10/09/2026
Audition Notice
Mercy High School Performing Arts
Farmington Hills, MI
Is holding auditions for Hadestown: Teen Edition
Auditions are open to:
Mercy students
Local high school boys
PRODUCTION TEAM:
Shelley Bajorek - Director Email: [email protected]
Abha Dearing - Musical Director Email: [email protected]
Aimee Crosby - Choreographer Email: [email protected]
Holly Bennetts - Producer Email: [email protected]
Audition Workshop:
October 21st 3:00 pm
Mercy High School Performing Arts Hallway (Boys may enter through the lobby facing Middlebelt)
Learn the audition dance ahead of time. Get a leg up on the competition!
Rehearse any and all audition music with our Music Director and live piano accompaniment
Auditions: October 27th 3pm
Callbacks: October 28th 3pm (Mercy students, please note Powderpuff has been scheduled for the same evening)
Rehearsals will begin November 3rd and are held Monday through Thursday at 3pm. Please check the calendar for end times.
Show dates: March 11,12, 13, 14
*Please note the Thursday show is during the school day.*
ABOUT THE SHOW:
Hadestown: Teen Edition is a full-length adaptation of Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, modified for performance by teen actors for family audiences. The Teen Edition is only available for school and youth groups with performers 19 years old and younger.
This intriguing and beautiful folk opera 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 – Hadestown invites audiences on a hell-raising journey to the underworld and back. 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.
