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Gateway Players Theatre in Southbridge, MA is hosting auditions for "On Golden Pond”, part of our 50th Anniversary Season. This drama is written by Ernest Thompson. They will be held on Sunday, February 2nd at 4pm and Monday, February 3rd at 6:30 at Elm Street Congregational Church 61 Elm Street, Southbridge. 

Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Performance dates are May 2,3,4,9,10. Rehearsals will be on Monday and Thursday nights. Presented by permission through special arrangement with Dramatist Play Services. The adult cast consists of three men, 2 women and 1 teen boy. Directed by Patrick Bracken and produced by Lou-Ellen Corkum. For more information, please contact Gateway at 508-764-4531. 

Synopsis: This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory – but still as tart-tongued, observant, and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who then go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind for the summer. The boy quickly becomes the “grandchild” the elderly couple have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking his ward fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness and slang in return.