Audition: Five Women Wearing the Same Dress - March 13-14

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Auditions: Five Women Wearing the Same Dress

Fire Hall Community Theatre
March 13-March 14, 2007

Comedy written by Alan Ball
Directed by Benjamin Klipfel

Cast: 1 man, 5 women: 6 total

Auditions will be cold reading.

Presented May 3-May 19, 2007

It's June, they're hot, they're wearing satin. Five women in very ugly dresses assess their lives in this hysterical comedy. Written by Alan Ball, the Oscar-winning mind behind American Beauty and 6 Feet Under, 5 Women Wearing the Same Dress celebrates the differences and dilemmas of five bridesmaids hiding out in a Knoxville bedroom. Once again, Ball skillfully admits us entrance into a world of outsiders while giving a glimpse of the underbelly of the seemingly perfect American world of the early '90's.

During an ostentatious wedding reception at a Knoxville, Tennessee, estate, five reluctant, identically clad bridesmaids hide out in an upstairs bedroom, each with her own reason to avoid the proceedings below. They are Frances, a painfully sweet but sheltered fundamentalist; Mindy, the cheerful, wise-cracking lesbian sister of the groom; Georgeanne, whose heartbreak over her own failed marriage triggers outrageous behavior; Meredith, the bride's younger sister whose precocious rebelliousness masks a dark secret; and Trisha, a jaded beauty whose die-hard cynicism about men is called into question when she meets Tripp, a charming bad-boy usher to whom there is more than meets the eye. As the afternoon wears on, these five very different women joyously discover a common bond in this wickedly funny, irreverent and touching celebration of the women's spirit.