The Great American Trailer Park Musical - Arlington, TX EPA (04.16.26)

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Thursday, April 16, 2026

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (C)

Lunch 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment, please contact Steven D. Morris at: [email protected] OR 817-261-9628, ext. 203.

CONTRACT

SPT

$333 weekly minimum (SPT 1)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL (See breakdown).

Theatre Arlington is committed to giving opportunities to performers of all backgrounds and ethnicities.

PREPARATION

Please prepare up to 1-minute cut from a song in the style of the show. Bring sheet music, marked and in the correct key. An accompanist will be provided. Also be prepared to read Sides from the script. Sides will be posted on the website by April 6th at: https://theatrearlington.org/a... .

LOCATION

Theatre Arlington - Admin and Education Building

316 West Main St.

Arlington, TX 76010-7115

Across from the theater space, in the education and rehearsal building.

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:

Director: Steven D. Morris

Musical Director: Vicki Nooe

Choreographer: Alli Betsill

OTHER DATES

First Rehearsal September 21, 2026

Performance Dates October 23-November 8, 2026

OTHER

www.theatrearlington.org

An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.

Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.

Breakdown

THE GREAT AMERICAN TRAILER PARK MUSICAL

SYNOPSIS: The Great American Trailer Park Musical is a campy musical comedy packed with big laughs, wild drama and an outrageous love-triangle! There’s a new tenant at Armadillo Acres – and she's wreaking havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. When Pippi, the stripper on the run, comes between the Dr. Phil-loving, agoraphobic Jeannie and her tollbooth collector husband, the storms begin to brew.

SEEKING:

JEANNIE GARSTECKI – 35-45 years old. Jeannie has lived in a trailer at Armadillo Acres for 20 years with her husband and high school sweetheart, Norbert. A faded beauty, she was 17 when she married, 18 when her son was born and 23 when he got kidnapped. That, coupled with a really bad perm, has turned her into an agoraphobic. She hasn’t left her trailer in all these years, and the man she loves is drifting further and further away and she’s determined to get him back… that is, if she could manage to get out of the trailer to do it.

NORBERT GARSTECKI – 35-45 years old. Jeannie’s husband Norbert collects tolls for a living and tries to be as good a husband as one can be to an agoraphobic. A former high school football star, he has rugged good looks marred by fatigue and the stress of his difficult marriage. He is a simple man who desperately wishes his wife could get out of the trailer, but he’s not equipped with the emotional or intellectual tools to help her do it. He has never loved or slept with a woman other than Jeannie. That is until he meets Pippi.

PIPPI – 28-35 years old. Pippi is a striking beauty with a great body and a taste for clothing that shows it off. Up to this point, Pippi’s life has been about surviving. She is a professional stripper who has gotten by on her looks and talents for dancing and petty theft. She means no harm and is ready to stop making bad choices and start making changes, but first she has to get lost in a hick-town trailer park so she won’t be found by her last bad choice.

DUKE – 24-28 years old. Duke is Pippi’s obsessive, possessive and excessive Magic Marker-sniffing boyfriend – “ex”-boyfriend, according to Pippi. Not so, according to Duke. Not the brightest guy south of the Mason-Dixon Line, Duke leaves a trail of disaster in his wake wherever he goes. His road trip to Starke is no exception and his arrival at the trailer park is full of surprises.

BETTY – 38-50-something. Betty attended high school with Norbert and Jeannie Garstecki and has lived at Armadillo Acres for just as long. She now runs the leasing office and makes it her business to know everything about everybody who passes through the trailer park. Though a self-proclaimed “bad-ass,” Betty is really a mother hen to the denizens of the trailer park. Of all “The Girls,” Betty is the most grounded, earthy and dry.

LINOLEUM “LIN” – 30s. So named because her mother gave birth to her on the kitchen floor, Linoleum has a husband on death row at the Florida State Prison. His fate is an electric chair that doesn’t work properly unless most of the town’s electricity is turned off. So Lin watches everyone’s lights and appliances very closely in the hopes that she can keep the chair on the fritz. Sometimes self-absorbed and sometimes just a smart-ass, she hints at a wild, rock-and-roll past and is the fieriest of “The Girls.”

DONNA “PICKLES” – 20s. A newlywed, Donna is called “Pickles” because she is perpetually hysterically pregnant – that is, she’s so convinced she should be pregnant she’s exhibiting symptoms. Her husband is a lot fancier than she is, as he is from the big city of Jacksonville. His parents haven’t been very supportive of his marital choice, so Pickles is desperate to give her husband a family of his own – even if she has to fake it. The dimmest of “The Girls,” Pickles is airy, sweet, and blissfully ignorant.

SALARY

SPT $333 weekly minimum (SPT 1)

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