2024-2025 Season
SPRING Productions
Bakkhai: Director Theo Fantozzi
Auditions: Monday, December 9 and Tuesday, December 10
Guys and Dolls: Directed by Jimmy Calitri with Musical Direction by Emily Turtle and Choreography by Dante Sciarra
Auditions: Friday, January 24 and Saturday, January 25, 2025.
Call backs: Monday, Feb 3 (6:30pm – 10:00pm)
Location: URI Fine Arts Center, 105 Upper College Rd.
Audition sign-up sheets will be located outside the URI Theatre main office. If you are unable to sign up in person, please call 401-874-5921.
AUDITION REQURIEMENTS:
Please prepare a 32-bar cut of a musical theatre song in the style of Guys & Dolls. Music should be printed out for the accompanist, marked correctly, and in the proper key. A Group Dance audition will follow your individual audition. Wear appropriate clothing and shoes that you can move in. If you have a special talent such as tap, tumbling, etc. please prepare a brief (less than one minute) display to perform during your audition slot.
CHARACTERS:
Nathan Detroit (Vocal range top: F5, Vocal range bottom: D4): A good-hearted gambler and craps game organizer who could never hit the bigtime. He loves Adelaide, but cannot quit his gambling ways. A broke schemer with unwitting ways.
Miss Adelaide (Vocal range top: E5, Vocal range bottom: A3): Nathan’s fiancé and a lead performer at the Hot Box club. She loves Nathan more than anything in the world and desperately wants to get married. Pretty, outspoken, stubborn.
Sky Masterson (Vocal range top:E5, Vocal range bottom: B3): A high-stakes gambler whose luck never seems to run out, and a wild card who surprises himself when he falls in love with the unlikeliest of women. Suave, smart, and handsome.
Sarah Brown (Vocal range top: G5, Vocal range bottom: B3): A pretty, bright-eyed women who serves as Sergeant of the local Mission, and wishes to convert the gambling sinners to saints. She is prudish and uptight, but eventually lets go.
Nicely-Nicely Johnson (Vocal range top: B5, Vocal range bottom: D4): Just like his name suggests, he is the nicest and cheeriest of the gambling crooks. High-spirited and a bit naive, but sincere and genuine. Nathan’s loyal friend and lackey.
Benny Southstreet (Vocal range top: G5, Vocal range bottom: D4): Nathan’s right-hand man and gamble himself. Smart, slick, always moving and shaking, but with what he thinks are Nathan’s best interests at heart.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
Gambler, Nathan Detroit, tries to find the cash to set up the biggest craps game in town while the authorities breathe down his neck; meanwhile, his girlfriend and nightclub performer, Adelaide, laments that they’ve been engaged for fourteen years. Nathan turns to fellow gambler, Sky Masterson, for the dough, and Sky ends up chasing the straight-laced missionary, Sarah Brown, as a result. Guys and Dolls takes us from the heart of Times Square to the cafes of Havana, Cuba, and even into the sewers of New York City, but eventually everyone ends up right where they belong.
REHEARSALS:
First Read – Saturday, March 1
Weekday Rehearsals: Tues-Fri evenings
Weekend Rehearsals: Sat-Sun daytime
Dark Day: There will be no rehearsals on Mondays.
TECH & PERFORMANCES:
Tech: Fri-Sun, April 11-13, 2025
Dress Rehearsals: Mon-Wed, April 14-16, 2025
Performances:
Thurs-Sat, April 17-19 @ 7:30pm
Wed-Sat, April 23-25 @ 7:30pm
Sun, April 27, 2025 @ 2:00pm
FALL Productions
Machinal and Peter and the starcatcher
Auditions are Tuesday, September 3 and Wednesday, September 4 from 7-10:30 pm.
Auditions will be held in J-studio and actors will sign up for one 5-minute time slot to perform their monologues for both plays in one time slot.
For a time slot, please sign up on the sheets outside of the main office or contact the main office to schedule a time slot. (401-874-5921). Time slot sheets will be posted one week before the auditions. If you can, please fill the Tuesday slots first, as we want to leave space on Wednesday for those students who are unable to audition on Tuesday, due to conflicts.
Audition Requirements for Machinal:
Please prepare and memorize a 1–2-minute dramatic monologue (classic or contemporary)
Callbacks for Machinal: Thursday, September 5 from 7 from 7-10:30 pm.
First rehearsal for Machinal: Friday, September 6 from 6:30-10 pm.
Audition requirements for Peter and the Starcatcher:
Please prepare and memorize a 1–2-minute monologue that you think speaks to contemporary adolescence. For callbacks, prepare 16 bars of anything you would like to sing acapella.
Callbacks for Peter and the Starcatcher: Sunday, September 8 from 1-4pm
First Rehearsal for Peter and the Starcatcher: October 22, 6:30-10 pm.
Casting Policy
URI Theatre is committed to equal opportunity and non-traditional casting. Our productions strongly encourage any/and all students, staff, faculty or members of the community to audition and/or participate in URI productions. There will be no discrimination based on sex, race, color, age, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran and/or disability status.