AUDITIONS: STEEL MAGNOLIAS

AUDITIONS: STEEL MAGNOLIAS

Playing in the Long Beach Playhouse’s Mainstage Theater

By Robert Harling

Directed by Phyllis B. Gitlin

AUDITION DATES:  Mar. 24 – 26, 2025

• Monday, Mar. 24, 2025 – 7pm – 9pm: Open Call
• Tuesday,  Mar. 25, 2025 – 7pm – 9pm: Open Call
• Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2025 – 7pm – 10pm: Callbacks – By invitation only.

(Auditioners only need to come to one night of open call auditions.  We are only seeing in-person auditioners during audition times – no video submissions.)

PERFORMANCE DATES:  May 17 – June 14, 2025

AUDITION NOTICE:

TITLE: STEEL MAGNOLIAS 

AUTHOR: Robert Harling

DIRECTOR: Phyllis B. Gitlin

RUN:  May 16th – June 14th, 2025

Fridays & Saturdays 8pm, Sundays at 2pm. Special performances on Thursday and Sunday nights may be added for private parties and special events.

This is a volunteer community theater production.  Non-Equity.  There is no pay.

AUDITION DATES:

Open Call:

Dates: Monday, March 24 & Tuesday, March 25, 2025

(Auditioners only need to come to one night of Open Call Auditions.)

Times: 7pm – 9pm

Location: Long Beach Playhouse  

Callbacks: By Invitation Only.

Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Times: 7pm – 10pm

REHEARSALS:

First Read-Through:  Saturday,  March 29, Noon – 4pm

Regular Rehearsal: Starting March 31st, Monday-Thursday, 7pm – 10pm; Saturdays, 9am – Noon.

(Please see beginning rehearsal schedule BELOW for specific dates and times. Specifics of each regular rehearsal’s daily call will be determined after casting.)

Location: Long Beach Playhouse

NOTE: Open to working with some minor conflicts except for tech dates and performances.

AUDITION REQUIREMENTS:

Bring headshot and resume. 

Please have a prepared monologue (60-90 seconds) of the genre.

If you do not have a monologue prepared, sides for cold readings will be provided at the auditions.

All characters have a basic, Southern stage accent.

Be sure to have your calendar to list all of your conflicts.

SHORT SYNOPSIS:  

The play takes place in Truvy’s beauty salon in a small town in Louisiana, where all the ladies who are “anybody” come to get their hair done. The women are part of their town’s southern oligarchy. 

CASTING THE FOLLOWING ROLES:

NOTE: All ethnicities and types are encouraged to audition.

All characters have a basic, Southern stage accent.

TRUVY JONES (F, 35-55). Owner of the beauty shop. She is feisty, wisecracking, and outspoken. Heart of gold, but has been dealt some hard knocks. She offers hairspray with a lot of teasing. (Ability to style hair a plus.)

ANNELLE DUPUY-DESOTO (F, 18-25). Beauty shop assistant. She is unsure and timid at the beginning of the play. Throughout the story she goes from awkward and timid to wild to very religious. Awkward. (Ability to do hair a plus.)

CLAIREE BELCHER (F, 60-70). Widow of former mayor. Grande dame. Elegant, sophisticated, intelligent and very witty with a definite sweet tooth.

SHELBY EATENTON-LATCHERIE (F, 19-28). M’Lynn’s daughter. She is strong willed, pretty and passionate. She loves her mother and the other women but has a stubborn streak.

M’LYNN EATENTON (F, 40-60). Shelby’s mother. Socially prominent career woman. Practical, intelligent, and loving. She is passionate and stubborn about her daughter. 

OUISER BOUDREAX (F, 55-70). Wealthy curmudgeon. Acerbic but loveable. Southern to the core. She is eccentric and quick witted.

BEGINNING REHEARSAL SCHEDULE: