Casting Call for Boys and Girls for "How to Enchant a Bookshop"
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
Bookshop owner; scatterbrained but eternally hopeful.
Margie’s cat; sassy, but learns to be brave
Margie’s older sister; supportive but also judgmental
Margie’s landlord; fears disaster at every turn
Older book fairy; stickler for the rules
Ortensia’s enthusiastic but clumsy trainee
Beatrix Potter’s perpetually hungry mouse
Tom’s more sensible wife.
Persnickety book collector
Not the Disney version
Kansas farm girl; clever, compassionate
Mischievous Missouri schoolboy
Spanish nobleman; thinks he’s a medieval knight
Brainy English detective
New England schoolgirl; annoyingly optimistic
Devious English pickpocket.
Easily confused exterminator
Overly eager exterminator