The Adobe Theater announces AUDITIONS forThe Great American Trailer Park Musical
Friday, February 13th 5:00-9:00 (Initial vocal audition)
Saturday, February 14th 11:00-3:00 (Reading audition by invite)
Sunday, February 15th 12:00-4:00 (Callbacks by invite) by
appointment.
Production Dates: May 29-June 21
This raucous, heart-filled musical comedy is set in Armadillo Acres, North Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. There’s a new tenant at Armadillo Acres—and she’s wreaking hurricane-type havoc on this quiet little community.
When Pippi, a stripper on the run, comes between Jeannie, a Dr. Phil–loving agoraphobe, and her tollbooth-collector husband Norbert, the storms begin to brew. What follows is a wildly entertaining mix of infidelity, desperation, loyalty, and unexpected compassion.
Packed with outrageous humor, big personalities, and a country-rock score, the show embraces camp and chaos while ultimately revealing surprising emotional depth and redemption beneath the trailer-trash glitter.
This production calls for 5 female-identifying actors and 2 male-identifying actors.
AUDITION REQUIREMENTS:
Auditions for The Great American Trailer Park Musical will be by appointment (Google doc on the Adobe website).
Who should audition: Performers of all backgrounds, identities, and body types are encouraged to audition. Please audition for the role that best aligns with your vocal range and connection to the character. Content Notice: This production contains adult language and situations. Performers should be comfortable with mature themes, broad comedy, and heightened characters.
Vocal Audition: Prepare 32-45 bars (roughly a minute to a minute and a half) of a song in the style of the show (country, rock, pop, or contemporary musical theatre). Songs from The Great American Trailer Park Musical are welcome but not required.
Please bring sheet music in the correct key (accompanist provided). You may be asked to complete vocal range checks or sing additional material.
Acting Audition: No monologue is required. Auditioners will be asked to read from the script on Saturday. Callbacks on Sunday will also include scene work.
Sign up for your audition slot here!
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CHARACTER BREAK DOWN
“The Lovers”
JEANNIE GARSTECKI: 35–45 Vocal Range: Mezzo-soprano/belt—strong low F to Db on the staff. Jeannie has lived in a trailer at Armadillo Acres for 20 years with her husband and high-school
sweetheart, Norbert. A faded beauty, she was 17 when she married, 18 when her son was born, and 23 when he was kidnapped. That trauma, combined with a truly disastrous perm, has turned her into an agoraphobe who hasn’t left her trailer in decades. She loves her husband desperately and is determined to win him back—if only she could make it out the front door.
NORBERT GARSTECKI: 35–45 Vocal Range: High baritone—strong low A to Eb above middle C. Jeannie’s husband Norbert collects tolls for a living and does his best to be a good spouse to an
agoraphobic wife. A former high-school football star, his rugged good looks are now worn down by fatigue and emotional strain. He longs for a normal life but lacks the emotional tools to help Jeannie heal. He has never loved, or slept with, another woman—until he meets Pippi.
PIPPI: 28–35 Vocal Range: Big belt—low F to high F on the staff.
A striking beauty with a taste for clothing that shows it off, Pippi has spent her life surviving however she can. A professional stripper with talents for dancing and petty theft, she’s trying to
stop making bad choices and start over. To do that, she hides out in a North Florida trailer park—hoping to stay one step ahead of her most recent mistake.
DUKE: 24–28 Vocal Range: Rock tenor—D in the bass clef to G above middle C. Pippi’s obsessive, possessive, Magic-Marker-sniffing boyfriend—ex-boyfriend, according to Pippi. Not so, according to Duke. Not the brightest guy south of the Mason-Dixon Line, Duke leaves chaos and destruction wherever he goes. His arrival at Armadillo Acres is full of surprises, even for residents accustomed to drama.
“The Girls” (Greek-chorus-style trio who guide the story, play
multiple characters of all genders, and frequently break the fourth
wall)
BETTY: 38–60 Vocal Range: Rough belt—low F to Db on the staff.
Betty went to high school with Jeannie and Norbert and has lived at Armadillo Acres just as long. She now runs the leasing office and prides herself on knowing everyone’s business. Although she claims to be a “bad-ass,” she’s really the park’s mother hen—grounded, dry, and deeply loyal. Very comedic.
LINOLEUM “LIN”: 30-50 Vocal Range: Belt—strong low G to E on the staff. Named for the kitchen floor she was born on, Lin has a husband on death row at Florida State Prison. Since the electric chair only works when most of the town’s power is on, Lin obsessively monitors everyone’s electricity in hopes of keeping it malfunctioning. Fierce, sharp-tongued, and hinting at a wild rock-and-roll past, Lin is the spiciest of The Girls.
DONNA “PICKLES”: Late teens to mid-20s Vocal Range: Belt—low A to strong high F on the staff. A newlywed nicknamed “Pickles” because she is perpetually hysterically pregnant—so convinced she should be expecting that she shows symptoms. Her city-boy husband’s parents disapprove of the marriage, and Pickles is desperate to give him a family, even if she has to fake it. Sweet, airy, and blissfully ignorant, she is the dimmest (and most earnest) of The Girls.
IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, PLEASE EMAIL THE DIRECTOR AT:
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