Casting Call for Boys and Girls for "A Christmas Carol"
Audition for "A Christmas Carol". Seeking child actors/singers/dancers. Please see the details below. Additional info: Callbacks Tuesday, October 8 at 7pm Prepare / Bring: 16 bars of a Christmas carol or song and bring your sheet music for our pianist. Also, be prepared to perform a one-two-minute monologue. Please bring your calendar and be prepared to list all rehearsal conflicts. Must be comfortable singing Christmas Carols as an ensemble and/or solo. Performance Dates: December 6- 22, 2024. Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 PM, Sundays at 3:00 PM, Additional Matinee Saturday, 12/21 at 3:00 PM, Note: Cast may also be asked to perform in up to 4 mid-week field trip performances. If interested, please apply.
26 roles
Scrooge as a child alone and at boarding school during the holiday.
Bob Cratchit's young son, crippled from birth. Tiny Tim is a highly sentimentalized character who Dickens uses to highlight the tribulations of England's poor and to elicit sympathy from his middle and upper class readership.
In the living world, Ebenezer Scrooge's an equally greedy partner. Marley died seven years before the narrative opens. He appears to Scrooge as a ghost condemned to wander the world bound in heavy chains. Marley hopes to save his old partner from suffering a similar fate.
The first spirit to visit Scrooge, a curiously childlike apparition. He/She takes Scrooge on a tour of Christmases in his past.
The second spirit to visit Scrooge, a majestic giant clad in a green robe. His lifespan is restricted to Christmas Day. He escorts Scrooge on a tour of his contemporaries' Holiday celebrations.
The third and final spirit to visit Scrooge, a silent phantom clad in a hooded black robe. He presents Scrooge with an ominous view of his lonely death.
A beautiful woman who Scrooge loved deeply when he was a young man. Alice broke off their engagement after Scrooge became consumed with greed and the lust for wealth. She later married another man.
Young Alice all grown up and taking care of the homeless.
Bob's oldest son, who inherits his father's stiff-collared shirt for Christmas.
Bob's oldest daughter, who works in a milliner's shop.
Bob Cratchit’s daughter.
Bob Cratchit’s son.
Bob Cratchit’s daughter.
Scrooge's sister; Fred's mother. In Scrooge's vision of Christmases past, he remembers Fan picking him up from school and walking him home.
Three women who visit Scrooge at the beginning of the tale seeking charitable contributions. Scrooge promptly throws them out of his office. Upon meeting one of them on the street after his visitations, he promises to make lavish donations to help the poor.