Auditions Announced for GREASE at Dayton Playhouse

March 2 & 3 from 7-9:30pm

GREASE is a nostalgic musical set in 1959 at fictional Rydell High School. It follows ten working-class teenagers as they navigate the complexities of love. The score recreates the sounds of early 1950’s rock and roll. The original Broadway production of Grease was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Musical.

The director, Tina McPhearson, will be casting the following roles:

DANNY ZUKO: Male, High School Teen (Tenor)
The leader of the Burger Palace Boys; good-looking, strong and confident, with an air of easy-going charm.

DOODY: Male, High School Teen (Tenor)
The youngest of the guys; small, boyish and open, with a disarming smile and a hero-worshipping attitude towards the other guys. He also plays theguitar.

KENICKIE: Male, High School Teen (Tenor)
The second in command of the Burger Palace Boys; tough-looking, tattooed, surly and avoids any show of softness. He has an offbeat sense of humor.

SONNY LATIERRI: Male, High School Teen (baritone)
A member of the Burger Palace Boys; funny Italian-American, he is a braggart and wheeler-dealer who thinks he’s a real lady-killer

ROGER: Male, High School Teen (Tenor)
The anything-for-a-laugh stocky type of boy; a clown who enjoys winding people up, he is full of mischief and is always dreaming up half-baked schemes and ideas

VINCE FONTAINE: Male (flexible)
A typical ‘teen audience’ disc jockey; slick, egotistical and fast-talking. He is also a veteran ‘Greaser.’

EUGENE FLORCZYK: Male, High School Teen (Tenor)
The class valedictorian; physically awkward, with weak eyes and a high-pitched voice. He’s a typical ‘apple-polisher’ – both smug and pompous, but gullible.

TEEN ANGEL: Male, Age Flexible (Tenor)
Frenchy’s suave and slick guardian angel, who encourages her to stay in school.

JOHNNY CASINO: Male, High School Teen (Tenor) (This part may double with teen angel)
All-American, rock-star “greaser” student at Rydell High, whose real name is Clarence

SANDY DUMBROWSKI: Female, High School Teen (Soprano)
New girl in town; sweet, wholesome, naive, cute, and innocent. Like Sandra Dee of the Gidget movies.

BETTY RIZZO: Female, High School Teen (Alto)
Leader of the Pink Ladies; tough, sarcastic and outspoken but vulnerable

FRENCHY: Female, High School Teen (Alto)
A dreamer; good-natured but not too smart, she is heavily made up, fussy about her appearance, particularly her hair. She can’t wait to finish high school so she can be a beautician

MARTY: Female, High School Teen (Alto)
The ‘beauty’ of the Pink Ladies; pretty and looks older than the other girls, but betrays her real age when she opens her mouth. She tries to act sophisticated.

JAN: Female, High School Teen (Alto)
Funny, loud, compulsive eater and awkward member of the Pink Ladies. Loud and pushy with the girls, but shy with boys

CHA-CHA, aka CHARLENE DIGREGORIO: Female, High School Teen (Alto)
Slovenly, loud mouthed. The best dancer at St. Bernadette’s; she wins the dancing competition with Danny.

MISS LYNCH: Female, Age Flexible (Flexible)
A no-nonsense, serious, loud, old maid English teacher
PATTY SIMCOX: Female, High School Teen (Alto)
A typical cheerleader; attractive, athletic, sure-of-herself, but can be given to bursts of disconcerting enthusiasm. She’s a bit of a pain and unpopular with the Pink Ladies, and can twirl a baton.

The Dayton Playhouse is located at 1301 E. Siebenthaler Ave, Dayton, OH 45414.

Performances will be Friday through Sunday, May 2-17, 2015.