Mill Mountain Theatre | Roanoke, VA
Thursday, January 9, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (E)
BREAK: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
To schedule an appointment, please sign-up at the following link:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E4EA. Note: Any walk-ins without an appointment should go to the MMT office at 1 Market SQ SE Roanoke VA 24011 to check in.
SPT
$670 weekly minimum (SPT 7)
Equity actors for roles in WAITRESS (see breakdown).
Please submit up to 1 minute of a song and up to 1 minute of a monologue. Optional audition materials can be found using this link on the MMT website at the audition portal:
https://millmountain.org/auditionportal/. Be prepared to come to a dance call, if asked, from 5:10 PM - 6:10 PM. If you are unable to attend this in-person audition, you are welcome to submit a video audition. Please see breakdown for details.
Waldron Stage
27 Church St SE
Roanoke, VA 24011
Waldron Black Box Stage for in-person, online submissions as an option.
Book by Jessie Nelson
Music and Lyrics by Sarah Bareilles
Producing Artistic Director- Ginger Poole
Director- Amy Efird
Choreographer- Amy Efird
Music Director- Cindy Blevins
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Ginger Poole- Producing Artistic Director
Matt Shields- Production Manager
Amy Efird - Director
Cindy Blevins- Music Director/accompanist
First Rehearsal February 19, 2025
Open March 12, 2025
Close March 30, 2025
6-week contract
www.millmountain.org
If you are unable to attend the in-person audition, video submissions will be accepted through January 12th, 2025. An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
WAITRESS
Video submission instructions:
Please submit your headshot, resume, and audition video at:
https://millmountain.org/auditions/equity-and-non-equity/
Please submit up to 1 minute of a song and up to 1 minute of a monologue. Optional audition materials can be found using this link on the MMT website at the audition portal:
https://millmountain.org/auditionportal/.
Online submissions will be accepted through 1/12/2024
NOTE: The role of JOE is cast, but submissions will still be accepted.
JENNA – Character identifies as female. Age 20s-30s. Any ethnicity. A waitress at Joe’s Diner. A woman stuck in her life: unhappily married and unexpectedly pregnant. Finds some joy and expression through her meticulous baking of pies and her friendships with coworkers, Becky and Dawn. Lives life paycheck-to-paycheck, day by day, and wants to get away and start fresh, unbeknownst to her abusive husband, Earl. Mezzo-soprano F#3-F5. Note: This role engages in multiple scenes of staged intimacy including close proximity, kissing, embracing, and simulated sexual activity. No nudity. This role is on the receiving end of staged violence: grabbing, shoving.
BECKY – Character identifies as female. Any ethnicity. A waitress at Joe’s Diner. She is irreverent, snarky, and has been there, made it back, and somehow kept her sense of humor. She is honest and loyal to her gals at the diner. Vocal range: Eb3-E5. Note: This role engages in a scene of staged intimacy involving close proximity, kissing, and simulated sexual activity. No nudity or undress.
DAWN – Character identifies as female. Age 20s-30s. Any ethnicity. A waitress at Joe’s Diner. Endearing and genuine. She is eccentric, wonderfully unusual, and a bit of a nerd who has spent too much time alone watching The History Channel. She sets the tables, painstakingly ensuring each salt and pepper shaker is equidistant from the napkin holder. Vocal range: G3-E5. Note: This role engages in a moment of staged intimacy involving close proximity and simulated sexual activity as well as moments of kissing and embracing. No nudity or undress.
CAL – Character identifies as male. Age 40s. Any ethnicity. A chef at the diner. A “Salt of the earth” guy’s guy surrounded by gals. Brash, impatient, unsentimental, but somehow charming. Vocal range: D3-F4. Note: This role engages in a scene of staged intimacy involving close proximity, kissing, and simulated sexual activity. No nudity or undress.
JOE – CAST Character identifies as male. Age 60s-70s. Any ethnicity. The owner of the diner where Jenna, Dawn, Becky, and Cal work. A seemingly old, curmudgeonly man who has a soft spot for Jenna (and her pie): he wants her to succeed in life and be happy. Gruff exterior but warm at heart. Joe is a sarcastic and no-nonsense guy with a keen ability to read people. Vocal range: B2-G#4.
EARL – Character identifies as male. Age 20s-30s. Caucasian. Jenna’s husband. Earl is an almost talented musician who peaked in high school. He’s handsome in a gruff way, but that face is clouded with broken dreams, drowned in cheap beer. Publicly, Earl turns on the charm but privately he is a nightmare narcissist, exploding into unexpected anger one second and turning into a sobbing mess the next. And Jenna bears the brunt of his unhappiness. Guitar playing a plus. Vocal range: Eb3-G4. Note: This role engages in staged intimacy including kissing and embracing. This role also initiates physical violence: grabbing, shoving.
DR. POMATTER – Character identifies as male. Age 30s-40s. Any ethnicity. Jenna’s gynecologist turned lover. He’s endearing, genuine, and awkward. He is clumsy in manner and a bit neurotic, with a quirky sense of humor and a big heart. Vocal range: Bb2-Bb4. Note: This role engages in multiple scenes of staged intimacy including close proximity, kissing, embracing, and simulated sexual activity. No nudity.
OGIE – Character identifies as male. Age 20s-30s. Any ethnicity. Absolutely smitten with Dawn after a 5-minute date, he will do anything in his power to win her over including showing up to the diner unannounced and making up poems on the spot. Extremely quirky (amateur magician, competitive clog dancer, only eats white food on Wednesdays), incredibly persistent, yet always kind. Vocal range: C3-F4. Note: This role engages in a moment of staged intimacy involving close proximity and simulated sexual activity as well as moments of kissing and embracing. No nudity or undress.
ENSEMBLE – All genders, all ethnicities, ages 20s to 60s. Essential to the storytelling of the production, the ensemble are Jenna’s muses, Joe’s Diner Customers, a trio of pregnant women, Nurse Norma, Francine Pomatter and more. As characters comprising the community in which the story takes place, ensemble members should be strong movers.
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