TNP Academy of Dramatic Arts: Hadestown Teen/Something Rotten Jr. Auditions

Something Rotten, Jr. (Teal Level – Grades 6-8)

Travel back to the Renaissance for an hour of musical comedy gold in Something Rotten! JR. Adapted from the Broadway hit that Time Out New York hailed as “the funniest musical comedy in at least 400 years,” Something Rotten! JR. celebrates one undeniable truth: “nothing’s as amazing as a musical!”

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.

Director: Molly Spiroff
Choreographer: Adrianna Parodi
Music Director: Petey Bitzel
Cast: Teal Level – Grades 6-8.  Flexible casting with featured and ensemble roles in singing, dancing, and acting.
Rehearsals & Performance Schedule: Something Rotten, Jr. Audition Conflict Sheet
Tuition: $680

Characters:

• NICK BOTTOM – Struggling playwright with big dreams (G3-F5)
• NIGEL BOTTOM – Nick’s sweet younger brother (C4-G#5)
• WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – The most famous playwright and knows it (E4-G5)
• NANCY NOSTRADAMUS – Not Nostradamus, but his niece Nancy (F#3-B4)
• BEA – Married to Nick and highly confident (Eb2-F3)
• PORTIA – A passionate Puritan who loves to read (E3-D5)
• SHYLOCK – A theater lover and the troupe’s financial backer
• LORD CLAPHAM – A posh patron of the theater
• BROTHER JEREMIAH – Portia’s puritan father (E4-G5)
• MINSTREL – Opens the whole show! (E3-F4)
• ENSEMBLE – a robust ensemble of characters in the dance and acting ensemble

Hadestown: Teen Edition

This intriguing and beautiful folk opera delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience. Following two intertwining love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of immortal King Hades and lady Persephone – Hadestown invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. Inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz, Mitchell’s beguiling sung-through musical pits industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love.

Director/Choreographer: Dawn Lebrecht Fornara
Music Director: Charles Fornara
Cast: Purple & Pink Levels – Grades 9-12. Flexible casting with featured and ensemble roles in singing, dancing, and acting.
Rehearsal & Performance Schedule: Hadestown Teen Conflict Sheet
Tuition: $765

Characters:

• ORPHEUS – Lyre-playing poet, gifted & naïve (Tenor D3-Eb5)
• EURYDICE – A runaway, tough & vulnerable (Mezzo-Soprano F#3-D5)
• HADES – Compulsive industrialist, boss-king of Hadestown  (Bass F2-C#4)
• PERSEPHONE – Queen of nature and the seasons, a lush (Mezzo-Soprano/Alto F3-C5)
• HERMES – Charismatic guide and storyteller, mentor to Orpheus (Tenor/Bass C3-B4)
• FATES – Three sisters, vicious and delicious, voices in the head (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, Alto, range E3-D5 [Fate 1 up to Eb5])
• ENSEMBLE – a robust ensemble of characters in the dance and acting ensemble

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