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Failure: A Love Story Auditions
Announcing auditions for our first show of the 2018 Summer in the Park season! Failure: A Love Story by Philip Dawkins will be directed by Mary Jones and is a comedy following the lives (and deaths) of the three Fail sisters in 1920's Chicago. The story is described as magical fable where in the end the power of love is far greater than any individual's successes or failures.
Auditions are being held Saturday, April 21 from 1:00-4:00 and Sunday, April 22 from 1:00-3:30. Auditions are open to anyone high-school aged and older. Those auditioning are asked to read or perform a monologue of their choice and be prepared to read from the script. Don't have a monologue? Don't worry! Come to auditions anyway, we'd be glad to work with you.
Show dates are June 14-17. All performances are at 7:30.
Roles being cast (all ages listed are the age the character plays):
Nelly Fail: the youngest sister, early 20's
Jenny June Fail: the middlest sister, mid-20's
Gerty Fail: the oldest sister, late 20's
John N Fail: the brother, 20's
Mortimer Mortimer: the lover, late 20's
The Chorus: a NON-musical group of actors who narrate and help move the story along. The number of chorus members is flexible and in addition to narrating the story will play a number of roles not named in the cast list but no less integral to the successful telling of the story. These roles include the mother and father, talking family pets, talking clocks, and more! The roles will be divided based on the results of auditions.
We will have one script available for interested actors to check out and read prior to auditions on a first come first serve basis. Send a message to our Facebook page or fill out the contact form on the website if you're interested!
Auditions are being held Saturday, April 21 from 1:00-4:00 and Sunday, April 22 from 1:00-3:30. Auditions are open to anyone high-school aged and older. Those auditioning are asked to read or perform a monologue of their choice and be prepared to read from the script. Don't have a monologue? Don't worry! Come to auditions anyway, we'd be glad to work with you.
Show dates are June 14-17. All performances are at 7:30.
Roles being cast (all ages listed are the age the character plays):
Nelly Fail: the youngest sister, early 20's
Jenny June Fail: the middlest sister, mid-20's
Gerty Fail: the oldest sister, late 20's
John N Fail: the brother, 20's
Mortimer Mortimer: the lover, late 20's
The Chorus: a NON-musical group of actors who narrate and help move the story along. The number of chorus members is flexible and in addition to narrating the story will play a number of roles not named in the cast list but no less integral to the successful telling of the story. These roles include the mother and father, talking family pets, talking clocks, and more! The roles will be divided based on the results of auditions.
We will have one script available for interested actors to check out and read prior to auditions on a first come first serve basis. Send a message to our Facebook page or fill out the contact form on the website if you're interested!
Children's Show Audition Process
- Sign in
- Come and see Pam to be measured and for parent to fill out information on the performer
- See Mrs Keck for vocal placement ( this includes warm up with a group as well as her finding out the range)
- Then to Krista for a movement check ( several people at once). Teaches them a few steps then observes how they do.
- Finally, and privately, they sing for Mr Keck and the older ones read if they want a speaking part.
- We do our best to hurry this along, but it is a long process and each and every child gets the same quality attention. No one is ever stopped in the middle of their solo.
- Appointments are required to help keep the process as timely as possible.
- The children's show is a little different in that every child gets a part, no one is turned away, and because of that some need a little more attention than others. We want them to blossom and to have a good experience.
