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"On Golden Pond"-Atlanta, GA - Casting ID # 687721
Project Type Live Event Submission Type Open Call
Market Atlanta, GA Union Non-union
Location Winder, GA 30680 Release Date 02-15-10
Rate/Pay n/a Submission deadline 02-22-10
Audition Date n/a Casting Category Theatre - Non-Equity
COLD READ. NO PREPARED MATERIAL IS REQUIRED BUT WILL BE ACCEPTED. HEAD SHOTS AND RESUMES NOT REQUIRED BUT WILL BE ACCEPTED.

This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory, but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together.

They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiance, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness, and slang in return. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack.

Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.
Role # 1 Norman Thayer
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Nearing 80. The "grandfather" of the story and live-long love of Ethyl. Witty and warm in spite of a failing heart and memory.

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Gender: Male
Age: from 45 to 125
Role # 2 Ethel Thayer
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The "grandmother" of the story and life-long love of Norman. Sweet and wholesome. Nearly 10 years Normans' junior(nearing 70).

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Gender: Female
Age: from 45 to 125
Role # 3 Charlie Martin
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40s. Billy Rays' father and Chelseas' dentist fiance.

Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 36 to 54
Role # 4 Chelsea Thayer
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40s. Norman and Ethyls' divorced daughter and Charlies' fiance.

Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Female
Age: from 36 to 54
Role # 5 Adult Bill Ray
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40s. Charlies' son as a grown man.

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Age: from 36 to 54
Role # 6 Billy Ray
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Must look 13-15. Must have previous acting experience or prepared monologue. Charlies' son. Becomes like a grandson to Norman and Ethyl.

Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 8 to 17