HappyPlace Productions announces auditions for Something Rotten on August 4 & 5 from 6pm – 9pm (you are only required to attend one night of auditions). Invited call backs are August 6 from 6pm-9pm. Auditions will be at the RRCA stage. Rehearsals will be at Elevate Church Monroe. Performers ages 18+ are welcome to audition.
Show Dates: October 10-12, 2025
Location: Meyer Theater at Monroe County Community College
Director: Kathleen Foulkrod
Assistant Director: Llewellyn Winters
Choreographer: Lisa Lewandowski
Music Director: Thomas Johnston
Stage Manager: Marvelous Brown
Props Manager & Assistant Stage Manager: Lexi Nemeth
Costumer: Lisa Gessner
Please prepare 16-32 bars (1-2 minutes) of a musical theater song that best demonstrates your singing ability. Bring your sheet music as an accompanist will be provided.
There will be a short dance taught at auditions; no prepared dance is required. Please wear comfortable clothes and shoes to dance in. If you would like to do a tap audition, please bring your tap shoes.
There is a cast fee of $50 for those cast in the show.
Click the link for an audition form to fill out before auditions. We will also have some at auditions if you are unable to print out this form.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OpdzcTEi-wAhNOmPX0fJqn1jz-RpCnQIug-XHuUymG8/edit?usp=sharing
Summary:
Set in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as "The Bard." When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first musical. But amidst the scandalous excitement of opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self, and all that jazz.
Cast of Characters:
Shakespeare - The Bard. Over the top with a huge ego
Nick Bottom - A struggling writer who cannot stand Shakespear. Nigel’s older brother
Nibel Bottom - Nick’s sweet younger brother. A struggling writer who falls in love with Portia, a Puritan.
Bea - Nick’s wife. She loves Nick despite his past lack of success. She dresses up like a man to prove she can be an actor.
Portia - A Puritan woman who loves poetry, theater and ultimately Nigel.
Nostradamus - A soothsayer
Brother Jeremiah - Portia’s father. A Puritan who thinks Nick and Nigel’s plays are sinful
Lord Clapham - A posh patron of the theater
Shylock – An investor to whom Nick and Nigel are in debt
Ensemble - Minstrel, Townspeople, Troupe, Man Servants, Crowd, Chorus, etc.
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