2027 Season Auditions
Auditions will be held at
129 E Alder St, Walla Walla, WA 99362
2027 Season Auditions
Casting breakdowns for Les Misérables and Mean Girls. We audition in both New York City and Walla Walla. This page and sign-up are for our Walla Walla auditions only.
Auditions
Friday, March 5, from 5-9 PM
Saturday, March 6, from 12-9 PM
Callbacks
Sunday, March 7, from 2-10 PM
By invitation
Booking
By appointment only. Book a slot through the sign-up link; we can't see walk-ins.
Pay & Housing
Stipends are listed with each role. Housing and travel are not provided for local performers.
Les Misérables
BY ALAIN BOUBLIL & CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHÖNBERG · LYRICS BY HERBERT KRETZMER
Cast:
25+ roles plus ensemble, many doubling
Music:
Through-sung; trained singers
Dance:
None required; staging and movement
WHAT TO PREPARE
32 bars in similar style to the show.
REHEARSAL SCHEDULE
YOUNG PERFORMERS
Stipends are paid per performer, including double-cast roles.
Principals: 9 roles
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This role has already been cast and is not available for auditions.
Male | Age 35-49
Range G#2 – B4High lyric baritone or tenor. A poor peasant who rises to affluence, with great natural nobility and dignity. A powerful figure of operatic size and passion. Needs strong low notes and a strong falsetto; the voice can be pop/rock or classical, but the text must land with total clarity.
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This role has already been cast and is not available for auditions.
Male | Age 35-49
Range F2 – F#4Baritone. The policeman who hunts Valjean relentlessly. An imposing, law-and-order figure obsessed, past the point of reason, with a rigid and merciless moral code. Needs natural gravitas and the range to be expressive and dynamic.
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Stipend: $1,500
Female | Age 20-30
Range D3 – E5A poor, elegant factory worker raising her daughter alone, who falls to pauper, prostitute, consumptive and finally ghost. Earthy and poignant. She's defeated by circumstance in the end, but she should read as strong and a survivor who fights hard against everything thrown at her.
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Stipend: $1,500
Male | Age 35-49
Range C3 – G4A crooked innkeeper, later a petty, amoral thief. Greedy, irreverent, selfish, boorish and vulgar. A strong comic character role.
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Stipend: $1,500
Female | Age 30-49
Range G#3 – D5Belter. Tough, sharp, coarse and vulgar. A strong character comedienne role.
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Stipend: $1,500
Female | Age 18-25
Range F3 – F5An enormous, beautiful belt with a contemporary edge. Daughter of the Thénardiers, though she behaves nothing like them. Driven by an unrequited love for Marius. Gamine. She hasn't learned to hide her feelings and wears her heart on her sleeve.
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Stipend: $1,500
Female | Age 18-25
Range Bb3 – C6Soprano to high C with a light, young, floating sound and no heavy vibrato. Fantine's daughter, grown. Delicate, elegant, vulnerable and beautiful; falls in love with and marries Marius.
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Stipend: $1,500
Male | Age 18-25
Range Bb2 – Ab4High baritone. A member of the revolutionary student movement. Attractive and romantic in a sensitive, 19th-century, Byronic way.
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Stipend: $1,000
Male | Age 20-29
Range A2 – G#4High baritone or tenor, and a very strong singer. Handsome, charismatic leader of the revolutionary movement.
Featured: 5 roles
All featured roles are cast from within the ensemble. Featured performers sing ensemble as well, and roles may be doubled or double cast.
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Stipend: $500
Male
Range A2 – E4A man of faith who looks past Valjean's theft of his silver and sends him on to a new life. Needs a strong, rich lower register down to A. The actor also plays several other roles, so he must be able to play a range of ages.
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Stipend: $300
Male
Range D3 – D4An overbearing, sleazy man who runs the factory. He fires Fantine and leaves her destitute.
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Stipend: $300
Male
Range D3 – F4A nasty, dangerous upper-class man who propositions Fantine. When she refuses and strikes him, he calls Javert to have her arrested.
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Stipend: $200
Male
Range B3 – Eb4The man pinned under the runaway cart, whose rescue reveals Valjean's strength to Javert.
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Stipend: $200
Male
Range C4 – G4Calls on the students at the barricade to surrender.
The students (ABC Society): 7 roles
The students are featured ensemble tracks, cast from within the ensemble.
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Stipend: $200
Male
Range D3-G4The philosopher of the group and a believer in peace. Gentle, humane, strong and brave.
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Stipend: $200
Male
Range D3-G4A self-educated orphan and worker. Affectionate, warm and poetic, with a deep belief in nationhood.
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Stipend: $200
Male
Range D3-G4Youthful, passionate and fearless.
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Stipend: $200
Male
Range D3-G4An eccentric, light-hearted and occasionally morbid medical student. Lesgles's close friend.
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Stipend: $200
Male
Range D3-G4A cynic with little interest in the revolution and a great deal of admiration for Enjolras. Witty and sarcastic.
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Stipend: $200
Male
Range D3-G4Cheerful, always laughing at life, and perpetually unlucky. Joly's close friend.
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Stipend: $200
Male
Range D3-G4A kind, soft-spoken poet and student of social studies who turns strong and commanding when it counts.
Thénardier's gang: 4 roles
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Stipend: $200
Male
Range C#3-C#4Handsome and dangerous. He kills with a knife.
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Stipend: $200
Male
Range E3-E4A member of Thénardier's gang of thieves.
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Stipend: $200
Male
Range B3-C#4A genuine gangster. Not bright, and thoroughly bad.
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Stipend: $200
Male
Range C4-E4Tough, dangerous and secretive.
Young Performers: 3 roles
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$250 per performer
Female
Range A3-C5Fantine's daughter, left as the Thénardiers' ward and forced into child labor. Underfed, mistreated by Madame Thénardier and bullied by Young Éponine. Sings "Castle on a Cloud."
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$200 per performer
Female
The Thénardiers' pampered daughter, who spends most of her time taunting Little Cosette.
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$250 per performer
Male
Range B3-G5Thénardier's son, left to fend for himself on the streets of Paris. Brave, witty and cocky, living on his wits. Needs a fantastic unchanged voice.
Ensemble:
Stipend: $200
Most of the company sings ensemble and covers multiple tracks across the evening:
The Chain Gang, Warders and Constables
Peasants, Factory Workers and the people of Montreuil and Paris
Lovely Ladies and Pimps
Students, Thénardier's Gang and Wedding Guests
Featured roles (the Bishop, the Foreman, Bamatabois, Fauchelevent and the Army Officer) are cast from within the ensemble.
Mean Girls
BOOK BY TINA FEY · MUSIC BY JEFF RICHMOND · LYRICS BY NELL BENJAMIN
Every student role plays high school. We're looking for performers who can play that age honestly and sing and dance full out.
Cast:
13 roles + ensemble, mostly women
Music:
Contemporary pop and belt
Dance:
Heavy; strong movers for every track
WHAT TO PREPARE
32 bars of contemporary pop/rock.
REHEARSAL SCHEDULE
DANCE CALL
Bring sneakers or jazz shoes.
Leads: 7 roles
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Stipend: $2,000
Female | Plays high school
Range F3 – G5A new junior at North Shore High, homeschooled after growing up in Africa. Warm, bright and the emotional center of the story. She goes undercover with the Plastics and loses herself along the way.
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Stipend: $1,750
Female | Plays high school
Range Gb3 – Gb5The Queen Bee of the Plastics. Her approval makes people feel important and her disapproval is devastating. Regal and commanding, with real vulnerability underneath.
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Stipend: $1,500
Female | Plays high school
Range Ab3 – E5A self-described outsider and art freak who's unafraid to be unsettling. Still carries a grudge against Regina from eighth grade and wants revenge. Narrates the show with Damian.
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Stipend: $1,500
Male | Plays high school
Range Bb2 – A4Outgoing co-chair of the student activities committee and Janis's fiercely loyal best friend. He and Janis are a comedy team. Narrates the show with her.
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Stipend: $1,000
Female | Plays high school
Range G3 – E5A Plastic who lives in fear of losing her place. Collects secrets and trades them for advantage. Anxious, eager to please and tightly controlled by Regina.
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Stipend: $1,000
Female | Plays high school
Range G3 – Gb5The third Plastic. Kind, relaxed and a generous laugher. Not the brightest, but she sees people more clearly than anyone gives her credit for. Needs serious comic timing.
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Stipend: $1,000
Male | Plays high school
Range C3 – Bb4A good-hearted boy with integrity, unaware he's the school heartthrob. Genuinely likes Cady and won't be used as a pawn in the girls' games. Broadway pop tenor.
Supporting: 3 roles
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Stipend: $500
Male | Plays high school | South Asian
Range F#3 – B4Driven, confident captain of the North Shore Mathletes and fiercely proud of the team. Needs to be a decent rapper. Kevin is written as South Asian, and we're seeking South Asian performers for this role.
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Stipend: $500
Female | Adult
Range G3 – Eb5The three adult women, traditionally played by one actor. Ms. Norbury is Cady's jaded, sarcastic calculus teacher and Mathletes adviser who sees the real Cady. Mrs. George is Regina's mom, desperate to be the cool mom. Mrs. Heron is Cady's mom. A strong comedienne with range.
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Stipend: $300
Male | Adult
The principal. More formal and sincere than Ms. Norbury, and thoroughly outmatched by his students. A strong singer with a comic streak.
Featured: 3 roles
Featured roles are cast from within the ensemble.
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Stipend: $200
Male | Adult
Cady's dad.
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Stipend: $200
Male | Plays high school
Has a couple of spoken lines but gets talked about constantly.
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Stipend: $200
Male | Plays high school
Kevin G's second-in-command on the Mathletes.
Ensemble:
Stipend: $250
A high-energy dancing and singing ensemble covering the students of North Shore High:
Party guests and students
Debate Team, Dance Team and Show Choir
Mathletes and the rival Marymount team
Many ensemble members have a line or two. Strong dancers are a priority.
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