Arsenic & Old Lace Auditions

You are cordially invited to tea with the Brewster sisters... but you might want to skip the elderberry wine. Auditions for the dark comedy classic Arsenic and Old Lace are officially open! 

Auditions will be held on Thursday, January 22 from 6:00-9:00 pm. Auditions will be held at the Fine Arts Center, 58 S 100 W, Brigham City. All roles are open. All roles are volunteer.

Directed by Hugh Hanson

Friday, March 13 at 7:30 pm

Saturday, March 14 at 7:30 pm

Saturday, March 14 at 2:00 pm

Monday, March 16 at 7:30 pm

Thursday, March 19 at 7:30 pm

Friday, March 20 at 7:30 pm

Saturday, March 21 at 2:00 pm

Saturday, March 21 at 7:30 pm

Rehearsals will be held Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday nights and Saturday mornings.  Additional rehearsals will be added as we get closer to opening night. 

Please be prepared to recite a monologue (approximately 1 minute) of your choice.

Please bring your audition form, conflict calendar and a headshot (if available).

In an effort to limit the wait time, please sign up for an audition time. Walk-ins will be welcome, but priority will be given to those with a scheduled audition time.

If you are unable to attend auditions, video auditions will be accepted until 9:00 pm on Thursday, January 22. Please send them to tarawilson.theater@gmail.com. Please include all required audition forms with the video. 

Callbacks will be held on Saturday, January 24, by invitation

Mortimer Brewster, a drama critic who has just gotten engaged, discovers a gruesome secret in his eccentric aunts' cellar: a corpse. He soon learns that his sweet, elderly aunts, Abby and Martha, have developed a very "charitable" habit of ending the suffering of lonely old men with a glass of poisoned elderberry wine. Between his homicidal aunts, a brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt, and another brother who has undergone plastic surgery to look like Boris Karloff, Mortimer must scramble to manage the chaos before the police—or his new fiancée—find out. 

Abby Brewster:  (Female) A sweet elderly woman with Victorian charm who poisons elderly men. Abby is the sister of Martha and an aunt to Teddy, Jonathan, and Mortimer. 

Martha Brewster: (Female) Also a darling elderly lady who poisons elderly men. Martha is the sister of Abby and an aunt to Teddy, Jonathan, and Mortimer. 

Mortimer Brewster: (Male) Nephew of Abby and Martha, Mortimer is a drama critic.  A good-hearted cynic, he is engaged to Elaine. Mortimer cares for his aunts, but his world is turned upside-down as he tries to untangle their crazy, homicidal dilemma.  

Elaine Harper: (Female) An attractive girl in her twenties, and Mortimer’s fiancée, Elaine is the daughter of the Rev. Dr. Harper, who lives next-door to Abby and Martha. She is surprisingly wise in the ways of the world for a minister's daughter. 

Teddy Brewster: (Male) Nephew of Abby and Martha Brewster. Teddy is a delightfully certifiable man who is under the happy delusion that he is Theodore Roosevelt. 

Jonathan Brewster: (Male) Nephew of Abby and Martha Brewster, Jonathan is a psychopath who has had plastic surgery and now looks like Boris Karloff. 

Dr. Einstein: (Male) A plastic surgeon and an alcoholic, Dr. Einstein has changed Jonathan's face three times. 

Officer O'Hara: (Flexible) A police officer, O’Hara is a would-be playwright who pesters Mortimer to read his play. 

The Rev. Dr. Harper: (Male) Minister and father of Elaine. 

Officer Brophy: (Flexible) A pleasant neighborhood police officer. 

Officer Klein: (Flexible) Also a pleasant neighborhood police officer, partner to Brophy. 

Lieutenant Roony: (Flexible) A tough and dominating police officer, the commanding officer of the precinct.   

Mr. Witherspoon: (Male) The superintendent of Happy Dale Sanitarium. 

Mr. Gibbs: (Male) An elderly man who wishes to rent a room from the Brewster sisters, narrowly escaping poison.