“November 22nd” is a new musical written by award winning songwriter John Benischek and is being produced by The Westmont Performing Arts Theatre with World Premiere Performance dates set for November 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20 at Westview Hills Middle School, 630 W 65th St, Willowbrook, IL.
“November 22nd” is the powerful story of a boy who dreams of becoming an admired hero, but when another man is killed for trying to make this a better world, he becomes known throughout history as a despised villain. The purpose of this musical is to make the audience laugh, cry, think, question what they have been told, become angry, and finally walk out of the theater motivated to make this a better world. The goal is to make this show a masterpiece.
Auditions will be conducted at the Westmont Park District, 75 E Richmond St, Westmont, IL.
Non-Equity AuditionWednesday August 10 6:30pm-9:00pm
Saturday August 13 9:00am-5:00pm
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/409044DA5A92CA13-november
Call Backs by invitation
Wednesday August 17 6:30pm-9:00pm
Saturday August 20 9:00am-5:00pm
If interested please bring your headshot, resume, a list of conflict dates, and either two 60 second contrasting monologues or one 90 second monologue that shows a range of emotions.
Also, be prepared to sing either a verse or chorus of a song you know, and sing one of the songs from this show (the lyrics & recordings of all the songs from this show will be in the link below.) If you are not a singer, don’t worry, there are also non-singing roles and dancer roles. We will also try to teach everyone some dance steps.
We expect everyone to have proof of 2 COVID vaccination shots.
Link to the Female song to learn (“How Dare You”) demo recording & lyrics for your Audition:
Link to the Male song (“Things Are Going to Change”) demo recording & lyrics to learn for Audition:
Link to the script of “November 22nd” and demo recordings of all the songs in the Musical:
We’d like to start rehearsals on August 27 and then try to do 2 or 3 per week (only selected people Monday-Thursday and then hopefully everyone on Saturdays.
Tech Week begins on Nov. 5.
LEE: age-17-25, baritone or tenor, short, confident, naive, intelligent, earnest, last scene cries, (Michael J Fox)
JFK: age-25-45, baritone or tenor, Must be a great singer. Charismatic, Handsome, Boston accent nice to have.
COLONEL: age-40-65, baritone, Charismatic, Macho alpha male, walks with a limp. (Charlton Heston)
MR BIG: age-40-65, baritone or tenor, Evil charismatic villain
JACK_RUBY: age-30-50, baritone or tenor, Chicago mob accent (Danny DeVito, Joe Pesci)
SERGEANT: age-30-50, baritone, macho alpha male.
4STAR_GENERAL: age-30-65, baritone or tenor, macho (George C Scott)
3STAR_GENERAL: age-30-65, baritone or tenor, macho (George C Scott)
MAFIAGUY: age-30-65, baritone, mob accent (Sheldon Leonard)
MARINE1, MARINE2: age-20-40, baritone or tenor, macho
CIA_GUY: age-30-65, baritone or tenor, sneaky
KRUSHCHEV, BORIS, GOLDTHUMB: age-40-60, baritone or tenor, strong Russian accent.
NEWS_ANCHOR, FULL_DRESS_MARINE, PRIEST: age-30-65, baritone, Must have great speaking voice (James Earl Jones, Orson Wells, Walter Cronkite, Morgan Freeman)
PRISONER: age-20-65, baritone or tenor, seeking redemption, emotional, misses wife & kids.
GHOST_DAD: age-40-65, baritone, the ghost of Lee’s dead father. Very emotional scene.
LBJ: age-30-65, baritone or tenor, Texas accent, seething with jealousy over JFK.
BANKER: age-30-65, baritone or tenor, Loves money.
DETECTIVE1, DETECTIVE2: age-30-50, baritone, Texas accents
DAVID: age-30-50, baritone, thinks he is a comedian.
DR_O: age-30-65, baritone or tenor, calm at first but very scary when angry.
VLAD, DIPLOMAT: age-25-50, Russian accent.
DR_CRENSHAW, DR_ROSE, DR_PERRY: age-20-40, baritone or tenor, doctors at Parkland hospital.
PAULGROODY: age-20-40, baritone or tenor, The undertaker.
LOUIS: age-20-40, baritone or tenor, The minister who has to be talked into giving the eulogy for Lee.
MAN1, MAN2, PEASANT, MANAGER, PILOT, COP1, COP2, YOUNGMAN, BOBBY, AID, REPORTER1, NURSE1, NURSE2: age-20-40, baritone or tenor, cops with Texas accents, Bobby with Boston accent. Male Nurses are physically large.
JACKIE: age-20-30 alto, – Intelligent, passionate, must be able to cry
MARINA: age-18-25 alto or soprano. Russian accent, confident, passionate, a fighter, does cry
JUDYTH: age-18-25 alto, genius scientist, naive but learns quickly, always moral
LITTLE_BO_PEEP: age-20-50 alto, A stripper, starts sweet/innocent then dominatrix,
MARGARITE: age-30-50 alto, Oswald’s mother.
DOROTHY: age-20-50 alto or soprano, Newspaper reporter, feisty
MARY: age-30-50 alto or soprano, scientist, good sense of humor.
JUDGE: age-30-50 alto or soprano, Intelligent, serious
SECRETARY: age-20-50 alto or soprano, Not very bright, chews gum
WOMAN2: age-30-50 alto or soprano, Must be able to weep.
WAITRESS: age-20-50 alto or soprano, seductive
WOMAN1, OPERATOR, YOUNG_WOMAN, INTERCOM, MRS_LINCOLN: ages-20-50
Director, John Benischek
For any questions, please contact Bobby Yonkee ryonkee@westmontparks.org