Young Talent Audition for "A Christmas Story" Play
ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. Seeking performers ages 7-15 to portray roles in "A Christmas Story" play. Please, see the details below. Additional information: CALLBACKS: Wednesday, August 19th TIME (if needed). SHOW DATES: Nov 25th – Dec 12th, 2026 (Wed-Sat). Rehearsals will be on Monday and Wednesday evenings & Sunday afternoons and evenings. FIRST READ THROUGH – Sunday, August 23rd. READ from selected side/s. Memorization is not required, but familiarity is helpful. SING 32 bars of a song of your choice. DANCE in the group dance call according to your individual time slot as specified on Sign Up Genius. Please dress appropriately in comfortable clothing with character shoes if possible. Be prepared to perform a children’s story of your choice in 45 seconds. Looking for exaggeration, big movement, big emotion, big voices. If you're interested, please apply.
7 roles
Going on 10 (may be played by a 9 to 12-year old). Cute and winsome, but not precious. Bright, but not precocious. A regular kid you wouldn’t mind having as a next-door neighbor. He’s a bit mischievous and rascally but with a twinkle in his eye.
THE KIDS (may be doubled). Classmate.
a classmate.
A classmate.
A classmate.
The textbook example of a schoolyard bully, except this truant doesn’t go to school. He is loud, obnoxious and intimidating. Older than Ralphie and his classmates by a year or two, he wears a perpetual scowl beneath his trademark coonskin cap. He always appears at the most inopportune times to scare and harass his innocent victims.
Always at Farkus’ side is his toady, Dill. Much younger and decidedly smaller than Farkus, Dill delights in being tethered to his “hero.” He punctuates the bully’s threats and warnings with a series of rapid-fire belly- laughs, thus making the two of them the scourge of the neighborhood whenever they appear. But, like most of their ilk, when the two are finally challenged and bested, they turn out to be the biggest cowards of all.
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