Auditions for Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5, The Musical! will be held at the Chattanooga Theatre Centre Monday and Tuesday, May 11 and 12, at 7:30 p.m.
The musical will be presented on the MainStage of the CTC July 17-Aug. 2. Lindsay Fussell is directing with Allan Ledford as musical director.
The auditions will begin Monday and Tuesday with vocal auditions followed by dance auditions. Actors are asked to wear or bring clothes and shoes that they can dance in – no flip flops, clogs, or super-high heels.
Those auditioning, if they choose, may bring a song (16-32 bars max) to perform for the audition. The musical director will teach selections from the show that everyone will sing first.
Short scenes from the script will be read during acting auditions at call backs on Thursday, May 14.
These are the 9-5 characters:
VIOLET NEWSTEAD – No-nonsense office section leader with a heart of gold. Mother to teenaged son
DORALEE RHODES – Spirited country gal. Warm, personable, sexy
JUDY BERNLY – Middle-aged divorcee. Insecure but determined. Just entering the workplace for the first time.
FRANKLIN HART, JR – The boss: smarmy, pompous, and his own biggest fan
ROZ KEITH – Crisp, obnoxious office manager. Has a big time crush on Hart
JOE – Young accountant. Good guy and very interested in Violet
DWAYNE – Doralee’s salt-of-the-earth husband
JOSH – Violet’s cool teenaged son
DICK – Judy’s ex who left her for a much younger woman. Not such a good guy
MARGARET – The office lush
MARIA DELGADO – Secretary who is on Roz’s bad side
MISSY HART – Hart’s sweet-natured wife. She is oblivious to Hart’s one-sided thing for Doralee
KATHY – Secretary
BOB ENRIGHT – Hart’s golden boy. A toadie
TINSWORTHY – Chairman of the Board
DETECTIVE
COP
DOCTOR
INTERN
CANDY STRIPER
ORDERLY
ENSEMBLE MEN AND WOMEN – Singing, dancing actors
The Chattanooga Theatre Centre, now celebrating their 91st season, is at 400 River St. Find more information online at TheatreCentre.com or www.facebook.com/theatrecentre or by calling the box office at 267-8534 Tuesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.