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Current Auditions
The Jungle Book, Kids
Performers must be 18 years old or under.
Audition Date: Saturday March 28th, 9 am – noon. If you are unable to attend, you may submit a video, along with a filled-out audition form, to jakangas19@yahoo.com.
Performance Dates: July 10– August 1, Friday and Saturday mornings at 10 am.
Director: Keren Castro
Music Director: Jennifer Kangas
We are asking all candidates to prepare one of the two songs listed below. Sheet music and an MP3 file of the songs are below. You may also be asked to do a cold read of sides from the show.
“Bare Necessities” measures 1-17
“I Wanna Be like you” measures 1 - 32
If you are unable to learn one of these songs, you may sing Happy Birthday so we can get an idea of your pitch, range and projection.
Show synopsis and character breakdown are posted below. You may audition for one part, but then be asked to do a different part. A space on the audition form will allow you to indicate what part(s) you are auditioning for. Also, you don t NEED to choose ANY part – this is a general audition and we will consider every auditioner for every part.
Below is our tentative rehearsal schedule and other information you should review before you commit to the show.
Information on website:
Sheet music for two songs, MP3 file of the two songs.
Under 18 Audition form that MUST be filled out.
Rehearsal schedule.
Show synopsis and character breakdown.
We are only able to cast a certain number of children. In years past, we have tried to cast all candidates, but the size of our stage and rehearsal space may necessitate the need for cuts. We may be offering a summer children’s musical class in August that will be open for everyone. Please keep your eyes open for announcements later this year.
A Few Good Men
Auditions: Saturday, March 28th 1 to 4 or Sunday March 29th 6 to 8
Callbacks: Friday April 3rd 6 to 9 (if needed)
By Aaron Sorkin
Director: Terrance Brady
Assistant Director: Ryan Van Buskirk
Stage Manager: Suzanne Fecteau
(Anticipated) Rehearsals to start: July 18, 2026.
SHOW DATES: Fri & Sat 7pm | Sept 18, 19, 25, 26, Oct 2 & 3
Sun Matinee 2pm | Sept 20, 27, Oct 4
Can you handle the truth? From the creator of The West Wing and The Newsroom comes A Few Good Men. One woman fighting for her place in a world of men, two young marines accused of murder, and a world in which lives and nations hang on the precision of orders followed. But if lives depend on following orders, where do you draw the line? See the hard-hitting drama that launched Aaron Sorkin’s brilliant career.
Please prepare a Monologue (approximately one minute), [preferably one from the PDF file below], and be prepared to read sides.
Video audition submissions will be accepted until 12:00pm on Sunday March 29th. Please send any submission to terry@academyplayhouse.com.
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While they are not required for auditions, Appropriate Military haircuts/facial hair styles may be required of certain characters for all performances.
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Some roles may be offered male- or female-presenting, therefore we encourage ALL genders 17+ to audition!
Auditions for Mortal Thoughts
Director: Florence Heller
Please send audition tapes to: flosheller@gmail.com
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.