Casting/Auditions
2013 Casting Opportunities / Auditions
Please email twscasting@gmail.com, for audition opportunities.
You must have an appointment to audition. No phone calls, please. The system sometimes delays message delivery!
Follow the instructions below, then on audition day check-in at The Western Stage’s Main lobby.
- Your full name
- Your phone number(s)
- Show/role(s) that interest you
- Your age
- First choice for appointment time
- Second choice for appointment time
PERUSAL SCRIPTS are available upon request, please speak to Casting Coordinator.
**Dates and Titles subject to change**
MAIN STAGE MUSICALS
Side by Side by Sondheim, music and lyricsby Stephen Sondheim and music by Leonard Bernstein, Mary and Richard Rogers, and Jule Styne
4 – 5 women, 4 – 5 men, ages 20’s to 55+
The following roles have been cast:
4 Women
2 Man
July 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 2013
This is a musical revue of Broadway and film composer Stephen Sondheim’s works. The various sections are connected by a particular Sondheim musical or by a common theme. It includes songs from his most famous musicals such as Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, and more.
First Rehearsal, May 18; First Tech. Rehearsal, June 28
Zoot Suit, by Luis Valdez
11 women; 13 men; ensemble, ages 18 to 50’s
The following roles have been cast:
September 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 2013
A drama with music, Zoot Suit is set in the barrios of East Los Angeles during World War II and the so-called Zoot Suit Riots. It exposes the injustice and bigotry imposed on the Chicano community, culminating in the political machinations of the infamous Sleepy Lagoon trial, in which Henry Reyna and others of the 38th Street Gang were tried for murder. Debuting in 1979, Zoot Suit was the first Chicano play on Broadway.
First Rehearsal, July 20; First Tech. Rehearsal, August 30
Crazy for You, by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, and Ken Ludwig
5 women; 6 men; Follies ensemble; Cowboys ensemble, ages 20’s to 45+
The following roles have been cast:
November 16, 17, 23, 24, 30; December 1, 6, 7, 13, 14, 2013
Backstage at a theatre in New York City, Bobby Child’s mother demands that he go to the sleepy little town of Dead Rock, Nevada to foreclose on a local theatre, but when he arrives, he decides to mount a show in order to pay the mortgage. This involves the local cowboys and the Follies Girls who just happen to land in Dead Rock on their vacation. In the process, Bobby falls in love with Polly, but Polly doesn’t fall for Bobby. However, after several hits and misses, they finally get together for the Finale.
Rehearsal, September 28; First Tech. Rehearsal, November 8
STUDIO THEATER
John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, adaptation by Frank Galati
18 women; 14 men, ages 10 to 65+
The following roles have been cast:
June 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23, 28, 29, 30, 2013
Taking place during the Great Depression, the story follows the Joad family, proud and destitute, as they make their way from the harsh dust bowl of Oklahoma to the promised land of California. Ma Joad tries to keep the family together despite death and privation, but her oldest son, Tom, steadily grows angrier at the continual injustice the Joads endure, and this puts the family in jeopardy.
First Rehearsal, April 20th; First Tech. Rehearsal, May 31st.
The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde
4 women; 5 men, ages early 20’s to 60+
The following roles have been cast:
Lady Bracknell
John Worthing
Miss Prism
September 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 27, 28, 29; October 4, 5, 6, 2013
A satire of Victorian mores, this play is a farce about two young gentlemen who enjoy the convenient use of fictitious characters and who get caught in a snare of their own making when they attempt to court the objects of their love, two young ladies who have their own strict ideas about the genteel ways of courtship.
First Rehearsal, July 27; First Tech. Rehearsal, September 6
A Song for My Father, by David Budbill
2 women; 2 men, ages 30’s to 65+
The following roles have been cast:
Frank Wolf
Ruth
Mamie
Ivy
November 2, 3, 8, 9, 16, 17, 22, 24, 2013
This is a loving and painfully honest play about the deep and abiding conflicts between a father and son, the discovery of their love for each other even as they battle, the challenges of growing old and dying, and the emotional connections which inevitably heal and injure.
First Rehearsal, September 14, First Tech. Rehearsal, October 25
