Spring Musical Auditions

Auditions for San Juan Community Theatre’s Spring Musical, The Drowsy Chaperone, will take place January 8th and 9th, from 6:00 to 9:00 pm, in the Gubelman Theatre.

Winner of five Tony Awards, including Best Book and Best Original Score, The Drowsy Chaperone is a loving send-up of the Jazz Age musical, featuring one show-stopping song and dance number after another. SJCT’s production of the musical will be directed by Cathi Nett.

With the houselights down, a man in a chair appears on stage and puts on his favorite record: the cast recording of a fictitious 1928 musical. The recording comes to life and The Drowsy Chaperone begins as the man in the chair looks on.

Mix in two lovers on the eve of their wedding, a bumbling best man, a desperate theatre producer, a not-so-bright hostess, two gangsters posing as pastry chefs, a misguided Don Juan and an intoxicated chaperone, and you have the ingredients for an evening of madcap delight.

Hailed by New York Magazine as “The Perfect Broadway Musical,” The Drowsy Chaperone is a masterful meta-musical, poking fun at all the tropes that characterize the musical theatre genre.

Needed: 7-9 women, 4-6 men (plus chorus) 30-40 total

*Please prepare a song to sing and bring either piano sheet music or recorded music to perform to.

*Special skills, such as tap dancing, physical comedy, acrobatic skills, the ability to roller skate, accents, and over-the-top characterization are a plus!

Performances take places May 10th through 26th.

Put on some comfortable clothes, and come on out and audition for us!

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