Full Audition Schedule for 2025-2026
Please note that this info, and these dates/times are subject to change.
APSU’s New Musicals Project: Three new one-act musicals.
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Slotherhouse: The Musical by Victoria Matlock Fowler
Based on the horror/comedy film Slotherhouse, currently streaming on HULU and Disney+. Senior Emily Young wants to be elected sorority president. She adopts a cute sloth, thinking it will help her win, but a string of fatalities implicates the sloth. (Horror/comedy, Pop/Rock/Classical/Death Metal)
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A Year Goes By by Austin Shaw
A song cycle loosely based on the months of the year. (Contemporary MT)
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A *Brief *History of *Spacefaring *Objects (*Mostly) by JJ Gibson
In this song cycle with a story, Entropy, Curiosity, Hope, and Inevitability gather around the campfire at the end of the universe and regale each other with stories from that brief period of existence where humanity blipped to life and right back out again. (Contemporary MT/Folk)
Auditions will be IN PERSON on Tuesday, August 26th, 2025 @ 6pm in the Lab Theatre.
Callbacks will be held in person on August 27th, 28th or 29th, TBD.
Please prepare two 16-32 bar contrasting cuts. If possible, choose music in Contemporary Musical Theatre, Folk, Pop or Rock styles.
Please be prepared to state which roles/shows you are specifically interested in or will not accept.
Get a head start by checking out the callback materials for the New Musicals Project
here: 
New Musicals Project 2025 Callback Materials
APSU’s College Collaboration with the Farm Theater
A new work by award-winning playwright Gina Femia (www.femiagina.com)
No prepared materials needed.Cold readings only
Latest draft of the script available HERE.
Auditions will be held at 6PM on Nov. 17th. Location TBA
You can read the play HERE.
What to prepare: please prepare a 1 min speech that deals with something you are passionate about. It could be deeply personal, or it could be a cause you care about. It does not have to be from a play, musical, tv show, or film. It could be, but it could also be a speech from a public figure you admire.
Call backs Nov. 20th6
Elaine's piece will have a movement call on Aug. 27 at 6 in room 413. The full audition will take place on October 8th at 5PM.
In the heat of August in the year of 1892, Andrew Borden and his wife are found murdered
in their house. The main suspect in the murder’s is Andrew’s youngest daughter from
a previous marriage, Lizzie Borden. Using a searing rock score, and based on the historical
record, LIZZIE explores the heady and heated days leading up to the murder, Lizzie’s controversial
acquittal of all charges, and the creation of a new American myth.
Directed and Choreographed by Zakk Mannella
Music and Lyrics by Steven Cheslik-deMeyer
Lyrics, Book, and Additional Music by Tim Maner
Music and Additional Lyrics by Alan Stevens Hewitt
Audition Information
Auditions will be held in person on Tuesday, November 18th starting at 6:00PM in the
Lab Theatre.
Callbacks will be held in person on Monday, November 24th starting at 6:00PM in the
Lab Theatre.
What to Prepare
Please prepare one 32 bar cut in the style of the show. An accompanist will be provided, please have
clearly marked sheet music, hole punched, and in a binder.
Do not sing from the show.
You may be asked to sing an additional cut, so please come prepared and with your
audition book.
Please arrive 10-15 minutes prior to your audition slot as there are some forms that
you need to fill out and turn in prior to leaving.
If there are any questions, please reach out to Zakk Mannella at mannellaz@apsu.edu