03/28/2025
HELP!! We are STILL looking for people for our Workshop Production scheduled for this summer! We especially need MALE performers -- to play characters ranging in age from mid 20s to 70s. It is not a paying gig, but it is an opportunity to be part of the development of a new musical, including the first-ever public performances.
Here is the audition notice again:
The Bottom Line - 2025 Workshop Production
E-mail: [email protected]
** AUDITIONS for a NEW MUSICAL by Video Submission **
We're looking for creative, energetic performers to be part of the development of a NEW musical in our workshop production of The Bottom Line, by local composer Dana Paul Robinson.
Director: Lee Lewis of Showcase On Main in Elkton, MD
Music Director: David Zipse
Producer: Jeff Reim
For more information, visit us at https://www.facebook.com/thebottomlinemusical
AUDITION NOTICE for The Bottom Line Workshop 2025
Workshop rehearsals at Showcase On Main in Elkton, MD
Tech rehearsals and Performances at Newark Charter School in Newark, DE
Seeking VIDEO auditions for a workshop production of The Bottom Line, a new musical by Dana Paul Robinson, directed by Lee Lewis with music-director David Zipse.
The workshop process will begin with a readthrough sometime in the Spring, followed by a light schedule (TBD) of rehearsals to develop the show, with final rehearsals culminating in two public performances on August 1-2, 2025.
Featuring music in a jazz standard / Broadway style, The Bottom Line is a romance story set against the tension arising from technological advances in the banking industry over several decades. The show begins and ends in 2009, centering on 20-something Bobby Jones, who faces a choice between helping his mother continue his late father’s legacy in their small, community-focused bank or pursuing a different career. At a reunion of aging, retired bankers, Bobby meets several of his parents’ colleagues who share stories of the old days when banking was a service, not just a business. We flash back to the early 1980s, now following Bobby’s father as a young man just starting his banking career (and meeting and falling in love with Bobby’s mother) at a time when rapid changes in technology, along with the greed of some unscrupulous business people, threaten to destroy the integrity of the institution in favor of “the bottom line.”
Seeking 10-14 non-union actor/singers (6-8M, 4-6F) to play various roles ranging in age from 20’s to 70’s.
See breakdown of characters below...
Please record a video performance of one song in the style of the show (think Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Jerry Herman). Demo recordings of songs from the show are available at the link below. Save your video in a common format (mp4, avi, mov, wmv, etc.) and email it directly (if under 20mb) or email a link to the file online (making sure the file is downloadable).
EMAIL submissions to: [email protected]
Along with your video file (or link), please include your NAME, CONTACT INFO, HEADSHOT/RESUME and Typical SCHEDULE OF AVAILABILITY (for occasional workshop rehearsals April-July 2025, and for final rehearsals/performances Mid-July to August 2, 2025).
To listen to demos of the music, please click on this LINK or request by email:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WQ1qONraMJvQsbNe2Mqsn_5DWo2pwQbq?usp=drive_link
A virtual table read of an early version of the show is available on YouTube HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkorvrQOp1s
CHARACTERS (in order of appearance):
Allison Jones (middle aged widow)
Jill (single woman in her twenties)
Bobby Jones (single man in his early twenties)
Dutch Johnson (retired DB&T employee)
Skip Porter (retired DB&T employee)
Brenda Caldwell (retired DB&T employee)
Dick Brown (retired DB&T employee)
Marcia (retired DB&T employee)
Eleanor (bank secretary)
Addison Cox (elderly bank president)
Peter Jennings (elderly bank customer)
Jerry Jones (young bank officer)
Leslie Bartosh (elderly male bank customer)
Rosalie Graham (elderly retired bank officer)
Pamela Thornsdale (single woman in her twenties)
Chandler Billingsley (single man, early thirties)
Wallace (investment banker)
Hudson (investment banker)
Allison Thornsdale (single woman, younger sister)
Ted (portfolio manager)
Skip (portfolio manager)
(Most of these roles will be doubled, and some additional ensemble roles will also need to be covered)
The Bottom Line is a new musical by Dana Paul Robinson. This table read of the show was recorded online in February, 2021, featuring Emily Cheney, Deb DeHart...
