Something Rotten! Auditions

Performances:

July 26, 27 and August 1, 2
@ Avon Middle School North

Auditions:

Saturday, May 17th from 1:00-5:00 and Sunday, May 18th from 1:00-4:00 and 6:00-9:00
@The Biz Academy of Musical Theatre

 

 

Performer Ages:

13-24 years old

Callbacks:

Monday, May 19th at 6:00 PM

Production Fee:

$225 youth (18 and under) or $50 adults (both include show shirt). Being in a live production with The Biz includes approx. 50-100 hours of acting, vocal, and dance instruction, depending on what role is accepted. Plus your child gets the experience of being on stage, with costumes, props, and a set, and learns memorization skills, coordination, time management, and many other life skills.

*Financial assistance available through The MRA Foundation

Rehearsal Schedule:

Rehearsal schedule will be available soon after auditions. We will start at the end of May, and we will work around conflicts in May and June, but availability in July is very important. Please put ALL conflicts on the back of your AUDITION FORM. Please note that NO CONFLICTS will be allowed for any performance or any day the week before the show opens!

Preparation:

Prepare 16-32 bars of a contemporary musical theater song! Also EVERYONE will have to do the dance call, no exceptions. Complete these two forms (Audition Form & Attendance Policy) prior to arriving for your audition.  It is preferred for the Audition Form to be filled out on a computer so that all fields are completed and legible.  The form works best when opened and completed in Adobe Acrobat (not a web browser).

Arrive on the day of your audition at least 10 MINUTES early to sign-in at The Biz office and be sure to bring the following:

1. A BACKUP TRACK OF YOUR SONG ON A PHONE (no singing can be on the backup track).  You can bring SHEET MUSIC too, but an accompanist may not be available, so please be sure to bring a backup track.
2. YOUR COMPLETED AUDITION FORM & ATTENDANCE POLICY
3. ALL MONDAY THROUGH SUNDAY CONFLICTS (including holidays) FROM May 15 – August 8, WRITTEN ON THE BACK OF THE AUDITION FORM. Please include any vacations! We require ALL cast members to be available for every night of tech rehearsals and ALL shows. (Conflicts added after casting may result in being asked to step down from the show.)
4. Bring CLOTHES THAT YOU CAN DANCE IN. We will hold a mandatory 30 minute dance audition after every 2 sets of singing time slots.

For those college students not in town that would like to audition, or others that cannot make the scheduled audition times, we will be accepting self-tape auditions. If you are interested in sending in a self-tape audition, please email SomethingRottenatTheBiz@gmail.com ASAP so we can get you on the list to receive the dance call recording. We will be asking you to put on tape for us: a slate (name, age, height), 16-32 bars of a contemporary musical theater song, and the dance combination that you will be sent once we receive notice that you will be auditioning virtually.

Synopsis:

Welcome to the Renaissance and the outrageous, crowd-pleasing musical farce, Something Rotten. Created by Grammy Award-winning songwriter Wayne Kirkpatrick, and successful screenwriters Karey Kirkpatrick and John O’Farrell, Something Rotten was lauded by audience members and critics alike, receiving several Best Musical nominations and hailed by Time Out New York as “the funniest musical comedy in at least 400 years”.

Set in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as “The Bard.” When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first musical. But amidst the scandalous excitement of opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self, and all that jazz.

Click HERE for additional information from MTI on cast/roles, songs, etc.