The Sweet Delilah Swim Club – February 18, 2025

AUDITIONS: February 18, 2025

6:00-8:30 p.m.

Ennis Public Theatre: 113 N Dallas St, Ennis, TX 75119

To audition, you must complete both steps below:

  • Sign up for an audition time HERE
  • Fill out an audition registration HERE

Script excerpts will be provided for actors to look over in the lobby and then read the scene with the director. For conflicts with audition times, or questions, please email [email protected]

Director: Markus Baldwin

Shows: March 28 & 29, and April 3 & 4 at 7:30 p.m. and March 30 and April 5 & 6 at 2:30 p.m.

Tech: March 23, 24, 25, 26 & 27

Rehearsals: Thursday, February 20, full cast read through 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.; rehearsal schedule to follow.

SYNOPSIS: Five Southern women, whose friendships began many years ago on their college swim team, set aside a long weekend every August to recharge those relationships. Free from husbands, kids, and jobs, they meet at the same beach cottage, the “Sweet Delilah” on North Carolina’s Outer Banks to catch up, laugh, and meddle in each other’s lives. THE SWEET DELILAH SWIM CLUB focuses on four of those weekends and spans a period of thirty-three years. Sheree, the spunky team captain, desperately tries to maintain her organized and “perfect” life, and continues to be the group’s leader. Dinah, the wisecracking overachiever, is a career dynamo. But her victories in the courtroom are in stark contrast to the frustrations of her personal life. Lexie, pampered and outspoken, is determined to hold on to her looks and youth as long as possible. She enjoys being married—over and over and over again. The self-deprecating and acerbic Vernadette, acutely aware of the dark cloud that hovers over her life, has decided to just give in and embrace the chaos. And sweet, eager-to-please Jeri Neal experiences a late entry into motherhood that takes them all by surprise. As their lives unfold and the years pass, these women increasingly rely on one another, through advice and raucous repartee, to get through the challenges (men, sex, marriage, parenting, divorce, aging) that life flings at them. And when fate throws a wrench into one of their lives in the second act, these friends, proving the enduring power of “teamwork” rally ’round their own with the strength and love that takes this comedy in a poignant and surprising direction. THE SWEET DELILAH SWIM CLUB is the story of these five unforgettable women—a hilarious and touching comedy about friendships that last forever…

PLACE: The living room of a beach cottage on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

TIME: One weekend in August.

  • Act I: Scene 1 – Twenty-two years after the characters’ college graduation; Scene 2 – Five years later
  • Act II: Scene 1 – Five years later; Scene 2 – Twenty-three years later

CHARACTERS: This is an all female cast. The characters in this play will be portrayed at ages forty-four, forty-nine, fifty-four, and seventy-seven.

  • SHEREE HOLLINGER – the perennial team captain, is practical, supportive and a fount of boundless energy. Never without her to-do lists or Pocket Scheduler, her tendency to be hyper-organized occasionally drives her friends a bit crazy. She’s the eternal tomboy, a health nut and an all-American mom who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her family.
  • DINAH GRAYSON – the wise-cracking cynic of the group, has fought her way to the top and relishes the view. A lawyer in the biggest and most prestigious law firm in Atlanta, Dinah excels at everything . . . except romance. Armed with a dry martini and an even drier sense of humor, Dinah seldom reveals her softer side as she tackles life head-on.
  • LEXIE RICHARDS – from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is the delightfully vain, youth-obsessed event planner for a chain of four-star hotels. She has never shied away from the occasional nip or tuck and keeps her cosmetic surgeon on speed dial. Always one to revel in her status as a man-magnet, Lexie can be counted on to share wild and hilarious tales of her romantic exploits.
  • JERI NEAL McFEELEY – is the ditzy ray of sunshine of the group. She’s perky and naïve and always sees the positive side of everything. Having been a nun for many years, Jeri Neal has been protected from life’s seamier side. Even though she appears to be predictable on the surface, Jeri Neal, recently relocated to Roanoke, Virginia, continually makes life choices that surprise and amaze her friends.
  • VERNADETTE SIMMS – is a hard luck case if there ever was one. Marriage and motherhood came shortly after college; a dark cloud has hovered above her ever since. A public school teacher, with limited finances and a problematic home life in Spivey’s Corner, North Carolina, Vernadette is self-deprecating by necessity. She faces her tribulations with gallows humor and the unwavering support of these lifelong friends.

THE SWEET DELILAH SWIM CLUB is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)