FPAC Hosts LITTLE WOMEN Auditions 1/12/2011

The Franklin Performing Arts Company will hold auditions for its spring musical, Little Women, to be performed March 11, 2001 at 8 p.m. and March 12, 2011 at 3 p.m. (tea) at the Franklin Country Club. The auditions will be held Wednesday, January 12th at 7 p.m. at FSPA. All auditionees should prepare 16 bars of a legit musical theater song (no pop or rock). Some auditionees will be asked to perform cold readings from the script.

Little Women - the musical
Character Breakdown:
Jo March -belt/mix, (matures from 15 to 20-years-old) - Joe is the second oldest of the March sisters; the heroine of Little Women. She is rebellious tomboy who blossoms into a successful writer, outspoken, and impatient with the limitations put upon women of the time.
Meg March -soprano, (matures from 16 to 21-years-old) - The oldest March sister. She is nurturing and compassionate; a bit naïve in the ways of the world.
Beth March -soprano, (matures from 14 to approximately 17-years-old) - Beth is the third March sister. She is musically talented, eager to please, and is ladylike and demure. Beth becomes ill and weak, but virtuously remains selfless and supportive of her sisters' dreams
Amy March -soprano/mix (matures from 12 to 17-years-old) - Amy is the baby of the family. She is comfortable and very much "in her own skin" playing the role of a lady. She is popular, artistic, and loves material possessions but has little use for education. Her dream is to grow up and marry rich.
Laurie Laurence -tenor (matures from approximately 17 to 21 -years-old) - Laurie is the March's charming, wealthy, handsome, dynamic next-door neighbor. His grandfather wants him to work in the business world and play the part of the "traditional" man, but Laurie is not interested. He is the only male welcomed by the March girls into their private theatrical Pickwick Society.
John Brooke -baritone (early-to-mid 20s) - A learned, educated, and reserved young man who resides at the home of Mr. Laurence, as private tutor to Laurie. Brooke is modest but proud. He sets his sights on the eldest March sister, Meg.
Professor Friedrich Bhaer -baritone (30s to 40s) - A shy, attractive German professor of philosophy who meets Jo at their New York boarding house. There is a strong, immediate connection between the two.
Marmee March -mezzo sop/belt (plays late 30s to mid- 40s) - The family matriarch, Marmee, is a loving, devoted mother to the March girls. She is an early feminist who believes on cultivating independent thinking women, not a common perspective in the mid-nineteenth century.
Aunt March (mezzo with high notes, (plays late 50s to late 70s) - Aunt March is the grouchy great-aunt of the March girls. She does not think a woman should display an independent spirit, which, obviously, leads to tension between her and Jo. Although she is cold, there is an underlying current of care for those in her family.
Mr. Laurence -baritone, (50s to 70s) - a gentleman of wealth, Mr. Laurence is the March family's neighbor and Laurie Laurence's grandfather. He is a New England gentleman and widow, who suffered his fair share of tragedy. Mr. Laurence seems austere and distant, but in truth is generous and caring.

Chorus- Possible casting of a small chorus. Ages 11 and up may audition.

 

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