Auditions
Find your starring role in an upcoming TheatreUNI production
To be cast in a TheatreUNI production, you’ll need to audition. Auditions are required for theatre performance majors, and are open to all UNI students, regardless of major.
Audition Information For Spring 2025
What: Auditions for Gretel! The Musical & Airness
Where: Bertha Martin Theatre (BMT - SWT 117)
When: Saturday, October 19th, 10:00 AM-3:0 PM
Who: All UNI Students are Welcome (Performance Emphases are required to audition)
What to Prepare:
Performance Emphases:
Please memorize a 60-90-second contemporary comedic monologue and prepare 16-32 bars of a musical theatre or folk song in the style of Gretel! The Musical. (you can find music samples here)
Other Emphases, Theatre Minors, and Non-Theatre Majors:
You may follow the guidelines for performance students if you like or, if you do not have a monologue prepared, we will have print-outs for you to read at the audition.
If you only wish to be considered for one of the productions, please specify that on the audition form.
Piano accompaniment will be provided. For your audition, your music should be photocopied double-sided, three-hole-punched, and in a binder or in an accordion-style manila folder. Make sure any cuts are clearly marked.
*Please, no tracks or acapella singing.
For tips on notating music for auditions, please refer to the Auditioning Tips and Tricks module in the Theatre - Student Resources Blackboard Organization. Please contact Katy McGlaughlin (katy.mcglaughlin@uni.edu) if you do not have access.
Additional Information:
Callbacks will be on Sunday, October 20th.
Please complete the Audition Form before auditions
Rehearsals and Performances:
Gretel! The Musical will begin rehearsals on December 3rd, with read-through, intimacy training, and some physical theatre rehearsals happening in the fall.
The typical rehearsal schedule will be Tuesday-Friday 6:30 - 10:00 PM & Sunday 1-5 PM. Please note, that we will rehearse on both Saturday and Sunday during tech.
Performances run March 6th-9th with 4 school matinees and 3 public performances
Airness will begin rehearsals on February 25th.
The typical rehearsal schedule will be Tuesday-Friday 7:30 - 10:30 PM & Sunday 1-5 PM. Please note, that we will rehearse on both Saturday and Sunday during tech.
Performances run April 17th-27th
