Driving Miss Daisy – Equity Principal Open Auditions
Ivoryton Playhouse    Ivoryton, CT    SPT     $357/week minimum.
Executive/Artistic Director: Jacqueline Hubbard
Director: Lawrence Thelen
                                                           
1st rehearsal: September 14th, 2010. Runs: September 29th – October 17th, 2010.  Matinees:  Wednesday, Sunday. Evenings: Wednesday through Saturday.

1. Miss Daisy – a Southern Jewish widow.  She ages from 72 to 97 over the course of the play.  She is well-to-do, opinionated, obstinate, and fiercely independent. She is also a good woman with a good heart.

2. Hoke – a Southern African-American gentleman hired to chauffeur Miss Daisy.  He ages from 60 to 85 over the course of the play.  He is proud, stubborn, conscientious, and, like Miss Daisy, has a good heart.

3. Boolie – Daisy’s adult son.  He ages from 40 to 65 over the course of the play.  He is a Southern Jewish man who is strong-willed, patient and devoted.

AUDITION SIDES:
All page numbers refer to the Dramatists Play Service edition of the script, published in 1987.

Boolie/Daisy p. 5-6
begin: top of play
end: Boolie: "...and a free standing tool shed in one fell swoop!"

Boolie/Hoke p. 10
begin: Boolie: "Hoke, what I'm looking for is somebody to drive my mother around."
end: Hoke: "Soun' like you got yo' Mama a chauffeur."

Daisy/Hoke p. 10-11
begin: Hoke: "Mornin', Miz Daisy."
end: Hoke: "I won' say it, then."

Daisy/Hoke p. 18
begin: Daisy: "Hoke, run back to the car and get that pot of azaleas..."
end: Hoke: "Sound like a B."