Announcing open auditions for Follies!
Thursday February 26 from 6:30-9:00 pm or
Saturday February 28 from noon-4:00 pm
Callbacks if needed: Tues. March 3-TBD
Rehearsals begin March 10 and will be Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings as called.
Seeking a large cast ages 18 and up. Dancers needed.
Prepare a song in the style of the show--bring music in your key. An accompanist will be provided. Be prepared to dance and possibly read from the script.
All roles open, no pay, and no appointment needed
Location of auditions and rehearsals
6626 N. Oliphant, Chicago, 60631
(enter thru the back door)
Performances are at:
Prairie Lakes Theatre
515 E. Thacker St.
Des Plaines, IL 60016
(In the Des Plaines Park District complex)
Thursday/Fridays/Saturday(May 23): 7:30 pm, Sunday/Saturday (May 30): 2:00 pm
For more information: call 773-736-2490 or
email [email protected]
Join the cast!!!
Note: Ages are for reference only-we will cast based on talent.
All showgirls-both young and mature-Dance ability recommended.
Tap experience a plus but not required.
Character Breakdown
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: 45 to 60 Vocal range top: F5 Vocal range bottom. Needs to dance
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: 45 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 35 Vocal range top: G5 Vocal range bottom: C4
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: 18 to 35 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 35 Vocal range top: G5 Vocal range bottom: C4. Needs to dance
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 35 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 65 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: 50 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: 50 to 65
Emily Whitman
A tiny, bright and papery woman. Married to Theodore, who together, teach dance.
Gender: female Age: 55 to 70 Vocal range top: D5 Vocal range bottom: B3,
Theodore Whitman
A tiny, bright and papery man. Married to Emily, who together, teach dance.
Gender: male Age: 55 to 70 Vocal range top: D4 Vocal range bottom: B2, Needs to dance
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: 50 to 70 Vocal range top: B4 Vocal range bottom: G3
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: 50 to 70 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: 50 to 70 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 35 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: 55 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
Ensemble
Mature Showgirls, Young Showgirl Ghosts, Party Staff-
