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January 5, 2022 · 12:56 pm

Auditions Announced for THE MUSIC MAN at Bart’s Bards

BB_logoBart’s Bards is excited to announce our return to the stage June 9-12, 2022 with our production of the classic musical, Meredith Willson’s THE  MUSIC MAN, directed by Fred Hunt.

Auditions for our production will be held on February 5, from noon to 4:00pm, and on February 8, from 7:00 to 9:00pm.

This year’s auditions will once again take place at John Paul II Catholic School (9375 Winton Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45231). Please enter through the main entrance to the school and follow the stairs down to the left to our audition area.

You may choose a 15-minute audition slot using our signup genius page at the following link:  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050A48A8AF28A0F49-2022. Once all slots are filled, we will be accepting walk-ins. However, as a walk-in the wait time may be a bit longer as we attempt to fit you in with our scheduled auditioners.

Note: the format for auditions will include a singing portion (16-32 measures of a Broadway-style show tune); a read-through with other actors; and a dance portion. A speaker will be available to be used with your cell phone for accompaniment. The dance auditions will take place at the end of three consecutive 15-minute audition slots.

Audition forms can be found here: https://bartsbards.org/current-productions/. Forms will also be available at auditions. However, we would prefer you fill out and sign the forms ahead of time to keep things moving during auditions. Thanks!

You will also find at the above link our current COVID-19 health and safety policy. Please read through this policy as you will be asked to agree to follow this as a member of our theatre family. As conditions in the broader community change this policy is subject to change. We will be sure to update all our group members as these changes are made.

Bart’s Bards is excited to announce our return to the stage June 9-12, 2022 with our production of the classic musical, Meredith Willson’s THE  MUSIC MAN, directed by Fred Hunt.

Auditions for our production will be held on February 5, from noon to 4:00pm, and on February 8, from 7:00 to 9:00pm.

This year’s auditions will once again take place at John Paul II Catholic School (9375 Winton Rd, Cincinnati, OH 45231). Please enter through the main entrance to the school and follow the stairs down to the left to our audition area.

You may choose a 15-minute audition slot using our signup genius page at the following link:  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050A48A8AF28A0F49-2022. Once all slots are filled, we will be accepting walk-ins. However, as a walk-in the wait time may be a bit longer as we attempt to fit you in with our scheduled auditioners.

Note: the format for auditions will include a singing portion (16-32 measures of a Broadway-style show tune); a read-through with other actors; and a dance portion. A speaker will be available to be used with your cell phone for accompaniment. The dance auditions will take place at the end of three consecutive 15-minute audition slots.

Audition forms can be found here: https://bartsbards.org/current-productions/. Forms will also be available at auditions. However, we would prefer you fill out and sign the forms ahead of time to keep things moving during auditions. Thanks!

You will also find at the above link our current COVID-19 health and safety policy. Please read through this policy as you will be asked to agree to follow this as a member of our theatre family. As conditions in the broader community change this policy is subject to change. We will be sure to update all our group members as these changes are made.

Additional Instructions

  • Please arrive no more than 15 minutes prior to your scheduled audition time.
  • We are now asking that you bring your completed paperwork with you, which can be found at the following link – https://bartsbards.org/current-productions/.  Please be sure to check out our current COVID-19 guidelines at this same link.
  • Masks are required at all times when in the school building, except when singing during your audition.
  • We will be providing seating within the school to enable for appropriate social distancing while you are with us.
  • For those who are uncomfortable joining us in-person at this time for auditions, video singing auditions will be accepted.  Please send your completed paperwork, resumé, and a link to your singing audition to bartsbardsmusicman@gmail.com by no later than 4:00pm, Saturday February 5.

We hope you will consider joining us in 2022 for what is sure to be a fun time putting this classic musical on the stage. See you at auditions!

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January 3, 2022 · 9:59 am

Auditions Announced for SHOWTUNE at Middletown Lyric Theatre

MLT_logoSHOWTUNE: Celebrating the Words & Music of Jerry Herman
This is the perfect show for any musical theatre performer, with songs from; Hello Dolly, MAME, Mack & Mabel, Dear World and La Cage Aux Folles, a revue that has plenty of opportunity for every cast member to shine. We are looking for strong voices and big personalities to help bring to our stage.

Audition Dates:

  • Sunday, January 30th – 2:00pm to 4:00pm
  • Monday, January 31st – 7:00pm – 8:30pm
  • Tuesday, February 1st – 7:00pm – 8:30pm

Roles Available:

  • Male & Female performers, Age 18+ – Open to all Ethnicities
  • While the show is written for the following roles, we will consider expanding.
  • Woman 1 – Vocal range top: F5 / bottom: F#3
  • Woman 2 – Vocal range top: F5 / bottom: E3
  • Woman 3 – Vocal range top: Bb5 / bottom: F#3
  • Man 1 – Vocal range top: G4 / bottom: G2
  • Man 2 – Vocal range top: C5 / bottom: G2
  • Man 3 – Vocal range top: A4 / bottom: A2

Audition Requirements:
Although not required, we request that you prepare two songs from the Jerry Herman songbook. Your choice of song should highlight your vocal style and range. Please have music cut and ready for accompanist.

Cast Members receive Gas Stipends

Production dates: April 22-30

More information at middletownlyric.org or info@middletownlyric.org

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January 3, 2022 · 9:38 am

Auditions Announced for 110 IN THE SHADE at Lebanon Theatre Company

LTC_logoAuditions are January 9 and 10 at LTC theatre, 10 South Mechanic St. starting at 6:30pm both nights. Those auditioning for principals are asked to sing a  musical standard. Accompanist will be on site. If using recorded track, we ask that you be responsible to to run your own equipment.

The show calls for 20 named characters as well as townspeople who sing and dance.

The show revolves around Lizzie who is the center of the Curry family, and the only female among them. During the show, Lizzie encounters a charlatan, Bill Starbuck, who comes to the Three Point and promises if the townspeople give him $100, he will make it rain to end the prolonged drought. He also works on Lizzies’s affections.

The younger people needed range in age from 7 to late teens; boys and girls. Young performer auditioners should be prepared to sing a simple song.

See below for role descriptions. Wayne Dunn directs. Jay Mills music directs.

Show dates are March 11, 12, 18 & 19 at 7:30pm and March 13 March 20 at 2pm.​

Roles

  • Lizzie Curry:  At first glance, she seems like a woman who can cope with all the aspects of life.  She has the world of materiality under control; she is a good housekeeper; pots and pans, needles, and thread—when she— and she enjoys the manifold elements touches them, they serve. She knows well where she fits in the family— she is daughter sister, mother and child, and she enjoys the manifold elements of her position. She has a sure ownership of her own morality, for the tenet of right and wrong are friendly to her. And she is comfortably forthright in living by them. A strong and integral woman in every life function, except one. Here she is thirtyish, and no man outside her family has loved her or found her beautiful. And yet, ironically, it is this one unfulfilled part of Lizzie that is the most potentially beautiful facet of a woman— this yearning for romance— this courageous searching for it in the desert of her existence. And if someday a man should find her, he will find a ready woman, willing to give herself with the totality of her rich being.
  • H. C. Curry:  Lizzie’s father. He is in his late fifties, powerfully set, capable— a good man to take store in. But he is not all prosaic efficiency—there’s a lot of dream in him.
  • Noah Curry:  Lizzie’s older brother. He is somewhat like his father, without HC’s imagination. As a matter of fact, he has little imagination at all, and would appear to be a self-righteous and rigidly opinionated were it not for the basic decency and and his warm yearning to be kind.
  • Jimmy Curry:  Lizzie’s younger brother. In his early 20s, but big and broad shouldered, he looks older that his years until he opens his mouth; then he is a child. He’s not sure that he’s very bright, and this is his cross to bear. He is filled with inchoated longing.
  • Bill Starbuck:  A big man, lithe and agile— a loud braggart, a gentle dreamer. He carries a short hickory stick. It is his weapon, his pointer, his magic wand, his pride of manhood.
  • File:  The sheriff. He is a lean man, reticent, intelligent, in his late thirties. He smiles wryly at the world and himself. Perhaps he is a little bitter; if so, his bitterness is leavened by a mischievous humor.
  • Snookie Updagraff:  She is perhaps seventeen and pretty and pretty, and pretty.
    Which is to say she is pretty.

Townspeople of Three Point:

  • Toby:   middle aged stationmaster
  • Mrs. Jessen:  full-figures woman. Good natured
  • Phil Mackey:  about 19.
  • Tommy:  a boy of eight
  • Belinda:  a bespectacled girl of 9
  • Geshy Toops:  a man in his thirties
  • Gil Demby:  a boy in his teens
  • Olive Barrow:  a pretty girl
  • Wally Skacks, II:  boy in his late teens
  • Maurine Toops:  a girl in her twenties
  • Bo Dollivon:  a boy in his twenties
  • Mr. Curtis:  a minister
  • Wally Skacks:  an old man

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December 28, 2021 · 9:55 am

Auditions Announced for SOMETHING ROTTEN at Clark State Theatre Arts

CST_logoSOMETHING ROTTEN
Book by Karey Kirkpatrick & John O’Farrell
Music & Lyrics by Wayne Kirkpatrick & Karey Kirkpatrick

Produced by Theresa Lauricella
Directed by Troy Berry and Josh Compston
Music Directed by David Weimer
Choreographed by Celina Schroer

Jan. 25 & 26 at 7pm
Clark State Performing Arts Center

To audition, please complete our online form to pre-register. Link Below. https://forms.gle/LYu396bgqKcTw2628

PREPARE 16 BARS OF SONG FROM A MUSICAL. BRING SHEET MUSIC. AN ACCOMPANIST WILL BE PROVIDED. HEADSHOT/RESUME PREFERRED.

Welcome to the Renaissance and the outrageous, crowd-pleasing musical farce, Something Rotten! Set in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as “The Bard.” When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first musical. But amidst the scandalous excitement of opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self, and all that jazz.

Performance dates: April 8-10

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December 27, 2021 · 10:59 am

Auditions Announced for INTO THE WOODS at INNOVAtheatre

INNOV_logoBack by popular demand! Aaron Washington will lead our YOUtheatre production staff as director and choreographer of this Sondheim classic.

James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim take everyone’s favorite storybook characters and bring them together for a timeless, yet relevant, piece… and a rare modern classic. The Tony Award-winning book and score are both enchanting and touching.

The story follows a Baker and his wife, who wish to have a child; Cinderella, who wishes to attend the King’s Festival; and Jack, who wishes his cow would give milk. When the Baker and his wife learn that they cannot have a child because of a Witch’s curse, the two set off on a journey to break the curse. Everyone’s wish is granted, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later with disastrous results.

Jan. 23-25 from 6-9pm

Sorg Opera House – 63 S Main St, Middletown, OH 45044-8206

Production dates: May 5-8

Auditions are open to all performers between the ages 12-19. All roles are open.

  • Prepare 1 minute of a Broadway song or a stylistically appropriate song to fit a character from the show.
  • In person auditions and callbacks will be held January 23-24-25, 2022.
  • Video Submissions will be accepted beginning November 15, 2021. All auditions can be sent to Auditions@INNOVAtheatre.com
  • You may be called to attend in person callbacks based on your video submissions.
  • Rehearsals will be 2 days a week 6 pm – 9 pm. The days will be set based on cast conflicts. Not everyone will be called to every rehearsal.

CHARACTER BREAKDOWN

NARRATOR – An intellectual and pleasant story-teller who helps to orchestrate the show and illustrate lessons to the audience.
THE BAKER – A harried and insecure baker who is simple and loving, yet protective of his family. He wants his wife to be happy and is willing to do anything to ensure her happiness but refuses to let others fight his battles.
THE BAKER’S WIFE – Determined and bright woman who wishes to be a mother. She leads a simple, yet satisfying life and is very low-maintenance yet proactive in her endeavors.
CINDERELLA – A young, earnest maiden who is constantly mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters.
JACK – The feckless Giant killer who is ‘almost a man.’ He is adventurous, naive, energetic, and bright-eyed.
JACK’S MOTHER – Browbeating and weary, Jack’s protective mother is independent, bold, and strong-willed.
LITTLE RED RIDINGHOOD – A spoiled young girl who is strong-willed, quick-witted, fearless, yet youthful and naive.
THE WITCH – Sarcastic, ugly-then-gorgeous, obsessive protector of Rapunzel who is straightforward and aggressive.
WOLF – Hungry and insatiable hunter who takes advantage of the weak by misleading and captivating his prey.
RAPUNZEL – A loopy-but-lovely maiden who is sheltered by the Witch and terribly lonely. She yearns to experience the world.
RAPUNZEL’S PRINCE – Just as vain and gorgeous as his Prince brother, he is always chasing the newest, most exiting endeavor
CINDERELLA’S PRINCE – Vain and gorgeous, he is a disloyal lover who is currently searching for the next new, exciting thing.
CINDERELLA’S STEPMOTHER – The mean-spirited, demanding stepmother of Cinderella.
FLORINDA & LUCINDA – Cinderella’s stepsisters who are black of heart. They follow in their mother’s footsteps of abusing Cinderella.
CINDERELLA’S MOTHER & GRANNY – Deceased with her soul guarding and aiding her daughter from a tree.
MYSTERIOUS MAN – A mischievous vagrant and nosy meddler. He is a good-natured protector and observer.
STEWARD – A man – servant who is used to doing whatever he has to solve a problem. Conniving and cowardly.
GIANT – Voiceover. The Giant’s wife is an angry and vengeful ‘monster.’ She is seeking restitution for her loss.

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