Casting Call: 'Great American Trailer Park Musical'

Somerset Valley Players will hold auditions for "The Great American Trailer Park Musical"at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26.

The Great American Trailer Park Musical is about Armadillo Acres, "North Florida's most exclusive manufactured housing community." Agoraphobic housewife Jeanne and her toll-collecting husband, Norbert, find their lives turned upside down when stripper Pippi moves next door and her ex-boyfriend Duke tries to hunt her down.

Narrated by a trio of girls from the trailer park, the show takes audiences on a journey from the trailer park, to a strip club, to a mall in Oklahoma City.

Auditions will be held at Somerset Valley Players, 689 Amwell Road, Hillsborough. Callbacks will be held at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 27. Performances will be at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 2 p.m. Sundays, April 12 through May.

Director Christian Carrara is seeking one man, 24-28 years old; and three women, from 30-55 years old. Be prepared to sing 16 bars of an audition piece. Some parts have been previously cast.

Roles include:

Jeanne Garstecki	35-45	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, if she could manage to get out of the trailer.
Duke	24-28	Duke is Pippi's obsessive, possessive, and excessive Magic Marker-sniffing ex-boyfriend. Not the brightest guy south of the Mason-Dixon Line, Duke leaves a trailer 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	40-55	Betty has lived in Armadillo Acres longer than any other residents. 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, earthly and dry.
Lin	30's	Lin 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 hopes that she can keep the chair on the fritz. Sometimes self-absorbed and sometimes just a smartass, she hints at a wild, rock-'n-roll past, and is the fieriest of "The Girls."