Thank you for your interest in auditioning for our 2021 - 2022 Season

Auditioning can be stressful.
The Lakewood Playhouse has adopted The Chicago Theatre Standards, which seeks to foster an environment of communication, safety, accountability, health, and well-being of organizations and participants. We hope the following disclosures help you make the informed choice should you be offered a role in a Lakewood Playhouse production:
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​Please see the audition notices below for specific audition requirements and sign-up link through Casting Manager with each show posted. Call 253-588-0042 or email productions@lakewoodplayhouse.org if you have any additional questions.
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Lakewood Playhouse AUDITIONS

• Auditions may be scheduled with 5-10 minute blocks for each non-musical audition.
• Auditions may be scheduled 10-15 minute blocks for musical auditions.
  • ​Walk-up auditions will be fit in where possible or added to the end.
• Auditions are first-come, first-serve. If all scheduled auditions are completed, auditions may close early so it is best to schedule a slot or walk-in early.
• Auditions are most often scheduled to be 3-hour blocks on consecutive Sunday (6-9pm) and Monday (7-10pm) evenings.​
• Actors will be asked to confirm that they have reviewed the supplied materials and are aware of the requirements as outlined in the audition notice or invitation.
• Auditions shall not be recorded unless specified in the notice or invitation (an exception being if video audition submissions are accepted.) Submitted recordings will only be used among casting authorities and deleted after the completion of casting.

To your audition, you should bring/prepare:

• A Headshot (candid pictures are accepted as well)
• A Resume with relevant skills, education, and experience.
• Monologues as requested by the Director that is appropriate for the material in the Show.
• A Song FOR MUSICALS ONLY - Please Include 16 Bars of a favorite song (no Sondheim, please)

​CALLBACKS

• Callbacks are by invitation only.​
• Lakewood Playhouse will provide hard-copy sides and music and provide callback materials in advance if possible.
• We will not ask prospective participants to attend more than three (3) callbacks for a single production. Callbacks generally run 2-3 hours for non-musical plays and 3-4 hours for musicals with dance callbacks, music callbacks, and character reads.
• We will not ask prospective participants to disrobe or perform violence or intimate contact as part of the audition or callback.

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2021 - 2022 auditions (Season 83)

Notice: Specific show disclosures will be available at Auditions / Callbacks. All prospective participants can decline a callback invitation or cancel an audition appointment without fear of losing future audition invitations.

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The Haunting Of Hill House Auditions
​SUNDAY, November 7TH, 2021 @ 6PM / MONDAY, November 8TH, 2021 @ 7PM

Lakewood Playhouse returns to the horror genre with The Haunting of Hill House based on the novel by Shirley Jackson.

Director:
Jen York
Performances:
Opens January 14th, 2022, closes February 6th, 2022
Special Instructions:
1-2 minute monologue

Audition sign up

Head over heels Auditions
​SUNDAY, December 12TH, 2021 @ 6PM / MONDAY, December 13TH, 2021 @ 7PM

 A hilarious, exuberant celebration of love, HEAD OVER HEELS follows the escapades of a royal family of Arcadia on an outrageous journey to save their beloved kingdom from extinction—only to discover the key to their realm’s survival lies within each of their own hearts.

Director / Choreographer:
Andrew Coopman (they/he)
Music Director:
Christopher Conway
​Performances:
Opens March 4th, 2022, closes March 27th, 2022
Special Instructions:
1-2 minute classic monologue
16 bars of a contemporary song, can be from a musical or pop genre

Audition sign up

The Diary of Anne Frank Auditions
​SUNDAY, February 13TH, 2022 @ 6PM / MONDAY, February 14TH, 2022 @ 7PM

 In this transcendently powerful new adaptation by Wendy Kesselman, Anne Frank emerges from history a living, lyrical, intensely gifted young girl who confronts her rapidly changing life and the increasing horror of her time with astonishing honesty, wit and determination. An impassioned drama about the lives of eight people hiding from the Nazis in a concealed storage attic, The Diary of Anne Frank captures the claustrophobic realities of their daily existence – their fear, their hope, their laughter, their grief.

Director:
Melanie Gladstone
​Performances:
Opens April 15th, 2022, closes May 8th, 2022
Special Instructions:
1-2 minute monologue

Ragtime Auditions
​SUNDAY, March 27TH, 2022 @ 6PM / MONDAY, March 28TH, 2022 @ 7PM

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.

Director:
Vicki Webb
Music Director:
Debbie Armstrong
Choreographer:
Indeah Harris
​Performances:
Opens June 3rd, 2022, closes June 26th, 2022
Special Instructions:
1-2 minute monologue
16 bars of a musical theatre song

This show was cast in Spring of 2020 pre-COVID, only certain roles will be available for audition. Specifics will be available earlier in 2022.