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AUDITIONS for the adult COMEDY A Bad Year for Tomatoes at the Homestake Opera House Available on Sunday, Sept. 18 from 2:00pm to 4:00 pm, and also on Monday, Sept. 19 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. At the back of the Historic Homestake Opera House, Smart Center Conference Room. 308 Julius Street, Lead, SD Roles are open to all age 15 and older. Directed by the fun and talented LEE ANN PAANANEN of Lead, SD. All that is required at auditions is a fun attitude and a sense of humor for this comedy! You'll be asked to read parts and pieces from the script which will be available at auditions. Have your schedule in mind for the next month in case you are selected for the cast. Rehearsal schedule is usually Sun-Thursday nights from 6 to 8 pm, with dress rehearsals the week of the performance. For more information or to schedule another time for your audition, please give us a call at the office: 605-584-2067. THE STORY: Fed up with the pressures and demands of her acting career, the famous Myra Marlowe leases a house in the tiny New England hamlet of Beaver Haven and settles down to write her autobiography. She is successful in turning aside the offers pressed on her by her long-time agent, but dealing with her nosy, omnipresent neighbors is a different matter. In an attempt to shoo them away, and gain some privacy, Myra invents a mad, homicidal sister—who is kept locked in an upstairs room, but who occasionally escapes long enough to scare off uninvited visitors. The ruse works well, at first, but complications result when the local handyman develops an affection for "Sister Sadie" (really Myra in a fright wig) and some of the more officious ladies decide it is their Christian duty to save the poor demented Sadie's soul. In desperation Myra announces that her imaginary sibling has suddenly gone off to Boston—which brings on the sheriff and the suspicion of murder! Needless to say, all is straightened out in the end, but the uproarious doings will keep audiences laughing right up to the final curtain, and then some. A hilarious success dealing with the very funny misfortunes of a famous television actress who seeks to "get away from it all" in a small New England town.