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Upcoming Auditions

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Despite our best efforts and audition opportunities, we have made the
decision to postpone our show dates until January 19-21 and 26-28, 2024.

In the meantime, we are still looking for males to fulfill our Aggie football team.
If you know someone who would be interested in these roles, please encourage them to audition
via video audition singing "The Aggie Song" as attached below.
​Video submissions can be emailed to nicahodge@theatreofgadsden.net for consideration.


Directed by Mike Beecham and Annslyn Pilkington.

This happy-go-lucky view of small-town vice and statewide political side-stepping recounts the good times and the demise of the Chicken Ranch, known since the 1850s as one of the better pleasure palaces in all of Texas. Governors, senators, mayors, and even victorious college football teams frequent Miss Mona’s cozy bordello, until that Puritan nemesis Watchdog focuses his television cameras and his righteous indignation on the institution.


Please note this production contains explicit and adult content, language and subject manner. 



Audition Preparation

Auditioners can prepare to sing one of the following songs from the show or bring an audio accompaniment (speaker provided) of a 1970's style country song by Dolly Parton, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash or Ray Charles. 

Please arrive in time to complete registration prior to 6:30 pm start time. Auditionees should wear comfortable clothes to learn and rehearse choreography as part of the audition process. 
Higher range voices
a_lil_ole_bitty_pissant_county_place.pdf
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hard_candy_christmas.pdf
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Lower range voices
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Characters

Miss Mona Stangley
Owner and operator of “The Chicken Ranch.” No nonsense, fierce business woman, protective over her “girls” and energetic.

Jewel Mosley
Housekeeper at The Chicken Ranch for more than twenty five years. A confidante of Miss Mona’s, self-assured and delightfully sassy.

Doatsey Mae Grimes
Waitress at the Texas Twinkle Café. She’s a trusting, reliable ear, and totally over the men of the town.

Imogene Charlene Greene
Texas A&M university student, double majoring in Home Economics and Religion. She’s a proud pageant girl and an excellent cheerleader.

“Angel” aka Nancy Jean Drury
Former teen mom who left home after giving birth to her son Billy, now six years old, after her father beat her up. She’s tough, and scrappy.

“Shy” aka, Annamerle Seltzer
Country, farm girl; young, fresh faced, sheltered and gawky. Naïve and shy, but headstrong and capable.
Linda Lou

Has a “been there, done that” attitude, sarcastic and mouthy. The inappropriate clown of the group.

Ginger
Divorcee, nice, welcoming and well adjusted. Gets her name from her red hair.

Dawn
Innocent, positive, peppy down home girl next door.

Ruby Rae
Awkward. Tries everything she can think of to improve her stock at the ranch, but always seems to be the last chosen. Not at all negative about it, though.

Eloise
A native New Yorker, named by Mona after the precocious and dramatic six year old character in some of her favorite children’s books.

Beatrice
Royal, regal, prim and proper- the tallest of the “girls.”

Taddy Jo
Athletic, direct and grounded- called the tomboy of the group.

Durla
Economical, chameleon-like and not prone to socializing. Known for turning around clients the quickest.

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​“Bandleader” aka John Fitzgerald Stangley
Full of charm and good feeling. He is the narrator of the story.

Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd
Sheriff of La Grange,Texas.A down home, cowboy type, lovingly curmudgeonly-more than a little rough around the edges. He’s a “live and let live” type, though, surprisingly liberal in his ideas and his language.

Melvin P. Thorpe
Television personality and part-time revivalist preacher. He’s brash, bigger than life and a complete blowhard.

Governor Briscoe
A former rancher and businessman from Uvalde, TX now a first term Governor in his first year in office. He’s the quintessential politician: Saying a lot of nothing.

Edsel Mackey
He’s now Editor in Chief of the local newspaper and is, without question, the smartest man in town. Witty, dry and shrewd.

Mayor Rufus Poindexter
Local automobile dealer and youngest son of the town’s richest and most well known family. He is overwhelmed by his job, and incompetent.

C.J. Scruggs
A good, deeply religious insurance salesman. In contrast to his personality, he’s the loudest, worst dresser in town.

Senator JT Wingwoah
Young, short, Napoleonic good ole boy

Shane Miller
Quarterback of the Texas A&M Aggies. Full of bravado and star power.

Lonnie Johnson
Star running back of the Texas A&M Aggies. Always trying to prove his masculinity.

Eugene Williams
Freshman benchwarmer for the Texas A&M Aggies. Scrawny and small, but full of enthusiasm.

Clifford Becker
Third year senior at Texas A&M and defensive end for the Aggies. Loud and big.

“Scandinavian Place Kicker” Alvar Askelson
​International recruit and place kicker for the Texas A&M Aggies. Has a sweet, confused disposition. Speaks with a very thick Scandinavian accent.

Audition Form - Please print and bring completed to your audition. Blank forms will be available for any unable to print in advance.


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Tentative Auditions for Sordid Lives
are Friday, June 30th at 6:30 pm and
Saturday, July 1st at 2:30 pm at the Ritz.
Doors open at 30 minutes prior for registration. 
Performance dates are September 1-3 and 8-10.
​Directed by Mike Beecham.

A black comedy about white trash! The author of Daddy’s Dyin’ (Who’s Got the Will?) brings you a comedy that was nominated for over 30 awards during its long run in Los Angeles. When Peggy, a good Christian woman, hits her head on the sink and bleeds to death after tripping over her lover’s wooden legs in a motel room, chaos erupts in Winters, Texas.
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Tentative Auditions for A Christmas Carol
are Monday, September 11th, and Tuesday, September 12th at 6:30 pm at the Ritz.
Doors open at 30 minutes prior for registration. 
Performance dates are December 1-3 with
School Day performances on November 30th.
​Directed by Nica Hodge

A ridiculous but surprisingly faithful rendition of the Dickens classic. Ebenezer Scrooge is haunted by the ghosts of Jacob Marley, Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and the Spirit of Christmas Yet to Come. Faced with his own mortality and the evil results of his misanthropic, miserly ways, Scrooge is redeemed, reconciled with his nephew and his neighbors, and becomes a second father to his assistant’s son, Tiny Tim. Ludlam finds the humor as well as the pathos in this Victorian melodrama.

Location


310 N 27th Street
Gadsden, AL  35904


Contact Us
(256) 547-7469

Mailing address:

PO Box 8035
Gadsden, AL 35902

gadsdentheatre@gmail.com


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