AUDITIONS for Waitress

Name: AUDITIONS for Waitress
Start: 2024-11-02T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-02T16:00:00-05:00
Location: 30 Civic Center Dr SE, Rochester, MN, United States, Minnesota 55904

Schedule

Sat Nov 02 2024 at 12:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

30 Civic Center Dr SE, Rochester, MN, United States, Minnesota 55904 | Rochester, MN

The Rochester Civic Theatre is seeking multiple Adults and one student with strong singing and dancing abilities for Waitress.
Book by Jessie Nelson, Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles
Rehearsals Begin: January 6
Performing: February 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23 of 2025
Please choose 16 bars from the selections of Waitress for your audition. You will have an accompanist on piano at auditions. All ages and genders will be considered for ALL roles.
For the auditions: Please prepare a song from "Waitress"
SIGN UP HERE: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/9040445A8A82DA2F58-51979329-waitress#/
Callbacks Nov 3rd.
Directed by Misha Johnson, music directed by Dr. Lindsey Blackhurst.
If all audition times are full, or you cannot attend, please message us at [email protected] for alternate audition information. Thank you!!!
JENNA – Female, 20’s-30’s. A woman stuck in her life as an unhappily married waitress in a small town. Finds some happiness and expression through her meticulous baking of pies and her friendships with her coworkers, Dawn and Becky. Lives her live paycheck-to-paycheck, day by day, and wants nothing more than to get away and start fresh, unbeknownst to her destructive husband, Earl.
DAWN - Female, 20’s. She youngest of the waitresses. Thick glasses, hair parted 14 centimeters to the left — eccentric is the nice way to say she’s slightly unusual, and not so slightly OCD. She sets the tables, painstakingly insuring each salt and pepper-shaker is equidistant from the napkin holder.
BECKY – Female, early 40’s-early 50’s. The oldest of the three waitresses. Irreverent, irascible, been there, made it back, and somehow kept her forward and sometimes wicked sense of humor with excellent comedic timing.
DR. POMATTER – Male, 30’s-early 40’s. Handsome, endearing, and neurotic. Has a warm, if clumsy, matter. Jenna’s gynecologist with whom an unexpected extramarital affair is born. Has a quirky sense of humor and a big heart, despite the fact that he’s contributing to the affair.
EARL – Male, 20’S-30’s. Jenna’s husband. Peaked in high school, handsome in a gruff way, but that face is clouded with broken dreams, drowned with cheap beer. Just enough narcissism mixed with stupidity, to be a potent Molotov cocktail that can explode into unexpected anger one second and then turn into a sobbing mess the next.
OGIE - Male, 30’s. Strange, yet oddly lovable. Becomes slightly obsessed with Dawn (in a hilarious yet endearing way) after she goes on a 5-minute date with him. Quirky, incredibly persistent, and odd, yet kind.
JOE - Male, 60’s-70’s. The owner of the diner where Jenna, Dawn, Becky, and Cal work. A seemingly old, curmudgeonly man who has a soft spot for Jenna (and her pie), warm at heart. A sarcastically funny and no-nonsense guy with a keen ability to read people.
CAL - Male, 40’s. A chef at the diner. A “Salt of the Earth” guy’s guy surrounded by gals. Brash, impatient, unsentimental, but somehow charming.
LULU – Young Girl, to play 4-5 years old. Daughter of Jenna and Earl. A sweet, carefree child who appears in the last scene of the show.
ENSEMBLE - any gender, Must have excellent pop/rock voices in the style of Sara Bareilles. Must have excellent comedic timing and be able to play a range of characters comprising the community in which the story takes place. Must be strong movers/dancers.