Ghost Light Theater
Auditions for Ghost Light Theater’s LIZZIE!!
July 9 and 10 at 6:00 PM
Gateway City Arts – 92 Race St. in Holyoke

Ghost Light Theater announces auditions for LIZZIE!!!
Music by Steven Cheslik-deMeyer and Alan Stevens Hewitt, Lyrics by Steven Cheslik-deMeyer and Tim Maner & Book by Tim Maner

Directed by Kevin Tracy
Music Direction by Sarah Puckett
Choreography by Sarah Devine

On a sweltering summer morning in 1892, in a small New England city, a prominent businessman and his wife were brutally axed to death in their home. Their daughter Lizzie Borden was the prime suspect. Lizzie’s trial was a coast-to-coast media sensation, and her story has become an American legend.

LIZZIE is four women fronting a six-piece rock band. LIZZIE is rage, sex, betrayal, and bloody murder. LIZZIE is American mythology set to a blistering rock score.

Please be advised that this production contains adult subject matter – some of a violent and sexual nature.

Auditions will take place July 9 & 10th at 6:00 PM at Gateway  City Arts – 92 Race St. in Holyoke.
Call backs are by invitation only.

Please prepare 32 bars of a rock song – you can bring sheet music for accompaniment or bring a backing track to play over Bluetooth. You will be asked to read from the script and participate in a short dance call.

Please fill out this audition form and submit it back to producer Megan Healey via email (healeymegan11@gmail.com)  by noon on your audition day.

Rehearsals begin once weekly or bi-weekly starting in mid-July with a regular rehearsal schedule starting in September.
Performances are November 3, 4**, 9, 10 & 11 at Gateway City Arts in Holyoke.
**2 show day

AVAILABLE ROLES

LIZZIE BORDEN: Lead, Female identifying, 20-30
The younger daughter of the Borden household, accused of her father and stepmother’s murders; transforms from broken, fragile, meek, and obedient to strong, self assured, conniving, and terrifying.
Rock mezzo with strong high belt and head voice (High belt: F#3-F#5, Belt to A5)
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities

ALICE RUSSELL: Supporting, Female identifying, 20-30
She lives next door to the Bordens and visits Lizzie often; secret, sweet, and sensuous, with a slightly maternal tenderness in her affections for Lizzie.
Pop/rock soprano with strong mix. (High mezzo lyric/mix/belt: G3 with F#3 pick-up – A5 legit soprano)
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities

BRIDGET SULLIVAN/MAGGIE: Supporting, Female identifying, 20-35
Speaks and sings with an Irish dialect, traditional Irish lilting to hard rock-n-roll; housemaid to the Borden family; sly, with a dark, dry sense of humor; quick on the uptake. Rock mezzo. (Contralto/low alto: F3 with E3 pick-up)
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities

EMMA BORDEN: Supporting, Female Identifying, 30-35
Older sister to Lizzie; resents her father’s second wife and his financial support of her family; commanding, angry, outspoken, and possessive, but also desperately sad. Rock alto/mezzo belt. (Alto/mezzo belt: F#3-D5)
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities

Ghost Light Theater encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities to audition.
LIZZIE is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC. (www.broadwaylicensing.com)