San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company | San Francisco, CA
Sunday, January 25, 2026
Brava Theater Center
2781 24th St
6:00 PM (P)
San Francisco, CA 94114
To schedule an audition appointment please email
phaedra.tillery@gmail.com. The deadline to schedule an audition appointment is January 20th, 2026, at 11:59pm PT.
From an original idea by Danny Duncan.
Book by Michael Gene Sullivan and Danny Duncan.
Music and Lyrics by Danny Duncan.
Directed and Choreographed by AeJay Antonis Marquis.
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company
$519 weekly minimum (Tier 2) - Until 7/12/26
$545 weekly minimum (Tier 2) - After 7/12/26
Expected to attend:
AeJay Antonis Marquis - Director and Choreographer
Rodney Jackson - SFBATCO’s Artistic Director
Phaedra Tillery-Boughton - SFBATCO’s Casting Manager
Michael Gene Sullivan - Playwright
Equity chorus dancers for EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT (see breakdown).
Please come prepared to dance in clothes you feel comfortable moving in.
Callback Dates & Times:
Monday, Jan 26th, 3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Monday, Feb 2nd, 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Developmental Workshop: Possible 1-week development workshop — Summer of 2026 (TBD).
Rehearsals: Aug 31 - Oct 1
Tech/Dress Rehearsals: October 2 - 9
Preview: Oct 10 - 14
Runs: Oct 15 - Nov 1 (possible extension until 11/8)
Any questions? Email:
phaedra@sfbatco.org
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
Every Saturday Night is a vibrant, memory-saturated musical that bridges past and present inside a single Fillmore District home. In the present day, Donte — a lifelong resident preparing to leave San Francisco — meets a young Black family considering buying his house. As Donte and their teenage son Adarè slowly connect, the walls begin to reopen, revealing the after-hours jazz joint Donte’s mother Ardella once ran in the 1950s. Music, humor, grief, and resistance swirl together as the past bursts into the room — dancers, cooks, lovers, hustlers, and dreamers reclaiming their place in a neighborhood that was once called the “Harlem of the West.”
Through interwoven timelines, the piece explores Black joy under pressure, the cost of survival, gentrification’s relentless churn, and the quiet ache of becoming who your family needed you to be. It is both a love letter and a warning, a musical celebration of the people who carved out sanctuary in a world determined to erase them.
DONTE: A Black man, longtime homeowner in San Francisco's Western Addition. Age 60–70.
JOANELLE / ESTELLE: A Black woman, software engineer, married to Samuel. Mid 30s.
SAMUEL / WILLIE: A Black man, independent contractor, married to Joanelle. Mid 30s. (WILLIE: A Black man, Ardella's customer. 40s–50s.)
ADARÈ / ENSEMBLE: A Black teenager, a gamer, Joanelle and Samuel's son. Mid-teens.
CHRISTINE LAFONTAINE / MAXINE / SYLVIA / ENSEMBLE: A Black businesswoman, owner of Cafe Obsidian. Ages mid 30s–60s. (MAXINE: A Black woman, Ardella's customer. 20s. SYLVIA: A Black woman, Ardella's customer. 30s–40s.)
ARDELLA: A Black woman, owner of an after-hours joint. Late 30s.
YOUNG DONTE / ENSEMBLE: A Black teenager, Ardella's son. Mid-teen.
UNCLE BUB: A Black man, cook at Ardella's After Hours. 40s.
DORIS: A Black woman, friend and employee at Ardella's After Hours. 20s–30s.
SIR DON / ENSEMBLE: A Black man, Ardella's customer. 30s–40s.
ESTELLE: A Black woman, Ardella's customer. 30s–40s.
BOBBY JOE: A Black man, Ardella's estranged husband. 30s–50s.
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