Auditions for parts in this summer’s Perry Community Theater production of “The Trial of Goldilocks” have been announced for April 28 from 1-3 p.m. at the Carnegie Library Museum, 1123 Willis Ave. in the lower level.
The 1990 musical comedy has a cast of 14 or more, according to Perry Community Theater Director Merrilee Bales. It will be staged July 27-28.
“The cast is mainly adults,” Bales said, “and gender is flexible except three parts, two female and one male. The two roles of baby bear and Goldilocks can be teens, and six roles as animals could be middle schoolers. This requires perfect memorization and faithful attendance to practices.”
Volunteers for the stage crew are also needed, she said.
Joseph Robinette’s “exciting retelling of the familiar fairy tale is full of mirth and melody as Goldilocks is brought to court to face the charges of breaking and entering the Bears’ cottage,” according to a synopsis of the play. “In rollicking enactments — with the jury playing tables, chairs, beds and forest animals — the stories unfold. Guilty or innocent? Was the young girl a selfish, spoiled brat, intruding where she didn’t belong, or was she the victim of three conniving bears (and their animal “band of hoods” in the woods)?”
Robinette is best known for his children’s musicals. He collaborated with E. B. White on the authorized stage version of “Charlotte’s Web.” “The Trial of Goldilocks” had its premiere performance at the Opera for Youth National Convention.
