Auditions for fall shows in Season 6

Where: Dance Kaleidoscope at 1125 E. Brookside Avenue, Door D5, Indianapolis

Directors

Fun Home – Marcia Eppich-Harris, and music direction by Lisa Kincaide

Describe the Night – Paige Scott

Compensation: $250

Synopses 

Fun Home is a Tony-winning musical based on Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir, tracing her life through three stages—childhood, college, and adulthood. The story centers on an adult lesbian, Alison, as she looks back to understand her complex, closeted, and volatile father, Bruce, who ran a funeral home and died shortly after she came out.

Describe the Night by Rajiv Joseph is an Obie Award-winning thriller exploring the intersection of truth, propaganda, and history across 90 years of Russian history (1920–2010). The play follows seven characters connected by a journalist’s diary, stretching from the Polish-Soviet War to the 2010 Smolensk plane crash.

What to prepare for FUN HOME

• Please prepare about a 1-minute, memorized monologue. 
• You may also be asked to read from the script.
• Sing a song from the show
• Please bring a resume, headshot, and a list of all conflicts between July 12 – September 27. 

What to prepare for DESCRIBE THE NIGHT

• Please prepare about a 1-minute, memorized monologue. 
• You may also be asked to read from the script.
• Please bring a resume, headshot, and a list of all conflicts between September 13-November 15.  

Rehearsal Schedules – All rehearsals will take place at Dance Kaleidoscope, 1125 E. Brookside Avenue, Door D5, Indianapolis

Fun Home: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday evenings, starting July 12.

Describe the Night: TBD

Performance Dates – All performances are at Butler University’s Shelton Auditorium, 1000 W 42nd St, Indianapolis

Fun Home: Thursday-Sunday, September 17-27, likely with Saturday matinees at 4pm

Describe the Night: Thursday-Sunday, November 5-15, likely with Saturday matinees at 4pm

Characters and casting needs 

We welcome and encourage actors of all genders, races, ethnicities, dis/abilities, body types, etc. to audition for any role. 

Fun Home Characters and Songs

1. Bruce – vocal range: baritone, B2-G4, Alison’s closeted gay father, late 40s-early 50s. 
2. Adult Alison – vocal range:  mezzo-soprano, E4-C#5/Db5, lesbian cartoonist, mid-40s. 
3. Child Alison – PRECAST
4. Helen – vocal range – mezzo-soprano, G#3/Ab3-E5, Alison’s mother, mid-40s-50s. 
5. Medium Alison – vocal range, mezzo-soprano, E4-E5, late teens – 20s. 
6. John – vocal range Treble/Boy Soprano, age 6-9 in the play, but open to up to 11 or 12. (lead singer in commercial song)
7. Christian – tenor, Alison’s older brother, around 11-13 years old in the play. 

8. Roy/Pete/Mark/Bobby Jeremy – doubled male characters, tenor/baritone, adult male (20s-30s) 

9. Joan – Alison’s girlfriend, alto, 20s 

Songs to prepare: 

Christian and John: Come to the Fun Home
College Alison: Changing my Major
Adult Alison: At the Light
Bruce (Dad): Edge of the World
Helen (Mom): Days and Days
Doubled Male (Roy/Pete, etc): Raincoat of Love

If you would like to audition for more than one character in Fun Home, please be prepared to sing more than one song — for instance, Helen and Adult Alison. However, you’re auditioning for College Alison, you can also be considered for Joan, and vice versa. 

Describe the Night Characters

1. Isaac Babel (1920s): A Russian Jewish journalist covering the Polish-Russian war, known for writing a detailed, enigmatic journal. He is depicted as an intellectual caught between his artistic desire to “describe the night” and the violent, deceptive reality of the state. (M, late 20s-40s)
2. Nikolai Yezhov (1920s–1989): A violent, commanding Red Cavalry Captain who becomes the Head of Stalin’s Secret Police. Later appearing as a 99-year-old living relic in 1989, he is cynical, manipulative, and serves as a mentor to Vova. (M, 30s-40s)
3. Vova (1989–2010): A low-level KGB agent in Dresden in 1989 who evolves into a powerful, paranoid Russian leader by 2010. He is defined by a need for absolute control and a deep distrust of the world. (M, 30s) 
4. Yevgenia (1940s–1989): Nikolai’s wife, who is bright, beautiful, and deeply involved in astrology and the supernatural. She is described as having a quiet, tragic strength, and later becomes a sharp-witted matriarch. (F, 20s-30s)
5. Urzula (1989): A young Polish immigrant in Dresden and granddaughter of Yevgenia. She is caught in the middle of the political and personal danger surrounding the journal. (F, 20s) 
6. Feliks (2010): A young, tattooed Polish orphan who feels old beyond his years and becomes involved in the fate of Babel’s journal. (M, 20s-30s)
7. Mariya (2010): A steady, Moscow-based journalist in 2010 who becomes the custodian of the journal. (F, 20s-30s)

Questions may be emailed to Marcia Eppich-Harris.