The Ignite Theatre Company has an ambitious set of creative goals for the rest of its inaugural season, including productions of “Sweeney Todd” and “Next to Normal.” The regional premiere of “Spring Awakening,” which will run at the Aurora Fox in August, sets a high bar for the young company. Directed by Bernie Cardell, the Tony Award-winning musical focuses on tragedy, trials and love in a small German town in the 19th century.

Auditions for the show will run from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on May 20 and from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on May 21 at the Lowry Town Center, 200 Quebec St., Suite 105 in Denver. Callbacks will run from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on May 22. Scroll down for full info on the auditions, the rehearsal schedule and information about the play.

“Spring Awakening”

Books and lyrics by Steven Sater

Music by Duncan Sheik

Directed by Amy Osatinski

Music direction by Midge McMoyer Smith

Choreography by Cameron Turner

Ignite Performer positions are paid.

Call Keith Rabin Jr. at 720-626-9796 or email at keith@lucentperformingarts.org to schedule your audition

AUDITION PREPARATIONS:

Those auditioning MUST be at least 18 years of age by 8/1/2012

Please bring your resume and headshot and be prepared to fill out an audition information form.

Please come prepared with 32 bars of an up-tempo rock/alternative song. An accompanist will be provided.

No acapella or instrumental tracks will be accepted.

LOCATION/DATES/TIMES

The Lowry Town Center

200 Quebec Street, Suite 105

Denver, CO 80220

Sunday, May 20th, 2012

2:00pm – 5:00pm

Monday, May 21st, 2012

7:00pm – 10:00pm

CALLBACKS – Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

7:00pm – 10:00pm

Call Keith Rabin Jr. at 720-626-9796 or email at keith@lucentperformingarts.org to schedule your audition

REHARSALS

First read through with be on May 29th, 2012. Rehearsals will start on May 30th, 2012. Rehearsals will be Monday-Wednesday evenings from 7:00pm – 10:00pm.

PERFORMANCE INFORMATION

Spring Awakening opens on August 3, 2012 and will run for 13 performances. Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm and Sunday matinees at 4:00pm with one Industry Night on Monday, April 23rd, 2012 at 7:30pm. Spring Awakening will close on Sunday, August 26, 2012.

SYNOPSIS

The regional premier of the rock musical sensation that won 8 Tony awards comes to the Aurora Fox. This intense Broadway blockbuster musical, centers on sex, the adolescents who want to explore it and the adults who neglectfully keep the truths of sex from them…Sex in all its incarnations and darkest complications. Set in 19th-century small-town Germany, Spring Awakening’s tragic love story between innocent Wendla and bookish Melchior is a hard-hitting commentary on social repression that resounds plenty in the modern day, but with intense alternative rock music by Duncan Sheik, it’s also potent, electrifying theater.

CASTING FOR THE FOLLOWING ROLES:

The Students (6 Male, 5 Female)

Melchior – Baritone – headstrong, handsome, and charismatic. He knows much more than the others because of what he reads in books.

Moritz – Tenor – Melchior’s insecure best friend whose dreams of women haunt him to the point that he is too afraid to fall asleep.

Wendla – Soprano – a childhood friend of the boys; she falls in love with Melchior.

Ilse – Mezzo – Another childhood friend who runs away from a sexually abusive home to become a Bohemian; (symbolically) Moritz’s last offer of hope.

Hänschen – Tenor- a very humorous, almost arrogant classmate of the boys. An effortless perfectionist who easily seduces Ernst.

Georg – Tenor – another classmate who lusts after his older, busty piano teacher.

Martha – Alto – one of Wendla’s friends who is abused sexually by her father.

Ernst – Tenor – a naive classmate of the boys who falls deeply for Hänschen’s seduction.

Otto – Tenor – Another classmate who dreamt of his mother, as Melchior humorously reveals to Moritz in an effort to help him relax.

Thea – Mezzo – One of Wendla’s friends, a girl who tries to brush her feelings of sexual desire under the carpet to please adults.

Anna – Alto – one of Wendla’s friends, who cannot wrap her head around Martha’s trials.

Ignite Theatre will also cast two (2) adult roles one male and one female to portray all adult roles in the production. Ignite will also cast four (4) onstage singer positions.