Ovation Encore
GREEN DAY'S AMERICAN IDIOT
MARCH 26-28, 2021
Auditions are January 17th, with callbacks on January 18th. Please sign up for an audition slot below.
COVID-19 PROCEDURES:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/124jMAD5T0yxs4JWZawtFHhxIGUgWPVLx/view?usp=sharing
The two-time Tony Award-winning hit musical Green Day's American Idiot, based on the Grammy Award-winning multi-platinum album, boldly takes the American musical where it's never gone before. This high-octane show includes every song from Green Day's album, American Idiot, as well as several songs from its follow-up release, 21st Century Breakdown.
Johnny, Tunny and Will struggle to find meaning in a post-9/11 world. When the three disgruntled men flee the constraints of their hometown for the thrills of city life, their paths are quickly estranged when Tunny enters the armed forces, Will is called back home to attend to familial responsibilities, and Johnny's attention becomes divided by a seductive love interest and a hazardous new friendship. An energy-fueled rock opera, American Idiot, features little dialogue and instead relies on the lyrics from Green Day's groundbreaking album to execute the story line.
Johnny
The self-proclaimed "Jesus of Suburbia." Bored of his do-nothing, go-nowhere existence, he takes off for the city to get a new lease on life. He wages an inner war between a budding love for Whatsername and growing dependency on St. Jimmy and drugs.
Gender: Male
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: B4
Vocal range bottom: B2
Tunny
Johnny's friend who follows him to the city and eventually enlists in the army. He travels to the Middle East. A dreamer who is easily swayed, first by Johnny's ideas and then by patriotism and the American Dream.
Gender: Male
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: B4
Vocal range bottom: D3
Will
Johnny's friend. He ends up staying in Suburbia to take care of pregnant girlfriend Heather. The more he stays on the couch, the more he becomes slowly disconnected from the world and his own relationships.
Gender: Male
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: A4
Vocal range bottom: C#3
St. Jimmy
Johnny's alter ego. Known as the "city badass." An enigmatic and charismatic enabler who gets Johnny addicted to drugs and grows jealous of his relationship with Whatsername.
Gender: Male (WE ARE CONSIDERING ALL GENDER IDENTITIES FOR ST. JIMMY)
Age: 30 to 40
Vocal range top: F#5
Vocal range bottom: C3
Heather
A girl in Suburbia and Will's girlfriend. She discovers she is pregnant but has difficulty telling her boyfriend of the news. Once she settles down with him, she struggles to maintain their relationship with his despondency and eventually leaves him.
Gender: Female
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Whatsername
A girl in the city who falls for Johnny. A rebellious activist who is willing to follow Johnny to the ends of the earth, but fights to have him embrace their authentic relationship rather than pursue his addiction.
Gender: Female
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: D#5
Vocal range bottom: F#3
Extraordinary Girl
A girl in the Middle East who appears as a sexual hallucination to injured Tunny. Attractive and mysterious, she later appears as his nurse and accompanies him home after the war.
Gender: Female
Age: 20 to 35
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Ensemble
The Men (Carson, Daniel, Brandon, John, Jamal, Dustin, Jared); The Women (Chelsea, Ashley, Aurie)
PLEASE PREPARE A 16-32 BAR CUT OF A POP/ROCK SONG FROM A MUSICAL OR TOP 40 CHART. THERE WILL BE NO ACCOMPANIST AT THE AUDITION, SO PLEASE BRING YOUR DESIRED TRACK TO ACCOMPANY YOU. IF YOU ARE AUDITIONING FOR THE ROLES OF: JOHNNY, WILL, or TUNNY, PLEASE BRING AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR TO CALLBACKS OR ACCOMPANY YOURSELF DURING YOUR AUDITION.
Date: 01/17/2021 (Sun.)
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm CST
Location:
Ovation Academy of Performing Arts
404 Power House St, McKinney, Texas 75071
