OLYMPUS AUDITIONS / ROLE INFORMATION

[Page last updated 12/14/19]

The first round of Olympus auditions are complete. While we are not soliciting actors / auditions at this time, if someone has just found out about this show, is completely bummed they missed auditions, believes they could offer something valuable to the production, and would go so far as to say their presence in the cast would be almost cosmically aligned, we respect the chutzpah.

You can send us a line at directortorsti@rovainenmusicals.com detailing

—A little about yourself
—Your interest in the production, and
—What you feel you could bring to the show / production if you were part of the cast.

The only remaining parts are chorus members, who sing and perform in our three big group numbers, and also are onstage during our Titan scene, Hades, and the Titan-Olympian battle.

AUDITION / SHOW / PARTS / REHEARSAL INFORMATION

This page contains
—Audition overview
—Rehearsal and performance schedule
—List of parts, sizes, and compensation
—List of showtunes our accompanist can perform click HERE to open that list in another tab

Here is a LINK to Olympus song samples, script, and sheet music. Password is zeus.
And you can click HERE to read more about the show Olympus itself.

Olympus—A Community Musical Experience

Note: we consider this a community musical production. While we will be putting in all efforts to make the best show possible, look for a mix of actors in our line-up: a professional actor here, a retired firefighter there; a talented college or high school actor here, a stay-at-home Dad who always wanted to try a musical there. While for many community musicals actors work for free for the love of the experience, we have managed a stipend for all roles, amounts below.

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We will be holding auditions December 7th 10:30 - 3:30 and December 8th 1:30 - 5:30 [additional audition window Friday December 6th 3:45 - 5:30 pm for members of the PWS community] for our January 31 - February 9 2020 production of Olympus. December 6-7 auditions are at Bothmer Hall 5915 SE Division; Friday December 6th auditions are in the PWS music room 2300 SE Harrison Milwaukie.

Interested actors will

—review the rehearsal and performance schedule to make sure there are no conflicts [missing part of one or two rehearsals is not ideal, but could work]
—figure out which character(s) and/or chorus parts they are auditioning for
—sign up for one of the open 12-minute timeslots December 7th or 8th [6th open to PWS community members
The currently open timeslots can be found at the top of the audition sign-up page HERE

For the audition itself, actors will come with
—a 60-120 second song prepared. Please prepare a ballad, upbeat, strong song, or two, depending on the character(s) you are auditioning for [types of song are listed with the characters, below]
—for those auditioning for speaking roles, a short monologue of 1-2 minutes. Those auditioning only for chorus need not prepare a monologue.
Depending on the audition, some actors will be asked to a cold read either by themselves or with another actor, and possibly some on the spot singing with sheet music or call-and-response.

People interested in auditioning for orchestra parts or backstage/lighting, please contact us directly at directortorsti@rovainenmusicals.com or 503-895-4705.

Casting will ideally be complete and notices sent out by December 11th.

Rehearsal / Performance General Schedule

If you are applying for a lead or individual role or chorus parts, you -must- be able to attend all full-group rehearsals, dress rehearsals the week of January 25 - 30, and any individual / group sessions for your character. We are open to making at most one-two exceptions to this for previously scheduled / unchangeable commitments.

By applying for a lead or individual role you are also committing to being off-book or extremely close to that by January 11th, and ideally by January 4th.

—Sections in boldface are for the entire cast
—Sections in normal font will be for specific groups or individuals. Sub-sections to that schedule will be posted December 10th [for example, on Friday Jan. 10 we might ask Demeter to come in for only half an hour, then Apollo and Daedalus the next half hour, etc.]

Key:
BH—Bothmer Hall 5915 SE Division
AOH—Alpenrose Opera House 6149 SW Shattuck

(Yes, we will be in the Alpenrose Opera House. A recent Oregon Live article erroneously stated that a November NWST performance was to be the last)

Saturday January 4th 1 - 5 pm BH Full Cast
Sunday January 5th 1 - 5 pm BH [Aphrodite, Zeus, Hero]

Friday January 10th 7 - 9:30 pm BH [Demeter, Apollo, Daedalus, Charon, Hades, Hera, the Graeae]
Saturday January 11th 1 - 5 pm AOH Full Cast
Sunday January 12th 1 - 5 pm AOH [Youth Ensemble, Hero; Aphrodite, Zeus;]
Monday January 13th 7 - 9:30 pm BH [Lead titans (PPMM), Ares, Heracles, Athena, Artemis]

Friday January 17th 7 - 9:30 pm BH [Aphrodite, Zeus, Hero, Cymone]
Saturday January 18th 1 - 5 pm BH [Hero, Graeae, Youth Ensemble, Athena, Artemis]
Sunday January 19 11 am - 5 pm AOH [full cast 1 - 5 pm; Aphrodite, Hades, Hero, 11 am - 5 pm]
Monday January 20th 7 - 9:30 pm BH [Singers/actors TBA]

All subsequent rehearsals held at Alpenrose Opera House

Friday January 24th 7 - 9:30 pm Aphrodite, Zeus, Ares, Heracles, Artemis, Athena
Saturday January 25th 1 - 6 pm [Likely running Act I]
Sunday January 26th 1 - 5 pm [Likely running Act II]
Monday - Wednesday January 27th - 29th 7 - 10:30 pm Dress Rehearsals
Thursday January 30th Preview Show 7 - 10:30 pm [Show begins at 7:30]

Performance Schedule; all events at Alpenrose Opera House
Fridays, Saturday January 31, Feb 1; Feb 7, 8 7 pm - 10:30 pm [7:30 performances]
Sundays Feb 2, 9 1:30 pm - 5 pm [2:00 performances]

Olympus Roles

Inspirations Theater is most interested in working with actors who can act the roles with feeling, and sing in the ranges asked for [note: for some songs an octave up or an octave down are acceptable]. We are open to any person of any age (above the minimum) / gender applying for any role. Where appropriate, we do indicate a character’s gender onstage.

School-aged actors: People in 9th grade and higher can try out for any roles in the play, except the youth ensemble. The youth ensemble is a small group of 6th - 8th graders, by invitation only.

Roles are divided into sections, with the compensation listed for each. Stipend amount are for the entire run, and will be distributed the final weekend of the performances.

Aphrodite $750 stipend
Lead Roles $500 stipend
Medium Roles $350 stipend
Speaking Roles $250 [usually one solo / duet, or 15 - 30 speaking lines]
Chorus $150 [Adults and High School]
Youth Ensemble [Grades 6-8]

-ALL- roles (with a few slight exceptions) take part in the songs / scenes Olympus, We Need A Bride, Slap On A Sash, and the Titan-Olympian fight scene.

Parts are listed with

—The character name
—Their gender onstage [if any]
—a brief description of their onstage requirements
—the vocal range looked for [we can take those up or down an octave if needed; and in some cases, certain solo songs can be slightly raised or lowered to meet an actor’s range / strength]
—what type of song we want an actor to audition with. A few parts we ask two songs prepared
B—ballad U—upbeat S—strong [think Molasses to Rum from 1776; not quite a ballad, but certainly not upbeat]
If no letter is listed, you can sing any song you wish, and it can be shorter (30-60 seconds).
—if a monologue is required (M)

Aphrodite $750 Stipend

Aphrodite F Several big solos / duets; lots of lines G3 - Eb5 B M

Large Roles $500 Stipend

Zeus M Solo, duet, many lines F2 - Eb4/E4 OR Ab2 - E4; power tenor version B2 B or S'; M
Hero Any Solo/s, decent number of lines A2 - F4 B or S; M
Ares M Solo parts, medium lines, lots of stage time C3 - Ab2 U; M

Medium Roles $350 Stipend

Athena F Solo parts, medium lines G3 - C5 B and U M
Artemis F Solo parts, medium lines G3 - Db5 B and U M
Heracles M Medium lines Sings in Chorus parts as befits range [just sing us 30 seconds of any song] M
Hades M Short solos, small-medium lines G2 - Eb4 B or S; M
Hera F One solo, some lines A3 - C#5 B M

Larger Speaking Roles $250 Stipend

These roles usually have 5-20 individual lines, perhaps one solo song, or both. It is possible for some actors to take on more than one speaking role, each of which adds $50 to their total.

Hermes M 2-line solo, some lines C3 - G4 U
Apollo M 1 duet/solo, some lines A2 - C4 B M
Daedalus M 1 duet/solo A2 - C4 B
Demeter F 1 big solo, some lines G#3 - Eb5 B M
Poseidon M short duet, few lines High note D4 short B M
Hephaestus M 1-line solo, some lines range not important
Cymone F short solo parts, a few lines Easily in range for most singers M
Charon Any One solo song A2 - E4 [ideally E2 for low range, and if feeling spunky, Bb1] B or S
The Graeae Any [3 parts] solo lines, trio C#3 - Bb3 [or C#4 - Bb4] U
Pallas, Perses, Menoetius, [Titans] some lines —— M
Metis [Titan] some lines, 2-line duet Lowest note Ab3; highest note easily in range of most singers M
Doofs 1 & 2 some lines —— M
Their Mother some lines —— M

Chorus Parts $150 Stipend

Chorus parts sing in Olympus, We Need A Bride, Slap On A Sash, and act in the Olympians-Titan fight scene. Some chorus members have wordless parts in a few of the scenes on Olympus, in the Titan’s lair, Hades, or all three. A few Chorus members will be asked to take on very small bit parts in the play (1-10 spoken or sung lines), including the roles of Morpheus, Hypnos, Persephone, Amphitrite, Rhea, Nerites, and Olympians 1 and 2.

All ranges SATB are needed in the chorus

Orchestra / Backstage Help $150 Stipend

We will be looking for 5-8 musicians for an orchestra. Playing level at least advanced high school / early college or better. Orchestra members begin attending all rehearsals January 25th. In addition, we will be looking for someone to help with lighting and two hands backstage. Interested parties can send an email to the address below letting us know

—Your interest in this production
—What you feel you can offer
—For musicians: your good playing range on your instrument [for example: ‘Trombone; E2 - Bb4, or C5 on a good day’]

directortorsti@rovainenmusicals.com

Youth Ensemble (no stipend)

We are planning on having 6-8 talented sixth-eighth graders join for our Youth Ensemble. These actors play as demigod students in the play (some of whom have individual lines or solo sung lines), sing in the songs Olympus, We Need A Bride, and Slap on a Sash. They also sing What in the World.