"Bright Star – The Broadway Musical" Seeks Teenagers

Young Alice at age 16-17 is rebellious, high-spirited, and adventurous – looking to break out of small-town life and experience the world. She must be very strong singer and comfortable in folk and bluegrass styles. Alice at age 36-37 is an editor of a southern literary magazine; intelligent, attractive, professional – but with an air of melancholy.

A young soldier returning home from WWII; an aspiring young writer; fresh, open, optimistic, charming, and a little naïve.

Billy’s father. A widower. Spry, good looking. Kind hearted, if a bit lonely.

A small-town bookstore owner; a childhood friend of Billy’s who now harbors romantic feelings towards him; a natural beauty with a keen intellect.

A customer at Margo’s bookstore, at first, he has a crush on Margo, but later becomes Edna’s beau.

An employee at Margo’s bookstore and a childhood friend of both Billy and Margo.

An employee at Margo’s bookstore.

An assistant at a literary magazine. Funny, with a dry and officious sense of humor. Insecure, and perhaps a bit socially awkward, but endearing and innately likeable.

A junior editor at a literary magazine. An ambitious, professional young “modern” career woman of the 1940’s. Strong, forthright and provocative with a sharp sense of humor.

Alice’s mother. A caretaker to her family and her rural community. A warm, loving, sensible woman. Hardworking, with great inner strength and compassion.

Alice’s father; an authoritative and a stern disciplinarian; devoutly religious, hard-working, a poor but proud farmer.

The Mayor of Zebulon; a political and financial powerbroker – distinguished, an imposing and controlling presence; has a genuine interest in protecting his son’s future and his family name, but in doing so, is ultimately pushed to a point of extreme and irrevocable cruelty.

Loyal assistant to Mayor Josiah Dobbs

The local family doctor in Zebulon

A clerk at the Office of Records in Raleigh