GreenMan Theatre will be holding auditions for The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder on Sunday Feb 26 at 1 pm and Mon. Feb 27 & Tues. Feb. 28 at 7 pm.

Auditions will be in Asbury Hall at First United Methodist Church at 232 S. York in Elmhurst. GreenMan Theatre Artistic Director David Soria is directing the production.

Dolly Gallagher Levi is a widow who brokers marriages and other transactions in Yonkers, New York at the turn of the 20th Century, she sets her sights on local merchant Horace Vandergelder, who has hired her to find him a wife. After a series of slapstick situations involving mistaken identities, secret rendezvous behind carefully placed screens, separated lovers, and a trip to night court, everyone finds themselves paired with a perfect match.

Characters: roles for 9 men, 7 women

Men
Horace Vandergelder, a Merchant of Yonkers, just turned 60, vain, sly, and stingy

Cornelius Hackl, a Clerk in Vandergelder's Store, early thirties

Barnaby Tucker, a young Apprentice in Vandergelder's Store

Ambrose Kemper, an Artist, in love with Vandergelder's niece

Malachi Stack, hired by Vandergelder as a new Apprentice, despite his age

Joe Scanlon, a barber

Rudolph, a senior waiter

August, a younger waiter

a Cabman

Women
Mrs. Dolly Gallagher Levi, a Friend of Vandergelder's Late Wife

Ermengarde, Mr. Vandergelder's young niece, whom Ambrose wants to marry

Irene Molloy, a Milliner

Minnie Fay, Mrs. Molloy's young Assistant

Miss Flora Van Husen, Friend of Vandergelder's Late Wife

Gertrude, Vandergelder's elderly housekeeper

a Cook, at Miss Van Husen's