Auditioners are asked to prepare a 24-36 bar vocal selection in the style of the show. Please come with your sheet music properly marked, in a binder, and in the proper key for our musical Director. No acapella singing please. Tracks will NOT be allowed. *Actors may be asked for a short one minute monologue, time allowing. Please find a monologue from a play or screenplay, and not self-written.
GUIDELINES
Play a part in Theatre South's Professional Training Production where industry professionals work with our teen/college cast to create a full production and show run.
YOU MUST REGISTER ON OUR TSP PORTAL TO SECURE YOUR AUDITION SPOT at:
*There is a show fee involved: 3 payments of $235, plus a registration/materials fee of $50
Please contact us at admin@TheatreSouthPlayhouse.org to arrange a payment plan.
**Some Scholarships are available for those in financial need through our Acts of Love and Kindness fund at https://www.theatresouthplayhouse.org/scholarships
OTHER INFORMATION
Character Breakdown: *Theatre South Playhouse is looking to cast a group of diverse Teen-College age actors of all shapes, sizes, colors, and genders. We have a guest panel of local guest artists who join us to ensure unbiased casting.
VELMA KELLY:(Range: Alto, E3-D5) A Vaudeville performer who is accused of murdering her sister and husband. Hardened by fame, she cares for no one but herself and her attempt to get away with murder.
ROXIE HART:(Range: Mezzo-Soprano, F3-B4) Reads and keeps up with murder trials in Chicago, and follows suit by murdering her lover, Fred Casely. She stops at nothing to render a media storm with one goal: to get away with it.
FRED CASELY:(Ensemble/Part Flexible) Roxie’s short lived lover. Murdered for trying to leave Roxie.
SERGEANT FOGARTY: (Ensemble/Part Flexible) Assigned to Roxie’s case. After asking the right questions, he manages to get Roxie to confess.
AMOS HART:(Range: Baritone, C3-F#4) Roxie’s faithful husband. Lies for her and tries to take the blame until he realizes that he has been two-timed by Roxie. Still in love with her, or misguided, he believes anything she says in her pursuit to get out of jail.
LIZ:(Range: Ensemble, A3-C#5) Prisoner at Cook County Jail. She is imprisoned after shooting two warning shots into her husband’s head.
ANNIE: 18-45 (Range: Ensemble, A3-C#5) Prisoner at the Cook County Jail. Murder’s her lover after finding out he already has six wives. “One of those Mormons, ya’ know.”
JUNE: (Range: Ensemble, A3-C#5) Prisoner at Cook County Jail. After her husband accuses her of screwing the milk man, he mysteriously runs into her knife ten times.
HUNYAK: (Range: Non-Singing Role) Hungarian Prisoner at Cook County Jail. The only English she speaks is the phase, “Not Guilty.” Which follows her to her grave.
MONA:(Range: Ensemble, A3-C#5) Prisoner at Cook County Jail. Murders her lover after he has a round of affairs with other woman, and an occasional man. I guess you could say it was “artistic differences.”
MARTIN HARRISON: Male, 35-55 (Range: Ensemble/Part Flexible) Ensemble member who doubles as the Master of Ceremonies at times.
MATRON "MAMA" MORTON: (Range: Alto, F#3-Bb4) Leader of the prisoners of Cook County Jail. The total essence of corruption. Accepts bribes for favors from laundry service to making calls to lawyers. “When you’re good to Moma, Moma’s good to you.”
BILLY FLYNN: (Range: Baritone Bb2-G4) Established lawyer who hasn’t lost a woman’s case yet. Master of media manipulation who will get a girl off the hook as long as she can fork up the hefty $5,000 fee.
MARY SUNSHINE: 25-55 (Range: Soprano, Bb3-Bb5) Sob sister reporter from the Evening Star. Believes there is a little bit of good in everyone and will believe anything she is fed that matches her beliefs.
GO-TO-HELL-KITTY: (Range: Ensemble, A3-C#5) Steals the spotlight when she Murders her husband along with three other woman. Her crimes are labeled “Lake Shore Drive Massacre.”
HARRY: (Range: Ensemble/Part Flexible) Murdered by Go-To-Hell Kitty for sleeping around with three women behind her back.
AARON: (Range: Ensemble/Part Flexible) Court appointed lawyer for Hunyak. He tries to get her to confess to speed along the trial.