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Current Auditions
Auditions for 1776
As we approach the 250th anniversary of the birth of our nation, this powerful and
enduring musical is as relevant today as ever—bringing to life the passion, conflict, and courage behind America’s founding.
Performance Dates: July 2 – July 19
Audition Dates & Times
Friday, January 9 — 7:00–9:30 PM
Saturday, January 10 — 2:00–5:00 PM
Callbacks will be announced as needed.
No conflicts will be allowed for the Performance Dates or tech week before the production opens.
Location: Academy Playhouse, 120 Main Street, Orleans, MA
Singing Requirement
This is a musical. All auditioners must be prepared to sing 16 bars of a selection from 1776. All cast members will be required to sing at auditions. We suggest to following selections from the show:
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Delegates and baritones should choose either: Cool Cool Considerate Men or Lees of Old Virginia
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Abigail and Martha: He plays the Violin or Yours, Yours
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Those with Tenor Ranges: Mama Look Sharp
Casting Notes
This production is fully gender-flexible and performers of all genders are encouraged to audition for any role.
• Strong acting and vocal storytelling required
• Doubling roles possible
• Clear diction required
• All experience levels welcome
Full character breakdowns and the complete libretto and score are in the files below.
Auditions for Mortal Thoughts
Director: Florence Heller
Audition Dates at 120 Main Street Orleans, MA:
Monday January 12 - 7 - 10p
Tuesday January 13 - 7 - 10p
Friday January 14 - 7- 10p
Performance Dates: November 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 2026.
Written by Claude Kerven, who co-wrote the 1989 feature film Mortal Thoughts, starting Demi Moore & Bruce Willis.
SYNOPSIS:
Hooked on true-crime tales where ordinary people suddenly cross dangerous lines? Then, Mortal Thoughts is a play you can’t miss.
Joyce, a Bayonne beauty-parlor owner trapped in her marriage to her volatile, drug-hungry husband James, constantly vents about wanting him gone—sometimes joking, sometimes not. Her childhood best friend, Cynthia, watches from the sidelines as the tension builds, uneasily aware that Joyce’s threats may no longer be empty. One night, something happens that sends both women into a spiral of secrets, panic, and desperate cover-ups. This nail biting tale unfolds in a stark interrogation room, where detectives push Cynthia through fractured memories filled with shifting motives and shocking turns. Darkly funny and unnervingly tense, Mortal Thoughts reveals how quickly ordinary people can abandon ordinary morality—and how the lies they tell to survive become the very traps that undo them.
Adapted from the 1990s Hollywood film of the same name by the film’s very own screenwriter - Claude Kerven.
THE TIME: The 1980s. The decade of decadence. Leg warmers and Blockbuster.
AIDS and the Internet. Regan is in and the Soviet Union is crumbling.
THE SETTING: Bayonne, New Jersey.
A working-class suburb 12 miles from Manhattan. But those twelve miles may as well be a hundred and twelve miles because there is nothing sophisticated or cosmopolitan about Bayonne. It's the kind of place Rocky would come from if he wasn't born in Philly.
LOGLINE: A loathsome man is found dead, and two childhood best friends land in the crosshairs of the investigation. Under the harsh glare of the police—and the weight of their own vulnerabilities—they must cling to each other and prove their innocence, or risk never returning to their children.
A true crime gone wrong…or right…? But, beneath it all, a story of female friendship and just how far someone will go for the person they love before crossing a line they can’t uncross.
TAGLINES: We all love murder, don’t we?
One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.