AUDITIONS || BAT BOY & BOYS IN THE BAND
Schedule
Sun Dec 01 2024 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
1505 State Street, Floor 2, Erie, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 16501 | Erie, PA
AUDITIONSSunday December 1st and Monday December 2nd, 6PM
PACA Theatre, 1505 State St, 2nd Floor
Auditions start promptly at 6PM, please arrive a few minutes early to check in and fill out any required paperwork.
Bat Boy: The Musical
Directed by Bob Martin
Performance dates: March 21, 22, 27, 28, 29, April 4, 5, 6, 2025
Please prepare a song. Cold readings will be available.
Based on a story in The Weekly World News, BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL is a musical comedy/horror show about a half boy/half bat creature who is discovered in a cave near Hope Falls, West Virginia. For lack of a better solution, the local sheriff brings Bat Boy to the home of the town veterinarian, Dr. Parker, where he is eventually accepted as a member of the family and taught to act like a “normal” boy by the veterinarian’s wife, Meredith, and teenage daughter, Shelley. Bat Boy is happy with his new life, but when he naively tries to fit in with the narrow-minded people of Hope Falls, they turn on him, prodded by the machinations of Dr. Parker, who secretly despises Bat Boy. Shelley and Bat Boy, who have fallen in love, run away together from the ignorant townfolk and have a blissful coupling in the woods, but their happiness is shattered when Meredith arrives and reveals a secret. Soon the entire town arrives and hears the shocking story of Bat Boy’s unholy origin.
The Boys in the Band
Directed by Michael Weiss
Performance dates: April 25, 26, May 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 2025
Cold readings will be available.
In his Upper East Side apartment, Michael is throwing a birthday party for Harold, a self-avowed “thirty-two-year-old, pockmarked, Jew fairy,” complete with surprise gift: “Cowboy,” a street hustler. As the evening wears on – fueled by drugs and alcohol – bitter, unresolved resentments among the guests come to light when a game of “Truth” goes terribly wrong.
This groundbreaking play premiered Off-Broadway in 1968 and ran for 1,001 performances. It was subsequently made into a feature film with the original cast, directed by Academy Award-winner William Friedkin. In 2018, The Boys in the Band made its Broadway debut at the Booth Theatre in an unprecedented production featuring a cast of entirely out-and-proud gay actors. This new edition contains both the original two-act script and the one-act Broadway version, as well as an introduction by celebrated playwright Tony Kushner.
Questions? Contact Artistic Director KC McCloskey at [email protected]
Where is it happening?
1505 State Street, Floor 2, Erie, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 16501
