Midvale Main Street Theatre will be holding auditions for their summer musical: Green Day’s AMERICAN IDIOT.
The directorial team will include:
Director: Ryan Fallis
Choreographer: TBD
Music Director: Alec Powell
Producer: Tammy Ross
When: Saturday April 7, 2018
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Where: Midvale Main Street Theatre (7711 S Main Street, Midvale, UT 84047)
Callbacks (by invitation): Sunday April 8, 2018 at 2:00pm
The show contains adult content. You must be 18 or older to audition.
Please prepare 16-32 bars of music in the style of the show.
WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONSIDER ROCK AND PUNK MUSIC FROM THE RADIO BUT MUSIC IN THE STYLE OF THE SHOW FROM MUSICAL THEATRE WILL ALSO WORK.
Please bring music on a CD or phone/iPod. ***NO ACCOMPANIST WILL BE AVAILABLE***
***We will be taking auditions by appointment***
-Go to: https://mmstauditions.setmore.com/
-Select: “April 7 - American Idiot Auditions”
-Select time slot 1, 2, or 3 (all three have the same times and if a time you would like has been taken in one slot, just select another and see if it’s available)
-Select “April 7, 2018” on the calendar then select your time slot.
-Please include your name and a way of contacting you (phone number or email) just in case we need to get ahold of you.
-That’s it!*
*(The time zone on the audition signup website sometimes come up as Eastern Time when you select April 7th. But when you change it back to Mountain Time when you have April 7th chosen, the calendar defaults back to today’s date. So just be sure to check the date after you have changed it to the correct time zone and make sure it back to April 7th.)
Rehearsals will begin the 3rd week of April and will rehearse 3 to 4 days a week (including some Sundays). We will have a more detailed schedule once the show is cast.
Show dates will be in July 12, 13, 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21, & 22, 2018.
“The two-time Tony Award-winning hit musical Green Day’s American Idiot, based on the Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum album, boldly takes the American musical where it’s never gone before.
The story, expanded from that of the concept album, centers on three disaffected young men, Johnny, Will and Tunny. Johnny and Tunny flee a stifling suburban lifestyle and parental restrictions, while Will stays home to work out his relationship with his pregnant girlfriend, Heather. The former pair look for meaning in life and try out the freedom and excitement of the city. Tunny quickly gives up on life in the city, joins the military and is shipped off to war. Johnny turns to drugs and finds a part of himself that he grows to dislike, has a relationship and experiences lost love.
This high-octane show includes every song from Green Day’s album, American Idiot, as well as several songs from its follow-up release, 21st Century Breakdown.”
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We are looking for actors and actresses of all ethnicities and body types. All role are open for casting including:
Johnny
The self-proclaimed “Jesus of Suburbia.” Bored of his do-nothing, go-nowhere existence, he takes off for the city to get a new lease on life. He wages an inner war between a budding love for Whatsername and growing dependency on St. Jimmy and drugs.
Gender: Male
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: B4
Vocal range bottom: B2
Tunny
Johnny’s friend who follows him to the city and eventually enlists in the army. He travels to the Middle East. A dreamer who is easily swayed, first by Johnny’s ideas and then by patriotism and the American Dream.
Gender: Male
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: B4
Vocal range bottom: D3
Will
Johnny’s friend. He ends up staying in Suburbia to take care of pregnant girlfriend Heather. The more he stays on the couch, the more he becomes slowly disconnected from the world and his own relationships.
Gender: Male
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: A4
Vocal range bottom: C#3
St. Jimmy
Johnny’s alter ego. Known as the “city badass.” An enigmatic and charismatic enabler who gets Johnny addicted to drugs and grows jealous of his relationship with Whatsername.
Gender: Male or Female
Age: 30 to 40
Vocal range top: F#5
Vocal range bottom: C3
Heather
A girl in Suburbia and Will’s girlfriend. She discovers she is pregnant but has difficulty telling her boyfriend of the news. Once she settles down with him, she struggles to maintain their relationship with his despondency and eventually leaves him.
Gender: Female
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Whatsername
A girl in the city who falls for Johnny. A rebellious activist who is willing to follow Johnny to the ends of the earth, but fights to have him embrace their authentic relationship rather than pursue his addiction.
Gender: Female
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: D#5
Vocal range bottom: F#3
Extraordinary Girl
A girl in the Middle East who appears as a sexual hallucination to injured Tunny. Attractive and mysterious, she later appears as his nurse and accompanies him home after the war.
Gender: Female
Age: 20 to 35
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Favorite Son
An army recruitment commercial come to life in the form of a clean cut, all American soldier. He convinces Tunny to join the army and fight in Iraq.
Gender: Male
Age: 20 to 35
Theo
Will’s friend who stands by his side when Heather decides to leave with their baby.
Gender: Male
Age: 20 to 35
Alysha
Heather’s friend who stands by her side when she decides to take leave Will with their baby.
Gender: Female
Age: 20 to 30
Ensemble
Men and Women with several featured roles and solos.
