Follies
Book By James Goldman
Music and Lyrics By Stephen Sondheim
Garland Civic Theatre (NON-EQUITY)
Directed by Patty Granville and David Tinney
Music Direction by Scott Eckert
Associate Music Director- Scott Lee Clayton
Choreography by Kelly McCain
Auditions will be held at the
Granville Arts Center, Small Theatre
300 N. Fifth Street
Garland, TX 75040
Individual Auditions are Saturday November 11th from 9:30am to 5pm
Dance call is Friday November 10th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.
Appointments: Online
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/4090444A5A92FA5FD0-44983200-follies
Choose your time slot and click Sign Up”, then at the bottom of the page click Submit and Sign Up and it will take you to the page to put in your contact info.
Email –
info@garlandcivic.org
Phone – 214-206-6361
Please prepare 16 bars of an up-tempo and a ballad, which show vocal range. Initial auditions will be primarily singing (You may be asked to do a short reading).
Please bring a headshot and resume to your appointment if you have them available.
Also, if you tap dance, please bring tap shoes to the Dance call. Also bring music to the dance call since you may be asked to sing then.
Production: Performances
March 8 - March 24, 2024
Fridays, March 8, 15, 22 at 7:30pm
Saturdays, March 9, 16, 23 at 7:30pm
Sundays, March 10, 17,24 at 2:30pm
Rehearsals begin February 5, 2024
Casting Info: All Roles are available and open to all ethnicities.
Character Breakdown
Young Phyllis
A younger version of Phyllis, when she was an energetic and naïve Follies girl. Slightly sad and homesick. With all the drive and none of the sophistication of the adult Phyllis.
Gender: Female
Age: 20 to 25
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: B3
Young Buddy
A younger version of the Buddy we see today. Charismatic and lively, a man who knows how to have fun. Loves Sally blindly and wants to give her the world.
Gender: Male
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: C4
Young Ben
A not yet fully realized version of the man we see before us today, he is driven and intelligent but not quite so distinguished, and not yet frightened by his success.
Gender: Male
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: C4
Carlotta Campion
The one-time movie star, who is in terrific shape for her age. The kind of woman who has seen everything and is proud to be standing where she is.
Gender: Female
Age: 45 to 55
Vocal range top: B4
Vocal range bottom: E3
Stella Deems
A portly woman who surprisingly moves with a special lightness; half of a former performing duo with her husband, but they gave it up to open a general store in Miami. Loves life and has led a good one.
Gender: Female
Age: 55 to 65
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: E3
Max Deems
A portly man who surprisingly moves with a special lightness; half of a former performing duo with his wife, Stella, but they gave it up to open a general store in Miami. Loves life and has led a good one.
Gender: Male
Age: 55 to 65
Emily Whitman
A tiny, bright and papery woman. Married to Theodore, who together, teach dance together.
Gender: Female
Age: 65 to 80
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: B3
Hattie Walker
An appealingly tough, no-nonsense lady. A former knockout Follies girl from the earlier years of the shows. She has married several times and always to the same type: the bad boy.
Gender: Female
Age: 65 to 75
Vocal range top: B4
Vocal range bottom: G3
Theodore Whitman
A tiny, bright and papery man. Married to Emily, who together, teach dance together.
Gender: Male
Age: 65 to 80
Vocal range top: D4
Vocal range bottom: B2
Solange La Fitte
A French fashionista. Very much still alive and enjoying it, she is a perfume creator and seller. Has travelled the world but loves Paris more than any other place.
Gender: Female
Age: 65 to 75
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Heidi Schiller
Tall and queenly. Viennese. Incredibly rich and well known in elite social circles, she is constantly reminiscing.
Gender: Female
Age: 65 to 75
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: D4
Young Heidi
A younger version of the Heidi we see today. Already tall and queenly, but perhaps not yet rich and so well connected.
Gender: Female
Age: 18 to 25
Vocal range top: A5
Vocal range bottom: E4
Dimitri Weissman
An acerbic, vital, energetic man who looks fifteen years younger than he really is. Staged the Follies every year between the great wars, and made stars of any girl he wanted from the legions who threw themselves at him.
Gender: Male
Age: 70 to 80
Roscoe
An elderly showman with a majestic tenor voice who introduces the Follies girls as if no time has passed and they are still the beautiful young girls of years ago.
Gender: Male
Age: 55 to 65
Vocal range top: A5
Vocal range bottom: D4
Sally Durant Plummer
Petite. Sweet-faced. Bubbly. Still remarkably like the girl she was thirty years ago. A former Follies girl, she married a man she didn't love. Needy and delusional at times.
Gender: Female
Age: 45 to 55
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: F3
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Stylish and intelligent. Her face is more beautiful now than it was thirty years ago. A woman who made her husband her life, the journey has hardened her and replaced the traces of life with cold sophistication and poise.
Gender: Female
Age: 45 to 55
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: F3
Buddy Plummer
A handsome, charismatic man with a sad face wrinkled from years of too much smiling. Stuck in a broken marriage and has had multiple affairs.
Gender: Male
Age: 50 to 60
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: C4
Benjamin Stone
Tall. Trim. Distinguished. Successful. Authoritative. A man bent on success from a young age who has achieved it and now realizes the toll it had on personal relationships.
Gender: Male
Age: 50 to 60
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Young Sally
A younger version of the adult Sally. She is perhaps the most similar to her adult counterpart of any of the foursome. Petite. Sweet-faced. Bubbly. Adventurous. Wants it all, but may not have the patience or drive to wait for it.
Gender: Female
Age: 18 to 25
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: C4
Ensemble
Old Showgirls, Showgirl Ghosts, Party Musicians, Party Staff
Synopsis:
A true theatrical event, this legendary masterpiece is considered by many to be the greatest musical ever created. Surreal, sophisticated, compelling, heart wrenching and epic in scope, Follies by musical theatre legend, Stephen Sondheim, and author, James Goldman, uses the musical theatre as a metaphor for the collapse of American innocence and naivete in the post-Kennedy years.
In Follies, the time is 1971, and theatrical impresario, Dimitri Weissmann, hosts a reunion of ex-Follies performers in his crumbling theatre, setting the stage for a parade of brilliant pastiche numbers, including Losing My Mind, I'm Still Here and Broadway Baby. Amid the reminiscing, two middle-aged couples confront some unpleasant truths about their past and present, coming face-to-face with the future.
Follies is a true showcase for powerful dramatic actors with plenty of opportunities for seasoned, older performers. Spectacular and grand in scale, Follies has also proven ideal for concert presentation and features many of Stephen Sondheim's best-known songs.
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