Urinetown – AUDITIONS OCTOBER 9 & 10, 2023
The Bowie Playhouse is located in Bowie Maryland.
Director: Davis Wootton-Klebanoff
Music Director: Jenni Butler
Choreographer: Summer Moore
Producers: Karen Monteith & Crista Drysdale
Stage Manager: Hillary Glass
Set Designer & Master Carpenter: Gene Valendo
Costume Designer: Mary Wakefield
Lead Set Painter: Karen Wootton
All Volunteer community: UNPAID/ NON-UNION
2nd Star Productions practices culturally responsive and identity conscious casting.
Come out and share in the hijinks! Sign up for a slot. October 9th and 10th.
Roles:
Officer Lockstock – The tongue-in-cheek narrator of our story, he is a corrupt policeman who secretly kills off the guilty offenders. Bold, brash, and larger than life in many ways.
Gender: Male Identifying, Age: 35 to 55, Vocal Range: A2 to A4
Penelope Pennywise – The tough, jaded warden of the poorest, filthiest town urinal. She is Cladwell’s one-time lover and mother to Hope who eventually softens her temper.
Gender: Female Identifying, Age: 30 to 45, Vocal Range: A3 to C6
Bobby Strong – The dashing, rebellious everyman who works for Miss Pennywise at the poorest, filthiest town urinal. He becomes an unsuspecting protagonist and romantic hero when he starts a revolution and falls in love with Hope Cladwell.
Gender: Male Identifying, Age: 20 to 30, Vocal Range: A2 to C5
Little Sally – A precocious and irreverent street urchin. She serves as a quasi-narrator who often questions Lockstock and the play’s logic.
Gender: Female Identifying, Age: 20 to 40, Vocal Range: A3 to E5
Dr. Billeaux – Head of Research and Development at UGC.
Gender: Male Identifying, Age: 30 to 50, Vocal Range: E3 to A3
Mr. Mcqueen – Cladwell’s sycophantic lackey. A servile assistant.
Gender: Male Identifying, Age: 30 to 45, Vocal Range: B2 to E4
Senator Fipp – A greedy politician in Cladwell’s pocket. A bumbling coward.
Gender: Male Identifying, Age: 40 to 55, Vocal Range: C#3 to F4
Officer Barrel – Lockstock’s patrol partner. A thuggish and aggressive policeman.
Gender: Male Identifying, Age: 30 to 50, Vocal Range: G2 to F4
Hope Cladwell – Cladwell’s ravishingly beautiful daughter, torn between her father and her new love for Bobby. She begins as an innocent, naive angel but becomes vengeful and determined after being exposed to her father’s evil.
Gender: Female Identifying, Age: 20 to 30, Vocal Range: A3 to A5
Joseph “old Man” Strong – Bobby’s rebellious father. His refusal to pay the fee sends him to Urinetown, ultimately launching the revolution.
Gender: Male Identifying, Age: 50 to 65
Tiny Tom – One of the Poor, he is an idiotic man-child.
Gender: Male Identifying, Age: 30 to 50, Vocal Range: D3 to A3
Soupy Sue – One of the Poor, she is excitable and easily panicked.
Gender: Female Identifying, Age: 25 to 40, Vocal Range: Bb3 to B4
Little Becky Two-shoes – One of the Poor. She is foul-mouthed, impulsive, and accusatory.
Gender: Female Identifying, Age: 20 to 40, Vocal Range: Bb3 to F5
Caldwell B. Cladwell – The evil president and owner of the Urine Good Company. He is a miserly money-grubber who gleefully exploits the poor.
Gender: Male Identifying, Age: 50 to 65, Vocal Range: A2 to G4
Josephine “ma” Strong – Bobby’s mother and Joseph’s wife. A strong-willed woman with a bite, able to withstand the hard hand life has dealt her.
Gender: Female Identifying, Age: 50 to 65, Vocal Range: Bb3 to D5
Hot Blades Harry – One of the Poor, he is a psychopathic and can become a violent loose cannon.
Gender: Male Identifying, Age: 45 to 60, Vocal Range: A2 to F4
https://www.2ndstarproductions.org/auditions
