Parts are cast and rehearsals well underway for "Look Homeward, Angel," Wayne Community College's ambitious play scheduled for Nov. 1-4 in the Moffatt Auditorium at the college. As in all Foundation of Wayne Community College-sponsored plays, the cast features students and faculty along with members of the community. "We are lucky to have veteran members of Center Stage Theater," says Director Margaret Boothe Baddour. Sue Nobers plays Eliza Gant, based on the notorious mother in Thomas Wolfe's novel. Debbie McLendon plays her daughter, the strident Helen, and Craig Millard portrays the family friend, Doc MaGuire.  Other CST members who sometimes participate in college theater include Gene McLendon as Helen's husband, Hugh; Joe Collins, technical director; Bobby Boyd, set designer; and John Stutts, costume designer. Local attorney Geoff Hulse, as Old Man Gant, shares the stage again with daughter Hallie Hulse as the ingenue, Laura James. Two WCC faculty and four students round out the cast. The play's producers are faculty members Kathryn Spicer and Tara Bass, and numerous students and faculty will be helping backstage. The play is set in 1917 Asheville, N.C., calling for costumes, sets and props of the period. Ollie Toomey, former Chamber of Commerce director, is on the props committee, Ms. Baddour says. He has put his business skills to work at finding a victrola, a ukulele and a very old telephone.  As for the famous angel from Wolfe's father's stone carving shop, she has been located at Cleo's Ceramics on Hwy 70 West. The angel plays a key role in Wolfe's first novel, "Look Homeward, Angel," which Ketti Frings turned into the Pulitzer Prize-winning play on Broadway in 1957. Young Eugene Gant, played by WCC student Julian Shelton, identifies her with the lost hopes of his father and his brother, Ben, played by Needham Parks, and with the possibility of a future for himself. "Look Homeward, Angel" chronicles Eugene's coming of age. Despite his troubled and chaotic family life  or because of it  his genius blossoms, and he heads for Chapel Hill at the end of the story. Thomas Wolfe is North Carolina's most famous writer. His other novels include Of Time and the River, The Web and the Rock, You Can't Go Home Again. So prolific was Wolfe that his editor, Maxwell Perkins, had to divide his long work into several novels. He studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard, traveled widely and died at age 38 in 1938. "Look Homeward, Angel" will be presented at 8 p.m. on Nov. 1-3 and at 3 p.m. on Nov. 4 . Tickets are available at the Arts Council of Wayne County at 2406 E. Ash St. in Goldsboro, and from the WCC Cashier in the Dogwood Building on the college?s main campus at 3000 Wayne Memorial Drive. Costs are $5 for adults and $2 for students. The play is free to anyone with a WCC ID. Wayne Community College, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, is a public, two-year college located in Goldsboro, N.C., that serves more than 14,000 individuals annually as well as businesses, industry and community groups in its service area with quality, economical, convenient learning opportunities.