Kid Performers Needed for "How To Enchant a Bookshop"
Seeking ages 10 and up for "How To Enchant a Bookshop". Please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. 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 never to 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! Additional info: Auditioners will do cold readings from the script. SHOW DATES ARE MARCH 7,8,9 | 14,15,16. If interested, please apply.
18 roles
Bookshop owner; scatterbrained but eternally hopeful, loves every book in the bookshop
Margie’s cat; sassy, but learns to be brave, must be able to physicalize cat-like movement
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