Looking for Teen Performers for "Chicago" The Musical
The directors are searching for teenage actors for the production of "Chicago" The Musical. Please refer to the details provided below for more information. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. About the project: In roaring twenties Chicago, chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband, Amos, to take the rap...until he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess," Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the "American Dream": fame, fortune, and acquittal. This sharp-edged satire features a dazzling score that sparked immortal staging by Bob Fosse. Rate: Stipend Offered Leads - $300 Sub Leads - $200 Ensemble - $150 Additional info: ACTING AUDITION: 1-minute monologue memorized that best demonstrates your acting ability and versatility. Please bring your resume and headshot if available VOCAL AUDITION: 16-32 bars of a memorized musical theater song that best demonstrates your vocal ability. Sheet music, prerecorded karaoke music on a device (ie: phone, iPod, MP3 Player with audio jack, etc.) is allowed, NO a cappella for vocal audition. DANCE AUDITION Please bring comfortable clothes you can move in, dance shoes preferred. If you are interested, please apply.
20 roles
(Range: Alto, E3-D5) Vaudville 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.
(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.
(Range: Ensemble/Part Flexible) Roxie’s short lived lover. Murdered for trying to leave Roxie.
(Range: Ensemble/Part Flexible) Assigned to Roxie’s case. After asking the right questions, he manages to get Roxie to confess.
(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.
(Range: Ensemble, A3-C#5) Prisoner at Cook County Jail. She is imprisoned after shooting two warning shots into her husband’s head.
(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.”
(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.
(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.
(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.”
(Range: Ensemble/Part Flexible) Ensemble member who doubles as the Master of Ceremonies at times.
(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.”
(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.
(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.
(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.”
(Range: Ensemble/Part Flexible) Murdered by Go-To-Hell Kitty for sleeping around with three women behind her back.
(Range: Ensemble/Part Flexible) Court appointed lawyer for Hunyak. He tries to get her to confess to speed along the trial.
(Range: Ensemble/Part Flexible) Judge overseeing Roxie’s Trial.
(Range: Ensemble/Part Flexible)
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