Child Auditions for Musical Production "A Christmas Story"
Performers aged 9-15 years old are invited to audition for "A Christmas Story". Please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. About the project: Humorist Jean Shepherd’s memoir of growing up in the Midwest in the 1940s follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker in his quest to get a genuine Red Ryder BB gun under the tree for Christmas. Ralphie pleads his case before his mother, his teacher and even Santa Claus himself, at Higbee’s Department Store. The consistent response: “You’ll shoot your eye out!” All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family’s temperamental exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully; the boys’ experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; Ralphie’s father winning a lamp shaped like a woman’s leg in a net stocking; Ralphie’s fantasy scenarios and more. A Christmas Story is destined to become a theatrical holiday perennial. Rate: THIS IS A NON-PAYING GIG. Additional info: A headshot and resume would be greatly appreciated. If bringing please have your headshot and resume, stapled together. The audition will consist of cold readings from the script. Please be dressed appropriately for movement. Please be familiar with the show. (DO NOT ATTEND IN COSTUME) PERFORMANCE INFO: Weekends, December 6 – 21, 2024 Friday and Saturday Showtimes at 730pm and Sundays at 230pm Possible Thursday Performances if needed at 730pm REHEARSAL INFO: Rehearsal is generally held Monday through Friday 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM with possibly weekend rehearsals as tech week approaches. Please attend with a known list of conflicts, the casting team will want to know your availability. If interested, please apply.
7 roles
A 5th grade boy who wants an Air Rifle for Christmas: specifically the Red Ryder Carbine Action BB Gun. He is a bright, winsome, mischievous, cute kid…someone you wouldn’t mind having as a next door neighbor. (He might shovel your driveway for you–and then use your shovel as a sled!) Ralphie’s imagination runs wild.
She is the student that always has the answer in class and loves doing homework, getting the best of grades. She has a crush on Ralphie.
He is a classmate and best buddy of Ralphie’s; Flick is the guinea pig in the flagpole licking experiment.
Best friend of Esther Jane, and knows all about her “crush.”
Also a classmate and best buddy of Ralphie; Schwartz becomes the scapegoat when Ralphie utters an unmentionable word.
Ralphie’s younger brother, tries to keep up with him, and is young enough that he can be convinced to eat his dinner like a baby piggy!
He is a textbook example of a schoolyard bully, Scut is loud, obnoxious, and intimidating. This truant is a year or two older than Ralphie and his friends and wears a perpetual scowl under his coonskin cap. He always appears at the most inopportune time to harass his victims. In the end, when he shows himself to be the biggest coward of all.
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