Stepping Out

Are you a dancer/ former dancer/ potential dancer? If you love to dance or would like to learn then Stepping Out is the show for you. This play chronicles several months in the life of a weekly tap dancing class. The eight students, who come from a variety of backgrounds, come to class every week to chat, relax and, if they can manage to, learn a couple of dance steps. But the steps and routines are just the background for the real focus of the play -- the relationships and interactions of these very different people. This well known comedy is full of larger than life characters of a variety of ages and skills. We are looking for 9 women and 1 man. Dancing skills are preferable but not essential. Unlike some productions, which can be carried by one or two outstanding performances, this ensemble show requires that all its members pull their artistic weight. If you'd like to find out more please come to our reading on July 20th at 7.30 at the Hall. Auditions will be held on July 25th. For more information please contact Kerrie (after 5pm) on 0414 515 373 or Mim on 0414 339 761. List of Characters Mavis - 30s-40s, and ex-professional dancer, the teacher of the class. Her personal life is a mess but she really loves to teach. Mrs Fraser - 50s or older, the class pianist and surrogate mother figure to Mavis. A crotchety, tee totaling spinster, temperamental - must be able to play the piano. Lynne - 19, eager to please, works as a nurse. Dorothy - any age, anxious and nervous, works in the unemployment office. Maxine - a down-to-earth, loudmouthed shop owner, the best dancer in the class. Andy - 30s a professional's wife who devotes herself to good causes but is -- for reasons we learn about late in the play--- repressed and on awkward terms with her body. Geoffrey - 40s, is an ineffectual insurance salesman, a widower who is taking lessons because they remind him of his late wife, who loved to dance. Sylvia - early 30s who has five kids and an officially unemployed blue collar husband who does odd jobs for people who pay him under the table, gum-chewing and often vulgar. Rose - early 30s a voluptuous middle-class black woman, has a handsome husband and children who are rooting for her to perfect her moves. Vera - 40s or older is in excellent shape -- her rich husband insists on it, even as he neglects her in favor of her teenage daughter, a nouveau-riche busybody.