Director: | Nancy Pistilli |
Presented by: | Mesquite Arts Theatre |
Audition Start: | May 17, 2025 12:00pm - 4:00pm |
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Audition Details: | Adults and Teens 15+: 1. Prepare 1 song cut from a musical (stage or screen) that is not from the show. (Cut may not exceed 1 minute.) Pre-record or download an accompaniment track on your phone ready to pair to a blue tooth speaker (required.) Please do not attempt to play song directly from the web due to ads, etc. 2. 30 second monologue (optional) 3. Will be asked to read sides from script 4. Bring headshot, and resume if available. |
Audition Location: | Mesquite Arts Center |
Callback Dates: | May 19, if necessary |
Rehearsal Dates: | |
Performance Dates: | July 18 - July 27 |
To Sign Up: | Sign Up to Audition |
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Roles Available: |
DANNY – (15+) The leader of the "T-Birds" Well-built, nice looking, with anair of cool, easy going charm. Strong and confident.
SANDY – (15+) Danny's love interest, Sweet, wholesome. naive, cute, like Sandra Dee of the 'Gidget" movies. THE PINK LADIES: The club-jacketed, gum chewing, hip swinging girls' gang that hangs around with the T-Bird boys. RIZZO – (15+) Leader of the Pink Ladies. She is tough, sarcastic and outspoken but vulnerable. Thin, Italian with unconventional good looks. FRENCHY – (15+) A dreamer. Good natured and dumb. Heavily made up, fussy about her appearance - particularly her hair. She can't wait to finish highschool so she can be a beautician. MARTY – (15+) The "beauty" of the Pink Ladies. Pretty, Looks older than the other girls, but betrays her real age when she opens her mouth. Tries to act sophisticated. JAN – (15+) Chubby, compulsive eater. Loud and pushy with the girls, but shy with boys. THE T-BIRDS: A super cool D.A.-haired, hard-looking group of highschool wheeler-dealers... or so they think. KENICKIE - (15+) Second-in-command of the T-Birds. Tough-looking, tattooed, surly, avoids any show of softness, Has an off-beat sense of humor. DOODY - (15+) Youngest of the guys. Small, boyish, open, with a disarming smile and a hero-worshipping attitude towards the other guys. He plays guitar. ROGER - (15+) The "anything for a laugh" stocky type. Full of mischief, half-baked schemes and ideas. A clown who enjoys putting other people on. SONNY - (15+) Italian-looking with shiny black hair and dark, oily skin. A braggart and wheeler-dealer who thinks he's a real lady-killer. ADDITIONAL CHARACTERS: PATTY: (15+) A typical cheerleader at a middle-class American public highschool. Attractive and athletic. Aggressive, sure of herself, given to bursts of disconcerting enthusiasm. Catty, but in an All-American Girl sort of way. She can twirl a baton. CHA-CHA - (15+) A blind date. Loud-mouthed. Takes pride in being "the best dancer at St. Bernadette's." EUGENE - (15+) The class valedictorian. Physically awkward, with weak eyes and a high-pitched voice. An apple-polisher, smug and pompous but gullible. VINCE FONTAINE - (ADULT) A typical "teen audience" radio disc jockey. Slick, egotistical, fast-talking. A veteran "greaser". JOHNNY CASINO - (15+) A "greaser" student at Rydell who leads a rock 'n roll band and likes to think of himself as a real rock 'n roll idol. TEEN ANGEL - (15+) A good-looking, falsetto-voiced Fabian look-alike. A singer who would have caused girls to scream and riot back in 1958. MISS LYNCH - (ADULT) An old maid English teacher. |
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Originally Posted: | 2025-05-01 |