The Wilbury Theatre Group | Providence, RI
Sunday, February 23, 2025
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM (E)
Lunch 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
To schedule an audition appointment please email:
auditions@thewilburygroup.org. In your email, please offer a time block of 2 hours between 8am – 4pm on Sunday, February 23. No phone calls please. Please indicate in the email subject heading your Equity status. For example: SUBJECT: Equity - audition – AMERICAN IDIOT. We will reply with a specific time slot. Equity members without appointments will be seen throughout each audition day, as time permits.
SPT
$330 weekly minimum (SPT 1)
Equity actors for roles in AMERICAN IDIOT (See breakdown). Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to attend.
Please prepare the sheet music and tracks from select songs which will be made available at the time of scheduling your audition appointment. Each performer will be allotted a maximum of 5 minutes. A piano and accompanist will be available, but we recommend that performers prepare a song of their choice from the production and accompany themselves to demonstrate proficiency. Only Equity performers may choose to read from a script. The Wilbury Theatre Group will provide sides and a reader. Equity members who wish to read a side are encouraged to prepare their own and either bring a copy for the reader or let us know the scene/page numbers upon check-in so we may be prepared to assist you. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
WaterFire Arts Center
475 Valley Street
Providence, RI 02909
The Wilbury Theatre Group's performance space
Music by: Green Day
Lyrics by: Billie Joe Armstrong
Book by: Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer
Directed by: Josh Short
Music Direction by: Milly Massey
Choreography by: Ali Kenner Brodsky
Expected to attend: Josh Short: Director/Artistic Director
Callbacks - TBD in March
Rehearsals begin: April 22
Performances: May 22 – June 15
Possible extension to June 22
Any questions should be addressed to:
auditions@thewilburygroup.org.
Pursuant to the terms of a concession made to this employer's agreement, the employer has agreed that any Equity member who attends this call will have an opportunity to be seen.
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity's contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
AMERICAN IDIOT
Johnny – 20s – Male-identifying – B2-B4. The guy who goes to the city; the self-proclaimed Jesus of Suburbia. Bored of his do-nothing, go-nowhere existence, he takes off for the city to get a new lease on life. He wages an inner war between a budding love for Whatsername and growing dependency on St. Jimmy and drugs.
Tunny – 20s – Male-identifying – D3-B4. The guy who goes to the city with Johnny. Johnny's friend who follows him to the city and eventually enlists in the army which throws him into active military conflict in the Middle East. A lost dreamer who is easily swayed, first by Johnny's ideas and then by patriotism and the American Dream.
Will – 20s – Male-identifying – C#3-B4. The guy that stays home in Suburbia. Johnny's friend. He ends up staying in Suburbia with his pregnant girlfriend Heather. The more he stays on the couch, the more he becomes slowly disconnected from the world and his own relationships.
St. Jimmy – 20s – Any gender – C3-F#5. A city badass. Johnny's alter ego. An enigmatic and charismatic enabler who gets Johnny addicted to drugs and grows jealous of his relationship with Whatsername.
Heather – 20s – Female-identifying – A3-E5. A girl in suburbia. Will's girlfriend. She discovers she is pregnant but has difficulty telling her boyfriend of the news. Once she settles down with him, she struggles to maintain their relationship with his despondency and eventually leaves him.
Whatsername – 20s – Female-identifying – F#3-D#5. A girl in the city. A rebel activist – fierce, strong, and capable – who falls for Johnny. She fights to have him embrace an authentic relationship with her rather than pursue his addiction.
Extraordinary Girl – 20s – Female-identifying – Bb3-E5. A girl in the Middle East who first appears as a hallucination to Tunny. Attractive and mysterious, she later appears as his nurse and accompanies him home after the war.
Ensemble – 20s – All genders. The energetic and integral force behind the show. They portray a number of critical characters throughout and have many opportunities for featured musical solos.
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