Please complete this form and wait for an email to schedule.

Audition Requirements:
Sing 60-seconds in the style of the show (Disney princess, show tune, etc.) Must bring a backing track for auditions.
Bring a 45-60 second dramatic monologue OR cold read one at the audition.

Audition Date Information:
Wednesday, August 19 and Thursday, August 20 at the Playhouse Annex starting at 6pm. There will be a dance call on Thursday, August 20th at 4:30pm at the dance studio in the Old Fine Arts building on Murray State Campus for those who want to be considered for dance leads, featured dancers, or ensemble dancers. No need to sign up for the dance call, please do not be late.

We will call to schedule your audition time once the Google Form is completed and we get closer to the audition dates.

Any questions, please email: wayne@playhousemurray.org

Google Form to complete for audition slots:

https://forms.gle/TXoW19KGcEDNFhv36

Roles: (all ages listed are suggested playing ages and will be adjusted to fit the needs of our casting):

Anya (Dancing Role)
Age: 16+
Range: G3-F5
Anya is brave, fiery, witty, and above all determined. With no memory of her life before age 17 and having lived through the horrors of the Russian Revolution, Anya jumps at the sound of gunshots and is distrustful of strangers, but there is steel hiding just beneath the surface. Anya is strong-willed and compassionate. Her mantra, “Home, love, family” is her goal. All she knows is her family is in Paris and she will find them however she can. Is she the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanov? Only time will tell.

Dmitry  (Dancing Role)
Age: 16+
Range: A2-G4
Dmitry is a scoundrel with a heart of gold. A street rat who grew into a con man, Dmitry does all he does to get out of poverty and is not above lying, cheating, and stealing to do so–that is until he meets Anya. What starts as just another scheme (albeit much bigger than anything he’s tried to pull off before) turns into the adventure of a lifetime that requires Dmitry to look inward and figure out how to put the one he loves before himself.

Vladimir “Vlad” Popov  (Dancing Role)
Age: 30+
Range: A2-F4
Vlad is Dmitry’s partner in crime (literally) and surrogate father. Before the revolution he scammed his way through society pretending to be a count. Vlad is dramatic, crafty, and a big softie at heart. While he, like Dmitry, is not above lying, cheating, and stealing, he cares greatly for his loved ones and is generally affable, though he can be calculating when he needs to be.

Deputy Commissioner Gleb Vaganov (Non-Dancing Role)
Age: 30+
Range: A2-Gb4
Gleb is the villain of the show, though not a bad person. He fully believes in the Communist ideals he follows. Loyal, honest, and hard working, Gleb almost has the potential to be a hero (he’s very much the hero of his own story). A deeply conflicted person, Gleb’s infatuation (and borderline obsession) with Anya leads to his battle with the idea of doing one’s duty vs. doing what is right.

Countess Lily Malevsky-Malevitch  (Dancing Role)
Age: 30+
Range: G3-C5
Lily is the lady in waiting to the Dowager Empress. She has been by the Dowager’s side since before the revolution. Lily is clever, dutiful, and above all fun (when not working for the Dowager). She deals with her exile from Russia with a sort of resigned dark humor...and a LOT of vodka. She and Vlad were once an item (unbeknownst to her oblivious husband) and rekindle their romance upon re-uniting.

Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna (Brief-Dancing Role)
Age: 50+
Range:F3-Bb4.
The Dowager Empress has lost everything she once held dear and must now put up with imposter upon imposter who claims to be Anastasia, never allowing her to grieve in peace. She is icy, proud, and regal (not to mention intimidating) to all but her family. Though she has a very sharp wit, she has a warmth and deep love for Anastasia. She commands authority and attention the minute she enters a room.

Little Anastasia  (Dancing Role)
Age: 8-13
Range: C4-C5
Young Anastasia is the willful, brave, proud, and precocious youngest daughter of the Tsar. She has a special bond with her grandmother (whom she calls Nana).

Little Alexi  (Brief-Dancing Role)
Age: 8-13
Range: C4-C5
Alexei was the Tsarevich (Heir to the throne) and only boy of the Romanov siblings. He suffered from debilitating hemophelia  that often left him bed-ridden. Anya mentions that he was her best friend.

Featured and Ensemble Roles Include:
The Romanov Family - (Tsar, Tsarina, Three Romanov Sisters, Other Servants and Family Members)
Citizens of St. Petersburg - (Gorlinsky, Count Ipolitov, Black Marketeers, Marfa, Paulina, Dunya, Comrades, Drunks, Policemen, etc.)
Parisian Citizens - (Reporters, Neva Club Guests, Count Leopold, Sergei, Count Gregory, Countess Gregory, Ballet Dancers, etc.)

No need to prepare anything, just be as familiar with the show as possible.

Ages:

Age Limit for Women - 20-45

Age Limit for Men - 20-99+

Age Limit for 1 Girl and 1 Boy - 6-13 (The children roles will be limited rehearsals)

John “Jack” Worthing, a carefree young gentleman, is the inventor of a fictitious brother, “Earnest,” whose wicked ways afford Jack an excuse to leave his country home from time to time and journey to London, where he stays with his close friend and confidant, Algernon Moncrief. Algernon has a cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax, with whom Jack is in love. During his London sojourns, Jack, under the name Earnest, has won Gwendolen’s love, for she strongly desires to marry someone with the confidence-inspiring name of Earnest. But when he asks for Gwendolen’s hand from her mother, the formidable Lady Bracknell, Jack finds he must reveal he is a foundling who was left in a handbag at Victoria Station. This is very disturbing to Lady Bracknell, who insists that he produce at least one parent before she consents to the marriage.

Returning to the country home where he lives with his ward Cecily Cardew and her governess Miss Prism, Jack finds that Algernon has also arrived under the identity of the nonexistent brother Earnest. Algernon falls madly in love with the beautiful Cecily, who has long been enamored of the mysterious, fascinating brother Earnest.

With the arrival of Lady Bracknell and Gwendolen, chaos erupts and questions (and answers) emerge about Jack’s birth and family. How this classic comedy sorts itself out is sure to delight!

This performance will take place the Rotary Amphitheatre in Central Park

Once upon a time, in a far away swamp, there lived an ogre named Shrek. One day, Shrek finds his swamp invaded by banished fairytale misfits who have been cast off by Lord Farquaad, a tiny terror with big ambitions. When Shrek sets off with a wisecracking donkey to confront Farquaad, he's handed a task — if he rescues feisty princess Fiona, his swamp will be righted. Shrek tries to win Fiona’s love and vanquish Lord Farquaad, but a fairytale wouldn't be complete without a few twists and turns along the way.

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It's unusual for a modern work to become a classic so quickly, but Tolkien's "ring" stories, which began with The Hobbit, clearly are in this very special category. They stir the imagination and intellect of everyone they touch. Bilbo, one of the most conservative of all Hobbits, is asked to leave his large, roomy and very dry home in the ground in order to set off as chief robber in an attempt to recover an important treasure. It's the last thing that any sensitive Hobbit would want to do, but great benefit eventually results—not only for Bilbo but for all of the Hobbits who inhabit Middle Earth—and the hearts of those children and adults who continue to enjoy this kind of magic.

-Ages 8-18

-Prepare a 60 second upbeat song (Disney or other), please bring your own backing track.

-Cold reads from the script.

Audition location: The Playhouse Annex 907 Arcadia Circle, Murray

Show Dates: July 30, 31, August 1, and 2.

Performance will take place at the Rotary Amphitheatre in Central Park Murray.

Here is Rydell High’s senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding “Burger Palace Boys’ and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking “Pink Ladies” in bobby sox and pedal pushers, evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this rollicking musical. Head “greaser” Danny Zuko and new (good) girl Sandy Dumbrowski try to relive the high romance of their “Summer Nights” as the rest of the gang sings and dances its way through such songs as “Greased Lightnin’,” “It’s Raining on Prom Night” and “Alone at the Drive-In Movie,” recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard and Elvis Presley that became the soundtrack of a generation. An eight-year run on Broadway and two subsequent revivals, along with innumerable school and community productions, place Grease among the world’s most popular musicals.

Calling all actors for an upcoming audition for Playhouse in the Park! May 11th and 12th at 6pm at the Playhouse Annex. You only have to attend one night of auditions! Learn and work one of the monologues below for the audition and expect cold reads from the script.

Bilbo

"Go back? No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? ... Only thing to do! On we go!" Well, look here, it is a pool or possibly a lake, and not an underground river after all. What is that? It gleams even in this small amount of light. I think...I think it may be a ring. No matter, I shall have it for the small amount of light it brings to this putrid cave."

Gollum

Bless us and splash us, my precioussss a feast! I guess it's a choice feast; at least a tasty morsel it'd make us, gollum! Never truer words spoken. And we's is so hungry. But that dagger of his...my preciousness! What should I do? Your wits, gollum. Use them. The morsel will never know."

Smaug

"I kill where I wish and none dare resist. I laid low the warriors of old and there like is not seen in the world today. Then I was but young and tender. Now I am old, and I am strong, Strong, STRONG! Now, my armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail is a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death! "

Gandalf

Why the halfling you ask? I don't know, really. Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I have found that it is the small things, every act of normal folk that keeps the darkness at bay. Simple acts of kindness and love. Why Bilbo Baggins? Perhaps because I am afraid, and he gives me courage.

Tauriel

It is our fight, but itvwill not end here. This evil will grow. We will hide within our walls and live our lives away from light. The darkness will descend. Tell me, when did we allow evil to become stronger than us?

Thorin

He is soft. He is as soft as the mud of his shire and just as silly too. His father died too soon and his mother not soon enough. I see. You are playing some crooked game of your own Master Gandalf. You must have other purposes than helping me. Otherwise you are crazed.

THE ADDAMS FAMILY, a comical feast that embraces the wackiness in every family, features an original story and a dilemma that’s every father’s nightmare: Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family—a man her parents have never met. And if that wasn’t upsetting enough, Wednesday confides in her father and begs him not to tell her mother. Now, Gomez Addams must do something he’s never done before—keep a secret from his beloved wife, Morticia. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.

Before Rent, there was Tick, Tick... Boom!. This autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning composer of Rent, is the story of a composer and the sacrifices that he made to achieve his big break in theatre. Containing fourteen songs, ten characters, three actors and a band, Tick, Tick... Boom! takes you on the playwright/composer's journey that led to a Broadway blockbuster.

His girlfriend wants to get married and move out of the city, his best friend is making big bucks on Madison Avenue and, yet, Jon is still waiting on tables and trying to write the great American musical. Set in 1990, this compelling story of personal discovery is presented as a rock musical filled with instantly appealing melodies and a unique blend of musical theatre styles.

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The final collaboration between Rodgers & Hammerstein was destined to become the world’s most beloved musical. Featuring a trove of cherished songs, including “Climb Ev’ry Mountain,” “My Favorite Things,” “Do-Re-Mi,” “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” and the title number, The Sound of Music won the hearts of audiences worldwide, earning five Tony Awards and five Oscars. The inspirational story, based on the memoir of Maria Augusta Trapp, follows an ebullient postulate who serves as governess to the seven children of the imperious Captain von Trapp, bringing music and joy to the household. But as the forces of Nazism take hold of Austria, Maria and the entire von Trapp family must make a moral decision.

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An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years, the show's unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.