Spotlighters Theatre conducts auditions approximately six to ten weeks prior to the opening of each production. Detailed information for each show and its audition process is provided below. General audition information and a link to the Code of Conduct may be found below show details.
*All Productions are NON-EQUITY/NON-PAID unless otherwise noted
Michael Blum
March 5-28, 2027
Music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.
Saturday, November 14, 11 am - 3 pm
Sunday, November 15, 6 pm - 9 pm
THE STUDIO OF BORROWED BLUE PHOTOGRAPHY
4030 Roland Ave, Baltimore, MD 21211
AMPLE FREE STREET PARKING is available.
Patience, or Bunthorne’s Bride, perhaps Gilbert & Sullivan’s wittiest creation, came immediately after their great success in The Pirates of Penzance, Patience skewers poseurs, frauds, grifters, con artists, corrupt clergy and anyone else—male or female—who attracts a devoted following but is really only in it for the adulation (and the money): a type certainly still with us today! Gilbert, a very successful author of sardonic comic verse, also goes after the holier-than-thou cadre of High Victorian Culture, which held that only a “True Believer” could appreciate “Fine Art.” Meanwhile, Sullivan’s fun and tuneful mock-dramatic music, combined with the antics of high-born Rapturous Maidens, two contrasting poets, a regiment of baffled Dragoons, and a wise-beyond-her-years Village Milkmaid, makes for a thoroughly satisfying and amusing operatic experience for performer and audience alike. This production will also feature a full orchestra (the first such ever at Spotlighters Theatre) and authentic 1881 fashions and styles, as the Victorian Marriage Market crashes into the World of High Art, until, finally, we find out exactly WHO is Bunthorne’s bride!
A complete rehearsal schedule will be available at auditions.
Musical rehearsals and coaching: January 2027
Rehearsals: February 2027
Rehearsal off book date: TBA
Tech Rehearsals: TBA
Previews: TBA
Shows
Mar 7 - 28, 2027 Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm
Sundays at 2:00 pm
One Thursday evening performance at 8:00 pm on Mar 11th
Reginald Bunthorne/Algernon Charles Swinburne, a Fleshly Poet [comicbaritone]: lead part
Archibald Grosvenor/Oscar F. O. W. Wilde, an Idyllic Poet [baritone]:lead part
Colonel the Hon. Cholmondeley Calverley [baritone]: lead part
Major Lionel Murgatroyd [baritone]: lead part
Lieutenant Percy Trevelyan, the 6th Duke of Dunstable [tenor]: lead part
Warrant Officer First Class William Herbert [tenor]: ensemble part
Warrant Officer Second Class John Fisher [tenor]: ensemble part
Sergeant Thomas Stanley [baritone]: ensemble part
Lance Corporal Jasper Tudor [bass]: ensemble part
Frederick Graham, Mr. Bunthorne’s Solicitor [non-speaking]
Patience Fairchild, the Village Milkmaid [lyric soprano]: lead part
The Lady Ella Fitzourse [soprano]: lead part
The Lady Angela Nottingham [mezzo-soprano]: lead part
The Lady Saphir Featherstonehaugh [soprano or mezzo-soprano]: lead part
The Lady Jane St. Clair/Christina Georgina Rossetti [mezzo-soprano or contralto]: lead part
The Lady Anne Beaufort [soprano]: ensemble part
The Lady Elizabeth York [soprano]: ensemble part
The Lady Margaret Stanley [mezzo-soprano]: ensemble part
The Lady Eleanor Stafford [mezzo-soprano]: ensemble part
All characters are adults, of no specific age. “Standard" English accents will be used throughout. The action takes place in East Anglia, England, in 1881: around“Castle Bunthorne,” a Gothic folly in a grove near the village of Swansdale-on-Wissey, just off the Wissey River, not far from Swaffham.
2. Those auditioning for lead parts should also have a monologue prepared, no more than 2 minutes in length, in English. Sources from any classic English play such as by Shaw, Pinero or Wilde would be helpful but are not required. Delivering the monologue using an English accent would be helpful but is not necessary (we will be coaching accents). Dialogue scene extracts will be provided at the audition for you to read and try.
3. Those auditioning should bring a resumé of their stage experience, especially in Broadway or opera or operetta.
Alyssa Stambaugh
4/24-5/16/27
TBA
January
Spotlighters Theatre 817 Saint Paul Street Baltimore, MD 21202
TBA
Table Read: TBA
Rehearsals: TBA
Rehearsal off book date: TBA
Tech Rehearsals: TBA
Previews: TBA
Shows
April 23rd - May 16th , 2027 Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm
Sundays at 2:00 pm
One Thursday evening performance at 8:00 pm on April 29th
TBA
TBA
Rikki Howie
06/11-27/27
Terence Anthony
March
Spotlighters Theatre 817 Saint Paul Street Baltimore, MD 21202
THE STORY - The year is 1935 and the Central State Hospital is one of seven psychiatric facilities in the U.S. built exclusively to care for “insane and idiotic negroes,” where the homeless and downtrodden are housed alongside the criminally insane and diseased. Attius builds coffins for the hospital where he has been locked up for years, but when two new patients ask him to help them escape Attius dares to dream of a life beyond his confines
Table Read: TBA
Rehearsals: TBA
Rehearsal off book date: TBA
Tech Rehearsals: TBA
Previews: TBA
Shows
June 11th - 27th, 2027 Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm
Sundays at 2:00 pm
One Thursday evening performance at 8:00 pm on June 17th, 2027
TBA
TBA
Michael Blum
07/16-08/01/27
Harvey Droke
May
Spotlighters Theatre 817 Saint Paul Street Baltimore, MD 21202
Table Read: TBA
Rehearsals:
Tech Rehearsals: TBA
Previews: TBA
Shows
July 16th throughAugust 1st
TBA
08/27-09/04/27
TBA
May
Spotlighters Theatre 817 Saint Paul Street Baltimore, MD 21202
Table Read: TBA
Rehearsals:
Tech Rehearsals: TBA
Previews: TBA
Shows
August 27th through September 4th
Expectations for Auditions
- Bring your theatrical résumé, a headshot, and a list of major conflicts from audition date through end of production.
- No conflicts will be approved after callbacks.
- A rehearsal schedule will be set once the production is cast.
- Actors may be asked to remain to read with other actors.
Expectations for Casted Actors
- Provide some costume items (only at the request of the costume designer).
- Stay after the opening night performance for a reception.
- Participate in a talk-back after a pre-selected performance.
- Stay after the closing performance to strike the production.
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