Auditions scheduled for Playhouse season finale

Director Dustin Bond has scheduled two sessions of auditions for “You Can’t Take It With You,” the Pulitzer Prize-that winning comedy by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, that will close the 60th season of Putnam County Playhouse.

Performances are scheduled for Sept. 7-11 and Sept. 14-18.

Auditions will be at the Rehearsal Center at the Hazel Day Longden Theatre on Round Barn Road in Greencastle on Sunday, July 18 at 3 p.m. and again Monday, July 19 at 6 p.m.

Bond is looking for actors to portray a family of eccentrics -- the Sycamores -- who live by their own rules and the people who come into contact with them. There are roles for actors of all ability levels. The leading roles include Grandpa Vanderhoff, the head of the family; Penny, his daughter, who fancies herself a painter and/or a playwright; Alice, his granddaughter who is not sure of her place in the world; and Tony Kirby, who loves Alice in spite of her family.

Other roles include Penny’s daughter Essie and her husband Ed, the family servants Reba and her boyfriend Donald, Tony’s disapproving parents, and many more.

The full character list and their stage ages can be found on the website at www.putnamcountyplayhouse.com under the Current Season/You Can’t Take It With You tab. The script can also be read there.

All those auditioning should be 16 years of age or older.

The show is being sponsored by Shuee’s Great Buys Plus.

The 60th season continues in August with a production of the musical “Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.”