West Bay Community Theater will hold auditions for its August, 2024 production of GREASE - In Concert on Monday, June 3rd (6:30 – 9:30pm) and Tuesday, June 4th (6:30 – 9:30pm).
Callbacks will take place Monday, June 10th and Tuesday, June 11th
Auditions will take place at the following locations:
Monday, June 3rd 6:30-9:30pm
(St. Paul’s Parish Hall, 76 Main St, North Kingstown, RI 02852)
Tuesday, June 4th 6:30-9:30pm
(Cold Spring Community Center, 30 Beach St, North Kingstown, RI 02852)
CALLBACKS:
Monday, June 10th 6:30-9:30pm
(St. Paul’s Parish Hall, 76 Main St, North Kingstown, RI 02852)
Tuesday, June 11th 6:30-9:30pm
(Cold Spring Community Center, 30 Beach St, North Kingstown, RI 02852)
Appointments are preferred. Please book an audition time by emailing info@wbctheater.org or calling (401) 372-7201. Those without appointments will be auditioned on a first-come, first-served basis. Audition forms can be downloaded from: https://wbctheater.org/events-and-auditions.
To audition, please prepare 32 bars of a song from the show or in the style of the show. Please provide sheet music if the song is not from the show - accompanist provided. Arrive in comfortable clothing, ready to follow simple choreography combinations. Auditioners may also be asked to read cold from the script.
Auditioning for all principal voices and ensemble. Anyone 16 and older welcome (show contains some mature content). WBCT supports non-traditional casting choices and auditions are open to all, regardless of gender and/or gender identity.
This production of GREASE-IN CONCERT is music-focused, with minimal staging in addition to multimedia support (live video enhancement and show-related imagery). All music will be live with no pre-recorded and/or backing tracks. WBCT’s production has secured the rights to all of the “movie songs” (songs such as “Grease”, “You’re the One That I Want” and “Hopelessly Devoted to You” that are not part of the original stage version), offering a full-on GREASE experience!
Production date: Saturday, August 17th, 2024 in Wickford, RI (NK Town Beach Bandshell) with a rain date of Sunday, August 18th.
Rehearsals start in mid to late June and run through July and August.
About the show:
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey
Additional music/lyrics by: John Farrar / Louis St. Louis, Scott Simon / Barry Alan Gibb
Directed by Brad Kirton
Music Director: Alex Tirrell
Choreography: Leslie Racine-Vazquez
Production Design: Terry Shea/Zach Searle
Poster Design: Richard Marr-Griffin
WBCT’s production will focus on the music of the piece with minimal staging, aided by multimedia support.
Synopsis:
Here is Rydell High's senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding "Burger Palace Boys" and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking "Pink Ladies" in bobby sox and pedal pushers, evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this rollicking musical. Head "greaser" Danny Zuko and new (good) girl Sandy Dumbrowski try to relive the high romance of their "Summer Nights" as the rest of the gang sings and dances its way through such songs as "Greased Lightnin'," "It's Raining on Prom Night," "Alone at the Drive-In Movie" recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley that became the soundtrack of a generation. An eight-year run on Broadway and two subsequent revivals, along with innumerable school and community productions place Grease among the world's most popular musicals.
Grease debuted Off-Broadway on February 14, 1972 at the Eden Theatre in New York City. The show transferred to Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre, and later to the Royale Theatre, closing on April 13, 1980 after a record-breaking 3,388 performances. The film adaptation of Grease premiered in 1978 and became the highest-grossing movie musical of all time. Greasereturned to Broadway twice, in a 1994 revival directed and choreographed by Jeff Calhoun and a 2007 revival directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall.
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