Every time we cast a show for Tongue in Cheek, it is no small task. How to describe the roles so the right kind of people submit? How to review submissions and bring in people who are equally talented and good members of an ensemble?
In the case of OUR TOWN, it was an especially large undertaking: 1,000 actors submitting, shifting through all those many e-mails, calling in 130 actors, auditioning people over over two days, and finally: casting 17 roles.
Thank you to all who submitted, and especially to those who came in. It was a truly lovely group whose talent made our job of casting the show that much harder.
Our cast list is (drum roll, please!):
Brady Adair as Doc Gibbs
Matthew Bayer as Howie Newsome
Lynn Berg* as Simon Stimson
Stacie Capone as Mrs. Soames
Michael Edmund as Editor Webb
A.J. Heekin as Joe/Si Crowell and Sam Craig
Gillian Hurst as Rebecca Gibbs
Nina Leese as Mrs. Gibbs
Jake Lipman* as The Stage Manager
Shelley Little as Emily Webb
Joshua Mahaffey as Wally Webb
Kathryn Neville Browne* as Mrs. Webb
Dolores Emma Olson as a towns person/singer
Stephanie Pezolano as a towns person/singer
Brian Roach as George Gibbs
Joan Saunders as Professor Willard
Brad Widener as a towns person/singer
Jere Williams as Constable Warren and Joe Stoddard
*member of Actors Equity Association
