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The Irish… and How they Got that Way
Directed by David Girolmo
Music Directed by David Fiorello
Presented at The Ruth Page Center for the Arts
Follies (in Concert)
Directed by Michael Weber
Music Directed by Linda Madonia
Presented at The Studebaker Theater
Material to Prepare:
The Irish… and How they Got that Way – Music in the genres of Folk, Country, Blues, World Music with a STRONG
storytelling component best serves this production.
Follies – 32 bars of a song with music by Stephen Sondheim.
Time Commitment:
The Irish… and How they Got that Way
1st Reh: January 13, 2026
1st Perf: January 31, 2026
Anticipated close: March 15, 2026
Follies (in Concert)
1st Reh: April 13, 2026
Performances: April 25 & 26, 2026
Character Type/Restrictions:
Seeking: All roles
The Irish… and How they Got that Way
Performer: Tenor range
Performer: Baritone/Bass range
Performer: Soprano range
Performer: Alto range
2 Understudies
Looking for great musical storytellers, comfortable with direct address and engaging with the audience.
Singer/Instrumentalists are especially welcome.
Follies
Sally Durant Plummer
Sweet-faced. Bubbly. Still remarkably like the girl she was thirty years ago. A former Follies girl, she married a man she didn’t love. Needy and delusional at times.
Female
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: F3
Young Sally
A younger version of the adult Sally. She is perhaps the most similar to her adult counterpart of any of the foursome. Sweet-faced. Bubbly. Adventurous. Wants it all but may not have the patience or drive to wait for it.
Female
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: C4
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Stylish and intelligent. Her face is more beautiful now than it was thirty years ago. A woman who made her husband her life, the journey has hardened her and replaced the traces of life with cold sophistication and poise.
Female
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: F3
Young Phyllis
A younger version of Phyllis, when she was an energetic and naïve Follies girl. Slightly sad and homesick. With all the drive and none of the sophistication of the adult Phyllis.
Female
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: B3
Buddy Plummer
An attractive, charismatic man with a sad face wrinkled from years of too much smiling. Stuck in a broken marriage and has had multiple affairs.
Male
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: C4
Young Buddy
A younger version of the Buddy we see today. Charismatic and lively, a man who knows how to have fun. Loves Sally blindly and wants to give her the world.
Male
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: C4
Benjamin Stone
Distinguished. Successful. Authoritative. A man bent on success from a young age who has achieved it and now realizes the toll it had on personal relationships.
Male
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Young Ben
A not yet fully realized version of the man we see before us today, he is driven and intelligent but not quite so distinguished, and not yet frightened by his success.
Male
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: C4
Carlotta Campion
The one-time movie star. The kind of woman who has seen everything and is proud to be standing where she is.
Female
Vocal range top: B4
Vocal range bottom: E3
Stella Deems
A woman who moves with a special lightness; half of a former performing duo with her husband, but they gave it up to open a general store in Miami. Loves life and has led a good one.
Female
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: E3
Emily Whitman
A bright and papery woman. Married to Theodore, who together, teach dance together.
Female
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: B3
Theodore Whitman
A bright and papery man. Married to Emily, who together, teach dance together.
Male
Vocal range top: D4
Vocal range bottom: B2
Hattie Walker
An appealingly tough, no-nonsense lady. A former knockout Follies girl from the earlier years of the shows. She has married several times and always to the same type: the bad boy.
Female
Vocal range top: B4
Vocal range bottom: G3
Solange La Fitte
A French fashionista. Very much still alive and enjoying it, she is a perfume creator and seller. Has travelled the world but loves Paris more than any other place.
Female
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Heidi Schiller
Female
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: D4
Viennese and queenly. Incredibly rich and well known in elite social circles, she is constantly reminiscing.
Young Heidi
Female
Vocal range top: A5
Vocal range bottom: E4
A younger version of the Heidi we see today. Already queenly, but perhaps not yet rich and so well connected.
Dimitri Weissman
Male
An acerbic, vital, energetic elderly man. Staged the Follies every year between the great wars.
Roscoe
Male
An elderly showman with a majestic tenor voice who introduces the Follies girls as if no time has passed and they are
still the young girls of years ago.
Vocal range top: A5
Vocal range bottom: D4
Also seeking Understudies
To apply for this job email your details to auditions@porchlightmusictheatre.org