Auditions For DIE MOMMIE DIE!

DIE MOMMIE DIE!
A Comic Thriller by Charles Busch
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November 4th & 5th; 7pm
Beavercreek Community Theatre
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EDITH SUSSMAN : 20’s, female presenting. Daughter of Sol Sussman, and Angela Arden.

BOOTSIE CARP : 40’s-70’s, female presenting. Sussman family housekeeper.

TONY PARKER : 30’s-40’s, male presenting. actor / gigolo.

ANGELA ARDEN : 40’s-60’s, faded starlett, Sussman family matriarch. Originally portrayed by playwright Charles Busch; preference is to cast in same tradition.

SOL SUSSMAN : 50’s-70’s, male presenting. Fading Hollywood film producer with chronic
constipation. Husband to Angela.

LANCE SUSSMAN : 18 – early 20’s. Male presenting, liberal arts college student.

Auditions will consist of cold reads from script.

Directed and Designed by Chris Harmon
Angele Price-Maddah, Assistant Director
Andrew Darr, stage manager & lighting design

Die Mommie Die! is a comic melodrama evoking the 1960s “Grande Dame Guignol” films that featured aging stars such as Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and Lana Turner. Ex-pop singer Angela Andrews is trapped in a hateful marriage with film producer Sol Sussman. Desperate to find happiness with her younger lover, an out-of-work TV actor named Tony Parker, Angela murders her husband with the aid of a poisoned suppository. In a plot that reflects Greek tragedy as well as Hollywood kitsch, Angela’s Elektra-like daughter Edith convinces Angela’s emotionally disturbed son Lance that they must avenge their father’s death by killing their mother.