The Sherman Players will be holding auditions for ON GOLDEN POND by Ernest Thompson, directed by Jane Farnol   

Sunday 19th and Monday 20th February 2023 

At the Sherman Playhouse from 7-9.30 pm 

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. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, Norman and Ethel are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Time, they know, is now against them, but the years have been good and, perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits.

ON GOLDEN POND was adapted in 1981 as an Oscar winning movie starring Katherine Hepburn, Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda.

All roles are open

Norman – Male 79

Ethel – Female 60-70

Chelsea – Female 40s

Bill – Male 40s

Charlie – Male 40s (Maine accent)

Billy – Male 13-15

Auditions in person are preferred, but if you can’t make the dates please contact us via our contact page for information on video submissions.

Audition sides are available here >>  click this link to access audition sides on google drive

The show runs April 21st – May 13th.  Rehearsals begin March 6th.

All actors must be vaccinated against COVID.