Auditions

Michigan Premiere
Book , Music and Lyrics by Paul Gordon
Rehearsal Dates:1/28/25 – 2/26/25
Performance Dates: 2/27/25 – 3/30/25

ELINOR DASHWOOD: [CAST]

MARIANNE DASHWOOD: Female; Age 18-20; Elinor’s younger sister; emotional, romantic, effusive and sensitive.

JOHN DASHWOOD: Male; Age 30s; Elder half-brother to the Dashwood sisters; Not unkind, but easily led.

FANNY DASHWOOD: Female; Age 30s; Wife to John Dashwood, Conniving, strong-willed, nasty.

EDWARD FERRARS: Male; Age 20s; Brother to Robert and Fanny; a gentleman, a bachelor. Introverted, kind, earnest, awkward.

WILLOUGHBY: Male; Age 20s; a handsome and dashing young man.

COLONEL BRANDON [CAST]

MRS. JENNINGS: Female; Age 50s-60s; A good-natured, boisterous woman; mother-in-law to Sir John, and terror to the countryside.

SIR JOHN MIDDLETON: Male, Age 40s; A jovial country gentleman, and distant relation to Mrs. Dashwood.

LUCY STEELE: Female; Age 20s; A young girl with no fortune.

By Oscar Wilde
Rehearsal Dates:4/1/25 – 4/23/25
Performance Dates: 4/24/25 – 5/4/25

JOHN “JACK” WORTHING (aka Ernest): Male, 30’s; The play’s protagonist; a seemingly responsible, respectable young man who leads a double life. In Hertfordshire, where he has a country estate, Jack is known as Jack. In London he is known as Ernest. Jack is in love with his friend Algernon’s cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax.

ALGERNON MONCRIEFF: Male, 30’s; The play’s secondary hero; a charming, idle, decorative bachelor, nephew of Lady Bracknell, cousin of GwendolenFairfax, and best friend of Jack Worthing, whom he has known for years as Ernest. Brilliant, witty, selfish, amoral, and given to making delightful paradoxical and epigrammatic pronouncements.

GWENDOLEN FAIRFAX: Female, 20s; Algernon’s cousin and Lady Bracknell’s daughter; she is in love with Jack, whom she knows as Ernest. A model and arbiter of high
fashion and society, she speaks with unassailable authority on matters of taste and morality. Sophisticated, intellectual, cosmopolitan, and utterly pretentious.

LADY BRACKNELL: [CAST – Fred Grandy]

CECILY CARDEW: Female, 20s; Jack’s ward; she is obsessed with the name Ernest, but even more intrigued by the idea of wickedness. She imagines herself in love with Jack’s brother Ernest.

MISS PRISM: Female, 50+; Cecily’s governess; an endless source of pedantic bromides and clichés. Despite her rigidity, seems to have a softer side. She entertains romantic feelings for Dr. Chasuble.

REV. CANON CHASUBLE: Male, 55+; The rector on Jack’s estate; entertains secret romantic feelings for Miss Prism.

LANE: Algernon’s manservant; the only person who knows about Algernon’s practice of “Bunburying.”

MERRIMAN: 30’s to early 40’s’ The butler at the Manor House, Jack’s estate in the country.

Conceived by Jerome Robbins; Book by Arthur Laurents
Music by Leonard Bernstein, Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Rehearsal Dates:5/6/25 – 6/4/25
Performance Dates: 6/5/25 – 6/29/25

THE JETS:

RIFF – Male, Caucasian; Age 25-30 – Tenor; Hot-headed leader

TONY – Male, Caucasian; Age 25-30 – Tenor; Handsome, sincere, sweet young man; Riff’s best friend

DIESEL – Male, Caucasian; Age 25-30 – Baritone; Riff’s second in command

ANYBODYS – Female, Caucasian; Age 15-25; Fast, agile, strong

MALE ENSEMBLE

THE JET GIRLS

VELMA – Female, Caucasian; Age 25-30, Strong Dancer

GRAZIELLA – Female, Caucasian; Age 25-30, Strong Dancer

FEMALE ENSEMBLE

THE SHARKS:

BERNARDO – Male, Hispanic; Age 25-35 — Baritone; Strong, proud, handsome brother of Maria, boyfriend of Anita.

CHINO – Male, Hispanic; Age 20-25; meant to marry Maria, defends Bernardo’s death by killing Tony.

PEPE – Male, Hispanic; Age 20-25; Baritone, second-in-command.

MALE ENSEMBLE

THE SHARK GIRLS

MARIA – Female, Hispanic; Age 18-21 – Soprano; Sweet. Innocent, hopeful girl

ANITA – Female, Hispanic; Age 25-30 – Alto; Strong, feisty, confident Puerto Rican woman; strong
dancer

ROSALIA – Female, Hispanic; Mezzo Soprano; Indio’s girlfriend

ENSEMBLE DANCERS

THE ADULTS

DOC – Older Male Age 60-70 – Owner of the local drugstore/soda shop; father figure to Tony

DETECTIVE SHRANK – Older Male Age 40-55 –Local police Lieutenant; arrogant, abrupt

OFFICER KRUPKE – Male Age 30-60 – Neighborhood cop and Schrank’s right-hand man