Audition requirements change on a show-by-show basis. Please check back regularly for updates.
2011-2012 Audition Dates
Lend Me A Tenor
Auditions: Monday, February 13 at 7:00 p.m. and Tuesday, February 14 at 7:00 p.m.
Production Dates: April 13-May 6, 2012
Casting Needs: 4 women (age range 20s-60s) and 4 men (age range 20s-60s)
Character Descriptions:
**Max (20s-30s)
-Assistant to Saunders. Max is earnest and hard-working, and is in love with Maggie.
Maggie (20s-30s)
- Max’s girlfriend & Saunders’ daughter. Maggie is smart & practical, but yearns for something “wonderful and romantic” before she settles down with Max.
Saunders (40s-60s)
-General Manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company. Saunders is brusque and authoritarian with a short fuse.
**Tito Merelli (40s-60s)
-A world-famous tenor, also known to his fans as “Il Stupendo.” Tito is larger than life; full of grand gestures and grand appetites. He has an Italian accent.
Maria (30s-40s)
-Tito’s wife. Maria is proud, excitable, and emotional. She speaks with an Italian accent.
Bellhop (20s-30s)
-A bellhop. The bellhop is shrewd, opportunistic, and determined to audition for Tito.
Diana (30s-40s)
-The Cleveland Grand Opera’s lead soprano. Diana is sexy and forceful; she knows what she wants and how to get it.
Julia (40s-60s)
-Chairperson of the Opera Guild. Julia is vivacious and charming and passionate about opera.
** Those auditioning for the role of Max or Tito please bring 16 bars of music prepared to sing. An accompanist will be provided.
A Streetcar Named Desire
*Auditions: Sunday, February 26 at 7:00 p.m. and Monday, February 27 at 7:00 p.m.
Production Dates: April 27-May 27, 2012
Casting Needs: 6 women (age range 25-55 yrs) and 6 men (age range 16-55 yrs)
Character Descriptions:
Blanche DuBois - Stella’s older sister, who was a high school English teacher in Laurel, Mississippi, until she was forced to leave her post. Blanche is a fragile woman around the age of thirty. Though she has strong sexual urges and has had many lovers, she puts on the airs of a woman who has never known indignity. She avoids reality, preferring to live in her own imagination. As the play progresses, Blanche’s instability grows along with her misfortune.
Stella Kowalski - Blanche’s younger sister, about twenty-five years old. Stella possesses the same timeworn aristocratic heritage as Blanche, but she jumped the sinking ship in her late teens and left Mississippi for New Orleans. There, Stella married lower-class Stanley. Stella, unlike her fragile sister, is robust; a match to the earthy Stanley.
Stanley Kowalski - Stanley is the epitome of vital force. He is loyal to his friends, passionate to his wife, and heartlessly cruel to Blanche. With his Polish ancestry, he represents the new, heterogeneous America. He sees himself as a social leveler, and wishes to destroy Blanche’s social pretensions. Around thirty years of age, Stanley is teeming with sexual and sometimes violent energy. Practicality is his forte, and he has no patience for Blanche’s distortions of the truth.
Harold “Mitch” Mitchell - Stanley’s army friend, coworker, and poker buddy, who courts Blanche until he finds out that she lied to him about her sordid past. Mitch, like Stanley, is around thirty years of age. Though he is clumsy, sweaty, and has unrefined interests like muscle building, Mitch is more sensitive and more gentlemanly than Stanley and his other friends, perhaps because he lives with his mother, who is slowly dying.
Eunice - Stella’s friend, upstairs neighbor, and landlady. Eunice and her husband, Steve, represent the low-class, carnal life that Stella has chosen for herself. Like Stella, Eunice accepts her husband’s affections despite his physical abuse of her. At the end of the play, when Stella hesitates to stay with Stanley at Blanche’s expense, Eunice forbids Stella to question her decision and tells her she has no choice but to disbelieve Blanche.
A Young Collector - A teenager who comes to the Kowalskis’ door to collect for the newspaper when Blanche is home alone. The boy leaves bewildered after Blanche hits on him and gives him a passionate farewell kiss. He embodies Blanche’s obsession with youth and presumably reminds her of her teenage love, the young poet Allan Grey, whom she married and lost to suicide.
Steve - Stanley’s poker buddy who lives upstairs with his wife, Eunice. Like Stanley, Steve is a brutish, hot-blooded, physically fit male and an abusive husband.
Pablo - Stanley’s poker buddy. Like Stanley and Steve, Steve is physically fit and brutish. Pablo is Hispanic, and his friendship with Steve, Stanley, and Mitch emphasizes the culturally diverse nature of their neighborhood.
A Negro Woman - In Scene One, the Negro woman is sitting on the steps talking to Eunice when Blanche arrives, and she finds Stanley’s openly sexual gestures toward Stella hilarious.
A Doctor - At the play’s finale, the doctor arrives to whisk Blanche off to an asylum. He and the nurse initially seem to be heartless institutional caretakers, but, in the end, the doctor appears more kindly as he takes off his jacket and leads Blanche away. This image of the doctor ironically conforms to Blanche’s notions of the chivalric Southern gentleman who will offer her salvation.
A Mexican Woman - A vendor of Mexican funeral decorations who frightens Blanche by issuing the plaintive call “Flores para los muertos,” which means “Flowers for the dead.”
A Nurse - Also called the “Matron,” she accompanies the doctor to collect Blanche and bring her to an institution. She possesses a severe, unfeminine manner and has a talent for subduing hysterical patients.
Hairspray
Auditions: Monday, March 5 at 7:00 p.m. and Tuesday, March 6 at 7:00 p.m.
Production Dates: May 25-June 24, 2012
*Audition dates are subject to change.