Entr’Acte Theatrix is pleased to announce they will follow their recent extraordinarily successful production of Monty Python’s Spamalot with
The Who’s Tommy.

The show will open October 17 and run through October 27 at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts’ Crest Theater in Old School Square.  This classic rock opera, with a score by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff has an iconic score featuring such songs as ‘See Me, Feel Me’, ‘Amazing Journey’, and ‘Pinball Wizard’.

Tommy will be directed and choreographed by Kevin Black, with musical direction by Roger Blankenship.

Rehearsals begin on September 3, 2013, and will take place 3 evenings a week (M,T, Th), and Sunday afternoons.

For more information about Entr’Acte Theatrix, please visit http://entractetheatrix.org.

Auditions:
Dates: August 1 and August 2
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: 241 Seaview Avenue
Please call 561.366.9033 or email hedzupproductions@yahoo.com
for an appointment.
NON-EQUITY, PAID

Character Breakdown:

CAPTAIN WALKER:
A former soldier with lingering guilt. He murders his wife’s lover after coming back from a POW camp, resulting in Tommy’s trauma-induced blindness, deafness, and dumbness. Father to Tommy and husband to Mrs. Walker.
Male, 30-40 yrs old
Range: F3 – C#5

COUSIN KEVIN
A bully with sadistic tendencies. Tortures his cousin, Tommy, when they’re young and later seizes the opportunity to profit from Tommy’s success.
Male, 18-25 yrs old
Range: Ab2 – B4

GYPSY
A brazen drug dealer and prostitute. Tommy’s parents bring him to the Gypsy to experiment with unusual cures.
Female, 25-35 yrs old
Range: G3 – F5

MRS. WALKER
A weary middle-class woman. Mrs. Walker is tired and frustrated from trying to care for and cure Tommy. Tommy’s mother and Captain Walker’s wife.
Female, 25-35 yrs old
Range: G3 – D6

SALLY SIMPSON
A bold, sensitive, and excitable teenybopper. Sally develops a fan crush on Tommy and rushes the stage to be close to him.
Female, 15-18 yrs old
Range: F3 – D5

THE SPECIALIST
A doctor with modern ideas about how to cure Tommy. Tommy’s parents hire him in their desperation to find any cure for their son.
Male, 30-45 yrs old
Range: G#3 – F4

TOMMY/NARRATOR
An embittered young genius stricken deaf, dumb, and blind after a childhood trauma. Tommy discovers that he is a natural master of pinball, and later becomes a cult-like hero figure to masses enthralled by his story. Captain Walker and Mrs. Walker’s son.
Male, 18-25 yrs old
Range: Db3 – B4

UNCLE ERNIE
A lecherous, drunken bachelor. Ernie molests a young Tommy and later runs a children’s camp seeking to profit from Tommy’s popularity. Mrs. Walker’s brother and Tommy’s uncle.
Male, 30-45 yrs old
Range: G2 – Bb4

ENSEMBLE
SOLDIERS; NURSES; HARLOTS; LADS AND LASSES; GUARDS; REPORTERS