Auditions open for ‘Southern Fried Funeral’

Auditions for the next Canebrake Players production, “Southern Fried Funeral,” will be held Monday, March 2 at 6 p.m. at The Old School on Main Street.

Show dates are April 17-20, and rehearsals will begin March 5.

“Southern Fried Funeral” is a comedy with a cast of six women and four men ranging in age from 30s-70s plus one male role for a man in his 20s.

Dewey Frye is dead, and the rest of his family is left to pick up the pieces — that is if they don’t kill each other first. Not only does matriarch Dorothy have to contend with sudden widowhood, but she’s also faced with church-committee harpy Ozella Meeks sticking her nose in the family business, Dewey’s snake-in-the-grass brother making a grab for her house and two grown daughters reliving their childhood rivalry.

Funerals bring out the worst, the best, and the funniest in people, and the Fryes are no exception. A big-hearted comedy about family — Southern-style.