Whitefish Theatre holding auditions for season finale
Whitefish Theatre Company's "Red Herring"
The Whitefish Theatre Co. is holding auditions for the final season production of “Red Herring” on April 4 and 5 at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish. Auditions will be held at 7 p.m. Please arrive early to the Green Room to fill out an audition application and review the script.
Set in 1952, “Red Herring,” Michael Hollinger’s spoof of film noir detective movies, has five interlocking plots — spy story, murder mystery, and three love stories. The couples include not-so-bright Russian spy Andre Borchevsky and kooky Mrs. Kravitz, nuclear-weapons expert James Appel and Senator Joe McCarthy’s daughter, Lynn, and a forbidden liaison between FBI agent Frank Keller and detective Maggie Pelletier. Mysteries abound as the play unfolds: What happened to Mrs. Kravitz’s husband? If James is really a Soviet spy, what will Lynn tell her mother? Who is the dead body anyway? As the knots of the three convoluted relationships tie and fray, the plot-crossed lovers bumble and strategize their way to solve the mystery, eventually unravelling their trysts amidst riotous, inescapable tangles.
The cast will be composed of up to three men and three women, ages 20s to early 70s. No experience or preparation is necessary to audition. Pages from the script will be provided.
Gail Cleveland is the director for this production. Total time commitment for this production is approximately six weeks of rehearsal. Rehearsals begin in late April. There are seven cabaret performances over two weekends, May 25-28 and June 2-4.
For more information, call the Whitefish Theatre Company at 406-862-5371 or visit www.whitefishtheatreco.org.