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Audition Notice & Character Breakdown

     
 

Auditions: January 13 & 14, 2008

Callbacks: January 15, 2008
     

PRINCIPAL MALES AND FEMALES
Character            Age/physical requirements and voice part
Lily 20’s-early 30’s, lovely. Soprano
Mary Lennox a 10-year old girl (casting 10-14, maybe?) Strong singer
Mrs. Medlock a housekeeper, 30’s and up, stern and serious but not unkind
Archibald Craven 30’s-40’s or 50. Sad, reclusive, uncommunicative. High          baritone/tenor
Dr. Neville Craven late 20’s-40’s. Stern, dour. Baritone
Martha late teens-early 20’s, a maid. Alto or mezzo, strong belter poss.
Ben elderly, the gardener. Gruff but kindly. Baritone
Dickon late teens-20’s. Handsome, mischievous, perhaps a little                         mysterious. Tenor.
Colin Craven Archie’s 10-year-old son. Thin and bedridden. Treble.
Rose Mary’s mother, 20’s-40’s, beautiful and haughty. Mezzo-soprano.
Albert Mary’s father. Tenor.
 

FEATURED/ENSEMBLE ROLES

with a few exceptions (Fakir, e.g.) voice part relatively unimportant; characters and vocal lines can be mixed and matched
Alice Rose’s friend, 20’s-50
Wright, Shaw, Shelley, Holmes Officers in British Colonial India, any age
Mrs. Shelley, Mrs. Holmes Officers’ wives
Fakir An Indian – high baritone or tenor, singing falsetto
Ayah Mary’s Indian nanny, any age
 
POSSIBLE offstage singing roles for 2 children (early in show, then released) and possible additional onstage singers/”dreamers” as needed
   
 
 
 

 

Performances:
April 10 — 20

Director:
Ryan Hendricks