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The Children's Playhouse of Maryland Announces
AUDITIONS for
RENT - School Edition
Book, Music & Lyrics by Jonathon Larson
School Edition specially adapted and licensed by
Music Theatre International.
La Vie Boheme! Jonathan Larson's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning musical that shaped a generation of audiences and taught us all to measure our life in love.
Set in the East Village of New York City, Rent School Edition is about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, it has become a pop cultural phenomenon with songs that rock and a story that resonates with audiences
of all ages.
Based loosely on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent School Edition follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. How these young bohemians negotiate their dreams, loves and conflicts provides the narrative thread to this groundbreaking musical.
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THESE AUDITIONS ARE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS AGES 14 - 18 ONLY.
PARENTS: There is a parent volunteer requirement of working at 2 performances (per ACTOR) for your child/children to be cast in this show. If you are unable to volunteer, there will be a $50.00 participation fee (per ACTOR) required for your child/children’s participation. Volunteers sign up or fee paid
are due by April 24.
PLEASE NOTE: If you are cast in this show there will be a MANDATORY company meeting via ZOOM for ALL CAST members AND a PARENT/GUARDIAN on Friday, March 28 @7:00pm OR Saturday, April 5 @10:00am. You MUST ATTEND one of these meetings to participate in the show.
BOTH THE PERFORMER AND A PARENT MUST ATTEND!
(If you were a cast member in CPM's "Birdie", "Charlie", "OZ" or a mainstage show from the 2023-2024 CPM Season you have completed this requirement and are excused
from attending this meeting.)
If you have not been cast in a CPM show before - Please bring a photograph of yourself to attach to your audition form.
This does NOT need to be a formal headshot.
Any size photo will work.
Auditions for this show are for:
Ages 14 to 18. Students must be in high school.
We ask that you list all conflicts that you have between March 18 and May 1, 2025, on your audition form.
PLEASE NOTE:
Conflicts during Tech Week (April 25 - May 1) will affect casting decisions. We prefer no conflicts during this week.
Rehearsals are normally three weeknights from 6:30 to 9:00pm and 12:00 to 6:00pm on Saturdays and/or Sundays, except Tech/Dress weeks when they will be 12:00 to 6:00pm on Sat. and Sun. and weeknights from 6:00pm to 10:00pm.
WHO:
Children's Playhouse of MD
WHERE:
CCBC Essex
Administration Building
Lecture Hall/Auditorium near Parking Lot #4
(This is the same auditorium where CPM performs.)
Click for a map of Campus
WHEN:
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
6:30 - 8:30pm
(You need to be signed in by 8:30pm in order to audition. Each audition group will take about 30 minutes. If we get a lot of auditionees there will be a long wait time between each group.)
PLEASE NOTE:
Performance Dates
Friday May 2 & 9 @ 7 pm
May 3, 10, 11, 17, 18 @ 1pm
(Actor call time is 10am for 1pm performances
and 5pm for 7pm performances.)
PERFORMANCE CONFLICTS ARE NOT ACCEPTED.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:
Prepare 32 measures (or one verse and one chorus) of a song that shows off your voice the best (not too high or too low for your vocal range). The song does not need to be from the show.
BRING THE SHEET MUSIC WITH YOU OR A KARAOKE CD or Track downloaded to a mobile device.
(Accompaniment should have no lead vocals)
You may or may not be asked to read from the script.
RENT School Edition Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
www.mtishows.com
Questions? cpm@ccbcmd.edu
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