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AUDITIONS

BROAD BROOK OPERA HOUSE

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Auditions for our May 2012 Opera House Players production of

La Cage aux Folles 

 December 11th and 13th (callbacks December 14th)

 

Please contact Sharon with questions at sfhtheatre@comcast.net    

 

Production Dates: rehearsals begin Feb 2012

Show dates: May 4-20, 2012  (Fridays, Saturdays @ 8PM; Sundays @ 2PM)

Director: Sharon FitzHenry

Music Director: Bill Martin

Choreographer: Kristin Shaw 

 

When:

December 11 - 6-7:30pm open call singing/acting  7:30-8:45 dance audition

December 13 - 7-8:30pm open call singing/acting  8:30-9:45 dance audition

Callbacks December 14 @ 7pm

 

Where:

Broad Brook Opera House, 107 Main Street, Broad Brook CT 06016

 

What

For auditions, please be prepared to sing 16 bars that show spunk and range. If auditioning

 for the Cagelles, be prepared for dance with appropriate attire and shoes (jazz & tap) 

No appointments are taken. Auditioners are met on first come, first seen basis.

The parts: Albin  - A performer of star quality; mature; great powerhouse of a Broadway voice; fine comic actor.



Georges - A star, mature and attractive; good singer; energetic, loving and caring; must move well.

Jean-Michel - Must appear to be 20 years old; handsome, brunette, masculine, well mannered, educated; desperately in love with his fiancée, Anne; lyric baritone who acts, sings and moves well.

Jacob - Butler/maid in his early 20's; brilliant comedian who sings and moves well.

Anne - 18 - 21; John-Michel's fiancée; lovely to look at, spunky; a superb dancer who acts well.

Dindon - Anne's father; right-wing radical politician; pompous; quirky; must sing, move well, and be a fine comedian.

Marie Dindon - Anne's mother; 48 - 52, shy, retiring, sexually repressed and sex starved, good singer and actress who moves well; must look good in a leotard for the finale.

Jacqueline - Mature, female friend of Georges and Albin; owns a chic restaurant; attractive, charming; very theatrical; not necessarily a singer.

Renaud - Mature, male friend of Georges and Albin; owns a small café.

Francis - Male stage manager in Georges' club; strong actor/dancer.
 

Cagelles: 8 dancers at the La Cage nightclub all are beautiful females,  exceptional dancers (traditionally cast all male, though we may cast both men & women)

and additional ensemble parts