Pontiac Theatre IV


Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Auditions
  • February 22,23, 2010 at 7 PM

    at
    Ruth Petersen Senior Center990 Joslyn Ave. Pontiac

  • Performance Dates
    May 14,15,21,22, 2010
    Pontiac High School

  • Carmen Holcombe

    Produced by
    Phil Cuthbertson

    Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize winning play focuses on a troubled Southern family and the discord over their dying father's millions. Wealthy plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt, celebrating his 65th birhtday, is visited by his sons, Brick and Gooper.

    • Lead roles include:
    • Maggie- The play's cat. Maggie's loneliness and Brick's refusal to make her his desire, has made her hard, nervous, and bitchy.
    • Brick – The favorite son and mourned lover. Brick embodies an almost archetypal masculinity, but is also obviously a broken man.
    • Big Daddy– Maggie's father she affectionately dubbed an old-fashioned "Mississippi redneck." Daddy is a large, brash, and vulgar plantation millionare who believes he has returned from the grave.
    • Big Mama – Maggie's mother. Large, breathless,sincere, earnest,crude, and bedecked in flashy gems. Mama is a woman embarrassingly dedicated to a man who despises her and in feeble denial of her husband's disgust. She considers Brick her "only son."
    • Mae – A mean, agititated "monster of fertility" who schemes with her husband Gooper to secure Big Daddy's estate
    • Gooper – A successful corporate lawyer. Gooper is Daddy's eldest and least favored son. He deeply resents his parents' love for Brick, viciously relishes in Daddy's illness, and rather ruthlessly plots to secure control of the estate.
    • Reverand Tooker – A tactless, opportunistic, and hypocritical quest at Big Daddy's birthday party.
    • Doctor Baugh - Daddy's physician. He delivers Daddy's diagnoses to Big Mama and leaves her with a prescription of morphine.
    • The Children - Mae and Gooper's children. They intermittantly interrupt the action on-stage. Under Mae's direction, they offer the image of famillial love and devotion.
    • The Servants - Plantation servants appear throughout the play.
    • For futher information click or a pre-audition appointment Here or contact:
      Carmen at
      248-682-1165

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