo Acres for just as long. She now runs the leasing office and makes it her business to know everything about everybody who passes through the trailer park. Though a self-proclaimed “bad-ass,” Betty is really a mother hen to the denizens of the trailer park. Of all “The Girls,” Betty is the most grounded, earthy and dry.

LINOLEUM “LIN” – 30s (female-presenting), Belt

So-named because her mother gave birth to her on the kitchen floor, Linoleum has a husband on death row at the Florida State Prison. His fate is an electric chair that doesn’t work properly unless most of the town’s electricity is turned off. So Lin watches everyone’s lights and appliances very closely in the hopes that she can keep the chair on the fritz. Sometimes self-absorbed and sometimes just a smart-ass, she hints at a wild, rock-and-roll past and is the fieriest of “The Girls.”

DONNA “PICKLES” – 18-25 (female-presenting), Belt

A newlywed, Donna is called “Pickles” because she is perpetually hysterically pregnant — that is, she’s so convinced she should be pregnant she’s exhibiting symptoms. Her husband is a lot fancier than she is, as he is from the big city of Jacksonville. His parents haven’t been very supportive of his marital choice, so Pickles is desperate to give her husband a family of his own, even if she has to fake it. The dimmest of “The Girls,” Pickles is airy, sweet and blissfully ignorant.

If you have questions or need additional information, please contact the director, Stan Cole, at stancole92@gmail.com.