Description:

The Chicago Musical Theatre festival takes place every year at The Edge Theatre. Featuring eight brand new musicals in rep over three incredible weeks, this is the musical theatre event you don't want to miss! To access character descriptions for all shows, click here.

Shows being cast:

Billy and the Potato-Powered Time Machine
A musical-comedy about what happens when an unhappy 12-year old boy gets his hands his grandfather's potato powered time machine

Double Vision
A sci-fi comedy rock musical about science (well, sort of), love (okay, kind of), relationships (in more ways than one), and the power of seeking something new

Verve
A musical that follows 5 women at a gym as they lose the fat fetish and find friendship

Baked: The Musical
An overachieving high school senior teams up with her best friend and the class degenerate to launch a Chinese-bakery-edible drug empire to pay for her dream school without her parents finding out

Wonder Woman
A racy upbeat golden-age style comedy which tells the unknown true story of the women behind the creation of Wonder Woman

Paper Swords
A romantic comedy musical, focusing on two groups of live action role-players (LARPers) as they navigate adolescence

Moby Dick
Captain Ahab and his crew set sail aboard the Pequod in search of an infamous white whale

Readings:
Is You Is
A jazz-driven musical that toggles between present-day and the 1930s, exploring the impact of a 1933 Field Museum exhibition that fed false notions about race to millions

Adventurers!
A live-action Dungeons and Dragons musical about Keegan - the new girl in town who wants, more than anything, to join a party that can be hers forever

Time Commitment:
Rehearsal schedule varies by show
Tech begins January 28
Shows run February 4-23

Material To Prepare:
Please prepare 32 bars that show off your range - either a 32-bar cut of one song or 16-bar cuts of two songs.