With the opening Camelot and the theatre’s 2023 Season, The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre has announced auditions for its spring production of the musical comedy Church Basement Ladies. Auditions will be held at the theatre on Monday, February 6th beginning at 7:00 p.m.
Those auditioning should bring a headshot and resume, as well as 16 bars of prepared music and be ready to sing and read from the script. All roles are non-union paying. A list of roles being cast can be found on the theatre’s website,
www.wayoffbroadway.com. No appointment is necessary and an accompanist will be provided.
Way Off Broadway’s production of Church Basement Ladies will run March 31st through May 20th with performances every Friday and Saturday evening, and matinees on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sunday of each month. A special matinee performance has been added for Mother’s Day on May 14th.
Rehearsals will begin shortly after auditions and be held two to three evenings a week, Sunday – Thursday. Beginning the week of March 26th, rehearsals will be every evening leading up to Opening Night.
In the show, audiences find themselves in 1965 rural Minnesota and the ladies of the local Lutheran church fortify their flock with love, wisdom, and the food they prepare in the church’s basement kitchen. In Church Basement Ladies, we meet the pastor, three cooks, and one daughter who run the kitchen and care for the congregation. This funny musical comedy sees the four women handle a Lutefisk Dinner, a funeral, an Easter Fundraiser, and, of course, a wedding.
Based on Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann Nelson’s book Growing Up Lutheran, first published in 1997, Church Basement Ladies premiered in 2005 at the Plymouth Playhouse in Plymouth, Minnesota. The show was so popular with audiences that it went on to spawn seven sequels and a prequel. Most of which also premiered at the Plymouth Playhouse prior to touring the United States.
Church Basement Ladies has become an audience favorite among regional theatres with well over three million people seeing the musical and its sequels to date.
Based on Growing Up Lutheran by Janet Letnes and Suzann Nelson, Church Basement Ladies was written by Jim Stowell and Jessica Zuehlke, with music and lyrics by Drew Jansen. Way Off Broadway’s production is music directed by Jordan B. Stocksdale and directed by Bill Kiska.
For complete details regarding auditions, visit Way Off Broadway’s Audition Page at
www.wayoffbroadway.com.
The Way Off Broadway Dinner Theatre, under the direction of the Kiska family since 2002, is currently in its 29th Season of producing live theatre. Since it first opened in 1995, the theatre has been a leader in the area’s theatre community, proudly bringing both classic musicals, as well as regional and area premieres to the Frederick stage. Productions have included Mary Poppins, Mamma Mia!, Disney’s Beauty & the Beast, Sister Act, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Monty Python’s SPAMALOT, Noises Off, The Addams Family, Les Misérables, Sunset Boulevard, Legally Blonde, Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5: The Musical, Hairspray, South Pacific, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Mel Brooks’ The Producers, CATS, The Wedding Singer, Evita, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Sound of Music, Fiddler on the Roof, Grease, La Cage aux Folles, Guys & Dolls, Steel Magnolias, …Forum, Lend Me a Tenor, Joseph…, Blood Brothers, Mame, and 42nd Street. In addition to its regular Mainstage season, Way Off Broadway produces a number of special events throughout the year, including family theatre productions and an annual Breakfast with Santa (and Mrs. Claus). Through its outside producing brand, WOB LIVE! Entertainment, Way Off Broadway also presents Marquee Mysteries - an interactive murder mystery series where the audience helps solve the case - not only at the theatre, but regularly on the Walkersville Southern Railroad and other venues through the area for private functions.
www.wayoffbroadway.com
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