Lebanon Community Theatre is hosting auditions for their summer musical Guys and Dolls on April 19 beginning at 6pm and April 20 beginning at 2pm. Callbacks will be held on April 21. Dance auditions will be conducted as part of the callbacks.
Those interested in auditioning should prepare 16-32 measures of music in the style of the show. Please bring properly marked sheet music for the provided accompanist or digital music. A cappella auditions will NOT be accepted.
Those wishing to audition must be 17 years of age or older by the time of the show.
Please follow this link to sign up for an audition slot:
Any questions or if further guidance is needed, please contact director Rick Graybill at rgraybill70@gmail.com.
Performances: July 17-28
Show Synopsis:
Set in Damon Runyon's mythical New York City, Guys and Dolls is an oddball romantic comedy. Gambler, Nathan Detroit, tries to find the cash to set up the biggest craps game in town while the authorities breathe down his neck; meanwhile, his girlfriend and nightclub performer, Adelaide, laments that they've been engaged for fourteen years. Nathan turns to fellow gambler, Sky Masterson, for the dough, and Sky ends up chasing the straight-laced missionary, Sarah Brown, as a result. Guys and Dolls takes us from the heart of Times Square to the cafes of Havana, Cuba, and even into the sewers of New York City, but eventually everyone ends up right where they belong.
Characters:
Nicely-Nicely Johnson Just like his name suggests, he is the nicest and cheeriest of the gambling crooks. High-spirited and a bit naïve, but sincere and genuine. Nathan's loyal friend and lackey.
Gender: Male Presenting
Age: 30 to 45
Vocal range top: B5
Vocal range bottom: D4
Benny Southstreet Nathan's right-hand man and a gambler himself. Smart, slick, always moving and shaking, but with what he thinks are Nathan's best interest at heart.
Gender: Male Presenting
Age: 30 to 45
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: D4
Sarah Brown A pretty, bright-eyed woman who serves as Sergeant of the local Mission. She fully believes in her worthy cause and wishes to convert the gambling sinners to saints. Falls unexpectedly in love with Sky along the way. She is prudish and uptight, but eventually lets go.
Gender: Female Presenting
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: B3
Arvide Abernathy The bass drum and cymbal player in the Mission band, he is Sarah's loving grandfather. Wise and sweet, he wants nothing but the best for her.
Gender: Male Presenting
Age: 50 to 65
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: D4
Harry The Horse A crook and gambler. He is a tough guy with dollar signs as his bottom line. Brings Big Jule into Nathan's craps game and backs his cheating, but is also a man of his word in the gambling community.
Gender: Male Presenting
Age: 35 to 55
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: F3
Lt. Brannigan A New York police officer who is on to Nathan's illegal craps games and is dead-set on catching him. A tough, no-nonsense character.
Gender: Male Presenting
Age: 40 to 55
Nathan Detroit A good-hearted gambler and craps game organizer who could never hit the bigtime. He loves Adelaide, but cannot quit his gambling ways. A broke schemer with unwitting ways.
Gender: Male Presenting
Age: 35 to 45
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: D4
Miss Adelaide Nathan's fiancé and a lead performer at the Hot Box nightclub. She loves Nathan more than anything in the world and desperately wants to get married. Pretty, outspoken, stubborn.
Gender: Female Presenting
Age: 25 to 35
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Sky Masterson A high-stakes gambler whose luck never seems to run out, and a wild card who surprises himself when he falls in love with the unlikeliest of women. Suave, smart, handsome.
Gender: Male Presenting
Age: 35 to 45
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: B3
Big Jule A big time craps player from Chicago who uses a gun and his own pair of rigged dice to bully his way into never losing. Tough looking. A bit of an oaf.
Gender: Male Presenting
Age: 30 to 50
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: F3
Ensemble Sightseers, Mission Band (Agatha, Calvin, Martha), Crap Shooters (Liver Lips Louie, Angie The Ox, Rusty Charlie), Hot Box Girls, Waiters, Cuban Dancers