Come audition for AMP’s production of the Broadway hit Something Rotten!
Contact Jill Dillingham to sponsor this show.
Audition dates: November 3, 6pm
Show dates: March 16-20, 23-26, 31 and April 1, 2023
Actors MUST BE 18 years old or older to audition.
Audition Requirements:
1. Present a two minute monologue (or read from supplied text)
2. Sing 16–18 bars (about one minute) of a song of your own choice. If you need accompaniment, please bring a CD player or phone and speaker to use.
3. You will also be asked to dance. (More dance info to come.)
If you would like to audition but cannot make it on November 3, please feel free to contact stage director Bill Ivins at bill@ivinsink.com.
Synopsis:
Something Rotten is a musical set in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as “The Bard.” When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first musical. But amidst the scandalous excitement of opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self, and all that jazz.
Roles include:
Shakespeare (male) The Bard
Nick Bottom (male) Struggling writer
Nigel Bottom (male) Nick’s brother
Bea (female) – Nick’s wife
Portia (female) – Jeremiah’s daughter
Nostradamus (male) – Soothsayer
Brother Jeremiah (male) – Puritan
Lord Clapham (either) – Theater Patron
Shylock (male) – Theater Investor
Minstrel (male) – Also ensemble
Ensemble include: Minstrel, Townspeople, Troupe, Lord Clapham, Shylock, Man Servants, Crowd, Chorus, and more
