Casting Call for Teens for "Hadestown: Teen Edition"
Casting performers ages 13-18 years old for "Hadestown: Teen Edition". Please see the details below. About the project: This intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience. Following two intertwining love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of immortal King Hades and Lady Persephone – Hadestown invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz, Mitchell’s beguiling sung-through musical pits the industry against nature, doubt against Additional info: Bring 16-32 bars of a song that shows off your vocal talent. Please bring sheet music in the correct key. Also, bring clothes for the movement audition. If interested, please apply.
7 roles
Lyre-playing poet, gifted and naïve (Tenor with strong falsetto, range: D3-C5 (opt. Eb5)
A runaway, tough and vulnerable (Mezzo-Soprano, range: F#3-D5)
Compulsive industrialist, boss-king of Hadestown (Bass, range: F2-C#4)
Queen of nature and the seasons, a lush (Mezzo-Soprano/Alto, range: F3-C5)
Charismatic guide and storyteller, mentor to Orpheus (Tenor/Bass, range: C3-B4)
Three sisters, vicious and delicious, voices in the head (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Alto, range E3-D5 (Fate 1 up to Eb5)
Spirits of labor and community, a physical and choral presence (SATB)
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