Auditions

When: 

Sunday, November 15, 2026 @ 6:00 pm

Monday, November 16, 2026 @ 6:00 pm

Callbacks by invitation only Wednesday, November 18, 2026 at 6:00 pm

Where:

Nutley Little Theatre
47 Erie Place, Nutley, NJ

SYNOPSIS:

The Corbetts are a happy suburban couple whose lives are changed forever when a life shattering accident involving their son, turns their world upside down.  Eight months on, Becca and Howie are at odds in how to deal with the tragedy and finding the strength to move on. Can they ever find their way back to each other? David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, filled with distinctive wit and grace, charts the path from grief to its antidotes – love and hope.

Character Breakdowns

BECCA CORBETT (30’s – late 40’s): Female; The protagonist; Married to Howie.  She is a suburban housewife and a former Sotheby’s employee. She is  completely consumed by the grief of losing her 4-year-old son, Danny in an accident several months earlier.  She is still grieving his loss and does not know how to work her way through her grief. She pushes away Howie’s coping mechanisms and tries to erase reminders of her son by giving away his toys and redesigning the house.  Her tough and uncompromising nature leads her to isolate herself emotionally, judging others’ coping mechanisms and seeking  genuine connections amid her sorrow.

HOWIE CORBETT (30’s – late 40’s): Male; Becca’s husband; also grieving, but very differently from Becca. He is also heartbroken, but processes his grief in a starkly different way. He clings to the memory of Danny, his son, but refuses to get rid of his belongings, and desperately tries to reconnect physically and emotionally with Becca. As a supportive yet strained partner, he buries his emotions beneath a facade of patience and resourcefulness. He yearns to reconnect with Becca while feeling increasingly isolated.

IZZY (late 20’s – 30’s): Female; should be younger sister to Becca; unmarried; She is impulsive and less settled than Becca. She is blunt and often misjudges situations; Early in the play, she reveals she is pregnant by her musician boyfriend, Auggie.  She struggles with Becca and Howie casting doubt on her readiness to be a mother.  She brings a chaotic energy to the family dynamic as a pregnant woman whose irresponsible and rebellious lifestyle mirrors aspects of Becca’s unresolved past. She serves as comic relief and honesty.

NAT (50’s – early 70’s): Female; Becca and Izzy’s mother; widowed; Stubborn; Not afraid to speak her mind; acts as an unfiltered voice of reason; helps anchor her daughters, having experienced her own tragic loss years prior when she lost her son, Arthur to drug addiction.  Her character injects humor through bossy, down-to-earth commentary and generational wisdom. May have had possible issues with alcohol.

JASON WILLETTE (late teens – mid 20’s – should be able to pass for a high school senior): Male; neighbor to Becca and Howie; a local student who was driving his car that accidentally struck and killed Danny; Riddled with guilt, he struggles to reconcile with Becca and Howie; he reaches out to them to offer an apology and presents a sci-fi short story he wrote about parallel universes which he wrote for his school magazine as a tribute to Danny. For months he has sought reconciliation, and Howie and Becca have not been ready, though Becca is more willing to talk to him than Howie.  His narrative function introduces an external perspective on guilt and forgiveness, contrasting the family’s internal grief with a youthful, imaginative attempt at reconciliation and understanding.

DANNY CORBETT (4 year old): Male / Female (voiceover only.) No on stage performance is needed.  A recording will be done in the theatre for the voiceover.

PERFORMANCES

February 12, 13, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 2027 @8:00 pm

February 14, 21, 27, 2027 @ 2:00 pm

Please feel free to contact the director, Mead Winters at mhw1093@verizon.net for any questions you may have or to reach out about the auditions for DANNY CORBETT

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SIDES:

Becca

Howie

Izzy

Nat

Jason

Danny

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