AUDITIONS
The Color Purple the Musical
December 19th and 20th from 6pm to 9pm
The Maury County Arts Guild is pleased to announce open auditions for our upcoming production of The Color Purple the Musical -- Directed by William Edwards and Demitria Hardison
For this show we welcome African-American performers of all gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities.
Please prepare a 16 to 32 bars song from the show The Color Purple the musical. Please pick a song related to one of the character you are auditioning for.
Based on Alice Walker’s 1982 novel of the same name, The Color Purple spans 35 years in the life of Celie, a teenage African-American girl living in Georgia who is given by her abusive stepfather to an even more abusive husband. Though Celie spends most of her days as a servant in her own household, she, cut off by her husband from those she loves, tries to remain hopeful that she will ultimately be reunited with her sister Nettie and her children by way of her stepfather, Adam and Olivia. Over the years, Celie, increasingly jaded by her lot, finds ways to cope with life--a potential lover in the fabulous Shug Avery, a friend in her stepson’s wife Sofia, a love of making stretchable pants that turns into a booming business. Though her string of unfortunate events, though, Celie learns that the most important thing is that she is a survivor, and that no matter what happens to her, she is still here.
CHARACTERS
Female
Lead
Alto
Female
Lead
Mezzo-Soprano, Alto
Female
Supporting
Alto
Female
Supporting
Mezzo-Soprano, Alto
Female
Supporting
Mezzo-Soprano, Alto
Male
Supporting
Baritone
Female
Supporting
Alto
Male
Supporting
Tenor
Female
Supporting
Alto
Female
Supporting
Soprano
Male
Supporting
Baritone, Bass
Female
Featured
Soprano
Female
Featured
Soprano
Female
Featured
Male
Featured
Spoken
Male
Featured
Spoken
Male
Featured
Tenor, Baritone, Bass
Male
Featured
Tenor
Male
Featured
Spoken
Female
Ensemble
Spoken
Female
Ensemble
Silent
Male
Ensemble
Tenor, Baritone
Male
Ensemble
Spoken
Male
Ensemble
Treble/Boy Soprano
Male
Ensemble
Tenor, Baritone, Bass
Female
Ensemble
Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Alto
Male
Ensemble
Tenor, Baritone, Bass
Either Gender
Ensemble
Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone, Bass
Female
Ensemble
Soprano
The Addams Family Musical (Date TBD)
The Maury County Arts Guild is pleased to announce open auditions for our upcoming production of The Addams Family Musical -- Directed by Pamela Edwards
We welcome performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities.
In the kooky, upside-down world of the Addams Family, to be sad is to be happy, to feel pain is to feel joy, and death and suffering are the stuff of their dreams. Nonetheless, this quirky family still has to deal with many of the same challenges faced by any other family, and the spookiest nightmare faced by every family creates the focus Lippa, Brickman, and Elice’s musical: the Addams kids are growing up. The Addamses have lived by their unique values for hundreds of years and Gomez and Morticia, the patriarch and matriarch of the clan, would be only too happy to continue living that way. Their dark, macabre, beloved daughter Wednesday, however, is now an eighteen year-old young woman who is ready for a life of her own. She has fallen in love with Lucas Beineke, a sweet, smart boy from a normal, respectable Ohio family — the most un-Addams sounding person one could be! And to make matters worse, she has invited the Beinekes to their home for dinner. In one fateful, hilarious night, secrets are disclosed, relationships are tested, and the Addams family must face up to the one horrible thing they’ve managed to avoid for generations: change.
Characters:
Male
Lead
Baritone, Bass
Female
Lead
Mezzo-Soprano, Alto
Female
Lead
Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano
Male
Supporting
Tenor
Male
Supporting
Tenor, Baritone
Female
Supporting
Soprano
Male
Supporting
Tenor
Male
Supporting
Tenor, Baritone
Female
Featured
Soprano
Male
Featured
Bass
Either Gender
Ensemble
Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass
