Audition Announcements
Casting Call for Grease
Audition Dates:
February 15th (potential callbacks on 16th at 2:30)
2:30 PM
Strauss Youth Academy for the Arts
– 16-32 bars (~45 seconds to 1 minute) of a song in the style of the show
– Be prepared for cold reads from the script
Due to adult content in the show, volunteers must be at least 17 to audition.
It’s 1959, and Rydell High School’s senior class is in rare form. The too-cool-for-school “Burger Palace Boys” are stealing hub-caps and acting tough and their gum-snapping, chain-smoking “Pink Ladies” are looking hot in bobby sox and pedal pushers. The 1950s high school dream is about to explode in this rollicking musical that is both an homage to the idealism of the fifties and a satire of high schoolers’ age-old desire to be rebellious, provocative and rebellious. At the heart of the story is the romance between hot-rodding gangster Danny Zuko and the sweet new girl in town, Sandy Dumbrowski. They had a secret romance in summer, but now back in the context of school, peer-pressure and cliques make their love a bit more complicated. Can Danny maintain his cool dude status and still get make demure Sandy his girl?
Character Breakdown:
⚡️Danny: The leader of the “Burger Palace Boys.” Well-built, nice-looking, with an air of cool easy-going charm. Strong and confident.
⚡️Sandy: Danny’s love interest. Sweet, wholesome, naive, cute, like Sandra Dee of the “Gidget” movies
🩷 Rizzo: Leader of the Pink Ladies. She is tough, sarcastic and outspoken but vulnerable. Italian, with unconventional good looks
🩷 Frenchy: A dreamer. Good natured and dumb. Heavily made-up, fussy about her appearance–particularly her hair. She can’t wait to finish high school so she can be a beautician.
🩷 Marty: The “beauty” of the Pink Ladies. Pretty, looks older than the other girls, but betrays her real age when she opens her mouth. Tries to act sophisticated.
🩷 Jan: Compulsive eater. Loud and pushy with the girls, but shy with boys.
🍔 Kenickie: Second-in-command of the Burger Palace Boys. Tough-looking, tattooed, surly, avoids any show of softness. Has an off-beat sense of humor.
🍔 Doody: Youngest of the guys. Small, boyish, open, with a disarming smile and a hero-worshipping attitude toward the other guys. He also plays the guitar.
🍔 Roger: The “anything-for-a-laugh” type. Full of mischief, half-baked schemes and ideas. A clown who enjoys putting other people on.
🍔 Sonny: Italian-looking, with shiny black hair and dark oily skin. A braggart and wheeler-dealer who thinks he’s a real lady-killer.
Patty: A typical cheerleader at a middle-class American public high school. Attractive and athletic. Aggressive, sure of herself, given to bursts of disconcerting enthusiasm. Catty, but in an all-American Girl sort of way. She can also twirl a baton.
Cha-Cha: A blind date. Slovenly, loud-mouthed and homely. Takes pride in being “the best dancer at St. Bernadette’s.”
Eugene: The class valedictorian. Physically awkward, with weak eyes and a high-pitched voice. An apple-polisher, smug and pompous but gullible.
Vince Fontaine: A typical “teen audience” radio disc jockey. Slick, egotistical, fast-talking. A veteran “greaser.”
Johnny Casino: A “greaser” student at Rydell who leads a rock ‘n’ roll band and likes to think of himself as a real rock ‘n’ roll idol.
Teen Angel: A good-looking, falsetto-voiced Fabian-look-alike. A singer who would have caused girls to scream and riot back in 1958.
Miss Lynch: An old maid English teacher.
Additional ensemble will be cast as well.
Production Dates: April 24-27 & May 1-4, 2025