Friday, March 2, 2018

audition notice - WE WILL ROCK YOU - Fountain Hills Theater - March 11 & 13


This is THE VALLEY PREMIER of a new show featuring more than 20 hit Queen songs! Resistance is growing. Underneath the gleaming cities, down in the lower depths live the Bohemians. Rebels who believe that there was once a Golden Age when the kids formed their own bands and wrote their own songs. They call that time, The Rhapsody. Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see. Legend persists that somewhere on iPlanet instruments still exist. Somewhere, the mighty axe of a great and hairy guitar god lies buried deep in rock. The Bohemians need a hero to find this axe and draw it from stone. Is the one who calls himself Galileo that man? He’s just a poor boy. From a poor family. Featuring the songs "Another One Bites the Dust", "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Killer Queen", "We Will Rock You", "Somebody To Love", "We Are the Champions", "Don’t Stop Me Now," and many more.

Directed By: Peter J. Hill
Musically Directed By: Jennifer Whiting
Choreographed By: Noel Irick

Audition Dates:
Sunday, March 11th at 6pm & Tuesday, March 13th at 7pm
Callbacks (if required): Wednesday, March 14th at 7pm

Production dates: April 20th - May 13th
Performances: Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sundays at 2pm

Click here to register for an appointment
 
Auditioners should prepare:
- 16 to 32 bars of a song that best shows off their voice
- Bring sheet music in appropriate key. No CD’s
- Dress to move for dance audition
- If you play an instrument, please bring it and prepare to demonstrate
- Headshot and resume if available
- List of possible rehearsal conflicts

CASTING:

GALILEO (Male) A misfit who keeps hearing strange voices and songs in his head which deliver messages he can’t understand. Galileo won’t dress like a Ga Ga kid and has been caught trying to make music. He is confused and unaware that he is the one the Bohemians have been waiting for, who will lead them to the place where the last remaining live instruments have lain hidden for hundreds of years.

SCARAMOUCHE (Female) Another misfit who also gets into trouble with the Secret Police, Scaramouche meets Galileo in hospital and they run away together. Her sharp wit keeps Galileo on his toes and gradually they fall for each other.

KILLER QUEEN (Female) Killer Queen is a ruthless businesswoman and is in charge of Global Soft, the worldwide corporation which is responsible for the suppression of all live music. She’s power crazy and tough, as well as beautiful.

KHASHOGGI (Male) He works for Killer Queen, getting rid of any original or creative musical thoughts and going after the Bohemians. His victims are sent to the Seven Seas of Rhye.

BUDDY (Male) Buddy is an old librarian and a hippy who has studied the sacred musical texts to the extent that even the Seven Seas of Rhye cannot entirely erase them from his mind. He’s a comic character who acts as a foil to Galileo and Scaramouche towards the end of the play.

BRIT (Male) and OZ (Female) Two of the Bohemians who are intent on discovering the secrets of live music, and who believe that someone will come who will show the Bohemians the way. When they find Scaramouche and Galileo they are unsure at first, but are eventually persuaded that Galileo really does have strange musical lyrics in his head over which he has no control.

TEACHER (Female)

ENSEMBLE:
Track A: (4 females ages 12-30) Ga Ga Kids, Teen Queens, Doctors and Secret Police.
Track B: (4 females ages 12-30) Ga Ga Kids, Teen Queens, Super Yuppies, Bohemians.
Track C: (2-4 males ages 12-30) Ga Ga Kids, Secret Police, Doctors.
Track D: (2-4 males ages 12-30) Ga Ga Kids, Super Yuppies, Bohemians,
Track E: (4 males or females ages 20-40) Teachers, Super Yuppies, Bohemians

SECRET POLICE (Male and/or Female) These semi-automated characters carry out the bidding of the Killer Queen and Khashoggi.

GA GA KIDS/TEEN QUEENS (Male and Female) Living in a world of consumerism and downloadable music, the Ga Ga kids don’t notice their own soulless-ness.

THE BOHEMIANS (Male and Female) A group of rebels, determined to fight against Global Soft and its downloadable music. Their base is Tottenham Court Road Tube station, and they have taken the names of musical heroes from the past, such as Paul McCartney, Cliff Richard, and Britney.

SUPER YUPPIES (Male and Female) Consumer-driven supporters of The Killer Queen.

TEACHERS (Male and Female) Servants of Global Soft who impart only approved instruction and act as spies for the corporate establishment.

DOCTORS (Male and Female) Servants of Global Soft who are little more than medical tormentors to keep the masses in line.

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