Auditions | Arena

Arena Dinner Theatre

Girls' Weekend

by Karen Schaeffer

Director Sue Kahn

Open Auditions: Sunday, March 16, and Monday, March 17, 2025, at 7 pm at Arena Dinner Theatre

Arrive at least 5-10 minutes prior to auditions to fill out your audition form. (Doors will open @ 6:30 pm)

Everyone should be prepared to perform sides from the script. To receive the sides or a perusal script in advance, email Suekahn651@gmail.com.

CHARACTERS:

THE WOMEN

DOT: (60-70)The play takes place in Dot’s cabin where she is looking forward to cutting loose with her friends. She is the oldest woman in the group. She is bold, and undaunted by other people‘s opinions. The role of Dot requires the actor to play drunk, do a face plant in her lasagna, slide under a table, and get rolled and dragged across the floor by her friends.
Dot kisses. FUN!
MEG: (40-50)Less a maverick than Dot, and sometimes as coquettish as daughter Ellie, Meg is feeling ambivalent these days. She is Dot’s bestie-best friend and is secretly dating Dot’s son Stephen. The character of Meg must climb a ladder. Meg kisses.
CAROL: (30-40) A sweet friend from the “book club”, Carol is mostly preoccupied about conceiving a baby with her husband Rick. There will be kissing and cuddling for Carol, too!
ELLIE: (25ish) Usually Meg‘s daughter Ellie is a fun-loving, flirty recent college graduate. Currently, (and much to her chagrin) she lives with her mom and the two often butt heads. Youngest in the group, Ellie is not a bit excited about a “boring” weekend at the cabin with her mother‘s book club friends.The character of Ellie climbs a ladder.

THE MEN

RICK: (30-40)The very accommodating, loving and understanding husband of Carol. Rick is horny. But in the nicest way.
STEPHEN: (30-40) Stephen is charming. Full of energy. Dot is his mother. Stephen is secretly dating Meg. He doesn’t care that she is older than he is, he is keen to move the relationship forward.
SHERIFF TOM: (30-50)Tom is the polite, unassuming sheriff who inadvertently puts a kink in the women’s plans. Further, he discovers that he is rather smitten with one of the women. Tom eats.
BUBBA: (25ish) A “townie”. Went to same college as Ellie. Currently working for his dad. Bubba is buff, and apparently easily influenced by a pretty face. Kind of a knucklehead. Bubba climbs a ladder.

REHEARSALS: Rehearsals begin March 20 at 6:30 pm. Typical rehearsals will be Monday-Thursday 6:30-9:30, some Friday's may be needed.
TECH SUNDAY: Sunday, April 27 (1 pm- ????)
TECH WEEK: Monday, April 28-Thursday, May 1 (6:30/7- 10:30ish pm)

ABOUT THE SHOW:

In this lightning-quick farce, four women travel to Dot’s Northwoods cabin to consume copious amounts of wine, laugh at their lives, trade stories, and chat about their book club’s latest selection. However, after the third case of wine comes through the door, it becomes clear there will be more stewing than reviewing. As the bottles tip up, the secrets spill out and the men sneak in. The madcap, door-slamming chaos comes to a head when Dot wakes up and discovers her girls’ weekend is full of men!