Rocky Horror Show Auditions

February 6 - 7, 2024 | 6pm

Stan State's production of Richard O'Brien's Rocky Horror Show.

For the auditions, please prepare a sassy monologue from any era, and any length 60s/70s rock 'n' roll style song. A song from The Rocky Horror Show is an excellent choice, especially if you have a role in mind. All roles are open to all genders.

Check out the production, Live from London's West End Rocky Horror Show.

The overall style of this production is high satire ‘camp’. The characters are extremely broad and stylized. Most of the characters will be in some scant, suggestive costuming.

***Mature Content***
Caution! Please familiarize yourself with the show before auditioning! Read the script (available in the Theatre Department office for review) AND watch a staged production (NOT the movie) on the internet. Please refer to the Department’s Intimacy and Casting Policies, also available in the office. If there are actions the character takes or words the character says that you feel you would not be able to perform, please let us know at the audition. Perhaps a different role might be more suitable for you, i.e., the Offstage
Audience Participation Ensemble will not be costumed suggestively.

For the auditions, please prepare:

  • A one-minute contemporary, comedic monologue from a play in the same style: satire, "camp", theatre of the absurd, or something similar
  • One 60s/70s rock’n’roll style song. A song from The Rocky Horror Show is an excellent choice, especially if you have a role in mind. Roles are open to any gender, except Brad and Janet.

Auditions Sign Up
To sign up for an audition slot, please contact JJohns3@csustan.edu
Musical selections from the score will be emailed out 3 weeks prior to the audition date.

Cast Breakdown
Janet: Young woman, Ingenue-esque. (until she isn’t)
Brad: Young man, strait-laced and honorable. (until he isn’t)
Both Brad and Janet are in generic underwear for the bulk of the show, with lab coats.
Narrator: ‘Tongue-in-cheek’ proper ‘host’. Possible non-singer.
Frank-N-Furter: ‘Sweet Transvestite’ scientist from Transylvania; very broad and strong.
Riff Raff: Frank’s disgruntled underling.
Magenta: Frank’s domestic help.
Columbia: Part of the Transylvanian entourage.
Rocky: Frank’s ‘creation’.
Eddie: An ill-fated delivery boy.
Dr. Scott: Brad’s mentor, who senses trouble at the Castle.
"Phantoms” Onstage Ensemble - singing/dancing.
Offstage Ensemble - leading the audience participation.

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals.

 

Updated: February 01, 2024