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Casting Call for Boys and Girls for "How to Enchant a Bookshop"

Lubbock, TX, United States
ID: 576360Exp: 11/2/2024
Description:

Kids in K-5 grades are invited to audition for "How to Enchant a Bookshop". Please see the details below. About the project: Dorothy Gale, Tom Sawyer, and the other beloved literary characters from the best-selling The Enchanted Bookshop are back - for the first time - in this heartwarming prequel about how the bookshop first became enchanted. This play is simply magical, whether or not your audience is familiar with The Enchanted Bookshop. Margie has high hopes for success but soon discovers that running a bookshop is harder than expected, and rent is even harder to come by. Thankfully, Feonora, a young fairy-in-training, can’t wait to use the magic she’s learned to help Margie. The student enchantress has been warned to never use the spell that brings storybook characters to life, so, of course, Feonora does just that, bringing to life Cinderella, Don Quixote, Beatrix Potter’s Two Bad Mice, and more! Now if she could just convince the characters to give up their newly-found freedom before any human sees them! With a shorter running time and smaller cast, How to Enchant a Bookshop is sure to enchant your school and community theatre audience with the same book-loving charm that made The Enchanted Bookshop so magical! Additional info: Readings from Script. No need to prepare anything. Students need to attend only one audition. Bring a list of rehearsal conflicts with you. If interested, please apply.

18 roles

MARGIEFemale5-10 y.o.All ethnicities

Bookshop owner; scatterbrained but eternally hopeful.

BOMBALURINAFemale5-10 y.o.All ethnicities

Margie’s cat; sassy, but learns to be brave

ELLENFemale5-10 y.o.All ethnicities

Margie’s older sister; supportive but also judgmental

LEONARD GRIMBLEMale5-10 y.o.All ethnicities

Margie’s landlord; fears disaster at every turn

ORTENSIAFemale5-10 y.o.All ethnicities

Older book fairy; stickler for the rules

FEONORAFemale5-10 y.o.All ethnicities

Ortensia’s enthusiastic but clumsy trainee

TOM THUMBMale5-10 y.o.All ethnicities

Beatrix Potter’s perpetually hungry mouse

HUNCA MUNCAMale5-10 y.o.All ethnicities

Tom’s more sensible wife.

GILBERT McADOOMale5-10 y.o.All ethnicities

Persnickety book collector

CINDERELLAFemale5-10 y.o.All ethnicities

Not the Disney version

DOROTHY GALEFemale5-10 y.o.All ethnicities

Kansas farm girl; clever, compassionate

TOM SAWYERMale5-10 y.o.All ethnicities

Mischievous Missouri schoolboy

DON QUIXOTEMale5-10 y.o.All ethnicities

Spanish nobleman; thinks he’s a medieval knight

SHERLOCK HOLMESMale5-10 y.o.All ethnicities

Brainy English detective

POLLYANNAFemale5-10 y.o.All ethnicities

New England schoolgirl; annoyingly optimistic

FAGINMale5-10 y.o.All ethnicities

Devious English pickpocket.

SLICKMale5-10 y.o.All ethnicities

Easily confused exterminator

SLACKMale5-10 y.o.All ethnicities

Overly eager exterminator