SEASON 95 CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS
GREASE AVAILABLE ROLES:
DANNY ZUKO: Male, (actor age range 25 - 35) The leader of the Burger Palace Boys; good-looking, strong and confident, with an air of easy-going charm.
SANDY DUMBROWSKI: Female, (actor age range 25 - 35) New girl in town; sweet, wholesome, naive, cute, and innocent.
BETTY RIZZO: Female, (actor age range 25 - 35) Leader of the Pink Ladies; tough, sarcastic and outspoken but vulnerable.
FRENCHY: Female, (actor age range 25 - 35) A dreamer; good-natured but not too smart, she is heavily made up, fussy about her appearance, particularly her hair. She can't wait to finish high school so she can be a beautician.
MARTY: Female, (actor age range 25 - 35) The 'beauty' of the Pink Ladies; pretty and looks older than the other girls, but betrays her real age when she opens her mouth. She tries to act sophisticated.
JAN: Female, (actor age range 25 - 35) Funny, loud, compulsive eater and awkward member of the Pink Ladies. Loud and pushy with the girls, but shy with boys.
DOODY: Male, (actor age range 18 - 35) The youngest of the guys; small, boyish and open, with a disarming smile and a hero-worshipping attitude towards the other guys. He also plays the guitar.
KENICKIE: Male, (actor age range 25 - 35) The second in command of the Burger Palace Boys; tough-looking, tattooed, surly and avoids any show of softness. He has an offbeat sense of humor.
SONNY LATIERRI: Male, (actor age range 25 - 35) A member of the Burger Palace Boys; funny Italian-American, he is a braggart and wheeler-dealer who thinks he's a real lady-killer
ROGER: Male, (actor age range 25 - 35) The anything-for-a-laugh stocky type of boy; a clown who enjoys winding people up, he is full of mischief and is always dreaming up half-baked schemes and ideas.
VINCE FONTAINE: Male, (actor age range 25 - 50 // Ensemble/Part Flexible) A typical 'teen audience' disc jockey; slick, egotistical and fast-talking. He is also a veteran 'Greaser.'
CHA-CHA, aka CHARLENE DIGREGORIO: Female, (actor age range 18 - 40 // Ensemble/Part Flexible) The best dancer at St. Bernadette's; a loud mouth, she wins the dancing competition with Danny.
EUGENE FLORCZYK: Male, (actor age range 18 - 40 // Ensemble/Part Flexible) The class valedictorian; physically awkward, with weak eyes and a high- pitched voice. He's a typical 'apple-polisher' - both smug and pompous, but gullible.
JOHNNY CASINO: Male, (actor age range 25 - 50 // Ensemble/Part Flexible) All-American, rock-star “greaser” student at Rydell High, whose real name is Clarence.
MISS LYNCH: Female, (actor age range 35 - 60 // Ensemble/Part Flexible) A no-nonsense, serious, loud, English teacher.
PATTY SIMCOX: Female, (actor age range 18 - 40 // Ensemble/Part Flexible) A typical cheerleader; attractive, athletic, sure-of-herself, but can be given to bursts of disconcerting enthusiasm. She's a bit of a pain and unpopular with the Pink Ladies, and can twirl a baton.
THE PINK LADIES: Ensemble (actor age range 18 - 35) The club-jacketed, gum-chewing, hip-swinging girls' gang who hang around with the Burger Palace Boys.
THE BURGER PALACE BOYS: Ensemble (actor age range 18 - 35) A super-cool, DA-haired, hard-looking group of high school wheeler-dealers... or so they think.
All gender-identities and body types welcome!
DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS AVAILABLE ROLES:
* All roles require highly skilled, excellent comic actors with bold choices and great comedic instincts, great physical comedic ability, expert facility with various dialects, and a great capacity for fearless, razor-sharp melodramatic comedy in the style of The 39 Steps. The show also lovingly plays with gender presentation in the queer-camp style made popular by the work of Charles Ludlam, Everett Quinton, and the Ridiculous Theater Company (The Mystery of Irma Vep). A full breakdown will be shared with the sides at callbacks.
ACTOR 1 to play Harker, Suitors, Bosun, and Gravedigger
ACTOR 2 to play Dr. Westfeldt, Renfield, and Captain
ACTOR 3 to play Lucy, Kitty, and Driver
ACTOR 4 to play Mina and Van Helsing
ACTOR 5 to play Count Dracula (this role is not available)
A CHRISTMAS STORY ROLES AVAILABLE:
Mother: Female (Age 35- 50) vibrant, warm, and affable matriarch who keeps the family running, often juggling multiple tasks and maintaining a positive attitude despite the chaos, and she would never let The Old Man know she is more in charge than he is.
The Old Man: (Age 35- 50). Gruff and grumbling on the exterior, Ralphie's Dad has a good heart. He doesn't overtly show it, but he does love his family. A blue- collar guy, he usually expects the worst out of most situations, but a great comedic role.
Adult Ralphie: (Age 35- 50) The grown up version of Ralphie who narrates the story as an observer. Charming and wholesome with a bit of sarcasm mixed in as well. Must be able to truly hold an audience’s attention with his stories.
Miss Shields (Age 25 - 45) Ralphie's 5th grade teacher, a seemingly stereotypical 1940s educator--prim and proper, stern when necessary--though warm and even humorous when the situation merits it.
ROCK OF AGES AVAILABLE ROLES:
Drew - Male lead. (actor age range 21 - 35). Vocal Range Bb3-D5. A failed rock star who is currently working as an occasional bar back and toilet cleaner at Dupree’s Bourbon Room. Drew is a romantic lead with big songs who needs a very strong rock vocal with a powerful top end and the ability to dance.
Sherrie - Female lead. (actor age range 20 - 35). Vocal Range G3-F5. Aspiring actress from a small US town who has moved to the big city to make it big. Sherrie is the other romantic lead who has to have a strong rock vocal and strong dance abilities. Additionally, a Sherrie takes a job at the Venus Club, you must be comfortable appearing on stage in underwear and participating in both ‘sexy’ and ‘strip club’ dances.
Lonny - Male lead. (actor age range 25 - 35) Playing age between 25 and 40. Vocal Range D3-D5. Lonny is the sound engineer at the Bourbon Room but also serves as narrator for the production. He needs a strong rock vocal and exceptional comic timing. Lonny breaks the 4th wall repeatedly and addresses/interacts with the audience directly throughout the show.
Dennis - Male supporting. (actor age range 30 - 55). Vocal Range D3-G4. Dennis owns the Bourbon Room. He is an ex rocker who is still living his best rock life running the club. Solid vocals and good comic timing are essential. Dennis is a real character role.
Justice - Female supporting. (actor age range 30 - 55). Vocal Range G3-Db5. Justice owns the Venus strip club and is ‘madam’ for a whole club full of strippers. It’s likely that Justice was a formerstripper who has left that life behind but now runs the club. Solid, soulful vocals coupled with strong stage presence, as Justice needs to be able to command the stage.
Stacee - Male lead. (actor age range 25 - 45). Vocal Range C3-Eb5. Stacee is a rock star and the lead singer of Arsenal. Think Axel Rose meets David Coverdale. Huge confidence, big rock vocals, massive stage presence - Stacee is cocky, over confident, a womaniser who is entirely self-centered.
Regina - Female supporting. (actor age range 25 - 40). Regina is a hippy. Probably vegan, supports animal rights and definitely would have been at Woodstock if she was old enough. Good comic timing with a good vocal, Regina needs to be a strong dancer who is not afraid to appear on stage in lycra. A real character role.
Hertz - Male supporting. (actor age range 40 - 65). Hertz is a German businessman who is all about flattening the strip to push forward the development of a shopping mall. He is conservative, probably Republican (if he was American) who has no time for anything other than money (including his son, Franz). eeds a German accent with a good vocal.
Franz - Male supporting. (actor age range 20 - 30). V Franz is Hertz’ German son who is as camp as Disney at Christmas. A good comic role that needs to bounce well off Regina. Franz also has a big musical/dance number where he will also end up in lycra(!) and, potentially, needs to have an excellent high range vocally.
Ensemble roles (actor age range 18 - 50): Ensemble plays a variety of cameo roles throughout the show as well as dancing and singing. This is a busy ensemble!
LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES AVAILABLE ROLES
LA MARQUISE DE MERTEUIL (actor age rage 35+) - a woman of experience. A rich widow; ex-lover and now co-conspirator of le Vicomte de Valmont; an extremely shrewd and formidable woman with deep reservoirs of intellect, emotion, and passion, though she guards the latter two characteristics fiercely; a supremely cool and cunning manipulator with a steely resolve; impenetrable and unapologetically deceptive; she plays the game better than anyone.
LE VICOMTE DE VALMONT (actor age rage 35+) - a man of experience. Today he might be described as a playboy. The former lover of the Marquise, he is a distinguished, wealthy, and effortlessly charming lothario; stealthy, manipulative, and determined in the extreme; a proud man used to getting his way. But he has a fatal vulnerability: blindsided by falling genuinely in love with his latest conquest, Madame de Tourvel.
LA PRESIDENTE DE TOURVEL - (actor age rage 20 - 30) - beautiful, but pious and chaste, she is a virtuous, and deeply religious married woman of notoriously unassailable moral character; Valmont sets out to corrupt her for sport; passionate in her faith and loyal to a fault, Tourvel is relentlessly pursued and seduced by Valmont and, after giving over, is overwhelmed by deep feeling, passion, and ultimately grief.
MADAME DE VOLANGES (actor age rage 35+) - a wealthy widow and friend of the Marquise; mother of the teenaged Cécile; respectable and spirited if parochial; very aware of her daughter's budding sexuality and mindful of making a beneficial match for her; deeply distrustful and disdainful of Valmont.
CECILE VOLANGES - (actor age range must be 18+ but with a playing age of 15-18) - Madame de Volanges' pretty and virginal young daughter, recently released from a convent to enter into a marriage her mother arranged; girlishly exuberant yet tentative, increasingly curious about the ways of the adult world the more she is exposed to it; devoted to her music teacher, le Chevalier Danceny. Has some intimate scenes with Valmont, and whist there is no nudity, little is left to the imagination about what is happening beneath the nightclothes and the sheets.
LE CHEVALIER DANCENY - (actor age rage 20 - 35) - a Knight of Malta, Cécile's music teacher and pet of the Marquise; a charming and eager naïf, caught between boyhood and manhood; devoted toCécile, though not necessarily the most suave, assured, and confident suitor; ultimately, a man of honour.
MADAME DE ROSEMONDE - (actor age rage 50+) - Valmont's aunt. Grandmotherly, in the sense of being protective, but lively, intelligent and sympathetic. She is a wise and witty woman with a waspish sense of humour, and though devoted to her nephew, far from blind to his ways.
AZOLAN (actor age rage 20 +) - Valmont's valet and also his spy; dapper and droll; does most of Valmont's dirty work, and reaps the rewards--both in his pocket and in his bed. Makes the most of the status afforded to him by association to Valmont.
EMILIE (actor age rage 20 - 35)- an attractive courtesan, for whom Valmont is one of her "regulars". Perceptive and well aware of her role in this unequal society.
SHEAR MADNESS AVAILABLE ROLES
Please note this show requires highly skilled comic actors with quick wit and the ability to improv as needed. This is a fully interactive show with the audience.
TONY (actor age range 25 - 45) is the likable, flamboyant, irrepressible proprietor of the Shear Madness salon. He is fun, devilish, and interested in everything and everyone, but never jaded in any way. His “shoot from the hip” comedy must endear him to all. Should be good at physical comedy and love “playing to an audience”. Enjoys sharing gossip, swapping recipes and dramatizing moments of his life. He is rapid-fire fun.
BARBARA (actor age range 30 - 55) is the wisecracking, gum-snapping, nail-polishing hairdresser cum manicurist. She keeps Shear Madness running, answering phones, taking appointments and restocking shelves. She’s well put together, though she dresses on the cheap side. She is likable, ambitious and streetwise and can spot a bad dye job from 20 paces.
EDDIE (actor age range 30 - 55) is a well-dressed nice-looking confident man who covers a dangerous interior with a smooth, suave, and occasionally charming exterior. Often the “villain” of the piece he must have a great sense of comedy as well.
MRS. SHUBERT (actor age range 45 - 70) is an old-money socialite of impeccable breeding and manner. She can turn on the charm when she needs to and at her finest is a class act who looks good and moves well. She is used to wielding power. Must have her hair cut to specifications for it to be washed and blown out at every performance.
MIKEY (actor age range 22 - 35) is an eager-beaver high energy preppy/geek who is a capable, earnest, younger partner to Nick. Fresh out of a local junior college studying criminology he is a likeable go-getter. Must have his hair washed and blown dry every performance.
NICK (actor age range 30 - 55) – A hardworking undercover cop requiring a bright, quick thinking, personable character who can also be an excellent straight man. Not intimidated by a boisterous audience. Strong, confident actor with solid skills who can learn the dynamics that will keep the investigation on track. This role interacts with the audience throughout the show.