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NRACT Announces cast for the world goes ‘round

NRACT Announces Cast for The World Goes 'Round.

The artistic team would like to thank everyone for sharing their time and talents with us at auditions. We hope that you will continue to audition for future shows at NRACT and throughout the Triangle.

The following actors have been cast in The World Goes Round:

Benji Jones
Molly Hamelin
Craig Libman
Christopher Maxwell
Nicole Montijo
Jaret Preston
Lindsey Walsh

Please contact Jess@nract.org to accept your role.

Read through/sing through will be on Sunday, January 12 from 3 to 5 PM at NRACT.

NRACT Announces Auditions for CAST Camp’s Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by ROB TRACZ and ROB ROKICKI

North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre is excited to announce auditions for our CAST Camp production of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief with music and lyrics by Rob Rokicki and book by Joe Tracz. This production will be directed by Pete Comperatore. 

Auditions will be held Saturday and Sunday, January 25th & 26th, 2025 at NRACT. Callbacks will be on Wednesday, January 29th, 2025. The production team asks actors to prepare a one-to-two minute monologue for the audition. Actors are asked to come dressed for movement for choreography. Finally, actors are asked by the music director to please prepare 16 to 32 bars of a showtune in the style of the show. (Pease avoid pop/radio songs unless they are also show tunes.) All vocal auditions should be done with live accompaniment (no karaoke tracks.) An audition accompanist will be provided, so please bring sheet music in a binder — please do not bring loose pages.

Director: Pete Comperatore

Music Director: Craig Johnson

Choreographer: Jess Barbour

Important Dates:

Auditions: 

Saturday, January 25th, 2025 at 10:00 AM

Sunday, January 26th, 2025 at 6:30 PM

Callbacks:

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025 at 7:00 PM

AGES 12-19

Camp Dates:

July 7th - July 18th, 2025 9:00-5:00 PM

Show Dates:

July 18th, 19th, & 20th, 2025 (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday)

About the show:

This dynamic musical adaptation of Rick Riordan's bestselling book opened on Broadway in 2019. When teenager Percy Jackson discovers he's a demigod, he and his friends embark on an epic journey to find Zeus' missing lightning bolt and prevent a war among the gods.

Character Breakdown: All actors will be considered for all roles regardless of gender

PERCY JACKSON – Son of Poseidon, a good kid with a teenage temper

ANNABETH – Daughter of Athena, smarter than you

GROVER – A happy-go-lucky satyr, like a hippie kid with hooves

MR. D – aka Dionysus, god of wine, snarky camp director

LUKE – Son of Hermes, cool camp counselor

GABE UGLIANO – Percy’s foul stepfather

ARES – God of war, rock star in leather pants

MINOTAUR – Half-man, half-bull

CHARON – Ferryman to the Underworld

SALLY JACKSON – Percy’s hard-working mother

MRS. DODDS – A Fury posing as a substitute algebra teacher

CLARISSE – Tough jock girl, daughter of Ares

THE ORACLE – A hippie mummy

AUNTY EM (aka Medusa) – Avid sculptor

THALIA – Daughter of Zeus, brave

BIANCA – A mysterious girl in 1930s clothes

CHIMERA

MR . BRUNNER (aka CHIRON) – Wise centaur, part-time Latin teacher

POSEIDON – God of the sea, salty beach bum

HADES – God of the dead, aging rock star type

KRONOS – a voice in a pit

CYCLOPS

BUS DRIVER

UBER DRIVER

Please fill out your audition form here:

https://forms.gle/sANgUQE664Nv9Xsc7

NRACT Announces Auditions for The Grown Ups

by Simon Henriques and Skylar Fox

North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre is excited to announce auditions for The Grown Ups by Simon Henriques and Skylar Fox.  This production will be directed by Jess Barbour. 

Auditions will be held Monday and Tuesday, February 3rd & 4th, 2025 at NRACT. Callbacks will be on Thursday, February 6th, 2025. Director asks actors to please come prepared with one of the character’s monologues from the audition sides below. 

Director: Jess Barbour

Stage Manager: Jeremy Vance

Important Dates:

Auditions: 

Monday, February 3, 2025 @ 7:00 PM

Tuesday, February 4, 2025 @ 7:00PM

Callbacks:

Thursday, February 6, 2025 @ 7:00PM

Rehearsal Schedule Range of Dates:

Possible costume measurements before first rehearsal date

Rehearsals March 15-18

TECH April 19-24

Show Dates:

April 25, 2025 – May 11, 2025 (Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays)

About the show:

The campers are all finally asleep, and the lake is getting quiet. Have a beer; make a s’more; tell a scary story. Figure out what you’re going to have to do in the morning to keep camp fun and safe without letting the kids find out about... well, you’ve seen the news. I just got a push notification – they’re getting closer.

Following a group of camp counselors trying to mold the leaders of tomorrow when tomorrow is looking bleaker and bleaker, The Grown-Ups explores the traditions that change us, what it takes for us to change them, and how to change yourself when you’re hopelessly, tragically not prepared for this.

Characters:

LUKAS (male presenting, early 20s, white) – is so psyched to be back this summer

CASSIE (female presenting, early 20s, not white*) – is excited to be joining this summer

BECCA (female presenting, early 20s, white) – is thrilled to be back this summer

MAEVE (female presenting, early 20s, white) – is literally sooo jazzed to be back this summer

AIDAN (male presenting, late 20s, white) – has a lot of new responsibilities this summer

*(From the authors) The actor who originally created this role is half Korean, half white. Cassie should not be played by a white actor, but the authors do not want to limit who can play the role beyond that. 

Please fill out your audition form here:

https://forms.gle/uAJgEfcxxXGaTwET7

Please print and bring your conflict calendar to your audition:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EA7VbKN7af4MRi12I9_sfQlgpMc6KFoF/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112275026607482588570&rtpof=true&sd=true

Audition sides:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DZjd-n3OPTLnguedNcnyv6DgjfIj5hIlJz3qsw0qEc0/edit

NRACT Announces auditions for parade

Book by alfred uhry

music by jason robert brown

NRACT is happy to announce auditions for Parade with book by Alfred Uhry and music by Jason Robert Brown.  This production will be directed by Managing Artistic Director, Timothy E. Locklear.

Auditions will be held Monday and Tuesday, February 17th & 18th, 2025, at 7:00PM at NRACT. A third audition date will be Monday, February 24th, 2025, at 7:00PM at NRACT.  Callbacks will be Thursday, February 27th, 2025, at 7:00PM at NRACT. 

Actors are asked to come to auditions with 16-32 bars of music prepared to perform.  Accompanist will be provided.  Please come with sheet music in a binder marked for the accompanist.  You may be asked to do a cold read of a portion of the script.  There will not be any movement for auditions.  

Director: Timothy E. Locklear

Music Director: Mark Hopper

Choreographer: Freddie Lee Heath

Stage Manager: David Wilk

Important Dates:

Auditions:

Monday, February 17, 2025 @ 7:00PM

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 @ 7:00PM

Monday, February 24, 2025 @ 7:00PM

Callbacks:

Thursday, February 27, 2025 @ 7:00PM

Rehearsals begin April 7, 2025

Tech Week begins June 7, 2025

Show Dates:

June 13-29, 2025 (Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays)

About the show:

In 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-raised Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, a factory worker under his employ. Already guilty in the eyes of everyone around him, a sensationalist publisher and a janitor's false testimony seal Leo's fate. His only defenders are a governor with a conscience and, eventually, his assimilated Southern wife who finds the strength and love to become his greatest champion.

Daring, innovative and bold, Parade is filled with soaring music and a heart-wrenching story, offering a moral lesson about the dangers of prejudice and ignorance that should not be forgotten.

Characters:

Leo Frank: (Male Presenting) Age 25-35 A White Jew.  Lucille’s Husband.  A few years older than his wife, he is reserved and a bit of a stiff. A New York born Jewish man raised in Brooklyn, he now works as a superintendent of the Nation Pencil Factory in Atlanta.  Leo feels alone and isolated in the South. Vocal Range: Top F4, Bottom Gb2

Lucille Frank: (Female Presenting) Age 21-32 A White Jew from Georgia.  Leo’s Wife. Daughter of a wealthy Jewish family from Atlanta.  She is a gentle, quintessential Southern wife, deferential and well mannered.  She campaigns vigorously to free her husband. Vocal Range: Top G3. Bottom E5

Jim Conley: (Male Presenting) Age 30-40 African American Georgian. Janitor at the factory. An ex-con, having served several jail sentences, he is the prosecution’s star witness. His testimony at Leo’s trial proves crucial. Vocal Range: Top Bb4, Bottom D3

Mary Phagan: (Female Presenting) Age 13 White Georgian.  A factory worker at the National Pencil Factory who is murdered. She is very innocent but has moments of sassiness and playfulness.  Vocal Range:  Top D5, Bottom Eb4

Frankie Epps: (Male Presenting) Age 14-21 White Georgian.  A cocky young man with a crush on Mary.  He vows to find her killer and avenge her death.  Vocal Range:  Top Bb4, Bottom Bb2

Hugh Dorsey: (Male Presenting) Age 35-50 White Georgian.  Atlanta's District Attorney. He is a devout Christian, who is brute and manipulative at times. Hungry for political success and recognition.  Vocal Range: Top F4, Bottom B2

Governor John Slaton: (Male Presenting) Age 35-50 White Southerner. As the Governor of Georgia, he is highly concerned with public perception. Flirtatious and fun at times. Strives to maintain his values.  Vocal Range: Top F4, Bottom Bb2 

Tom Watson: (Male Presenting) Age 40-60 White Southerner.  Editor-in-Chief of the Jeffersonian, a rightwing newspaper.  His preaching stirs public hatred of the Yankees, Jews, and Leo in particular.  Vocal Range: Top Db4, Bottom Bb2 

Judge Roan: (Male Presenting) Age 50-70 White Georgian.  Serves as the Judge on the infamous trial. Motivated by bigotry and racism, he is dangerously committed to the ideals of the Confederacy.  Vocal Range: Top D4, Bottom B2 

Mrs. Phagan: (Female Presenting) Age 35-50 White Georgian.  Mary’s Mother.  A poor woman from the country who came to Atlanta, following the death of her husband, in search of a better life for her and her daughter.  Vocal Range: Top Eb5, Bottom G3

Britt Craig: (Male Presenting) Age 25-35 White Georgian.  A washed-up reporter who can often be found three sheets to the wind. His career is revived by exploiting Leo’s case. Weaselly and desperate for his 'big break.'  Vocal Range: Top G4, Bottom Eb4

Minola “Minnie” McKnight: (Female Presenting) Age 30-55 African American Southerner.  The Franks’devoted and innocent maid.  She becomes entangled with the trial and her testimony at the trial perhaps is the greatest betrayal of trust.  Incredible actor and singer is required.  Vocal Range: Top G5, Bottom Eb3

Newt Lee: (Male Presenting) Age 40-60 African American Southerner.  A night watchman at the National Pencil Factory. A dignified Black man, at first, he is the chief suspect in Mary’s murder.  Vocal Range: Top Db4, Top Bb2 

Luther Rosser: (Male Presenting) Age 35-55 White Georgian.  Leo’s Lawyer and main counsel in his defense.

Sally Staton: (Female Presenting) Age 35-50 White Southerner.  Governor Staton’s wife.  She loyally supports him through the difficult decisions he has to make.

Iola Stover: (Female Presenting) Age 15+ White Georgian.  Mary’s Best friend.  Works at the factory.  

Angela: (Female Presenting) Age 20-35 African American Southerner.  A maid working in Governor Staton’s Household.

Riley: (Male Presenting) Age 20-40 African American Southerner.  A servant working in the Governor’s Househole.

Monteen: (Female Presenting) Age 15+ White Georgian.  A factory worker

Essie: (Female Presenting) Age 15+ White Georgian.  A factory worker 

Young Soldier: (Male Presenting) White Georgian.  Off to fight in the American Civil War

Old Soldier: (Male Presenting) White Georgian.  Returns from the American Civil War.

Other Various Ensemble Roles: Lila, Guard, Officer Ivey, Officer Starnes

To sign up for auditions please fill out this audition form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe9aN2y6yLwG4h5Zlqo_VsA0tb6xBWrWRvm5g2yuoTl3qiaOg/viewform?usp=sharing

Please fill out this conflict calendar and bring it to your audition:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HZCShtgaAKslnRqbqmWir4U1R_pvgyky/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113636235001042347415&rtpof=true&sd=true

nract announces 2024-2025 season:

overcoming obstacles

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