RAGTIME AUDITIONS - July 21 and 22 at 8:00pm

This epic new musical by the award-winning composer/lyricist team Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Lucky Stiff, My Favorite Year, Once On This Island, Seussical) paints a nostalgic and powerful portrait of life in turn of the century America. Based on E.L. Doctorow's distinguished novel, Ragtime intertwines three distinct stories that poignantly illustrate history's timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair, and love and hate. The score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty is just as diverse as the Melting Pot of America that it seeks to recreate. It draws upon traditional Jewish folk sounds to color the haunting music and yearning lyrics of the immigrants, Vaudeville's outrageous style to capture the spectacle of Evelyn Nesbit, and Joplin and Jazz to invoke the enlivened spirit of Harlem. With a book by Terrance McNally (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Master Class), this 1998 Tony award winning show for best score, book, and orchestrations, features such show stopping songs as Getting Ready Rag, Your Daddy's Son, Wheels of a Dream, Till We Reach That Day, Back To Before, and Make Them Hear You. This momentous musical is sure to inspire actors and audiences alike!

Audtions will be held on Monday, July 21 and Tuesday, July 22 at 8:00pm in the Roseville Theater. Call-backs will be held Wednesday, July 23 at 8:00pm.

Ragtime will perform Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00pm and Sundays at 2:00pm from September 5 thru October 4.

Parts are available for 50 men, women and children ages 8-70. ALL roles are OPEN.

• Auditions will be held at The Roseville Theater, 241 Vernon Street, Roseville on the dates shown above.
• We do not audition with prepared monologues. The director will choose scenes from the script for "cold readings."
• Clothing and shoes should allow actors/actresses to move easily. Bare feet are NEVER allowed!
• For Musical auditions, be prepared with 16 bars of a song from a Broadway show (but not from Ragtime), and come dressed for movement. If at all possible, plan to attend both days of auditions. An accompanist will be provided.
• Headshots and resumes are not required but useful if you have one.
• The normal rehearsal schedule for Mainstage productions is Monday through Thursday evenings from 7:30pm to 10:00pm. Bring a list of dates that would conflict with rehearsals.
• Anyone with dates that conflict with actual performances need not audition.
• For more information, please call the theatre at 782-1777.

 

Did You Know...

RAGTIME won 4 Tony Awards (Best Book of a Musical, Best Score of a Musical, Best Orchestrations and Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Audra McDonald) and 5 Drama Desk Awards (Outstanding New Musical, Outstanding Book of a Musical, Outstanding Lyrics, Outstanding Music and Outstanding Orchestrations.) It lost the Best Musical Tony Award to The Lion King.