The following information is provided for the purpose of auditioning. Please feel free to use the information below to help you re-create the character you wish to portray. Special note, much of this information is based on the television performance and not the radio show, so don’t feel that you have to stick to it religiously.

Our Miss Brooks is an American sitcom starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high-school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast on CBS from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952–56), it became one of the medium’s earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for the big screen in the film of the same name.

Main Cast

• Constance “Connie” Brooks (Eve Arden) is an English teacher at fictional Madison High School.
• Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon) is the gruff and unsympathetic principal of Madison High, a near-constant pain to his faculty and students. (Conklin was played by Joseph Forte in the show’s first episode; Gordon succeeded him for the rest of the series’ run.) Conklin would often abuse his authority to make teachers work extra hours or perform personal favors for him.
• Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Ira Grossel; Robert Rockwell on both radio and television), is a Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often-clueless object of Miss Brooks’ affections.
• Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna), is a Madison High student. He is well intentioned and clumsy with a nasally high-pitched voice which he can disguise when making mischief. He often drives Miss Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) to school in a broken-down jalopy. Perfectly aware of Miss Brooks’ feelings, he tirelessly tries to help her snare Mr. Boynton, despite the latter’s cluelessness.
• Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Miss Brooks’ absentminded landlady, has two trademarks— a penchant for whipping up exotic and often inedible breakfasts, and a tendency to lose her train of thought midsentence.
• Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan) is a Madison High student and daughter of Osgood Conklin. A sometime love interest for Walter Denton, Harriet is sweet, honest, and guileless, unlike her father.

Reoccurring Cast

• Minerva is Mrs. Davis’ cat. In the radio series, Minerva had the habit of sleeping inside Mrs. Davis’ parlor piano, leading to a running gag of an impressive piano riff anytime something startled her awake.

• Martha Conklin is the wife of principal Conklin and mother to Harriet Conklin.
• Fabian “Stretch” Snodgrass (Leonard Smith) is a dull-witted Madison High athletic star and Walter’s best friend. For part of the first and the entire second TV season, the character is replaced by Stretch’s equally dim brother Bones (Eddie Riley).

Supporting Cast (not complete)

• Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft) is a Madison High English teacher and a scheming professional and romantic rival to Miss Brooks.
• Ruth Nestor (Isabel Randolph) was introduced as the new school principal in the episode “Big Ears” (November 4, 1955).

Scripts

ONE: The Work Horse