Auditions for “The 1940’s Radio Hour”

Here's another show coming up later this year, and auditions are in a couple of weeks. Here's the press release:

Arts Resources for the Tri-State (ARTS) announces auditions for The 1940’s Radio Hour, to be presented in December. Roles are available for four adult women and eight adult men.

The 1940’s Radio Hour takes place during WWII, in December 1942, as stars of a radio broadcast, “The Mutual Manhattan Variety
Cavalcade” perform for a studio audience and “for our boys oversees.” Featuring the big band favorites “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “Chatanooga Choo-Choo” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” the cast performs music of the Big-Band era, including the “Pepsi Cola” jingle and a commercial for Sal Hepatica laxative. With a Frank Sinatra wannabe in the lead, the cast of colorful characters performs a colorful, memorable tip-of-the-hat to wartime 1940s, with a patriotic finale of “Strike Up the Band.”

Serving as both director and musical director is ARTS regular, Bruce Rous. Rous has previously worked on the show four times, and is thrilled to be bringing the production to Tri-State audiences: “This show is wonderful. It’s filled with joy, and the music is some of the best ever written. The characters are terrific, very real people who work at this small NYC radio station.” Rous, a veteran of Broadway, Off-Broadway, and Regional theatre is “extremely excited for the talent of the Tri-State to have a shot at this show.”

Production dates are December 4-6, and 11-14 in the Renaissance Center. Auditions are by appointment only September 13 and 14. Actors should prepare a song from the period. Appointments can be scheduled by emailing rous1@marshall.edu. Minimal weekend rehearsals begin in September, with the full rehearsal period beginning the last week of October.