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Hairspray
Date(s)
08/05/2010 - 08/05/2010
Time(s)
6:00pm - 10:00pm
Description
HAIRSPRAY auditions are August 4 and 5 with potential callbacks on August 6. Auditions are one-hour slots beginning at 6:00 pm and going on the hour until 10:00 pm. Roles are available for 11 women and 13 men (ages 15 and up). There are 9 roles written for African-American actors. A complete list of characters is listed below.
Interested actors should bring and be prepared to sing 16 bars of music from a Broadway show (not from HAIRSPRAY). A piano player and cd player will be provided. You may also be asked to do some scales. There will be a dance audition portion so you should have clothing you can move in and wear appropriate shoes (no flip-flops, sandals, or bare feet). You may also be asked to read from the script.
Rehearsals begin August 9 and are planned for Monday through Fridays from 7-10 pm with a Tech Sunday on September 12. While we can work around some conflicts, you should have no conflicts from September 6 through 17. Please bring your calendar so you can write conflicts on your audition form. If you have additional conflicts after being cast, we reserve the right to recast the role.
Performances are September 16 (sponsor show), 17, 18, 19, 22 (sponsor show) 23, 24, 25, 26. Curtain is at 7:30 pm except for 2:00 Sunday matinees. In addition to the regular schedule, holdover performances are October 1,2,3 and 8,9, 10.
LCP Executive Director Morrie Enders will be director with Jan Malone as Music Director, Elizabeth White as Choreographer, Aaron Laudermith as Scene Designer, Cheri Sailors as Costume Designer, Nick Turner as Technical Director, Michelle Robison as Stage Manager and Barb Armstead as Assistant Stage Manager.
Available Roles: Tracy Turnblad - A high-spirited, irrepressible, chubby teen girl; she loves to dance and is eager for her life to kick in
Edna Turnblad - Her hefty, loving, somewhat repressed mother, a laundress with deferred dreams (this role is played by a man)
Wilbur Turnblad - Tracy's father, a mischievous joke shop proprietor but always reliable dad
Penny Pingleton - Tracy's ditzy but devoted best friend
Corny Collins- The smooth and smart adult host of Baltimore's local TV teen dance show
Link Larkin-The show's teen male dreamboat, ambitious but essentially good-hearted
Amber Von Tussle-The show's resident princess, conniving and selfish, but superficially perky
Velma Von Tussle-The TV station manager; a rich, bigoted, bossy widow who's pushing daughter Amber to the stardom she herself never had
Motormouth Maybelle- The big, brassy, all-embracing black radio DJ and once-a-month guest host of Corny's show; she wears blond wigs as her trademark
Seaweed J. Stubbs-Her sexy teen son, street smart but easygoing; his unique dance lessons give Tracy the edge she needs to catch Corny's attention
Little Inez-Seaweed's little sister, 12. She's cute but angry, impatient for the promised land of actual civil rights
Male Authority Figure-One man plays assorted middle-aged men: a nervous businessman, a condescending high school principal, a flamboyant fashion boutique owner, a cop and a corrupt jail guard
Female Authority Figure-One woman plays assorted middle-aged women; Prudy (Penny's incredibly uptight and small-minded mother), a sadistic gym teacher, a cop and a sardonic prison matron
The Dynamites-a trio of ultra-glamorous black divas who emerge from a poster to be the magical hostesses of Tracy and Edna's whirlwind visit to the emerging Swinging Sixties
And a small chorus playing Council Members on The Corny Collins Show, Patterson Park High School Students and Denizens of Baltimore
