Arts & Entertainment
Auditions for "The Matchmaker" at GreenMan Theatre
GreenMan Theatre will be holding auditions for "The Matchmaker" by Thornton Wilder on Sunday Feb. 26 at 1 pm and Mon. Feb. 27 & Tues. Feb. 28 at 7 pm. Auditions will be in Asbury Hall at First United Methodist Church at 232 S. York in Elmhurst. Appointments are not required to audition. Auditions consist of cold reading from the script, with monologues optional. GreenMan Theatre Artistic Director David Soria is directing the production. There is no pay. For more information, visit www.greenmantheatre.com or call 630-464-2646. The production opens Friday April 20 and runs for 3 weekends (9 performances) until Sunday May 6.
"The Matchmaker" is about Dolly Gallagher Levi, a widow who brokers marriages and other transactions in Yonkers, New York at the turn of the 20th Century. She sets her sights on local merchant Horace Vandergelder, who has hired her to find him a wife. After a series of slapstick situations involving mistaken identities, secret rendezvous behind carefully placed screens, separated lovers, and a trip to night court, everyone finds themselves paired with a perfect match.
Characters: roles for 9 men, 7 women
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MEN
Horace Vandergelder, a Merchant of Yonkers, just turned 60, vain, sly, and stingy
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Cornelius Hackl, a Clerk in Vandergelder's Store, early thirties
Barnaby Tucker, a young Apprentice in Vandergelder's Store
Ambrose Kemper, an Artist, in love with Vandergelder's niece
Malachi Stack, hired by Vandergelder as a new Apprentice, despite his age
Joe Scanlon, a barber
Rudolph, a senior waiter
August, a younger waiter
a Cabman
WOMEN
Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi, a Friend of Vandergelder's Late Wife
Ermengarde, Mr. Vandergelder's young niece, whom Ambrose wants to marry
Irene Molloy, a Milliner
Minnie Fay, Mrs. Molloy's young Assistant
Miss Flora Van Husen, a Friend of Vandergelder's Late Wife
Gertrude, Vandergelder's elderly housekeeper
a Cook, at Miss Van Husen's