OnStage Announces Open Auditions

for the Comedy that Won a Pulitze Prize

Maurer Productions OnStage, the company that brought you It’s a Wonderful Life and The Foreigner, is holding open auditions for its upcoming production of Driving Miss Daisy on November 10th and 11th from 12pm to 6pm.

This 90 minute comedy-drama is a rare opportunity for three actors looking to bring fascinating, multi-dimentional characters to life while exploring themes of race, prejudice, friendship and aging. It will be presented on stage at the Kelsey Theatre on the West Windsor campus of Mercer County Community College.

Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Play, Driving Miss Daisy is a warm-hearted, humorous and affecting study of the unlikely relationship between an aging, crotchety white Southern lady, and a proud, soft-spoken black man. The NY Post called it "…a perfectly poised and shaped miniature on the odd-couple theme." In 1989, the play was turned into a movie staring Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman and Dan Aykroyd, and has become widely recognized and appreciated (if not loved) by the general public. In fact, the movie version of Driving Miss Daisy was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won four Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actress (Jessica Tandy), and best screenplay (playwright Alfred Uhry).

Coming off the success of it’s hit productions of Winnie the Pooh and It’s a Wonerful Life, OnStage is eager to get back to its roots in comedy-drama such as it’s first production, Larry Shue’s The Foreigner. We hope you’ll come out and audition for Driving Miss Daisy, or tell a fellow actor who may be interested.