The Shawnee Playhouse, celebrating its 47th season, will be holding auditions for their 2026 productions of Fiddler on the Roof Sr., On Golden Pond, and The Kitchen Witches, on Jan. 10 from 1 to 3 p.m., on stage at The Shawnee Playhouse.

Auditioners should fill out the form to register for an audition slot, prior to their audition: https://tinyurl.com/ShawneePlay.

Auditioners should also bring their headshot, resume, and conflicts to the audition, and should prepare a thirty-two bar cut of a musical theater song for Fiddler on the Roof Sr., and a one-minute monologue for the other two productions. They may also be asked to do a cold reading during their audition as well.

Please note that auditions for Fiddler on the Roof Sr. are specifically for adults ages 55 and older. Auditioners must also be available for all performances that they are cast in.

Fiddler on the Roof Sr.

This special adaptation of the nine-time Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Fiddler on the Roof Sr. (performances running from March 13-22) centers on Tevye, a poor milkman, as he tries to protect his five daughters and his way of life from a changing world.

Fiddler on the Roof Sr. tackles the universal theme of tradition in ways that reach across barriers of race, class, nationality, and religion for a special cast of actors, all aged 55 plus.

Set in the little village of Anatevka, and with the help of a colorful and tight-knit Jewish community, Tevye tries to marry off his daughters and instill in them a sense of tradition in the face of growing anti-Semitism in Czarist Russia.

Fiddler on the Roof Sr. is a great introduction, or reintroduction, to the world of musical theater.

On Golden Pond

On Golden Pond (performances running from April 11-19) is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the 48th year.

Norman is a retired professor, nearing 80, with heart palpitations and a failing memory, but still as tart-tongued, observant, and eager for life as ever.

Ethel, 10 years younger, and the perfect foil for Norman, delights in all the small things that have enriched and continue to enrich their long lives 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.

Kitchen Witches

The Kitchen Witches (performances running from May 23-June 7) highlights Isobel Lomax and Dolly Biddle, two “mature” cable-access cooking show hostesses, who have hated each other for 30 years, ever since Larry Biddle dated one and married the other.

When circumstances place them together on a TV show called The Kitchen Witches, the insults are flung harder than the food. Dolly’s long-suffering TV-producer son, Stephen, tries to keep them on track, but as long as Dolly’s dressing room is one inch closer to the set than Isobel’s, it’s a losing battle, and the show becomes a ratings smash as Dolly and Isobel top both Martha Stewart and Jerry Springer.

For more information, visit The Shawnee Playhouse at www.shawneeplayhouse.org or contact Midge McClosky, executive director, at shawneeplayhouseexecdir@gmail.com.

If you need further assistance, call the Box Office at 570-421-5093.