DTC Auditions: Merrily We Roll Along
Schedule
Tue Dec 03 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:30 pm
Location
Arts Barn at Gaithersburg Arts on the Green | Gaithersburg, MD
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Damascus Theatre Company�ANNOUNCES� Auditions for MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
Directed by Keith Edward
Choreographed by Megan McNellage
Produced by Carol Boyle & Elli Swink
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by George Furth
Based on the original play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Originally Directed on Broadway by Harold Prince
Originally produced on Broadway by Lord Grade, Martin Starger, Robert Fryer
and Harold Prince in association with Ruth Mitchell and Howard Haines
Presented in partnership with the City of Gaithersburg at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn
AUDITION LOCATIONS/DATES:
Dec. 3, 7-9:30pm, Kentlands Mansion, 320 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg.
Dec. 4, 7-9:30pm, Gaithersburg Arts Barn, 311 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg.
Callbacks:
Dec. 7, 11am-2pm, Damascus Library, 9701 Main Street, Damascus.
PERFORMANCE DATES: �Weekend performances March 7-23, 2025 at Arts on the Green, Gaithersburg Arts Barn.
REHEARSALS:�Rehearsals will begin in mid-January (evenings and weekends) and will be held at venues in Montgomery County, primarily in Gaithersburg.
AUDITION REQUIREMENTS:�Please prepare 16-32 bars of a musical theater song in the style of the show that best shows off your voice. An accompanist will be provided and accompanist tracks are ok as long as you bring your own speaker. Performers must be 18 years or older. Auditions for the child role will be held at a later date.
TO SCHEDULE AN AUDITION:
Email the desired day and time to [email protected]. You won’t hear back unless there is a problem with your requested audition time.
ABOUT THE SHOW:
The show tells the story of how three friends' lives and friendship devolve over the course of 20 years; it focuses particularly on Franklin Shepard, a talented composer of musicals who, over those 20 years, abandons his friends and songwriting career to become a producer of Hollywood movies. Like the play on which it is based, the show's story moves in reverse chronology, beginning in 1976 at the friends' lowest moment and ending in 1957, at their youthful best.
Character Breakdown
Franklin Shepard
His character ranges from an influential songwriter and film producer to an innocent, bright-eyed optimist in NYC. Talented and handsome but misled, tragic, and tormented.
Gender: Male
Age: 25 to 40
Vocal range top: Bb4
Vocal range bottom: A2
Charley Kringas
A stubborn, intense man with average looks. He ranges from a successful lyricist and Frank's long-time friend to a bright-eyed optimist creating his own opportunities in NYC.
Gender: Male
Age: 25 to 40
Vocal range top: G#4
Vocal range bottom: A#2
Mary Flynn
A middle-aged theatre critic. Her character arcs to the youthful, gorgeous 20-something living in NYC with best friend Frank. Sardonic, bitter, and witty.
Gender: Female
Age: 30 to 45
Vocal range top: Gb5
Vocal range bottom: G3
Trio
Pasquale, Giuseppe and Ciccio.
Meg Kincaid
Starry-eyed starlet who is naive and ambitious. At the start of the show, she is Frank's newest fling.
Gender: Female
Age: 18 to 25
Vocal range top: Gb5
Vocal range bottom: D4
Gussie Carnegie
The flamboyant, self-invented actress. Her character begins at the end of her relationship with Frank, but throughout the show we see her grow more and more helplessly in love with him. Greedy and seductive.
Gender: Female
Age: 25 to 35
Vocal range top: C5
Vocal range bottom: G3
Joe Josephson
Big-talking Broadway producer and husband to Gussie. He later becomes pathetic and poor.
Gender: Male
Age: 35 to 50
Vocal range top: F#4
Vocal range bottom: A2
Beth
A naive and insecure middle-American who is the mother of Frank's son. She arcs from a down-trodden housewife at her wits end to a hopeless romantic at the beginning of her engagement to the man of her dreams.
Gender: Female
Age: 25 to 35
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Ensemble
Party Guests; Artists; Students
Merrily We Roll Along
Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). �All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. �www.mtishows.com
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Where is it happening?
Arts Barn at Gaithersburg Arts on the Green, 311 Kent Square Rd, Gaithersburg, MD 20878-5727, United States,Gaithersburg, MarylandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
