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Youth Auditions: The Lightning Thief

Audition Date: April 22 & 23 from 4:30 PM to 7:30 PM


Callbacks:  Thursday, April 24 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM


First rehearsal: Monday, June 2


Show Dates:  June 27 & 28


Director: Emily Giles

Music Director: Lauren Thiessen


About the show:

The Lightning Thief is a musical with music and lyrics by Rob Rokicki  and a book by Joe Tracz, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Rick Riordan. The musical follows Percy Jackson, a 12-year-old boy who newly discovers that he is a demigod and goes on a quest to find Zeus'  missing lightning bolt and prevent a war between the Greek Gods.


Character Descriptions


PERCY JACKSON – Son of Poseidon, a good kid with a teenage temper

ANNABETH – Daughter of Athena, smarter than you

GROVER – A happy-go-lucky satyr, like a hippie kid with hooves

LUKE – Son of Hermes, cool camp counselor

SALLY JACKSON – Percy’s hard-working mother

MR. BRUNNER aka CHIRON – Wise centaur, part-time Latin teacher

CLARISSE – Tough jock girl, daughter of Ares

MR. D, aka DIONYSUS – God of wine, snarky camp director

SILENA BEAUREGARD – Daughter of Aphrodite

KATIE GARDNER – Daughter of Demeter

THE ORACLE – a hippie mummy


ENSEMBLE CHARACTERS


MRS. DODDS – A Fury posing as a substitute algebra teacher

GABE UGLIANO – Percy’s foul stepfather

MINOTAUR – Half-man, half-bull

POSEIDON – God of the sea, salty beach bum

GREYHOUND PASSENGER 1

GREYHOUND PASSENGER 2

SQUIRRELAUNTY EM, aka MEDUSA – Avid sculptor

TRAIN CONDUCTOR

ECHIDNA – Mother of monsters

NEWSCASTER

FARMER

ARES – God of war, rock star in leather pants

BIANCA – A mysterious girl in 1930’s clothes

KRONOS – A voice in a pit

THALIA – Daughter of Zeus, tough

CHARON – Ferryperson to the Underworld

JAMES BROWN

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

KURT COBAIN

JANIS JOPLIN

DJ CERBERUS

HADES – God of the dead, aging rock star type


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