Season 147 Advance Audition Notice

Interested in auditioning for the Footlight Club’s 147th Season?

 While our first production of the season, Stepping Out, is in rehearsal, we have three more shows scheduled that will be auditioning over the next several months. We’d love to know if you’re interested in coming out to help out both on and backstage so we can keep you informed about auditions and production meetings. Please take a look at the cast breakdowns for our upcoming shows, along with crew needs, and fill out the Google survey below. If you sign-up to audition, we will send you the audition notice when it is published. If you are interested in working as part of the crew, we will get in touch soon.

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
November 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 17 & 18, 2023

Character Breakdown: 4 male presenting; 2 female presenting (doubling)
Dr. Jekyll (male presenting)
Mr. Hyde 1 and others (male presenting)
Mr. Hyde 2 and others  (male presenting)
Mr. Hyde 3 and others  (male presenting)
Mr. Hyde 4 and others  (female presenting)
Elizabeth and others  (female presenting)

Sweat

By Lynn Nottage
February 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 22 & 23, 2024 

Character Breakdown:
Evan (African-American; 40s; male presenting)
Jason (White; 21/29; male presenting)
Chris (African-American; 21/29; male presenting)
Stan (White; 50s; male presenting)
Oscar (Colombian-American; early 20’s/30) ; male presenting
Tracey (White; 45/53; female presenting)
Cynthia (African-American; 45/53; female presenting)
Jesse (White; 40s; female presenting)
Brucie (African-American; 40s; male presenting)

Tuck Everlasting

Book by Claudia Shear and Tim Federle; Music by Chris Miller; Lyrics by Nathan Tysen
Based on the novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
April 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, May 3 & 4, 2024

Character Breakdown:
We have noted the pronouns used in the script to refer to characters in the play.  While many of these roles are written on the gender binary (he/she), we invite and encourage gender non-conforming, genderqueer, transgender, and non-binary actors to submit for the roles they most identify with.
Mae Tuck plays the age of forty or so.  Still beautiful after all these years, a matriarch, a mother, a wife. Her homespun wisdom is leavened by her humor and still girlish delight. A3-E5, she/her pronouns.
Angus Tuck plays the age of forty or so.  Once awakened, a vibrant, virile man. He is an indulgent father, a fond if forgetful husband, but a true soul with a deep well of love and profound understanding of the life around him. E3-B4, he/him pronouns.
The Man in the Yellow Suit is any age.  Persuasive and a bit sinister, a man with an obsession, a secret. G3-B4, he/him pronouns.
Winnie Foster plays 11 years old.  A little girl without cuteness - she has lost her father. She is too skeptical for her age, but with an unknown longing for romance and adventure. A3-E5, she/her pronouns.
Jesse Tuck plays 17 years old. Light and laughing, he is eternal youth writ large, the lightness shown all the brighter for the shadow of loneliness that he has. F3-C5, he/his pronouns.
Miles Tuck plays early twenties. A burned and bitter man. His natural sweetness shut away. Lost his wife and child, doomed to live with regret. F3-C5, he/him pronouns.
Constable Joe plays sixty or so.  Seemingly a buffoon, his simple manner belies a sharp wit and kind heart. F3-B4, he/him pronouns.
Mother plays the age of thirty or so.  A gentle woman almost broken by grief and fear and loss. Adversity finds her brave and unbending. A3-E5, she/her pronouns.
Nana plays sixty or so. A loopy old woman, but a loving Grandmother and Mother. A3-C#5, she/her pronouns.
Hugo play seventeen or so. Painfully shy, awkward and goofy; but smart and eerily observant.  F3- B4, he/him pronouns.
Ensemble consists of many ages and gender identities. The ensemble embodies various memories, spirits, travelers, townsfolk, carnival workers, and patrons.  The ensemble “function as the audience’s gateway into the past and future…They sing and dance as the physical expression of the joy and energy we all have when we are most alive and free.”

Please fill out this Google Form if you are interested in auditioning or working on the production crew of any of these shows.