Auditions: HAIR
Book and Lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni. Music by Galt MacDermot
AUdition dates
- OPEN CALL: Monday January 15th & Wednesday January 17th, 2024 at 7 p.m. at CDC Theatre
- Callbacks will be on Sunday January 21st, 2024 by invitation only
- NOTE: You must be 18 or older to audition
- Walk-ins are welcome!
For auditions, you should prepare:
- Please prepare a 32 bar cut of a pop/rock song not from the show
- Please also prepare a 1 minute monologue reflecting the character you are auditioning for. NOT EVERYONE WILL BE REQUIRED TO PERFORM THEIR MONOLOGUE. Actors who play instruments are encouraged to audition.
- Please bring a headshot and resume if available
Auditions and casting will be inclusive of actors of any race, ability, gender, and sexuality.
Production Team
Director & Choreographer: Michael Kidney
Music Director: Cathy Corcoran
Producer: Joe Leo
Please direct all questions to kidneycasting@gmail.com
Music Director: Cathy Corcoran
Producer: Joe Leo
Please direct all questions to kidneycasting@gmail.com
rehearsals + Performances
Rehearsals will take place on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays & Sundays in the evenings at CDC or area locations
Performance Dates:
Performance Dates:
- May 3, 4,10, 11, 17, 18 @ 8 pm and May 12 & 19 @ 2 pm
- Anyone auditioning must be available for all performances and for all rehearsals during tech week (Feb.4-9)
CHARACTER BREAKDOWn
- Sheila: F, 20s. She is a wild and dynamic activist with the political t-shirts and buttons to prove it. A student at NYU. Her passionate involvement in things, be it causes or people, can be a source of humor for onlookers. Obsessed with Berger. Alto with strong belt.
- Berger: M, 20s, but the more youthful looking the better. He is bright, funny, loud, wild and playful, but serious underneath. Charismatic and entertaining, he loves to make people laugh. He functions as the comic center of the show but goes from being comic to a tragic figure at the end. In other words, this is a role for a performer with great comic and dramatic skills. Tenor.
- Claude: M, 20s. Berger’s best friend. He is gentle, the embodiment of the flower power ethos. A harmonious, ordered, balanced character, artistic, blissed-out, kind and funny. Reads all the newspapers and is concerned about the war and the state of the human condition. Tolerant and open he loves everyone in the Tribe and provides them with an emotional center. Obsessed with Sheila. Tenor.
- Woof: M, 20s but the more youthful looking the better. He is sexy, good looking, masculine but with an androgynous quality. A free-love nature freak granola boy. He is very much in his own world, a bit of a space cadet. Baritone.
- Hud: M, 20s. African-American male. He has an energetic personality. He is both intellectual and street hip. He scans the New York Times and the East Village. At times he is like a wise overseer. Baritone.
- Jeanie: F, 20s. She wears long hippie dresses and is the earth mother of the group both figuratively and literally as she is pregnant. Dry sense of humor, hippie freak granola woman. Obsessed with Claude. Alto with strong belt.
- Dionne: F, 20s. African-American. She is warm and compassionate. A strong presence with a strong sense of justice and irony. Alto with strong belt.
- Crissy: F, Late teens – early 20s but to play as young as possible. She is the youngest tribe member. She is pretty, innocent and vulnerable. Loves the idea of the Tribe, her new chosen family. Alto/Mezzo with belt.
- Tribe: Multi-cultural group of people who are present throughout the piece. Solos and smaller roles will be cast from the Tribe. All vocals types.
SYNOPSIS
The American tribal love rock musical HAIR celebrates the sixties counterculture in all its barefoot, long-haired, bell-bottomed, beaded and fringed glory. To an infectiously energetic rock beat, the show wows audiences with songs like "Aquarius," "Good Morning, Starshine," "Hair," "I Got Life" and "Let The Sunshine In." Exploring ideas of identity, community, global responsibility and peace, HAIR remains relevant as ever as it examines what it means to be a young person in a changing world.