WHAT: Auditions for The Big Radio Broadcast of 1941
WHEN: Sunday May 20 @ 6:00pm and Tuesday, May 22 @ 7:00pm
WHERE: Fountain Hills Theater
11445 N Saguaro Blvd., Fountain Hills, AZ
Copperstate Productions is proud to announce auditions for The Big Radio Broadcast of 1941 by Peter J. Hill, Music and Lyrics by Gus Schneider and Eddie Avril.
The Big Radio Broadcast of 1941 will play June 29 - July 29, 2018.
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The Big Radio Broadcast of 1941: A small, independent Midwest radio station is set to finally ‘go national’! Everything, including their financial future, depends entirely on going live with the national radio programming. A sudden freak snow storm knocks out any chance of receiving the national feed. But, the four employees realizing that, while they can’t receive, they can still broadcast! Can just four dedicated employees recreate an entire evening’s national radio broadcast? Can they save the station? Can they do it without falling in love? Well, if not, it won’t be for lack of trying!
Auditions for The Big Radio Broadcast of 1941 will be Sunday May 20 @ 6:00pm and Tuesday, May 22 @ 7:00pm Callbacks (If required.) will be Wednesday, May 23 at 7:00pm
Please arrive at the start of audition time, if possible. – no individual appointments are being scheduled at this time.
Auditioners are asked to please prepare 24-32 bars of a song that best shows off their voice. Please bring sheet music in the correct key. An accompanist is provided. Please no pre-recorded accompaniment. There is a stipend for performers.
The theater is located at 11445 N. Saguaro Blvd., Fountain Hills.
The Big Radio Broadcast of 1941 is produced by Copperstate Productions and will be directed by Peter J. Hill and choreographed by Noel Irick.
The Big Radio Broadcast of 1941 will play June 29 – July 29 Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 2pm. All rehearsals will be held at the theater.
Casting for:
GUS: 45+, The station janitor. Baritone who can impersonate George Burns, W.C. Fields and Victor Borge,
SARAH: 16 - 30, The station owner’s daughter. Soprano who can impersonate Gracie Allen and play a believable drunk.
BILLY: 16 – 30. The station’s enthusiastic ‘gopher’, in love with Sarah. Tenor who can impersonate Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.
JOAN: 35-60 The station’s secretary, a no-nonsense down to earth, occasionally acerbic type. Alto.
The Big Radio Broadcast of 1941 is a musical destined to be created. Not only are radio programs - comedy, news, intrigue – wonderfully recreated, but it is set to some of the most wonderful, original music of the period. The story of how this show came to be is nearly as touching and funny as the musical itself. While visiting his mother, author Peter J. Hill was surprised when she brought out a small box of sheet music composed by Hill’s grandfather. “Your Grandfather wrote all this music. Some of these songs were optioned by the Andrew’s Sisters, but they never recorded them. Can you do anything with them?” Hill took the music, listened to what turned out to be absolutely delightful tunes, and created The Big Radio Broadcast of 1941 around these songs by composer Gus Schneider. Amazingly Peter Hill and Gus Schneider, his maternal Grandfather, never met. Gus died the year that Peter was born and now Peter finds a deep and meaningful connection to his past through Gus’s music.
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