Auditions for September Melodrama – Ballad of Gopher Gap

Auditions are being held for the Rialto Red Brick Players melodrama scheduled for September entitled “The Ballad of Gopher Gap”.
Auditions will be held Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, July 28, 29, 30, 31 — starting at 5:30pm each evening.
The performance dates will be September 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29.

Jerry RunnerSmith is Director, Victoria Dingler is Assistant Director.

Walk-ins welcome.

“The Ballad of Gopher Gap” – written by Tim Kelly

Synopsis:

Bunco DeSneer (slicker than lard on hot cornbread) is salting the Spenawampum Mine in Gopher Gap with fake minerals. He hopes to snare rich Easterners looking for a good investment. He’s aided in his dirty work by Flora Fourflusher, a phony assayer, and Slats, a stupid stagecoach driver. The other full-time resident is Crazy Nanette, whose only child disappeared years ago when she left it in a nice cool spot… under an ice wagon. When the suckers show up (including a waif, a judge, a newspaperwoman and the man-hungry Ottillie), Bunco wastes no time in fleecing them. But wait! Two unexpected visitors arrive: Rocky Romantic, a mountain man and ’wilderness poet,’ and Verlinda Springblossom, a beauty. She’s inherited the town from a distant relative (the best kind), Piute Pete. Verlinda doesn’t believe in ’robbing the earth,’ so she intends to close down the mine and open a hummingbird sanctuary. Naturally, Bunco will have none of this and the hilarity begins. This is a side-splitting romp that’s overripe with cornball gags and puns, fast riotous action and fun roles.