New Line is looking for a multi-racial cast of 12 adult men and women who can sing rock and roll. We will not cast anyone under 17. New Line is looking for intelligent singing actors who are willing to take risks onstage. Performers are asked to bring a prepared contemporary theatre song, preferably in rock or  pop style, with printed piano music for our pianist (no tapes and no a cappella). There will not be a dance audition. Performers may also be asked to sing from the score.

This smart, rowdy, hilarious show throws together Shakespearean bombast, 1950s science fiction (and Cold War paranoia), with early rock and roll classics. The song list includes “Wipe Out” (1963), “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” (1966), “Great Balls of Fire” (1957), “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” (1964), “Good Vibrations” (1966), “The Shoop Shoop Song” (1963), “I’m Gonna Change the World” (1965), “A Teenager in Love” (1960), “Young Girl” (1968), “She’s Not There” (1964), “Shakin’ All Over” (1960), “Gloria” (1964), “Who’s Sorry Now” (1958), “Tell Him” (1962), “Robot Man” (1959), “Shake, Rattle, and Roll” (1954), “Go Now” (1964), “Only the Lonely” (1960), “Mister Spaceman” (1967), and “The Monster Mash” (1962).

Like a crazy cocktail of Rocky Horror and Star Trek, this quirky piece of rock theatre skewers Americans' perpetual fear of technology (and sex!), and it reminds us of that famous quote by Lord Acton: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." With technology advancing more quickly now than ever before in human history, and with the limits of power being tested every day by the Bush administration and others around the world, this show couldn't be more timely. FORBIDDEN PLANET takes the audience on a routine survey flight under the command of Captain Tempest and his crew, as their spaceship is drawn mysteriously to the planet D'Illyria where mad scientist Doctor Prospero and his lovely daughter Miranda are marooned, along with Prospero's trusty robot, Ariel. Rock and roll ensues.