Ragtime Auditions
What You Need to Know:
Who:
actors in grades 7-12 (21-22 school year).
When: Sunday, September 19th
at
3:00 PM and
Monday, September 20th
at
6:30 PM
Where: Columbia Children’s Theatre at Richland Mall (3400 Forest Drive) Enter through the stage door.
Please arrive prior to the start time listed above, as we will audition as a group. The audition process should take approximately 2 hours.
Steps to take:
- Fill out the Online Audition Form and Conflict Calendar (Google Form)
- Review the Production Information Sheet (pdf file)
- Auditionees will be asked to perform one song from the following selections:
- Soprano: "You're Daddy's Son"
- Alto: "Back to Before"
- Tenor: "Our Children"
- Tenor/Baritone: "On the Wheels of a Dream"
- Actors may also be asked to read sides at each audition session
- You only need to attend one audition session unless you are asked to return for a callback audition.
- Rehearsals begin September 28. Rehearsals will generally be held Monday through Friday evenings, Saturday times vary, and Sunday afternoons. Performances will be November 11-13 at Harbison Theatre (link opens in Google Maps).
- Masks and social distancing (3 ft) will be required throughout the rehearsal process regardless of vaccination status.
About the Show
Director:
Julian Deleon
Music Director:
Christyne McClellan
Choreographer:
Rachel Brown
Stage Manager:
Olivia Bell
Written by the award-winning composer/lyricist team of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Once on This Island, Seussical and Lucky Stiff), noted playwright Terrence McNally, and based on E.L. Doctorow's distinguished novel, Ragtime is the winner of the 1998 Tony Awards for Best Score, Book and Orchestrations, and both the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical and Best Score. Called by TIME Magazine "A triumph for the stage," and by the International Herald Tribune "the best musical in twenty years," this acclaimed musical is filled with pageantry, emotion and hope, bursting onto the stage like no other musical.
At the dawn of a new century, everything is changing... and anything is possible. Set in the volatile melting pot of turn-of-the-century New York, three distinctly American tales are woven together – that of a stifled upper-class wife, a determined Jewish immigrant and a daring young Harlem musician – united by their courage, compassion and belief in the promise of the future. Together, they confront history's timeless contradictions of wealth and poverty, freedom and prejudice, hope and despair... and what it means to live in America.
*Trigger Warning: Please be advised this production contains racist and offensive language, physical violence, and murder. The presentation and discussion of systemic racism and historical inequities for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), immigrants, and females during the early 1900s may be difficult and traumatic to experience. Viewer discretion is advised.
