PRESENTING, OUR FIRST EVER STUDENT-PRODUCED & DIRECTED SHOW...
Audition Notice
Free Range Teens is thrilled to announce auditions for our first student-produced and directed full production, William Finn’s FALSETTOS.
PERSONNEL
Director/Producer-Rex Martin
Co-Director/Producer-Maeve Lucas
ELIGIBILITY
Auditions are open to students going into grades seven to twelve. FALSETTOS contains mature content. Parents must approve of their student’s participation.
AUDITIONS
CALLBACKS
Callbacks will be scheduled based on availability through July 7.
SCHEDULE
Rehearses Tuesday & Thursday evenings 6pm to 8pm and Sundays Noon to 5pm. Performs September 6-8. The complete schedule is located on our CALENDAR. We are willing to work with summer vacation conflicts. To see only FALSETTOS dates, select that calendar from the dropdown menu in the upper right corner. If you have issues with transportation, please contact us.
LOCATION
Auditions, rehearsals and performances will take place at The Treehouse Studio Theatre in the Francis Scott Key Mall, 5500 Buckeystown Pike, Frederick, MD 21703.
AUDITION MATERIAL
For your audition, please prepare a song or a part of a song. The show is entirely musical, so there is no need to prepare a scene or monologue, but you may if you want too. Your song can be from the show or not. We do not care about appearances, you can audition for whoever you can sing for. Please note that not everyone who auditions will be in the show. The show will most likely be completely double cast.
FEE
This is a student directed and produced show, and the money goes to the rights for the show and production costs. If cast, the fee is $160 to join. If you get cast and would like to join but cannot afford it, please contact us and we can work it out.
CONTACT
To contact us about questions, you can email maevelucas2@gmail.com or call (301) 646-2622.
SHOW SYNOPSIS
Falsettos, a sung-through musical, is the story of a large, eccentric, and dysfunctional — but loving — Jewish family in New York at the end of the 1970s. Initially, Marvin seems blessed with the perfect family. He has a caring wife, Trina and a young son, Jason. Nevertheless, the family is soon broken apart, when Marvin leaves Trina for a man named Whizzer.
Trina, meanwhile, ends up romantically involved with the family psychiatrist, Mendel. All the while, their son, Jason, is stuck in the middle dealing with growing up and his approaching Bar Mitzvah. Included in the mix are lesbian neighbors Dr. Charlotte and Cordelia.
Later, when Whizzer is diagnosed with AIDS, the entire family — non-traditional as it may be — must put aside their issues and come together.
CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS:
WHIZZER: Vocal Range: E3-C5. Tenor.
Stylish, athletic, and confident. Has a turbulent relationship with MARVIN. Suffers from an unknown disease in Act 2. Male presenting.
MARVIN: Vocal Range: C3-A#4/Bb4. High baritone.
Jewish. Ex-husband to TRINA, devoted father to JASON and is smart, funny, and charming. He struggles to reconcile his desire for a happy traditional family with his love for WHIZZER. Male Presenting.
TRINA: Vocal Range: B3- E5. Soprano/Belt.
Jewish. Wife to MARVIN, Mother to JASON. Charmingly neurotic in her effort to understand her conflicting feelings in the aftermath of her divorce. She consults MENDEL, her husband’s psychiatrist, and eventually marries him. Female Presenting.
MENDEL: Vocal Range: C3-B4. High baritone.
Jewish. MARVIN’s psychiatrist –marries TRINA and enters into the tumultuous world of her life with her son, her ex, and her ex’s lover while struggling with his own feelings. Male Presenting.
JASON: Vocal Range: G3-D5. Tenor.
Jewish. MARVIN’s and TRINA’s son – bookish and awkward – Jason’s impending Bar Mitzvah, his parent’s divorce, and the entrance of WHIZZER into his life leave him confused, angry, and trying to sort it all out. Young Male Presenting.
CHARLOTTE: Vocal Range: F3-F5. Mezzo-Soprano.
One of the ‘lesbians from next door’ – Charlotte is a dedicated doctor alarmed by the mysterious illness killing her gay male patients. Tough, but extremely nurturing, and in love with her partner, CORDELIA. Female Presenting.
CORDELIA: Vocal Range: A3-E5. Mezzo-Soprano.
The other ‘lesbian from next door’ – Cordelia is CHARLOTTE’s partner – she runs her own kosher catering business, and is very keen on making a nice home– but also wants to be useful and valued for her contribution to the world. Female Presenting.
