SHOW SYNOPSIS: ALL SHOOK UP is a celebration of Elvis’s greatest hits! It is an entertaining mash-up of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”, combined with “Footloose” and just a pinch of “Grease”. Our story takes place in 1950 during a 24 hr.period of time in a small you -never- heard-of-it Midwestern town where a young roustabout named Chad arrives after a short stay in jail. His motorcycle is acting up so he stops into a garage where he can get it repaired and meets the mechanic on duty- Natalie. Natalie is immediately smitten with this biker boy and her friend Dennis(who is secretly in love with Natalie) becomes Chad’s sidekick.Since fun, loud music and excitement is outlawed, Chad decides to shake things up…a few Shakespearean sonnets later and some rousing songs..we have a whole town exploding in dance fever and true love prevails!

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS: NATALIE HALLER - Although she's a teenager, she's an excellent mechanic. She's much more at home in greasy overalls than a dress. CHAD - A great-lookin', motorbike-ridin', guitar-playin', leather-jacketed roustabout. SYLVIA - The no-nonsense owner of 'Sylvia's Honky-Tonk Cafe'. LORRAINE - Sylvia's daughter. DENNIS - An awkward young man. He aspires to be a dentist. SANDRA - The beautiful, intellectual caretaker of the town's museum. MAYOR MATILDA HYDE - The town's very conservative mayor. DEAN HYDE - Matilda's teenage son. He has spent his youth at military boarding schools and he has never disobeyed his mother. SHERIFF EARL - The law in town and a man of not many words. He loyally follows the Mayor wherever she goes. MALE & FEMALE ENSEMBLE - Play an assortment on TOWNSPEOPLE and are featured throughout the show. Please select and prepare ONE Side for your audition. Please try to memorize the side so you can move freely. Be familiar with the other ones as well in case you are asked to read more than one.(However you only need to memorize one)

AUDITION SELECTIONS FOR ALL SHOOK UP, JR. NATALIE: You know, Dennis, I wish I was coming with you Yeah. Maybe I’d meet a fella there He’d have to be real different, have a real sense of adventure, probably ride a motorbike - Ah, who am I kidding? Hey Sylvia, what are the chances of a girl meeting the man of her dreams in this town? This is the most depressing town on earth. How can you ever be in love in a place like this?

CHAD: Miss, the name is Chad. And I’m just a rovin’ roustabout with a song I his soul and a love for…well, being in love. (He blows a kiss… A girl faints.) Happens a lot, she’ll be fine. Anyways, while I was rovin’, my bike started makin’ this jiggly-wiggly sound. Not good. I need a mechanic.

DENNIS: That’s it! - Hey, Mr. Roustabout, I got a bone to pick with you! I think you’re full of bunk! That’s right! Bunk. You’re nothing but a big, good lookin’ juvenile delinquent! You’re going to kill me now, aren’t you?

MATILDA: Hey! Hey! Hey! Hello citizens. My gosh, there was just a whole lotta shakin’ going on. Well, as your mayor and the moral compass for this town, let me just say – you’re all going to be doomed for eternity. Ha, ha, ha. Have a good day, citizens. Dean, stand closer to Mother. This street is full of riff-raff. Oh Earl, did you see that? Be-bop has come to our town. Say good-bye, Earl, ‘cause it ain’t stayin’!

LORRAINE: Hey – you dropped your glove. (Hands Dean his glove.) Gosh, I never saw a boy in a uniform before. Your look like you just stepped out of a movie or something. Do you like movies? I do. What kind? I like musicals. I’m Lorraine. What’s your name?