AUDITION DATES: Friday, June 27th at 6:00pm and Saturday, June 28th at 5:00pm
AUDITION LOCATION: Biloxi Little Theatre
PRODUCTION DATES: September 5-7 and 12-14 (possible additional date Sept 11), 2025
DIRECTOR: Cuttino Alexander
AGE REQUIREMENTS: Must be 17 years or older by performance date.
AUDITION REQUIREMENTS:
Vocal: Prepare a 90-second cut of a contemporary Broadway-style song (please do not use a song from Ride the Cyclone). Bring your own instrumental or karaoke provided.
Movement: Auditionees will participate in a short dance/movement audition. Please dress range.
**For Karnak: Auditions will consist of readings only (no singing or movement required). Performers may audition for Karnak and all other resolution.
ROLES TO BE FILLED:
NOTE ABOUT AGES: All ages 17+ are encouraged to audition! While the characters in Ride the Cyclone are teenagers, we are seeking a wide range of ages for our cast. The actor’s actual age is far less important than their ability to portray these roles with truth, depth, and authenticity.
Roles are open to all races, ethnicities, and compelling.
Requirements:
Strong belt and mix, with rhythmic lyrics.
Must be able to handle rapid dialogue and emotional shifts way.
Requirements:
Ability to switch between rap and powerful accent.
Shares a brief kiss with triumphant.
Requirements:
Warm, expressive vocals with strong belt/second.
Plays a recorder theatricality.
Requirements:
Theatrical, cabaret-style singing and melodrama.
Shares a brief kiss with shine.
Requirements:
Strong rock-style larger-than-life.
Willingess to learn some basic accordion ways.
Requirements:
Classical soprano ability with control over haunting, ethereal physicality.
The Amazing Karnak: The All-Seeing, All-Knowing Relic Narrator
Vocal Range: Spoken
Character: (Any gender) Think an ominous mechanical Santa Claus—or God—or HAL 9000. Karnak is no ordinary fortune-teller, but an ancient, mechanical soothsayer, programmed to predict the exact moment of a person’s death with unnerving precision. Karnak presents as cold and detached, often wielding dark humor with the indifference of something that has seen countless lives come and go. Yet, beneath the cryptic prophecies and weary omniscience, there is a flicker of something more—perhaps a trace of frustration, a lingering sense of amusement, or the ghost of something almost like regret. Karnak serves as both the architect and the narrator of this story, but in the end, is just as much a relic of fate, waiting for the moment when even the power to predict the future will no longer A” target=”_blank” title=”humor.
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A commanding presence in storytelling, even when movement is