Auditions for A Chorus Line at CK PRODUCTIONS

Presenting our first Main Stage production of the summer and the second of the season!

SUMMARY:
A Chorus Line examines one day in the lives of seventeen dancers, all vying for a spot in the “chorus line” of a Broadway musical. After the first round of cuts, Zach, the director and choreographer, asks each dancer to speak about themselves. Discomfort opens into revelation, confession leads to redemption, and within the bright, outwardly homogenous chorus, the audience begins to see each dancer’s individuality. From Cassie, the star who just needs the “music and the mirror and the chance to dance,” to Val, a small-town girl with a brand-new big-town body, to Mike, who took his sister’s place in dance class, saying “I can do that.” Based on real Broadway dancers’ stories, as told to fellow dancer and choreographer Michael Bennett, A Chorus Line is funny, heartbreaking, and refreshingly honest.

SHOW DATES:
July 10th @8pm
July 11th @8pm
July 12th @2pm
*July 18th @2pm
July 19th @2pm

*Sensory friendly performance

WHEN:
May 14th
4:30 - 6:15 - Sign in & Singing
6:15 - 7:30 - Dance auditions

AUDITION INFO:
All roles must be able to move well. For your audition, please prepare 32 bars of any musical theatre song. Be prepared to dance!

AGE RANGE:
Roles require the age range of 18-25.
16 is the minimum age to audition and there is no maximum age! Preferably looking for ages 18-30 for all roles.

CALLBACKS:
May 18th 4:30-7:30

WHERE:
CK Productions (at Islip Town Hall West) 401 Main Street Islip, NY

CREATIVE TEAM:
Director/Choroegrapher - Ryan Koerber
Assistant Director - Kristin Felizzari
Musical Director - Luke McCoy
Stage Manager - Brandon Schindlar
Producer - Ethan Felizzari


CHARACTERS/DESCRIPTIONS:

ZACH: (20s-30s) The director and choreographer of the show.

LARRY: (20s-30s) Zach’s assistant.

ALAN DELUCA: (20s-30s) Male. Baritone. From the Bronx . Very straight. Street tough, macho, newly married to Kristine.

BEBE BENZENHEIMER: (20s-30s) Female. Alto. From Boston. Very insecure about her looks, very funny which is a cover for her insecurities. Feels a little excluded but just wants to be liked.

BOBBY MILLS: (20s-30s) Male. Baritone. Flamboyant, funny, bitchy and witty. Very sharp tongued. Covers everything over with a joke, had a very hard childhood. From upstate New York.

CASSIE FERGUSON: (Mid 20s) Female. Soprano. Older Dancer. Returning to the chorus after years of being a featured performer. Very strong dancer. Shy & kind hearted. Previously had a relationship with Zach.

CONNIE WONG: (Asian, 30s)Female. Alto. Experienced dancer. Short. Married. A bit of a mother hen with a great sense of humor. Born in Chinatown , Lower East Side , New York

DIANA MORALES: (20s-30s) Female. Alto. Streetwise, a little bit tough, eternal optimist and starry eyed. A determined athletic dancer from the Bronx.

DON KERR: (20s) Male. Baritone. Ladies man, married, into cars, money, and women. Hedonist, cool, flirts with Maggie, very sure of himself. All American guy, Cocky, worked with Zach before. From Kansas City.

GREGORY GARDENER: (20s) Male. Baritone. Over sexed, over drugged, done it all before. Gay. Very conscious of how he looks and appears to others. Quite a smart-alec and has worked with Zach before. Very East Side New York.

JUDY TURNER: (20s) Female. Mezzo. Funny, gawky, nervous, scatterbrain. Warm and hopeful. Very awkward except when dancing.

KRISTINE URICH: (20s-30s) Female. Mezzo. Wide-eyed, naive. Very nervous when not dancing. Married to Al.

MAGGIE WINSLOW: (20s-30s) Female. Soprano. A sweetheart, little sister type. Dreamer. Fairly experienced dancer from California.

MARK ANTHONY: (20s-30s) Male. Tenor. Optimistic, first timer, naive but charming. Great dancer and All-American kid. Hopeful and fresh, obsessed with sex. Very young from Arizona.

MIKE COSTA: (20s) Male. Tenor. Quite aggressive, determined, cocky, sure of himself BUT likeable. Tap dancer who worked with Zach before. Experienced and flirts with the girls. From New Jersey.

PAUL SAN MARCO: (20s-30s) Male. Baritone. Introverted and slightly insecure but loves performing - is only now starting to feel comfortable about being gay and accepted by his parents. From Spanish Harlem, New York. Friends with Diana.

RICHIE WALTERS: (African-American, 20s-30s) Male. Tenor. From Missouri . African-American, strong dancer, enthusiastic, cool and funny. Very likeable and laid back.

SHEILA BRYANT: (30s-40s) Female. Alto. Oldest dancer on the line. Brassy, sexy, bitchy and sophisticated. One of the more popular dancers, very funny.

VALERIE CLARK: (20s) Female. Mezzo. Sexy, sassy, funny & foul-mouthed. A brazen, direct, attention seeker from Vermont.

CUT DANCERS

****If you have any questions about this show or cannot make auditions, please email ckchorusline@gmail.com