AUDITION INFORMATION
General Auditions - Thursday, September 5th
2:50pm Auditorium
Callback Auditions - Friday, February 6th
2:50pm - Auditorium
Gneral Auditions
General Auditions - Thursday, September 5th beginning at 2:50pm.
Everyone will be asked to sign in and fill out an audition form
You WILL need to prepare one of the general audition cuttings linked above for your audition.
You will need your ipad or phone.
At your general audition, you will be asked to perform the audition piece linked above.
Memorization is not required but strongly recommended.
Please remember that we are looking for you to perform the monologue not just read it correctly. Make some choices about these characters are and how they speak and move about the world.
RELAX! Remember to keep breathing. Everyone in the room is wishing you the very best. We want you to do well, and we know you can!! In the interest of time, you may be stopped before you reach the end of your scene.
Callback Auditions
Callback Auditions - Friday, September 6th at 2:50pm - Choir Room
The Callback list will be posted to Classroom following general auditions on Thursday, September 5th. If your name appears on that list you will need to attend the callback audition on Friday, September 6th at 2:50pm in the auditorium.
You will be asked to read from the script at this audition.
You will need your ipad or phone.
RELAX! Remember to keep breathing. Everyone in the room is wishing you the very best. We want you to do well, and we know you can!! In the interest of time, you may be stopped before you reach the end of your scene.
Rehearsals
Rehearsals will begin on Monday, September 9th
Rehearsals may be called Monday-Friday for a minimum of 3 hours. We will rehearse 5 days a week. A preliminary rehearsal schedule will be provided at our first rehearsal.
You may not be called to every rehearsal.
If you are cast, you will be expected to attend ALL rehearsals to which you are called. Exceptions will be made on a case by case basis.
Technical rehearsals will be held from 5:00pm - 10:00pm the week prior to opening.
Performance & Tech Rehearsals
Tech rehearsals: 11/18/24 - 11/21/24 at 5pm - 10pm
Performances: 11/22 & 11/23 - 5pm Call - 7pm performance, and 11/24 - 12pm call - 2pm performance
Radium Girls
A Brief Synopsis
Radium Girls is D.W. Gregory’s gripping drama based on the true story of female laborers who were poisoned and killed by their factory’s radium-based paint. Though Radium Girls ranges from 1918 through the 1940’s, the bulk of the narrative is centered on events in New Jersey in the mid 1920’s.
The play highlights Grace, Irene, and Kathryn who paint dials in the U.S. Radium Plant and are instructed to finely point their brushes by molding the bristles with their mouths while painting. The factory’s new owner, Arthur Roeder, is excited by radium’s promising future and believes in the company’s potential for growth. Roder’s mindset is supported by Marie Curie, the internationally famous scientist, who believes radium provides many health benefits and could even cure cancer.
But soon many of the the girls begin to notice disturbing health issues, and one of their co-workers dies, but her death is brushed aside. The plant tries to keep the girls who are getting sicker from talking to the press, push back their court dates, and deflect any negativity toward the company. Some of the surviving girls finally get settlements and medical coverage for the rest of their shortened lives.
Radium Girls fiercely examines the commercialization of science, the pursuit of both health and wealth, the power of the underdog, and the fierce injustice laborers in America have faced, and may even continue to face in the present.
Cast of Characters
Irene Rudolph
Katheryn Schaub
Grace Fryer
Arthur Roeder
Edward Markley
C.B. "Charlie" Lee
Dr. Von Sochocky
Mrs. Alma Macneil
Tom Kreider
Diane Roeder
Anna Fryer
Katherine Wiley
Raymond Berry
Harriet Roeder
Dr. Cecil Drinker
Dr. Harrison Martland
Dr. Joseph Knef
Dr. Marie Curie
Frederick Flinn, Ph.D.
Sob Sister (Nancy Jane Harlan)
William J.A. Bailey
Mrs. Michaels
Society Woman
Clerk
Reporter (Jack Youngwood)
Ensemble