Bucks County Playhouse Youth Company Auditions
May 22, 2021
Seeking teens to create original theater piece with songs, dance and story
Bucks County Playhouse is seeking teens (13 to 18) to audition for the 2021 Bucks County Playhouse Youth Company. This year’s program will have the teens involved in the writing and creative process culminating in an original theater piece of songs, dances and stories. Virtual and in-person auditions are available. In-person auditions will take place on Saturday, May 22, 2021 from 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM, 1:30 – 3:30 PM and 4:00 – 5:30 PM at Lambertville Hall, 57 Bridge Street in Lambertville, NJ. The program will take place June 26--July 25 (no rehearsals July 2-5). Rehearsals will be Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm; however, this schedule may change slightly due to pandemic related protocols. The show will have two performances a day July 22 –25 on the Playhouse stage.
An appointment is required for both in-person and virtual submissions. Please contact Kelly Wilson:
kelly@bcptheater.org (deadline for securing an appointment is Friday, May 21, 2021). Participants must prepare 16 bars of a ballad or 16 bars of an up-tempo song of their choice and one three minute-monologue of their choice (comic or dramatic). For in-person auditions, attendees must provide their own sheet music and virtual auditions candidates should have recorded music ready as an accompaniment. A photo is required for in-person and virtual submissions (need not be a professional photo). Resumes are not required, but participants may bring them. Callbacks, by invitation only, will be held Sunday, May 23, 2021 from 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Currently, the Playhouse is operating under state-mandated restrictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants will be contacted about protocols for in-person auditions, but in the meantime,
please see here for an in-depth rundown of the current protocols for the theater.
ABOUT THE PLAYHOUSE YOUTH COMPANY:
Now in its 7th year, Playhouse Youth Company is a 5-week intensive training program for students with a serious interest in theater to receive valuable theatrical instruction from working Broadway artists. Bucks County Playhouse’s rigorous training program includes daily rehearsals for a professionally produced production; master classes with artists from the Playhouse’s main stage; and outreach performances throughout the region. In 2019, Playhouse Youth Company performed for more than 3,100 people on the Playhouse mainstage and in outreach performances at local libraries, museums, and festivals.
ABOUT BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE
Bucks County Playhouse is a year-round, nonprofit theatre that has grown to a $6 million producing organization with an annual audience of more than 80,000. Founded in 1939 in a converted 1790 gristmill, Bucks County Playhouse quickly became “the most famous summer theatre in America,” featuring a roster of American theatrical royalty including Helen Hayes, George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart, Kitty Carlisle, Angela Lansbury, Alan Alda, Tyne Daly, Bernadette Peters, and Liza Minnelli and remained in continuous operation until 2010. In 2012, the Playhouse re-opened after a multi-million-dollar restoration thanks to the efforts of the Bridge Street Foundation, the nonprofit family foundation of Kevin and Sherri Daugherty. The Playhouse recently unveiled The Deck Restaurant and Bar, a 4,000 square foot Delaware-river facing addition to back of the Playhouse.
In 2014, Tony Award-winning producers Alexander Fraser, Robyn Goodman and Josh Fiedler took the helm of the Playhouse, and today the Playhouse has reclaimed its reputation of attracting Broadway and Hollywood artists. Its productions of “Company” starring Justin Guarini, and William Finn’s “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” were named by Wall Street Journal to its “Best of Theatre” list for 2015. In 2018, the Wall Street Journal again hailed the Playhouse and Artistic Associate Hunter Foster in its Best of the Year listings for its production of “42nd Street.” The 2017 season included four world premieres and audiences grew by over 34%. Box office record has been repeatedly broken by signature productions of “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story,” “Steel Magnolias” directed by Marsha Mason, and “Million Dollar Quartet,” “42nd Street,” and “Guys and Dolls” directed by Hunter Foster. “Mamma Mia!” directed by John Tartaglia and choreographed by Shannon Lewis, broke the box office records again. The creative teams who come to create new productions at the Playhouse are among the most talented artists working in the professional theatre today and relish the opportunity to work on the historic stage where Grace Kelly, Robert Redford, and Jessica Walter began their careers.
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