All are welcome to audition, if you have any questions or have conflicts with the auditions dates but still would like to audition please email Director Leah Jensen at leahjensen17@gmail.com

What to prepare- In your music audition you will be ask to prepare one of the four cuttings provided and sing with one of the tracks provided. Sheet music can be found in the choir room. (Sheet music and tracks will be added here soon). For the dance audition you will be taught dance combination and asked to perform it in small groups. Please make sure to be wearing clothing you can easily move in.

Interest Meeting and Workshop

February 13th- 2:30-5:00

Vocal Auditions

February 17th- 3:30- 5:30

February 19th- 2:20- 5:00

Dance Auditions

February 18th- 2:30-5:00

Overview- Aboard elegant ocean liner traveling from New York City to London, a gregarious cast of characters looks for love, escape and entertainment. This musical was originally written in 1934 features music from Broadway titan, Cole Porter. It is an irreverent comedy with fantastic tap numbers and 1930’s elegance.

Character Descriptions

Reno Sweeny- A bold, intelligent woman who mixes evangelism with jazz singing. She is undoubtedly confident and champions the underdogs.

Reno’s Show Girls(4)- Purity, Chastity, Charity and Virtue. They are a part of Reno’s act. They are skilled dancers and entertainers

Hope Harcourt- A young hopeless romantic engaged to the wrong man. Her heart wants to be with young Billy Crocker but her head and her mother tell her to marry the wealthy Lord Evelyn Oakleigh.

Evangeline Harcourt- Hope’s mother who is a widow and deeply afraid of becoming “poor”. She wants her daughter to marry Lord Evelyn Oakleigh so that she may be financially supported.

Lord Evelyn Oakleigh- A wealthy Englishman, who is engaged to Hope. He loves learning American idioms and is a distant scandalous relative of Lord Byron.

Elisha Whitney- A proud Yale alumni who is now a business tycoon. He is infatuated with Evangeline Harcourt but always seems to say the worst things to her.

Billy Crocker- An energetic recent Yale graduate who is assistant to Elisha Whitney and is head over heels for Hope. He is on a desperate mission to win her heart away from her fiancee.

Moonface Martin- Public Enemy #13, adept at disguises and is carrying around a tommy gun in a violin case. He has big dreams to become public enemy #1.

Erma- Public enemy #1 Snake Eyes’ girlfriend of whom she has been abandoned by. She uses her feminine wiles to get what she wants.

Spit and Dippy- Two wayward New York City hooligans who were being brought to England as repentant sinners, now are bringing aboard gambling.

Ship’s Captain- In charge of the safety and entertainment of everyone aboard the ship.

Ship’s Purser- In charge of the organization of everyone aboard the ship and enforcing the captain’s rules

Sailor Quartet (4)- The crew of the ship. They are completely entangled by Erma.

Other Characters- Fred (A bartender), Henry T. Dobson (an actual minister), A Newspaper Photographer, A Reporter, Two F.BI Agents and an Old Lady in a Wheelchair

Ensemble- Ship’s crew and passengers

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Champlin Park Theatre

6025 109th Ave N, Champlin, MN 55316

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