Auditions For CRY-BABY: THE ROCK MUSICAL Held 10/3, 10/10

Auditions for New Line Theatre's CRY-BABY, in its first production since Broadway, will be held on two successive Monday nights, October 3 and 10, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. at the Washington University South Campus, 6501 Clayton Road (formerly CBC High School), just east of Big Bend, in the second floor theatre. This is NOT on the Washington University main campus. Performers need to come to only one of the dates. The show will run for four weeks, March 1-24, 2012.

For more details about the show, visit New Line's Cry-Baby webpage.

New Line is looking for a cast of sixteen actors. We will not cast anyone under 17. We are looking for intelligent singing actors who are willing to take risks onstage. Performers are asked to bring a prepared song from a musical, preferably in rock or pop style, with printed piano music for our pianist (no tapes and no a cappella, please). There will be a dance audition. Performers may also be asked to sing from the score. All roles will be cast through the auditions. More information is online at http://www.newlinetheatre.com/auditions.html

We may also be casting for our June show High Fidelity at this time.

ABOUT CRY-BABY

Finally, the real 1950s come to life with the hilarious rockabilly musical CRY-BABY. It's 1954. Everyone likes Ike, nobody likes communism, and Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker is the coolest boy in Baltimore. He's a bad boy with a good cause - truth, justice, and the pursuit of rock and roll. Wayward youth, juvenile delinquents, sexual repression, cool music, dirty lyrics, social rejects... it's all here.
At the center of the wackiness are the star-crossed lovers, Cry-Baby and the square rich girl Allison, who just happens to be the granddaughter of the headmistress of the local charm school, just a good girl who yearns to be bad in Cry-Baby's arms. Fueled by hormones and the new rhythms of rock and roll, she turns her back on her squeaky clean boyfriend Baldwin to become a "drape" (a Baltimore juvenile delinquent) and Cry-Baby's moll. At the other end of the topsy-turvy moral meritocracy of 1954 America, Baldwin as the head square leads his close-harmony pals against the juvenile delinquents, who are unjustly arrested for the ensuing ruckus, sending their leader off to reform school. It's Romeo and Juliet meets High School Hellcats.

Based on the cult classic John Waters film starring Johnny Depp, the show's original creative team is revising the show for New Line, to make it a smaller, more intimate musical, with a real rock band. As it was with New Line Theatre's American regional premiere of High Fidelity, New Line will mount the first production of CRY-BABY since its Broadway run. And like we did for the under-appreciated High Fidelity, the New Liners hope to give CRY-BABY new life as well. Since New Line produced High Fidelity in 2008, more than a dozen other companies have come to New Line to get in contact with that show's creators to secure production rights.
Watch the commercial for the ill-fated Broadway production of Cry-Baby

NEW AUDITION POLICY

If you have performed with New Line Theatre during the last eighteen months, you don't have to audition. Instead you just have to contact artistic director Scott Miller at Scott@NewLineTheatre.com before the last night of auditions to tell him that you want to be considered. On the other hand, if you want to be considered for a role that's very different from what you've done for New Line before, then you are more than welcome to audition and show us how perfect you are for the show.

Rehearsals will tentatively begin the first week of January, on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 10:00 p.m., plus every night the week the show opens. Rehearsals are at St. Mark's Episcopal Church in St. Louis Hills. Performances are at the Washington University South Campus Theatre, 6501 Clayton Road. Performers will share a guaranteed 10% of box office receipts. Call 314-773-6526 or email info@NewLineTheatre.com for more information.

No appointments are necessary. All performers should arrive for the audition before 7:00 p.m. New Line is a non-union professional theatre company and is always very eager to find multi-racial casts.

To read New Line's Diversity Statement, go to http://www.newlinetheatre.com/diversity.html

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New Line Theatre's current show, PASSING STRANGE, runs September 22-October 15, Thursday through Saturday evenings, at 8:00 p.m., at the Washington University South Campus Theatre (formerly CBC High School), 6501 Clayton Road, just east of Big Bend. September 22 is a preview. Tickets are on sale now through Metrotix outlets, including the Fox Theatre box office and the Edison Theatre box office at Washington University, or by calling 314-534-1111. PASSING STRANGE contains mature content and language.

For other information, visit New Line Theatre's full-service website at www.newlinetheatre.com. All programs are subject to change.

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