Auditions: Grand Horizons

Presented through special arrangement with: Dramatists Play Service
Directed by: Patrick McMinn
Produced by: Scott Quintard and Paul Babb

Audition Dates & Times:

All auditions are virtual. Audition video submissions will include reading from provided sides. Contact Conejo Players Readers Theatre for sides and audition submission instructions via email at [email protected].

Performances:

Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 6pm.

Audition Requirements:

Accepting video submissions now through March 12, 2025.
Grand Horizons is a comical, touching, provocative ensemble Tony Award winning script which takes place in The Grand Horizons retirement community. This play explores the relationship between family members when mom and dad decide after 50 years of marriage to divorce. Love, aging, unfulfilled dreams, and unresolved resentments come to the surface as that fragile entity known as “a family” begins to unravel. Actors should be able to feel comfortable handling both comedy and drama. Mature audiences only. Language and sexual situations.
Presented in the style of Readers Theatre.
Below are the tentative rehearsal dates we are looking at; however, conflicts are accepted if we know in advance. Schedule may be adjusted to match the cast.
• Mon Mar 17th 6:30-9:30pm (Thousand Oaks)
• Tues Mar 18th 6:30-9:30pm (Thousand Oaks)
• Wed Mar 19th 6:30-9:30pm (Thousand Oaks)
• Mon Mar 24th 6:30-9:30pm (Thousand Oaks)
• Tues Mar 25th 6:30-9:30pm (Thousand Oaks)
• Thurs Mar 28th 6:30-9:30pm (Thousand Oaks)
• Sat Mar 29th 1:00 – 4:00pm (Conejo Players Theatre – Thousand Oaks) Mandatory rehearsal.
• Performance Day – Sunday March 30th – 4:30 call time for a 6pm show

For more information:

Contact Scott Quintard and Paul Babb at [email protected]

Show Synopsis

Bill and Nancy have spent 50 full years as husband and wife. They practically breathe in unison and can anticipate each other’s every sigh, snore and sneeze. Over a quiet dinner for two, Bill and Nancy serenely decide to divorce after fifty years of marriage. As the “kids” descend on the Grand Horizons senior living community to mediate, everything they thought they knew about their parents comes crashing down. Bess Wohl’s Tony nominated comedy is a hilarious, heartbreaking commentary on marriage, family, and the wisdom that comes with age—or not.

Mature audiences only. Language and sexual situations.

Readers Theatre offers a unique theatrical experience – a staged reading in which actors present a play or musical in front of an audience without sets, costumes or other production elements. The actors are not off-book, which means they typically have the script in hand while they perform. It allows the audience to focus on the story and the characters.

Character Descriptions

Bill (Male) mid to late 70’s – Lives in Grand Horizons. Nancy’s husband of 50 years, he’s a bit of a curmudgeon. This former pharmacist is working towards his dream of becoming a stand-up comic. A more emotional man than his dry exterior lets on, Bill deals with much of life by just letting it happen around him but has found the fun in “sexting” his lady friend at Grand Horizons.
Nancy (Female) mid to late 70’s – Bill’s wife (for 50 years). Kind, giving, resourceful, and finally not afraid to speak her mind. A former librarian she has hit the wall and wants to begin making something more meaningful with the rest of her life as she breaks away from Bill.
Ben (Male) mid 20’s to late 40’s – Nancy and Bill’s eldest son. Very cerebral, he serves as the responsible caretaker for his parents. An attorney with a baby on the way he is now forced to deal with not only his parents predicament but his own marital issues as well.
Brian (Male) mid 20’s to late 40’s – Nancy and Bill’s second son. He is an unmarried high school drama teacher who wants to make all 200 of his students happy by quadruple casting them in his upcoming production of “The Crucible”. Affected and emotional he is a lonely man looking for love in all the wrong places – mainly online with strangers.
Jess (Female) mid 20’s to late 30’s – Ben’s wife. She is strong willed, outspoken and pregnant with her first child. A newly credentialed family therapist she steps in to try to mediate Bill and Nancy’s marriage without much success. Jess soon realizes the cracks in her own marriage and recoils against what she is about to Become.
Tommy (Male) 25-40 (One strong scene) – Brian’s late-night on-line hookup. Flirty, a little obnoxious and blunt he comes home with Brian and walks into a situation he was not expecting and wants no part of.
Carla (Female) 60’s (One strong scene) – From the Midwest. Chatty, frumpy, warm with an easy laugh she is nothing like we expected as “the other woman” until she starts talking about her love of vibrators!