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HADESTOWN: Teen Edition
August 2025
Zlotnik Studio Theatre
New Musical Theatre Intensives provides innovative, advanced musical theatre training for young artists. Through producing contemporary musical theatre productions, we challenge and educate young artists to develop and grow their skills. Students will work with an outstanding artistic team, talented peers, and develop friendships, all while building invaluable skills through working on a fully-staged production of Hadestown: Teen Edition.
Bravo Academy is committed to diverse and inclusive casting and our facilities and stage are fully accessible. We encourage submissions from all passionate young artists between 14-19 yrs who are looking for an incredible experience, and are ready for the challenge of bringing this awe-inspiring musical to life.
Audition Deadline:
April 1st, 2025
In-Person Callbacks:
April 13th, 2025
THE SHOW
INFORMATION
Book, Music & Lyrics by Anaïs Mitchell
Hadestown: Teen Edition is a full-length adaptation of Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown. This intriguing and beautiful folk musical delivers a deeply resonant and defiantly hopeful theatrical experience. Following two intertwining love stories – that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of immortal King Hades and Lady Persephone. Inspired by traditions of classic American folk music and vintage New Orleans jazz, Mitchell’s beguiling sung-through musical pits industry against nature, doubt against faith, and fear against love.
FEES: $1375 + HST
REHEARSAL SCHEDULE
Note: We will be holding approximately four music rehearsals in June so artists learn the music with their creative team and then have time to memorize their material before staging rehearsals in August. We will also be having full company rehearsal and smaller rehearsal calls during this time to ensure everyone has time to learn their music.
Please click here to download the Tentative Rehearsal Schedule.
- Student call times will fluctuate pending the production’s needs. Eg. Students may be called for an entire rehearsal or may not be called at all.
- Students will be verified in advance of any schedule changes/extended call times
We invite all interested artists between 14-19 yrs who are excited and ready for a fast-paced intensive program that challenges and grows their skills to audition!
HOW TO AUDITION
STEP 1: Submit a Video Audition
Deadline: April 1st, 2025
Video Audition Requirements
Please prepare two of the vocal music cuts under the tab “Audition Materials” for your audition. Choose material that feels comfortable and suitable for your voice and personality.
Complete the Audition Form, which will prompt you to submit your videos, headshot (an image that shows your face from shoulders up), resume, and artist statement.
The Artistic Team will review the submissions and select artists will be invited to callbacks to meet you in person.
Artists that receive a callback are typically asked to audition for one or more specific roles. Callbacks help the artistic team determine role placement for each artist.
Hadestown: Teen Edition is a fully sung-through musical that is heavily ensemble based with roles such as the Fates and Workers. It is likely that during the callbacks, artists may be asked to sing a vocal part that encompasses harmony with other artists.
Please note: if you are called back and cannot make the date, please inform admin@bravoacademy.ca as soon as possible.
In-person callbacks: April 13th, 2025.
*Certain roles may be double-cast
ORPHEUS – Lyre-playing poet, gifted and naïve
EURYDICE – A runaway, tough and vulnerable
HADES – Compulsive industrialist, boss-king of Hadestown
PERSEPHONE – Queen of nature and the seasons, a lush
HERMES – Charismatic guide and storyteller, mentor to Orpheus (male or female identifying performer)
FATES (3) – Three sisters, vicious and delicious, voices in the head
WORKERS (6-8)– Spirits of labor and community, a physical and choral presence
Please select two roles to record and submit for your video submission. Choose what feels comfortable and suitable.
ORPHEUS “Epic II” m. 19-43 (The sheet music is HIGHER than the tracks and is in the INCORRECT key. Please practice using the provided track as it is in the correct key) + “Wait For Me” m. 56-71
Sheet music
Vocal Track
Accomp Track
EURYDICE – “All I’ve Ever Known” m. 20-75 + “Wait for me (Reprise) m. 66-74
Sheet music
Vocal Track
Accomp Track
HADES – “Hey Little Songbird” m. 1-59
Sheet music
Vocal Track
Accomp Track
PERSEPHONE – “Livin It Up On Top” m. 30-82
Sheet music
Vocal Track
Accomp Track
HERMES – “Road To Hell” m. 15-90
Sheet music
Vocal Track
Accomp Track
FATES (3) – “When the Chips are Down” m. 87-118 (Choose a fate line and stick to it)
Sheet music
Vocal Track
Accomp Track
WORKERS (6-8) – “If It’s True” m. 52-67 (Choose a worker line and stick to it)
THE TEAM
Artistic Team Announcement
Coming Soon!
Steven
Gallagher
Director
Steven is a highly sought-after director, writer, and actor across Canada and North America. Recent directing credits include The SpongeBob Musical (St Lawrence College), Living With Shakespeare (Driftwood), Murder at Ackerton Manor (Tweed Theatre), Birthday Balloon (RCA Theatre, St John’s, NL), Fully Committed (The Grand Theatre), and Rumspringa Break (Next Stage Festival).
Jake
Schindler
Music
Director
Jake is a Toronto-based music director, composer, audio editor, and teacher who loves working on new Canadian musical theatre. He has been part of several Dora Mavor Moore Award winning musicals, and has created and premiered many productions, including Patron’s Pick at the 2022 Toronto Fringe Festival The Crack of Doom, The Lightning Thief, The Drowsy Chaperone, Anne and Gilbert, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Flat Stanley Jr, In BeTween, and The Theory of Relativity.
Nicky
Phillips
Composer
Nicky Phillips is an award winning composer and a member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop based in New York City. Other musicals include: A Rey of Light (ASCAP/Stephen Schwartz Workshop), The Last Party (Toronto Fringe) and In Between (also with lyricist Sarah Ziegler at Bravo Academy!).
Sarah
Ziegler
Lyricist
Sarah Ziegler is a NYC-based lyricist and librettist. Other productions include THE BRONTES, JUST BETWEEN THE ALL OF IS, the brand new family show ALEX GOLD: STUCK ON REPEAT, and IN BETWEEN (also with composer Nicky Phillips at Bravo Academy!).
THE DETAILS
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Audition Deadline: April 1st, 2025
Audition Deadline
June 1, 2024
If you have any questions about the auditions, requirements, audition form, or the NMTI program in general, please contact us at admin@bravoacademy.ca.
Need Help? No problem! Contact us to book an audition coaching and our team can help you select a piece and prepare your submission.
THE PAST
THE PAST
BRAVO ACADEMY and NEW MUSICAL THEATRE INTENSIVES is committed to developing contemporary musicals specifically for youth and teen performers and to training emerging artists while working on innovative and new musicals in development.
Bravo Academy is a proud partner of the Arts Access Fund providing opportunities and support for those who otherwise would not be able to participate in our program. Students who need financial assistance in the form of a bursary or scholarship are encouraged to apply after acceptance to the program.