Performers Needed for "The Heart Of Rock And Roll" Show

Formerly the lead singer of a failed rock band in 1980’s Chicago. Bobby is full of charisma and charm. Currently working at a family-run cardboard company in Milwaukee trying to figure his life out. He’s passionate, lavish and impulsive – and a little rough around the edges. His ambition is fueled by the complicated legacy of his alcoholic father. Star presence on stage; a rock tenor voice and hugely compelling and comedic. Guitar a bonus but not required.

Charmingly neurotic and awkward, she’s a “numbers girl” who has left her high-powered finance job to help her father save the family company in the wake of her mother’s death. Often stuck in her head and weighed down by self-doubt, her attempts to act like a boss are usually hilarious. She struggles to let herself live in the moment – until she meets Bobby. An excellent comic with star presence and pop/rock vocals.

Smart, put together, quick witted woman who heads up human resources for Stone’s company. Having been forced out of the music department at Howard University by her mother, Roz has a soft spot for Bobby, a fellow refugee from the music industry. An excellent comic with major vocals, big pop/rock belter.

Cassandra's Father, Bobby's boss and now a widower, he is a former ball player and all-around good guy, trying to manage the grief from the loss of his wife. With the corporate upheavals of the 1980’s encroaching, his family business can’t compete - and is suffering. He is secretly paying for budget shortfalls and even payroll – by mortgaging his house. Unwilling to make changes, he is still holding onto his wife’s memory by preserving the company as it was when she was alive.

A 1980’s poster boy for preppy style, he seems to have stepped directly out the pages of the Princeton catalogue (his alma mater) encompassing everything we remember about an 80’s Yuppy. A fiercely competitive financier, he is used to getting everything he wants. He has still not recovered from losing Cassandra when she went home after her mother died. A technically perfect physical specimen, he has something of the Ted Bundy living just behind the eyes.

Cassandra's highly opinionated and vocal best friend from college, she is a new mother feeling all the postpartum madness that comes with a new stage of life, marriage and friendships. Eager to recapture the freewheeling feeling of being young and open, she projects some of her own issues onto Cassandra – but ultimately discovers a new version of herself when she takes over a flailing aerobics class and finds her inner Richard Simmons/Jane Fonda.

The CEO and inventor of an IKEA-like Swedish furnishing company, he is an idiosyncratic business genius, expert in controlling people by sending bizarrely mixed signals and keeping them guessing at all times. An immigrant to Sweden, he speaks with a somewhat indecipherable Nordic dialect, influenced by his international upbringing by a series of nannies and ultra-wealthy world peripatetic parents.

Bobby’s younger cousin, he is the innocent, thoughtful heart of the band. And its drummer. He pulls at Bobby’s heartstrings when he reminds him of where he came from, why he started playing music, and what his father wanted before he died. He is soulful and witty with an excellent pop rock tenor. Drumming a bonus but not required.

Considers himself to be the realist of the band, but actually just angry at life. A bass player with a need to sing lead. He wants to be seen/heard. Rather than looking for new ideas, he clings to old. Grudges and paradigms that keep him from embracing the opportunities in front of him. Also, he still lives in his mother’s basement. An excellent comic with an excellent pop rock tenor. Bass a bonus but not required.

Earnest and kind-hearted, slightly stoned at all times, he lives in the moment with a brain that functions slowly, as if the gears are rusty but determined to work. He takes everything more seriously than he should – which makes him quite funny without realizing it. A guitar player happy being in the background, he stays out of the in-fighting and is always up for giving people another chance. An excellent comic with soul and a pop rock bari-tenor voice. Guitar a bonus but not required.

Paige's husband and Tucker's best friend. He's hyper-passionate about everything he does; be it singing with Tucker in their college a cappella band, cutting loose on a staycation in Chicago, and most of all, loving his wife.