Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago | Chicago, IL
Friday, August 29, 2025
10:30 AM - 6:30 PM (C)
Lunch 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
CAT
$519.65 weekly minimum (Tier 3)
$936.05 weekly minimum (Tier 5) - Tech/Performance week of FOLLIES (In Concert)
Equity actors for roles in FOLLIES (In Concert) (See breakdown).
Local Chicago area actors are encouraged to audition.
At this time, Porchlight Music Theatre is unable to provide travel/housing/per diem for out-of-town Artists.
All roles will be understudied.
Please prepare a short cut of music appropriate for the show you are interested in (A song with music by Stephen Sondheim).
Have a second song ready and bring your book. An accompanist will be provided. If you would like to bring in an instrument to accompany yourself, please do. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Porchlight Music Theatre (Rehearsal Space)
4200 W Diversey Ave
Chicago, IL 60639
#76 Bus to Tripp Ave. Free parking in fenced lot and on street. Enter black door off of parking lot.
Directed by Michael Weber
Music Directed by Linda Madonia
Expected to attend:
Artistic Director: Michael Weber
1st Rehearsal: April 13, 2026
Performances: April 25 & 26, 2026
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Sally Durant Plummer: Sweet-faced. Bubbly. Still remarkably like the girl she was thirty years ago. A former Follies girl, she married a man she didn't love. Needy and delusional at times. Gender: female.
Vocal range top: G5. Vocal range bottom: F3
Young Sally: A younger version of the adult Sally. She is perhaps the most similar to her adult counterpart of any of the foursome. Sweet-faced. Bubbly. Adventurous. Wants it all but may not have the patience or drive to wait for it. Gender: female.
Vocal range top: G5. Vocal range bottom: C4
Phyllis Rogers Stone: Stylish and intelligent. Her face is more beautiful now than it was thirty years ago. A woman who made her husband her life, the journey has hardened her and replaced the traces of life with cold sophistication and poise. Gender: female.
Vocal range top: E5. Vocal range bottom: F3
Young Phyllis: A younger version of Phyllis, when she was an energetic and naïve Follies girl. Slightly sad and homesick. With all the drive and none of the sophistication of the adult Phyllis. Gender: female.
Vocal range top: E5. Vocal range bottom: B3
Buddy Plummer: An attractive, charismatic man with a sad face wrinkled from years of too much smiling. Stuck in a broken marriage and has had multiple affairs. Gender: male.
Vocal range top: F5. Vocal range bottom: C4
Young Buddy: A younger version of the Buddy we see today. Charismatic and lively, a man who knows how to have fun. Loves Sally blindly and wants to give her the world. Gender: male.
Vocal range top: G5. Vocal range bottom: C4
Benjamin Stone: Distinguished. Successful. Authoritative. A man bent on success from a young age who has achieved it and now realizes the toll it had on personal relationships. Gender: male.
Vocal range top: F5. Vocal range bottom: A3
Young Ben: A not yet fully realized version of the man we see before us today, he is driven and intelligent but not quite so distinguished and not yet frightened by his success. Gender: male.
Vocal range top: F5. Vocal range bottom: C4
Carlotta Campion: The one-time movie star. The kind of woman who has seen everything and is proud to be standing where she is. Gender: female.
Vocal range top: B4. Vocal range bottom: E3
Stella Deems: A woman who moves with a special lightness; half of a former performing duo with her husband, but they gave it up to open a general store in Miami. Loves life and has led a good one. Gender: female.
Vocal range top: F5. Vocal range bottom: E3
Emily Whitman: A bright and papery woman. Married to Theodore, who together, teach dance together. Gender: female.
Vocal range top: D5. Vocal range bottom: B3
Theodore Whitman: A bright and papery man. Married to Emily, who together, teach dance together. Gender: male.
Vocal range top: D4. Vocal range bottom: B2
Hattie Walker: An appealingly tough, no-nonsense lady. A former knockout Follies girl from the earlier years of the shows. She has married several times and always to the same type: the bad boy. Gender: female.
Vocal range top: B4. Vocal range bottom: G3
Solange La Fitte: A French fashionista. Very much still alive and enjoying it, she is a perfume creator and seller. Has travelled the world but loves Paris more than any other place. Gender: female.
Vocal range top: G5. Vocal range bottom: A3
Heidi Schiller: Viennese and queenly. Incredibly rich and well known in elite social circles, she is constantly reminiscing. Gender: female.
Vocal range top: G5. Vocal range bottom: D4
Young Heidi: A younger version of the Heidi we see today. Already queenly, but perhaps not yet rich and so well connected. Gender: female.
Vocal range top: A5. Vocal range bottom: E4
Dimitri Weissman: An acerbic, vital, energetic elderly man. Staged the Follies every year between the great wars. Gender: male
Roscoe: An elderly showman with a majestic tenor voice who introduces the Follies girls as if no time has passed and they are still the young girls of years ago. Gender: male.
Vocal range top: A5. Vocal range bottom: D4
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