Audition Dates: Sunday, May 24 and Monday, May 25, 2025

Director: Jamie Bierchen

 

Cast of Characters​

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Charles Condomine: A novelist, intelligent and urbane, married to Ruth and previously married to Elvira.

Ruth Condomine: Charles's wife, a smart woman in her 30's who is somewhat jealous of Elvira.

Elvira: Charles's deceased first wife, now a ghost who returns to cause complications.

Dr. Bradman: A pleasant-looking middle-aged man, a friend of the Condomines.

Mrs. Bradman: Dr. Bradman's wife, middle-aged and somewhat faded.

Mrs. Arcati: A middle-aged spiritualist with a bias toward the barbaric.

Edith: The Condomines' maid, always in a hurry.

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Audition Notice

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West Coast Players announce auditions for the much-heralded comedy, Blithe Spirit. A smash comedy hit in both London and New York, this much-revived classic from Noel Coward concerns fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, who has remarried but finds himself haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, Elvira. Clever, insistent, and well aware of Charles' shortcomings, Elvira is called up by a visiting “happy medium,” the eccentric and flighty Madame Arcati. As everyone's personalities clash, Charles’ current wife, Ruth, is accidentally killed. She “passes over” and joins Elvira, allowing the two “blithe spirits” to haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.

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What To Prepare

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Cold read, but prepared monologues will be heard

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