Queanbeyan City Council's Production of GREASE

Queanbeyan City Council's production of GREASE

29 July – 15 August 2015

Director - Stephen Pike Musical Director – Jenny Tabur Choreographer – Jordan Kelly Production Manager/Stage Manager – Joyanne Gough

Audition Information

Audition Bookings: To book your audition session email: [email protected] You will be required for approximately 15 minutes for singing and acting. There will be a separate audition for dance. (see the Audition Format below)

Audition times: Friday 17 April from 7.00pm; Saturday 18 April from 10.00am Dance auditions and callbacks TBA.

Location: Queanbeyan Bicentennial Hall 253 Crawford Street Queanbeyan

Ages: 16+ Rehearsal Info: Rehearsals will be held at the Queanbeyan Bicentennial Hall or The Q foyer. Times TBA

Audition Format

Each auditionee will have a private 10 minute audition in front of the panel to sing their chosen song from the selection below.

A reading from the script will also be required for those wishing to audition for a speaking role. Music and script will be provided on request.

Music No backing tracks are to be used. You may have an accompanist but the Music Director or designated repetiteur will play for you otherwise. Memorisation of the song is highly desirable.

Please prepare your songs as they appear (see table on page 5) and sing all parts whether they are for your character or not.

We are seeking experienced singers with the ability to sing flexibly across a broad range, in changing time signatures and rhythms, with strong skills in holding harmony lines in 3-4 parts.

Feel free to contact the Music Director, Jenny Tabur with any questions you may have regarding music at [email protected]

Acting A reading will be provided when the character you are auditioning of is confirmed.

Dance The dance audition will most likely take place the weekend following singing auditions.

Please wear comfortable clothes (no skirts or baggy clothes) and shoes you can dance in (no rubber sole shoes). Also bring a bottle of water.

Other notes

 Please complete your audition form before you arrive at your audition  Please try and arrive 10 minutes before your scheduled start time  If call backs are deemed necessary they will be held soon after the intitial auditions. If you are not called back it does not mean you haven't been given a role in the show.

GREASE - Character Breakdown (For vocal range and songs required for audition see the table below)

DANNY: Leader of the “Burger Palace Boys.” Well-built, good looking, with an air of cool easy-going charm. Strong, confident good singer/dancer.

SANDY: Danny’s love interest, sweet, wholesome, naive, cute. Well developed singing and dance skills. The “Pink Ladies”: The club jacketed, gum-chewing, hip-swinging girls gang that hangs around with the “Burger Palace Boys.”

RIZZO: Leader of the “Pink Ladies.” She is tough, sarcastic and outspoken yet vulnerable. Thin, Italian with unconventional good looks. FRENCHY: A dreamer. Good-natured and dumb. Heavily made-up, fussy about her appearance – particularly her hair. She can’t wait to finish High School so she can become a beautician. MARTY: The “beauty” of the “Pink Ladies.” Pretty, looks older than the other girls, but betrays her real age when she opens her mouth. JAN: Chubby, compulsive eater. Loud and pushy with the girls but shy with the boys.

The “Burger Palace Boys”: A super-cool, slick haired, tough looking group of High School wheeler- dealers..... or so they think.

KENICKIE: Second-in-command of the “Burger Palace Boys.” Tough, tattooed, surly, avoids any show of softness. Has an off-beat sense of humour. DOODY: Youngest of the guys. Small, boyish, open, with a disarming smile and hero-worshipping attitude toward the other guys. He also plays the guitar. ROGER: The “anything-for-a-laugh” stocky type. Full of mischief, half-baked schemes and ideas. A clown who enjoys putting other people on. SONNY: Italian looking, with shiny black hair and dark oily skin. A braggart and a wheeler-dealer who thinks he is a real lady-killer.

OTHER ROLES

PATTY: A typical cheerleader at a middle-class American Public High School. Attractive and athetic. Aggresive, sure of herself, given to bursts of disconcerting enthusiasm. Catty, but in an All American Girl sort of way. She can also twirl a baton.

CHA-CHA: A blind date. Slovenly, loud-mouthed and homely. Takes pride in being “the best dancer at St Bernadette’s”

EUGENE: The class Valedictorian. Physically awkward, with weak eyes and a high-pitched voice. An apple-polisher, smug and pompous but gullible.

VINCE FONTAINE: A typical “teen audience” radiop disc jockey. Slick, egotistical, fast-talking. A veteran greaser.

JOHNNY CASINO: A “greaser” student at Rydell who leads a rock’n’roll band and likes to think of himself as a real rock’n’roll idol.

TEEN ANGEL: A good-looking falsett-voiced, Fabian look alike. A singer who would have caused girls to scream and riot back in 1958.

MISS LYNCH: An Old Maid English teacher. Character Song Range where middle C = C4 Danny Alone at a Drive in Movie D3-D5 Sandy Summer Lovin A3-E5 Rizzo There Are Worse Things I Could Do A3-C5 Frenchy We Go Together A3-G5 Marty Freddy My Love A3-G5 Jan We Go Together F3-G5 Kenickie Greased Lightning C3-A4 Doody Those Magic Changes E3-E5 Roger Mooning D3-A4 Sony We Go Together G2-G4 Teen Angel Beauty School Drop Out E3-E5 Johnny Casino Born To Hand Jive G3-E4

CALL BACK SONGS

Danny: Summer Lovin' Sandy: It's Raining on Prom Night Rizzo: Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee

PRODUCTION DATES: 29, 30 & 31 July 2015 @ 8.00 pm 1 August 2015 @ 2.00pm & 8.00pm 5, 6 & 7 August 2015 @ 8.00pm 8 August 2015@ 2.00pm & 8.00pm 9 August 2015 @ 5.00pm 12, 13 & 14 August 2015 @ 8.00pm 15 August 2015 @ 2.00pm & 8.00pm

REQUIREMENTS: Where possible cast members shall:  Must be available for the entire production period (not negotiable).  attend all rehearsal where required unless previously advised.  be punctual and remain at rehearsals as long as required.  provide timely warning of any unavoidable absences to the appropriate person.  treat fellow cast members and production team with respect.  if required, provide their own accessories e.g. shoes, gloves etc.  if necessary, provide their own make-up in accordance with the make-up design of the production.  Be available for a range of media and publicity events and other promotional activity.