audition notice - 1940'S RADIO HOUR - Don Bluth Front Row Theatre - July 2 & 3

1940’s Radio Hour

Director – Gary Caswell

Musical Director – Joe Bousard

Auditions: Monday,  July 2nd,  6-9 pm & Tuesday, July 3rd, 6-8 pm

Callbacks: Tuesday, July 3rd, 8-9pm

Rehearsals begin mid August

Run dates: Oct 11 – Nov 24

What to prepare: 32 bars of a 1940’s or 1940’s Broadway style song. A song from the show would be fine.

If you would like to audition for the NON-SINGING roles, please prepare a monologue (2 minutes max)

Headshot and resume required

For audition Appointment contact Gary Caswell at garycaswell49@gmail.com

Any other questions – call Gary Caswell at 480-329-5298

Synopsis: A different time is evoked in this marvelously theatrical and winning show, a live broadcast of a The Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade from the Hotel Astor’s Algonquin Room on Dec. 21, 1942. The spirit of that bygone era when the world was at war and pop music meant “Strike Up the Band” and “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” (both are in this show) is accurately captured as the harassed Producer copes with a drunk lead singer, the delivery boy who wants a chance in front of the mike and the second banana who dreams of singing a ballad.

Auditions will be held at the Don Bluth Front Row Theatre located at 8670 E.Shea Blvd. Suite 103, Scottsdale.

Character Breakdown:

Pops Bailey – 60+, non- singing role, WOV radio station stage door manager

Lou Cohn – 40-50, non-singing role, WOV stage manager

Clifton Feddington – 40+ baritone WOV general manager

Neil Tilden – 30+, baritone – the station comic, drives a cab

Ann Collier – 35+ alto – featured female vocalist – class all the way

Geneva Lee Brown – 28+, alto – High-class black singer from Kansas City

Connie Miller – 18+, soprano – Bobbysoxer from Ogden, Utah

Johnny Cantone – 35+ baritone – Featured male vocalist, Sinatra wannabe

Ginger Brooks – 25+ alto – Bubble-headed waitress turned radio star discovery of Lou Cohn’s.

BJ Gibson – 18-24 – baritone – Preppy, a student at Yale who commutes

Wally Ferguson – 17-24, baritone – Poodle-eyed young hopeful from Allentown, PA.