

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Auditions for SCP Presents: Calendar Girls!
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 23 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Mon, 23 Feb, 2026 at 09:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Southgate Community Players is holding auditions for our final adult show of the 2025/2026 season, "Calendar Girls"! Auditions will take place on Monday, February 23 and Tuesday, February 24 at 7pm ET at the Corner Playhouse, 12671 Dix-Toledo in Southgate. Doors will open 30 minutes prior to start time, and auditions will run until everyone has had the chance to read, but should go no later than 9:30pm. You are welcome to attend both nights of auditions, however this is not required and priority on the second night will be given to those who have not yet read. You may be asked to read several times during the audition you attend, as there will not be a separate night of callbacks.

Pre-Registration: https://forms.gle/vCipBHWDv7RN3zwF7 

Performance Dates: April 24, 25, 26; May 1, 2
Mandatory Tech Week: April 19-23

Director: Breann Blanton
Producers: Josie Stec and Sydnee Corbin
Assistant Director: Mike Stec

Audition sides and tentative rehearsal calendar available at https://scponstage.com/calendargirlsauditions/ !
Please note, calendar is subject to change depending on cast availability and conflicts!

SHOW INFO:

When Annie's husband John dies of leukemia, she and best friend Chris resolve to raise money for a new settee in the local hospital waiting room. They manage to persuade four fellow Women's Institute members to pose nude with them for an "alternative" calendar, with a little help from hospital porter and amateur photographer Lawrence. The news of the women's charitable venture spreads like wildfire, and hordes of press soon descend on the small village of Knapeley in the Yorkshire Dales. The calendar is a success, but Chris and Annie's friendship is put to the test under the strain of their newfound fame.

Based on the true story of eleven WI members who posed nude for a calendar to raise money for the Leukaemia Research Fund, Calendar Girls opened at the Chichester Festival Theatre and has since become the fastest-selling play in British theatre history.

PLEASE NOTE: This show has a scene containing nudity. Sensitive body parts will be covered by props and set pieces, but this scene is important to the play's plot. Most, though not all, female roles in this show partake in the nude scene, and cannot be opted out. The rehearsal process and the show itself will be handled tastefully and approached in a way to ensure the safety and comfort of all involved, however if you are not open to participating in this particular act please read the character descriptions below carefully and note on your audition form if you are only comfortable accepting the roles that do not disrobe.

CHARACTER INFORMATION:

Note: Casting will be inclusive. Unless specified in the text, anybody of any race or nationality may be considered for any character. Characters will be played as the gender written, however we encourage everyone to audition for a role that aligns with whatever gender identity/presentation they are comfortable with. Age is very important to the characters and they will be cast as close to the age rage specified as possible.

CHRIS – 50s. You want Chris at your party. She will talk to people she doesn’t know, and things to say to all silences and generate laughter. Part of this is because Chris is at home in crowds, holding court, being the center of attention. Without Chris in her life, Annie would be better behaved, her life less fun. The two of them are like naughty schoolgirls. Ideal car: who cares, as long as it’s a cabriolet. Ideal holiday: Algarve. *REQUIRES NUDITY*

ANNIE – 50s. Annie will join in mischief but is at heart more conformist and less confrontational than Chris. After Chris has put a waiter’s back up in the restaurant, Annie will go in and pour calm. The mischievousness Chris elicits saves Annie from being a saint. She has enough edge to be interesting, and enough salt not to be too sweet. Ideal car: who cares, as long as it’s reliable. Ideal holiday: walking in English countryside. *REQUIRES NUDITY*

CORA – Around 40. Cora’s past is the most eclectic, her horizons broadened by having gone to college. This caused a tectonic shift with her more parochial parents. She came back to them pregnant and tail-between-legs, but Cora has too much native resilience to be downtrodden. She is the joker in the pack but never plays the fool. Her wit is deadpan. It raises laughter in others, but rarely in herself. Her relationship with her daughter is more akin to that between Chris and Annie. Cora doesn’t need to sing like a diva but must be able to sing well enough to start the show with Jerusalem and sing the snatches of other songs required. The piano keyboard can be marked up to enable her to play basic chords should she not be a player. Ideal car — who cares, as long as the sound system is loud. Ideal holiday: New York. *REQUIRES NUDITY*

JESSIE – Late 60s/70s. Get on the right side of Jessie as a teacher and she’ll be the teacher you remember for life. Get on the wrong side and you will regret every waking hour. A lover of life, Jessie doesn’t bother with cosmetics – her elixir of life is bravery. Jessie goes on roller coasters. Her husband has been with her a long time and is rarely surprised by her actions. Jessie bothers about grammar and will correct stallholders regarding their abuse of the apostrophe “s”. Ideal car: strange-looking European thing which is no longer manufactured. Ideal holiday: walking in Switzerland or Angkor Wat. *REQUIRES NUDITY*

CELIA – Age anything 35-50. The fact that Celia is in the WI is the greatest justification of its existence. A woman more at home in a department store than a church hall, she may be slightly younger than Chris or the same age, but she always feels like she’s drifted in from another world. Which she has. She is particularly enamored of Jessie, and despite the fact Jessie has very little time for most Celias of this world, there is a rebelliousness in Celia to which Jessie responds. It’s what sets Celia apart from the vapid materialism of her peer group and made her defect. Ideal car: Porsche, which she has. Ideal holiday: Maldives, where she often goes. *REQUIRES NUDITY*

RUTH – 40s. Ruth’s journey is from the false self-confidence of the emotionally abused to the genuine self-confidence of the woman happy in her own skin. Ruth is eager to please but not a rag doll, and despite being Marie’s right-hand woman she is desperate to be the cartilage in the spine of the WI and keep everyone happy. She has a spine herself – if she was too wet, no-one would want her around. But they do, and they feel protective of her because they sense there is something better in Ruth than her life is letting out. They are proved right. Ideal car: at the start, whatever Eddie wants; at the end, whatever she wants. Ideal holiday: at the start wherever Eddie is, at the end wherever he isn’t. *REQUIRES NUDITY

MARIE – 50s. Marie has gradually built the current ‘Marie’ around herself over the years as a defense mechanism. She went to her Oz, Cheshire, and found Oz didn’t want her. She came back scorched. The WI is a trophy to her, which justifies her entire existence. There is a lingering part of Marie that would love to be on that calendar. Ideal Holiday: something German and well-valeted. Ideal holiday: a quasi-academic tour of somewhere in Persia advertised in a Sunday Supplement which she could then interminably bang on about.

JOHN – Annie's husband, 50s. John is a human sunflower. Not a saint. Not a hero. Just the kind of man you’d want in your car when crossing America. When he dies it feels like someone somewhere turned a light off.

ROD – Chris's husband, 50s. You have to be a certain kind of guy to stick with Chris and Rod loves it. He can give back what he gets and has a deadpan humor that has always made Chris laugh. He drinks a lot but never so much as to have a problem. He would work every hour to make his shop a success. And John was his mate, even though the relationship was originally channeled through their wives.

LAWRENCE – Late 20s. Hesitant without being nerdy, Lawrence is a shy young man with enough wit to make a joke and enough spirit to turn up at the WI hall in the first place. When he arranges the shots, he is close to female nudity but sees only the photo. *May be double cast as Liam*

LADY CRAVENSHIRE – 60s. Lady Cravenshire really doesn’t mean to be so patronizing. But the WI girls seem from another world. The world of her estate workers. Dress: when she makes an entrance, she must make an entrance. Largely white or cream to outplay the others, with a bigger hat than Marie. She is not a tweed-wearer. She must glide in like a galleon. *Will be double cast as Brenda Hulse, a visiting lecturer*

ELAINE – 20s. Elaine really doesn’t mean to be so patronizing. But Jessie seems from another world. The world of her gran. Dress: her clinical whites slice through like a knife. You feel you could cut yourself on that dress.

LIAM – Late 20s. Liam would like to be directing other things than photo shoots for washing powders. He’s not so unprofessional as to let it show, but we can sense a slight weariness at having to deal with these women. There’s a resigned patience to his actions and each smile he makes we feel is professional. For Liam, this photo shoot is a job. And not the job he wanted. Dress: Avoid wearing shades inside a building. If you’ve gone down that route, you’ve made the weary boy a wideboy. *May be double cast as Lawrence*

“Calendar Girls” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Southgate
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 12671 Dix Toledo Rd , Southgate, MI, United States, Michigan 48195
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- **full address**: 12671 Dix Toledo Rd , Southgate, MI, United States, Michigan 48195

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- **organizer**: SCP - Southgate Community Players (https://allevents.in/org/scp-southgate-community-players/21560587)

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- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 23 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
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  - **A:** 12671 Dix Toledo Rd , Southgate, MI, United States, Michigan 48195
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