Audition Information
Audition prep
Auditions are December 9-10 at 6PM at the Carrollton Center for the Arts.
- Complete online application (Click Here)
- Verify your availability by checking the production schedule and listing any conflicts.
- Prepare vocal sections noted below. Come warmed up and vocally ready.
- Bring comfortable shoes you can dance in. Come stretched.
- Share audition with others
Female Song Selections
If You Knew My Story (mm. 35-72)
Sheet Music
Rehearsal Track
(Track starts at m.33)
Asheville (mm. 52-84)
Sheet Music
Rehearsal Track
(Track starts on m.46)
Male Song Selections
Bright Star (mm. 22-52)
Sheet Music
Rehearsal Track
(Track starts on m.18 (1 repeat))
She’s Gone (mm. 61-88)
Sheet Music
Rehearsal Track
(Track starts on m.57)
You will not need to bring an additional prepared piece of music. You will be singing the above selections with the rehearsal tracks.
There are no reading sides that need to be reviewed for the first audition.
Production Team
Producer: Amanda Camp-Fenlon
Director: Nicolle Nason
Music Director: Ed Thrower
Choreographer: Sydney Coleman
Stage Manager: Katie Dugan Barrett
Asst. Stage Manager: Becca Davis
Lighting Director: Kelsey Craft
Overview
Inspired by a true story and featuring the Tony®-nominated score by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, Broadway’s BRIGHT STAR tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the rich backdrop of the American South in the 1920s and ’40s. When literary editor Alice Murphy meets a young soldier just home from World War II, he awakens her longing for the child she once lost. Haunted by their unique connection, Alice sets out on a journey to understand her past—and what she finds has the power to transform both of their lives. With beautiful melodies and powerfully moving characters, the story unfolds as a rich tapestry of deep emotion. An uplifting theatrical journey that holds you tightly in its grasp, BRIGHT STAR is as refreshingly genuine as it is daringly hopeful.
Character Breakdowns
ALICE MURPHY – Alice at age 36-37 is an editor of a southern literary magazine; intelligent, attractive, professional – but with an air of melancholy. Young Alice at age 16-17 is rebellious, high-spirited, adventurous – looking to break out of small-town life and experience the world. She must be very strong singer and comfortable in folk and bluegrass styles. (Please note, this may be cast as two actors – 1920s and 1940s)
BILLY CANE – A young soldier returning home from WWII; an aspiring young writer; fresh, open, optimistic, charming, and a little naïve.
DADDY CANE – Billy’s father. A widower. Spry, good looking. Kind hearted, if a bit lonely.
MARGO CRAWFORD – A small-town bookstore owner; a childhood friend of Billy’s who now harbors romantic feelings towards him; a natural beauty with a keen intellect.
MAX – A customer at Margo’s bookstore, at first, he has a crush on Margo, but later becomes Edna’s beau.
FLORENCE – An employee at Margo’s bookstore and a childhood friend of both Billy and Margo.
EDNA – An employee at Margo’s bookstore.
DARYL AMES – An assistant at a literary magazine. Funny, with a dry and officious sense of humor. Insecure, and perhaps a bit socially awkward, but endearing and innately likeable.
LUCY GRANT – A junior editor at a literary magazine. An ambitious, professional young “modern” career woman of the 1940’s. Strong, forthright and provocative with a sharp sense of humor.
MAMA MURPHY – Alice’s mother. A caretaker to her family and her rural community. A warm, loving, sensible woman. Hardworking, with great inner strength and compassion.
DADDY MURPHY – Alice’s father; an authoritative and a stern disciplinarian; devoutly religious, hard-working, a poor but proud farmer.
MAYOR JOSIAH DOBBS – The Mayor of Zebulon; a political and financial powerbroker – distinguished, an imposing and controlling presence; has a genuine interest in protecting his son’s future and his family name, but in doing so, is ultimately pushed to a point of extreme and irrevocable cruelty.
JIMMY RAY DOBBS – plays both age 18-20 and 38-40. Jimmy Ray in his early 20s in flashbacks is Mayor Dobbs’ son and young Alice’s beau; handsome, boyishly charming, well-built and intelligent; from a family of wealth and power and is being groomed by his father for a similar future in the family business; an independent thinker who is not afraid to stand up to his father for what he believes in; he has a sense of personal responsibility and morality as well as a deep reserve of passion and emotion. (Please note, this may be cast as two actors – 1920s and 1940s)
STANFORD – Loyal assistant to Mayor Josiah Dobbs
NORQUIST– The local family doctor in Zebulon
GOVERNMENT CLERK – A clerk at the Office of Records in Raleigh
WELL-DRESSED WOMAN – A woman (38-40) living in Raleigh.
ENSEMBLE – Number TBD