The Great American Trailer Park Musical

Actors ages 18+ — auditions for Blue Fire Stage Company's production of The Great American Trailer Park Musical

Auditions:
Monday, June 3 & Tuesday, June 4  |  6:30 - 9 PM

Haddam Elementary School, 272 Saybrook Road, Higganum
Callbacks Thursday, June 6 | 6:30 - 9 PM

DATES/SCHEDULE:

• Auditions: Monday, 6/3 & Tuesday, 6/4 (6:30 - 9 PM)

• Callbacks: Thursday, 6/6 (6:30 - 9 PM)

• Rehearsals: TBD, starting week of 6/17

• Mandatory Tech week rehearsals: July 21 - 24

• Performances: July 25 - 27

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PREPARATION: Actors should prepare 32 bars of a song in the style of the show and be prepared to read character sides.

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A show about agoraphobia, adultery, '80s nostalgia, spray cheese, road kill, hysterical pregnancy, a broken electric chair, kleptomania, strippers, flan & disco. Featuring music and lyrics by David Nehls with a book by Betsy Kelso, this country-rock and blues musical is a rollicking good time. When a new tenant moves into Armadillo Acres—she wreaks havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. Pippi, a stripper on the run, comes between the Dr. Phil–loving, agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth collector husband—the storms begin to brew!

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ROLES:

Jeannie Garstecki — has lived in a trailer at Armadillo Acres for 20 years with her husband and high-school sweetheart, Norbert. A faded beauty, she was 17 when she married, 18 when her son was born and 23 when he got kidnapped. That, coupled with a really bad perm, has turned her into an agoraphobic. She hasn’t left her trailer in all these years, and the man she loves is drifting further and further away and she’s determined to get him back . . . that is if she could manage to get out of the trailer to do it . . . 

Nobert Garstecki — collects tolls for a living and tries to be as good a husband as one can be to an agoraphobic. A former high- school football star, he has rugged good looks marred by fatigue and the stress of his difficult marriage. He is a simple man who desperately wishes his wife could get out of the trailer, but he’s not equipped with the emotional or intellectual tools to help her do it. He has never loved or slept with a woman other than Jeannie. That is until he meets . . .

Pippi — a striking beauty with a great body and a taste for clothing that shows it off. She is a professional stripper who has gotten by on her looks and talents for dancing and petty theft. She means no harm and is ready to stop making bad choices and start making changes, but first she has to get lost in a hick-town trailer park in North Florida so she won’t be found by her last bad choice . . .

Betty —  attended high school with Norbert and Jeannie and has lived at Armadillo Acres for just as long. She now runs the leasing office and makes it her business to know everything about everybody who passes through the trailer park. Though a self-proclaimed “bad-ass,” Betty is really a mother hen to the denizens of the trailer park. Betty is the most grounded, earthy and dry of all “The Girls.”

Linoleum “Lin” — so-named because her mother gave birth to her on the kitchen floor, Linoleum has a husband on death row at the Florida State Prison. His fate is an electric chair that doesn’t work properly unless most of the town’s electricity is turned off. Lin watches everyone’s lights and appliances very closely in the hopes that she can keep the chair on the fritz. Sometimes self-absorbed and sometimes just a smart-ass, she hints at a wild, rock-and-roll past and is the fieriest of “The Girls.”

Donna “Pickles” — called “Pickles” because she is perpetually hysterically pregnant — that is, she’s so convinced she should be pregnant she’s exhibiting symptoms. Her husband is a lot fancier than she is, as he is from the big city of Jacksonville. His parents haven’t been very supportive of his marital choice, so Pickles is desperate to give her husband a family of his own — even if she has to fake it. The dimmest of “The Girls,” Pickles is airy, sweet and blissfully ignorant.

Duke — Pippi’s obsessive, possessive and excessive Magic Marker–sniffing ex-boyfriend. A hush puppy short of a catfish dinner, Duke leaves a trail of disaster in his wake. His road trip to Starke is no exception and his arrival at the trailer park is full of surprises — even for a group of people who have had their share of excitement . . .

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