EXPIRES: August 11, 2025

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

Theater
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 Project roles
Paul Matthews
20
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39.
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.
Application deadline closed.
Emma Perkins
20
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39.
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.
Application deadline closed.
Bill Woodward
30
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49.
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).
Application deadline closed.
Ted Spankoffski
30
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49.
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.
Application deadline closed.
Charlotte Sweetly
30
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49.
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.
Application deadline closed.
Henry Hidgens
50
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69.
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.
Application deadline closed.
Sam Sweetly
30
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49.
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.
Application deadline closed.
John J. McNamara
30
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59.
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).
Application deadline closed.
Zoey Chambers
20
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24.
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.
Application deadline closed.
Ken Davidson
30
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36.
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.
Application deadline closed.
Nora Beanie
30
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56.
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.
Application deadline closed.
Greg/Stu/Workin’ Boys
20
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29.
Hidgens’ old college chums. The subjects of his musical. Key relationships: Hidgens (friend) Content: This role involves possible staged violence.
Application deadline closed.