Category Archives: Auditions

Auditions for Urinetown by 2nd Star Productions, Oct 9-10

Auditions for Urinetown by 2nd Star Productions, Oct 9-10

2nd Star Productions announces auditions for:
Urinetown the Musical
Director: Davis Wootton-Klebanoff
Music Director: Jenni Butler
Choreographer: Summer Moore
Producers: Karen Monteith & Crista Drysdale

Audition Dates: October 9 – 10, 2023
Sun. Oct. 8, Mon. Oct. 9, and Tues. Oct. 10, at 7:00pm; Callbacks will be Wed. Oct. 11 at 7:00pm, if needed.

Performances: February 9 – March 2, 2024

Location: 2nd Star Productions at the Bowie Playhouse

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, environmental collapse, privatization of natural resources, bureaucracy, municipal politics, and musical theatre itself! Hilariously funny and touchingly honest, Urinetown provides a fresh perspective on one of America’s greatest art forms.

In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity’s most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides that he’s had enough and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom!

For more information, including parts to be cast, and to request a timed audition slot or submit a video audition, click here.

Auditions for Merrily We Roll Along by Greenbelt Arts Center, Oct 8-10

Auditions for Merrily We Roll Along by Greenbelt Arts Center, Oct 8-10

Greenbelt Arts Center announces auditions for:
Merrily We Roll Along
music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
book by George Furth
directed by Roy Hammond
music directed by Joe Biddle
choreography by Rikki Howie Lacewell

Audition Dates: October 8 – 10, 2023
Sun. Oct. 8, Mon. Oct. 9, and Tues. Oct. 10, at 7:00pm; Callbacks will be Wed. Oct. 11 at 7:00pm, if needed.

Performances: January 5 – 20, 2024

Location: Greenbelt Arts Center

The show tells the story of how three friends’ lives and friendship change over 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 backward in time. It begins in 1976 at the friends’ lowest moment and ends in 1957, at their youthful best.

For more information, including parts to be cast, click here.

Auditions for The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Upstage Artists, Oct 6 & 7

Auditions for The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Upstage Artists, Sep 29 & 30

Upstage Artists announce auditions for:
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
By Barbara Robinson
Directed By John Cusumano

Auditions: September 29 & 30, 2023

Performances: December 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 2023

Location: Upstage Artists, performing at the Emmanuel United Methodist Church, 11416 Cedar Lane, Beltsville MD, 20705

In this hilarious Christmas classic, a couple struggling to put on a church Christmas pageant is faced with casting the Herdman kids–probably the most inventively awful kids in history. You won’t believe the mayhem – and the fun – when the Herdmans collide with the Christmas story head on!

For more information and to register for auditions, click here.

Auditions for A Christmas Story, the Musical by the Laurel Mill Playhouse, Sep 23 & 26

Auditions for A Christmas Story, the Musical by the Laurel Mill Playhouse, Sep 23 & 26

Laurel Mill Playhouse announces auditions for:
A Christmas Story, the Musical
Directed by Michael Hartsfield
Musically Directed by Mimi McGinniss
Produced by Maureen Rogers

Audition Dates/Times:
Saturday, September 23, 2023 – 11am – 1pm
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 – 7pm – 9pm

Location: Laurel Mill Playhouse

Performances: December 12th – December 21st, 2023
6 shows – Friday, Saturday, Sunday

This musical, which received rave reviews on its Broadway run, is based on the movie classic that runs round-the-clock on television every Christmas. Set in the 1940s in the fictional town of Hohman, Indiana, the musical follows 9-year-old Ralphie Parker and his quest for the Holy Grail of Christmas gifts—an Official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot Range Model air rifle. Rebuffed at every turn with a similar echoing response, Ralphie plots numerous schemes to achieve his desperate desire for the coveted BB gun. All the iconic scenes from the movie are here: Ralphie’s friend, Flick, getting his tongue stuck to the flagpole; his brother, Randy, getting dressed in his snowsuit; the bullies, Farkus and Dill; the leg lamp award; the bunny suit; Christmas dinner; and many others. The delightfully versatile score ranges from gentle ballads to show-stopping full-ensemble numbers such as “Ralphie to the Rescue!”, “A Major Award,” “Sticky Situation,” “Up on Santa’s Lap,” “Somewhere Hovering Over Indiana” and the inevitable “You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out!” A Christmas Story, The Musical will bring an exciting new dimension to those who have seen the movie and will certainly stand on its own for those ~ Dramatic Publishing.

Auditions for The Old Settler by the Bowie Community Theatre, Aug 18 & 19

Auditions for The Old Settler by the Bowie Community Theatre, Aug 18 & 19

Bowie Community Theatre announces auditions for:
The Old Settler
by John Henry Redwoods
directed by Lorraine Brooks

Audition Dates/Times:
August 18, 2023 – 7 PM – 9 PM
August 19, 2023 – 1 PM – 3 PM
Callback (if needed) – August 31. 2023 – 7 PM

Audition location: Grace Lutheran Church, 2503 Belair Drive, Bowie, MD

Performance location: Bowie Community Theatre at the Bowie Playhouse

Performances: November 10 – December 10, 2023, excluding November 24-26
Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM, Sunday matinees at 2PM

In World War II Harlem, New York, a fifty-five-year-old spinster (or as they were called in those days—an Old Settler), Elizabeth Borny, takes in a young male roomer, Husband Witherspoon, to help her with the rent. Husband has come to Harlem from South Carolina to search for his girlfriend, Lou Bessie Preston. Also living with Elizabeth is her sister, Quilly McGrath, fifty-three. There is an ominous cloud of tension that hangs over Elizabeth and Quilly’s relationship. This tension is further exacerbated when Elizabeth and Husband take to liking each other. Quilly, who doesn’t like Husband living with them in the first place, surely doesn’t approve of their “carrying on,” especially since Elizabeth is old enough to be Husband’s mother. It is this “carrying on” that exposes a thirty-year-old wound which, until now, only had a bandage—now the wound can heal for the sisters.

For more information, including roles to be cast, click here.