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AUDITIONS FOR THE AMERICAN REGIONAL PREMIERE OF CRY-BABY: THE MUSICAL WILL BE HELD OCTOBER 3 and 10.
For more details about the show, visit New Line's Cry-Baby webpage. New Line is looking for a cast of sixteen actors. We will not cast anyone under 17. We are looking for intelligent singing actors who are willing to take risks onstage. Performers are asked to bring a prepared song from a musical, preferably in rock or pop style, with printed piano music for our pianist (no tapes and no a cappella, please). There will be a dance audition. Performers may also be asked to sing from the score. All roles will be cast through the auditions. We may also be casting for our June show High Fidelity at this time. THE ROLES
Cry-Baby -- rockabilly tenor ABOUT CRY-BABY Finally, the real 1950s come to life with the hilarious rockabilly musical CRY-BABY. It's 1954. Everyone likes Ike, nobody likes communism, and Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker is the coolest boy in Baltimore. He's a bad boy with a good cause — truth, justice, and the pursuit of rock and roll. Wayward youth, juvenile delinquents, sexual repression, cool music, dirty lyrics, social rejects... it's all here. At the center of the wackiness are the star-crossed lovers, Cry-Baby and the
square rich girl Allison, who just happens to be the granddaughter of the
headmistress of the local charm school, just a good girl who yearns to be bad in
Cry-Baby's arms. Fueled by hormones and the new rhythms of rock and roll, she
turns her back on her squeaky clean boyfriend Baldwin to become a "drape" (a
Baltimore juvenile delinquent) and Cry-Baby's moll. At the other end of the
topsy-turvy moral meritocracy of 1954 America, Baldwin as the head square
leads his close-harmony pals against the juvenile delinquents, who are unjustly
arrested for the ensuing ruckus, sending their leader off to reform school. It's
Romeo and Juliet meets High School Hellcats. Watch the commercial for the ill-fated Broadway production of Cry-Baby
NEW AUDITION POLICY: If you have performed with New Line Theatre during the last eighteen months, you don't have to audition. Instead you just have to contact artistic director Scott Miller before the last night of auditions to tell him that you want to be considered. On the other hand, if you want to be considered for a role that's very different from what you've done for New Line before, then you are more than welcome to audition and show us how perfect you are for the show. Rehearsals will tentatively begin the first week of January, on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 10:00 p.m., plus every night the week the show opens. Rehearsals are at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in St. Louis Hills. Performances are at the Washington University South Campus Theatre, 6501 Clayton Road. Performers will share a guaranteed 10% of box office receipts. Call 314-773-6526 or email info@NewLineTheatre.com for more information. No appointments are necessary. All performers should arrive for the audition before 7:00 p.m. New Line is a non-union professional theatre company and is always very eager to find multi-racial casts. To read New Line's Diversity Statement, go to http://www.newlinetheatre.com/diversity.html To learn more about New Line, go to http://www.newlinetheatre.com/contact.html
All auditions for future shows will be announced on this page. Generally, New Line holds auditions for each show during the run of the previous show. All details will be posted here when they become available. Do I need an appointment? No, just show up at 7:00 p.m. (unless otherwise noted). What if I have rehearsal schedule conflicts? If you have one or two schedule conflicts, we may be able to make accommodations in the schedule. If it's more than that, we will not cast you. What should I bring? You should prepare a song (sometimes we have preferences about what kind of song, noted in the audition announcement), and you should bring a legible copy of the piano music for our accompanist, in the key you want. Do NOT bring unattached pages. Do NOT bring lead sheet (music with only vocal lines, no piano part). Either tape the music into an accordion or put it in a binder. Mark clearly any cuts or changes. If you're bringing a published book, please break the binding ahead of time so your music lies flat on the piano. Can I sing something from the show? The answer is almost always YES at New Line. Other companies often have different preferences. Do you want 16 bars or more than that? Generally, we allow performers to sing a full verse or two, sometimes a whole song, if it's not too long. We generally find that 16 bars just isn't enough time to strut your stuff... Do I need a picture and resume? If you have those, bring them. If not, it's not a problem. Other Auditions The St. Louis Auditions Website
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Auditions
for New Line Theatre's CRY-BABY, in its first production since Broadway, will be held on two successive Monday nights,
October 3 and 10, 2011, at 7:00
p.m. at the Washington University South Campus, 6501 Clayton Road
(formerly CBC High School),
just east of Big Bend, in the second floor theatre.
This is NOT on the Washington University main
campus.
Performers need to come to only one of the dates. The show will run
for four weeks, March 1-24, 2012.
