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Auditions for ACT’s production of LEADING LADIES will be held at 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, September 29 and 30, in the Barbara Titelman-Spessard Rehearsal Hall of the ACT Workshop.

LEADING LADIES is another comedy by Ken Ludwig, whose LEND ME A TENOR and MOON OVER BUFFALO were popular productions with our audience in past seasons. Again, it’s a farce with theatrical trappings, taking place in 1948 in York, Pennsylvania, where two down-on-their-luck London actors have been reduced to performing scenes from Shakespeare for Moose Lodge audiences. When they read in the newspaper that ailing wealthy elderly woman is searching for two long-lost nephews before she passes away, they decide to pose as the relatives and take the fortune, only to discover that the missing duo are actually nieces, not nephews, forcing them to dress as women in order to continue their scheme.

Tom Liszka is directing LEADING LADIES. Rehearsals for the show will begin the first week in October and performances will be the weekend before Thanksgiving, November 20 through 23. The cast requires three females and five males:

• MEG – Early 30s, vivacious with enormous warmth and a great sense of humor
• LEO and JACK – Early 40s, two second-rate actors from London, British accents.
• AUDREY – A roller-skating Tastee-Bite waitress, in her 20s, well-built, extremely sweet and good natured.
• DUNCAN – Meg’s substantially older fiancé, the local minister, good-hearted but fussy, set in his ways and a bit scatter-brained.
• FLORENCE – Crusty old woman with bad eyesight
• DOC – A country doctor and Chief Moose of the local lodge, a curmudgeon but likeable.
• BUTCH – Doc’s son, in his 20s, ex-high-school football player, earnest and sincere, but slow on the uptake.

Perusal copies of the script are available at the ACT office.