Auditions for Renaissance Theatre’s Summer Musical, Grease
The Renaissance Theatre, 138 Park Avenue West, Mansfield, OH, announces video audition submissions for their summer musical, Grease. Videos will be accepted Friday, May 19th through Sunday, May 28th, 2023 and can be submitted via the following link: Grease Audition Submission Link
Please submit 32 bars of a musical theatre song in the style of the show. Please include a dance reel or a short clip demonstrating your dancing ability.
Auditions are open to performers ages 15+. All roles are available.
Upload your video audition and submit it to us via an unlisted YouTube link.
Callbacks: Those called back will be asked to submit a reading from the script. (Materials will be emailed to you.) There will be no in-person auditions.
Rehearsal times are noted below. You are allowed two excused absences. No exceptions.
Rehearsals and Performances dates
- Mondays–Thursdays 6:00 PM–10:00 PM: June 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, 28, 29, July 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28.
- Saturdays 10:00 AM–4:00 PM: June 24, July 1, 8, 15 and 22
- Sunday, July 23rd 12:00 PM–4:00 PM: First Tech
- Brush-up rehearsal is Friday, August 4th.
- Performances: Saturday, July 29th and August 5th at 8pm. Sundays, July 30th and August 6th at 2:30.
Compensation: Actors with named roles are paid $200 per week, with housing provided and a travel stipend.
About the Show
With a book, music and lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, and additional music and lyrics by Barry Gibb, John Farrar, Scott Simon and Louis St. Louis, Grease is a high-energy show with physical movement and partner dance. This version of the show includes songs from the motion picture, including Sandy, Hopelessly Devoted To You, You’re the One That I Want, and the title song, Grease. Most roles involve some level of physical intimacy/touch. Intimacy occurs between multiple characters and includes kissing, embracing, and other moments of physical touch. Characters who engage in specific moments of physical intimacy and kissing are noted in character descriptions.
DANNY: The leader of the “Burger palace Boys.” Strong and confident with an air of cool easy-going charm. (Male Identifying, all ethnicities. Range: tenor, D4–B5. This role requires onstage physical intimacy/kiss.)
SANDY: New girl in town; hopeless romantic. Finds friendship in the Pink Ladies who help her uncover her own social savviness. (Female Identifying, all ethnicities. Range: Soprano with high belt , A3–F#5. This role requires onstage physical intimacy/kiss.)
THE “PINK LADIES”: The club-jacketed, gum-chewing, hip-swinging girls’ gang that hangs around with the “Burger Palace Boys.”
RIZZO: Leader of the Pink Ladies. She is tough, sarcastic and outspoken but vulnerable. (Female Identifying, all ethnicities. Range: Alto A3–C5. This role requires onstage physical intimacy/kiss.)
FRENCHY: A dreamer. Good-natured. Heavily made-up, fussy about her appearance—particularly her hair. She can’t wait to finish high school so she can be a beautician. (Female Identifying, all ethnicities. Range: Alto, A3–D5)
MARTY: The “beauty” of the Pink Ladies; looks older than the other girls, but betrays her real age when she opens her mouth. She tries to act sophisticated. (Female Identifying, all ethnicities. Range Alto, C4–C5. This role requires onstage physical intimacy/kiss.)
JAN: Funny, loud, and the awkward member of the Pink Ladies. Enjoys a good snack. Loud and pushy with the girls, but shy with boys. (Female Identifying, all ethnicities. Range: Alto, A3-C5)
THE “BURGER PALACE BOYS”: A super-cool, D.A.-haired, hard-looking group of high school wheeler-dealers… or so they think.
KENICKIE: Second-in-command of the Burger Palace Boys. Tough-looking, tattooed, surly, avoids any show of softness. Has an off-beat sense of humor. (Male Identifying, all ethnicities. Range: Tenor, C4–F5. This role requires onstage physical intimacy/kiss.)
DOODY: Youngest of the guys. Boyish, open, with a disarming smile and a hero-worshipping attitude toward the other guys. He also plays the guitar. (Male Identifying, all ethnicities. Range: Tenor, D4-A5)
ROGER: The “anything-for-a-laugh” type. Full of mischief, half-baked schemes and ideas. A clown who enjoys putting other people on. (Male Identifying, all ethnicities. Range: Tenor, D4-A5)
SONNY: A braggart and wheeler-dealer who thinks he’s a real lady-killer. (Male Identifying, All ethnicities. Range: baritone, G3–A5)
PATTY: A stereotypical cheerleader; attractive, sure-of-herself, but can be given to bursts of disconcerting enthusiasm. She’s a bit of a pain and unpopular with the Pink Ladies, and can twirl a baton. (Female Identifying, all ethnicities. Range: Alto, D4-A4)
CHA-CHA aka CHARLENE DIGREGORIO: The best dancer at St. Bernadette’s; a loud mouth, she wins the dancing competition with Danny. (Female Identifying, all ethnicities. Range: Alto, C4–C5)
EUGENE: The class valedictorian. Physically awkward. An apple-polisher, smug and pompous but gullible. (Male Identifying, all ethnicities. Range: Tenor, A3–E5)
VINCE FONTAINE: A typical “teen audience” radio disc jockey. Slick, egotistical, fast-talking. A veteran “greaser.” (Male Identifying, all ethnicities. Flexible vocal range. This role requires onstage physical intimacy/kiss.)
JOHNNY CASINO: A “greaser” student at Rydell who leads a rock ‘n’ roll band and likes to think of himself as a real rock ‘n’ roll idol. (Male Identifying, all ethnicities. Range: Tenor, G4-E5)
TEEN ANGEL: Frenchy’s suave and slick guardian angel, who encourages her to stay in school. (Male Identifying, all ethnicities. Range: Tenor, E4–F5)
MISS LYNCH: A no-nonsense, serious, English teacher. (Female Identifying, all ethnicities. Flexible vocal range.)
RADIO VOICE: A radio voice, sings “It’s Raining on Prom Night.” (All genders, all ethnicities. Range: A3-C5)
ENSEMBLE: Students at Rydell High School, Beauty School Dropout Ensemble, Greased Lightning Ensemble. Loud, energetic, variety of personalities. (All genders, all ethnicities, SATB.)
Note about staged intimacy:
All scenes with intimacy follow a specific set of staging and rehearsal protocols rooted in consent and safety for the actors. Theatrical intimacy is any action on stage where the given circumstances of the scene or the overall production calls for touch, both physical and imaginative, or moments between actors of simulated sexuality or sexual violence.