Auditions Announced for ALL SHOOK UP at Footlighters Inc.

Footlighters Inc. announces auditions for ALL SHOOK UP by Joe DiPietro
Inspired by and featuring the songs of ELVIS PRESLEY

Directed by Emily Carroll
Choreographed by Amanda Emmons Shumate

Auditions

• Saturday, November 5   2:00-5:00pm
• Sunday, November 6   6:00-9:00pm

Callbacks

• Wednesday, November 9  7:00pm

Location:  Stained Glass Theatre, 802 York St, Newport KY

Sign up for an audition slot at http://bit.ly/Footlighters_Audition_AllShookUp

Please prepare a 30 second musical theatre or pop song in the style of the show for auditions and expect a short dance combination to be taught and some people may be asked to stay and cold read.

Performance dates:  May 4-20, 2017

Synopsis: It’s 1955, in a square little town in a square little state. Suddenly, in rides a guitar-playing roustabout who changes everything and everyone he meets! This hip-swiveling, lip-curling musical fantasy will have you jumpin’ out of your blue suede shoes with such Elvis Presley classics as “Heartbreak Hotel,” “Jailhouse Rock,” and “Don’t Be Cruel.” Librettist Joe DiPietro’s tale of mistaken identity and romance that ensues was inspired by Twelfth Night and other Shakespearean comedies. The show is all-new, but the music is all Elvis!

Cast of Characters:

• NATALIE HALLER (Early 20’s): a mechanic.
• CHAD: a great-lookin’, motorcycling, guitar-playing, leather-jacketed roustabout.
• JIM HALLER (mid 40’s-50’s): Natalie’s widowed father.
• SYLVIA (mid 40’s): the no-nonsense, African-American owner of SYLVIA’S HONKY-TONK.
• LORRAINE: Sylvia’s 16 year-old daughter.
• DENNIS: a young, awkward, aspiring dentist.
• MISS SANDRA: the beautiful, intellectual caretaker of the town’s museum.
• MAYOR MATILDA HYDE (mid 40’s-50’s): the town’s conservative mayor.
• DEAN HYDE: Matilda’s 16 year-old son. He has grown up at a military boarding school.
• SHERIFF EARL (mid 40’s-50’s): the law in town. A man of not many words.
• CHORUS