PEPPERMINT CREEK 2019-20 SEASON AUDITIONS:

Peppermint Creek Theatre Company is holding auditions for their 2019-20 season.  Find season production descriptions here.  Full details on auditions and casting for each show below:

Download the PCTC 2019 - 20 Audition Form Here

Audition Dates/Times:

• Bright Star (holding auditions for JUST this production): Monday July 29 & Tuesday July 30, 6 - 10pm
• The Humans, Gloria, Cost of Living: (Actors can attend one audition day and be considered for any of these three productions) Sunday August 25 & Monday August 26, 6 - 10pm
  
• Fun Home: this musical will host auditions independently later in the season. Dates TBA.
  

Audition Location: Central United Methodist Church, 215 N. Capital Ave, Lansing MI. 

Audition Requirements: Individuals wishing to be considered for the musicals, "Bright Star" and "Fun Home" should prepare a song in the style of the show you wish to audition for.  Directors may not need to hear the entire song.  An accompanist will be provided.  For those auditioning for any of the three plays, excerpts from the play will be provided below, or at the audition.  Auditionees can fill out an audition form (above), or fill one out when they attend the audition.  Auditionees can bring a headshot/current photo of themselves, or a photo will be taken at auditions. 

Please see specific show casting breakdowns below:

Bright Star
Casting Information (actors of all ages and types encouraged to audition)

Alice Murphy – plays both 16-17 and 36-37. 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.
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. The same actor will also play an adult Jimmy Ray at age 38-40.
Stanford – Loyal assistant to Mayor Josiah Dobbs
Dr. 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.

The Humans
Casting: 2 men, 4 women
Erik Blake - sixty years old
Deirdre Blake - Erik's wife, sixty-one
Aimee Blake - their daughter, thirty-four
Brigid Blake - their daughter, twenty-six
"Momo" Blake - Erik's mother, seventy-nine
Richard Saad - Brigid's boyfriend, thirty-eight

Gloria
DEAN/DEVIN – Male. Extra-late 20s. White
KENDRA/JENNA – Female. Mid-late 20s. Asian-American
ANI/SASHA/CALLIE – Female. Early 20s. White
GLORIA/NAN – Female. Late 30s. Any ethnicity
MILES/SHAWN/RASHAAD – Male. Early 20s. African-American
LORIN – Male. Late 30s. Any ethnicity

Sides for Gloria:
Side #1 - Dean, Ani, Miles
Side #2 - Kendra, Dean, Ani
Side #3 - Nan and Sasha
Side #4 - Lorin and Callie
Side #5 - Nan and Sasha
Side #6 - Miles and Dean
Side #7 - Lorin, Ani, Dean


Cost of Living
2 men, 2 women
Further casting info coming soon....

Fun Home
Casting: 2m, 4f, 2boy(s), 1girl(s)
ALISON – 43 years old, a cartoonist
MEDIUM ALISON – 19 years old, a college freshman
SMALL ALISON – around 9 years old
BRUCE BECHDEL – Alison’s father
HELEN BECHDEL – Alison’s mother
CHRISTIAN BECHDEL – Alison’s brother, around 10 years old
JOHN BECHDEL – Alison’s brother, around 6 years old
ROY – a young man Bruce hires to do yard work
MARK – a high school junior
JOAN – a college student
PETE – a mourner