Auditions: November 26 & 27 at 6:00PM

Performances: February 2-4 & 9-11

Tuna Does Vegas, the hilarious new installment from the legendary Greater Tuna creative team! Tuna Does Vegas re-unites the lovable and eccentric characters from the ‘third smallest town in Texas’ as they take a rambling romp in Sin City. The hilarity begins when oddball-conservative radio host Arles Struvie announces on air that he and his wife Bertha Bumiller are heading to Vegas to renew their wedding vows…but everyone in Tuna, Texas goes along for the ride! Written by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard, Tuna Does Vegas will feature the favorite characters from the award-winning Greater Tuna productions with some new characters too!

Tuna Does Vegas balances as both an affectionate comment on small-town life and attitudes as well a hilarious satire of the same. The eclectic band of citizens that make up this town are portrayed by only two skillful, transformative actors, making this send-up on life in rural America even more delightful as they depict all of the inhabitants of Tuna — men, women, as well as Vegas showgirls, Elvis impersonators and more.

The two actors wear costumes rigged for quick changes and mime most hand props excluding costume props like purses and canes.Please come to auditions prepared to get silly, and try some wildly different voices locked and loaded with your best Texas accent! We will cold read several different scenes from the script. If you’d like a script to peruse, please contact Delilah Foos Lessing at delilahlessing@gmail.com.

Actor 1 plays the following roles:
Thurston Wheelis- a radio disc jockey
Bertha Bumiller- a middle-aged housewife
Aunt Pearl Burras- an elderly chicken farmer
Leonard Childers- a radio station owner
Inita goodwin- a waitress
Joe Bob Lipsey- a community theatre director
Shot- a hotel security guard
Elvis 11- an elvis impersonator

Actor 2 plays the following roles:
Arles Struvie- a radio disc jockey
Didi Snavely- a used weapons store owner
Mama- Didi’s mother
Petey Fisk- head of the Tuna Humane Society
Charlene Bumiller Pugh- Bertha’s pregnant daughter
Vera Carp- head of Tuna Society
Helen Bedd- a waitress
Anna Conda- a hotel proprietress
Maurice- a hairstylist
Wo-Hu- an acupuncturist
Elvis 42- an Elvis impersonator