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Actors Needed for "The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals" Show

Grafton, MA, United States
ID: 290585Exp: 8/11/2025
Description:

The company is holding auditions for "The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals" and looking for performers, please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. Additional info: KEY INFO & DATES Rehearsal days: Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday Tue & Thur: 6:30pm - 9:30pm Sun: 1pm - 4pm NOTE: Not all cast members will be needed for every rehearsal, but attendance during tech week* is mandatory. First rehearsal: SUNDAY, August 17th @ 1pm – Read through with the full cast *Tech week: 10/19/25 - 10/23/25 (no rehearsal on 10/22/2025) SHOW DATES: 10/24/25 - 10/26/25 For your audition, please prepare 16–32 bars of a song in the style of the character you're interested in. If you'd like, you may also prepare a short cut of a song from the show in addition to your main selection, though this is completely optional. Please have a backing track ready to go. Please see the attachment for more details. If interested, please apply

12 roles

Paul MatthewsMale20-39 y.o.All ethnicities

Just a guy who doesn’t like musicals. Born and raised in Hatchetfield, he is perfectly content with his mundane office job and his mediocre Beanie’s coffee. Key relationships: Emma (love interest), Bill (best friend/coworker), Ted (frenemy/coworker), Charlotte (friend/coworker), Davidson (boss) Content: This role involves staged violence (including interactions with a prop gun) and staged intimacy with Emma.

Emma PerkinsMale20-39 y.o.All ethnicities

A barista trying to work her way through community college. She has exactly two aspirations in life: to start a pot farm and to not die in Hatchetfield. She hates musical theatre just as much as Paul does. Key relationships: Paul (love interest), Hidgens (professor-turned-enemy), Zoey (enemy/coworker), Nora (boss) Content: This role involves staged violence (including interactions with a prop gun) and staged intimacy with Paul.

Bill WoodwardMale30-49 y.o.All ethnicities

A kind-hearted, recently divorced man who just wants to connect with his teenage daughter, Alice. Key relationships: Paul (best friend/coworker), Ted (frenemy/coworker), Charlotte (friend/coworker), Alice (daughter), Deb (daughter’s girlfriend) Content: This role involves staged violence (including interactions with a prop gun).

Ted SpankoffskiMale30-49 y.o.All ethnicities

A self-described sleazeball who wants to sleep with as many women as possible. He is currently having an affair with Charlotte. Key relationships: Paul (frenemy/coworker), Bill (frenemy/coworker), Charlotte (affair partner/coworker) Content: This role involves staged violence (including interactions with a prop gun), staged intimacy with Charlotte, and strong sexual innuendo.

Charlotte SweetlyMale30-49 y.o.All ethnicities

An anxious woman desperate to repair her failing marriage with Sam…even as she cheats on him with Ted. Key relationships: Paul (friend/coworker), Bill (friend/coworker), Ted (affair partner/coworker), Sam (husband) Content: This role involves staged violence (including interactions with a prop gun) and staged intimacy with Ted and Sam.

Henry HidgensMale50-69 y.o.All ethnicities

An eccentric, reclusive biology professor who (somehow) theorized this exact scenario 30 years ago. While he’s been preparing for the apocalypse, he’s also been writing his very own musical… Key relationships: Emma (student), Greg/Stu/Workin’ Boys (old college chums) Content: This role involves staged violence (including interactions with a prop gun) and strong sexual innuendo.

Sam SweetlyMale30-49 y.o.All ethnicities

Charlotte’s scummy cop husband who is cheating on her with Zoey. Key relationships: Charlotte (wife), Zoey (girlfriend) Content: This role involves staged violence (including interactions with a prop gun), staged intimacy with Charlotte and possibly Zoey, and strong sexual innuendo.

John J. McNamaraMale30-59 y.o.All ethnicities

A general of the United States army who tries to help Paul escape Hatchetfield. He works for PEIP, a secret organization that investigates paranormal, extraterrestrial, and inter-dimensional phenomena. Content: This role involves staged violence (including interactions with a prop gun).

Zoey ChambersMale20-24 y.o.All ethnicities

Catty and self-absorbed. Works at Beanie’s to pay the rent but is really an actress…or will be, anyway. She enjoys proximity to power and is having an affair with Sam. Key relationships: Emma (enemy/coworker), Sam (boyfriend), Nora (boss) Content: This role involves staged violence (including interactions with a prop gun), sexual innuendo, and possible staged intimacy with Sam.

Ken DavidsonMale30-36 y.o.All ethnicities

Paul’s boss at Coven Communications Research and Power (CCRP). He is one of the first to be infected. Key relationships: Paul (employee) Content: This role involves strong sexual innuendo.

Nora BeanieFemale30-56 y.o.All ethnicities

Owner of Hatchetfield’s local coffee shop, Beanie’s. She employs Emma and Zoey as baristas and introduces the “Tip for a song!” policy that Emma hates. Key relationships: Emma (employee), Zoey (employee) Content: This role involves mild sexual innuendo.

Greg/Stu/Workin’ BoysMale20-29 y.o.All ethnicities

Hidgens’ old college chums. The subjects of his musical. Key relationships: Hidgens (friend) Content: This role involves possible staged violence.