Singing Audition for "Chicago" Teen Edition
Students currently in grades 7 through 12 are invited to audition for "Chicago" Teen Edition. Please see the details below. 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. Additional info: Please prepare 30-60 seconds of a song in the style of Chicago or from the show. Please bring sheet music in the key in which you are singing for the accompanist and please mark your music with your start and end points. Please, no a cappella. Rehearsals are scheduled on Sundays from 1:00-4:00 pm and Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6:30-9:00 pm in Foxboro and Mansfield. Not all cast members will be required to be at all rehearsals. A rehearsal schedule will be made once the show is cast. Extra nights may be added as the show nears production week. All conflicts will be taken into consideration when casting roles. Cast members are not allowed any absences during tech week. The production will take place March 28-30, 2025. Please be aware that the fee will be involved. If interested, please apply.
15 roles
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
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.
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. “
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.
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.
Roxie’s short-lived lover. Murdered for trying to leave Roxie.
Assigned to Roxie’s case. After asking the right questions, he manages to get Roxie to confess.
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.
Prisoner at Cook County Jail. She is imprisoned after shooting two warning shots into her husband’s head.
Prisoner at the Cook County Jail. Murder’s her lover after finding out he already has six wives.
Prisoner at Cook County Jail. After her husband accuses her of having an affair with the milk man, he mysteriously runs into her knife ten times.
Hungarian Prisoner at Cook County Jail. The only English she speaks is the phase, “Not Guilty.” Which follows her to her grave.
Prisoner at Cook County Jail. Murders her lover after he has a round of affairs with other woman, and occasional man
Steals the spotlight when she Murders her husband along with three other woman.
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