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The North Shore Players is holding auditions for its Spring production of

'The Man Who Came to Dinner' by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

Auditions consisted of readings from the script and were on Sunday, Jan 25 and Monday, Jan 26 at 6:30 PM,

Director: Megan Najarian email link: <megan_najarian@hotmail.com>

Location:　 Hogan Regional Center Auditorium, 6 Hathorne Circle, Danvers, MA 01923

Performances are Fri-Sun, April 24, 25 & 26, 2009.

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Storyline:

While noted cultural critic and egotistical radio personality Sheridan Whiteside is on a lecture tour in a small provincial town in Ohio, he condescends to have dinner at the house of dizzy matron Daisy Stanley, wife of a local conservative businessman. Whiteside slips and falls on their front steps, breaking his hip and forcing him to recuperate in their house. He immediately takes over the entire household with a combination of threats, intimidation, and wit, exiling the Stanleys to the second floor. He holds court in the living room for his wide circle of friends, runs up staggering long-distance bills to world leaders, monopolizes the Stanley servants, and populates the house with a menagerie of exotic animals. Unfortunately for the demanding Whiteside, Maggie Cutler, his trusted secretary and indispensable girl Friday, has fallen in love with a local newspaper man. Although he is pronounced well and free to leave by the local doctor, Sherry feigns his infirmity in order to find away to keep Maggie with him.

Characters descriptions:

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest W. Stanley: 50s; Mr. Stanley is a rich factory owner; nice, conservative, prosperous, provincial, upper crust couple that have invited Whiteside to their home in Ohio

Miss Preen: mid-late 30s; frantic and nervous nurse caring for Whiteside

Richard Stanley: young-mid 20s; son of the house

June Stanley: late teens-early 20s; daughter of the house

John: servant

Sarah: cook

Mrs. Dexter: 50s; friend of Mrs. Stanley; nosy neighbor dying for a glance of the famous Whiteside

Mrs. McCutcheon: 50s; friend of Mrs. Stanley; nosy neighbor dying for a glance of the famous Whiteside

Maggie Cutler: mid-late 30s; efficient secretary of Whiteside that knows his tactics and is the only one to call him on it has always been by his side until she falls in love in Ohio

Dr. Bradley: 40s-60s; the absent minded town physician caring for Whiteside

Sheridan Whiteside: portly, selfish, self-centered, egotistic, and manipulative famous lecturer and critic who has taken over the Stanley home for his own selfish cause

Harriet Stanley: late 40s-50s; Mr. Stanley's sister; unworldly woman with a strange manner

Bert Jefferson: mid-late 30s; local newspaper editor that Maggie falls in love with

Professor Metz: 40s-60s; Albert Einstein like etymologist who brings in the cockroaches

The Luncheon Guests (3): convicts

Mr. Baker: prison guard

Expressman: delivery of the penguins

Lorraine Sheldon: late 30s; social climbing, glamorous actress

Sandy: mid 20s; : beau of June

Beverley Carlton: 40s; British man of the theater

Westcott: leads the radio crew

Radio Technicians (2)

Young boys (6)