Audition requirements: You must sign up for an audition time slot. You must complete the audition form and bring it with you to your audition.
Synopsis: Aurora, a widowed and controlling mother, and Emma, her feisty and independent daughter, have a close but often strained relationship, connected by frequent phone calls and strong opinions. Emma marries Flap Horton, a young college professor, who turns out to be a philandering husband. Meanwhile, Aurora develops a relationship with her next-door neighbor, Garrett, a retired astronaut. The play explores the complex relationship between the mother and daughter as they navigate life’s challenges including love, marriage, family, and loss with humor and heart.
Character Description:
Role: Aurora
Gender: Female
Age Range: 50 – 70
Description: Mother of Emma with whom she has a complex, strong, yet caring relationship. She’s completely involved in her daughter’s family problems. Smart, “hard-to–please,” she is passionate in life and love. Attractive, boldly direct, Aurora has us laughing in her most controlling moments.
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Role: Emma
Gender: Female
Age Range: 20 – 35
Description: realistic, feisty when she needs to be, sees the good in life. As smart as her Mom, she has the heart of a lioness and is deeply committed to her husband, her children, and her mother. She navigates the tempestuous waters of family relationships with perceptive understanding and humor.
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Role: Garrett
Gender: Male
Age Range: 50 – 70
Description: next-door neighbor to Aurora. A retired astronaut. A womanizing alcoholic who has let himself go. Develops a tenuous and surprising relationship with Aurora. Despite his incorrigible behavior he certainly has his charming and endearing moments and has Aurora’s back in the end.
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Role: Flap
Gender: Male
Age Range: 20 – 40
Description: Emma’s high school sweetheart and now wayward husband. Inattentive to Emma, except for spontaneous sex. Trying to find his own path he accepts a position of a college professor in Des Moines, Iowa, separating the family hundreds of miles from Emma’s meddlesome mother. Tries to step up for Emma in the end.
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Role: Patsy
Gender: Female
Age Range: 20-35
Description: Emma’s best girlfriend who continues on to college, eventually becoming successful in New York City. Also smart, full of life, a dedicated friend, she is always there for Emma.
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Role: Doctor Maise
Gender: Male
Age Range: 40 – 70
Description: Emma’s doctor, impatient, clinical, brusque, and not very forthcoming at first. Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Additional Roles:
Nurse-Female 18-55
Doris (young date of Garrett) Female 18-30
Young Aurora- 18-25
*These three parts could be played by one actor