Jonesville’s Sauk Theatre will hold auditions tomorrow and Saturday for their upcoming production of the musical “Titanic,” which will take place June 11-21.
“Titanic,” which won five Tony Awards, including “Best Musical,” when it opened in 1997, will be the Sauk’s third production of the 2015 season. The epic musical tells the stories of a number of passengers aboard the RMS Titanic, which famously sank on April 15, 1912.
To capture the epic scale of the musical, the Sauk will cast between 50 and 60 people ages eight and up.
Sauk Executive Director Trinity Bird will direct the production, with musical direction by Kristi Gautsche. Bird and Gautsche have collaborated on over 25 musicals, including “Les Miserables” last summer.
“‘Titanic’ is an epic and beautiful story,” Bird said in a Facebook message. “It is a great follow-up to ‘Les Miserables’ and it offers a large variety of roles for men and women of various ages.”
The large cast of “Titanic” is a change of pace for the Sauk, whose last major production, “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change,” cast only four actors. “Les Miserables,” the Sauk’s biggest production to date, featured a cast of 49.
Bird said that a larger production makes scheduling more difficult, but that they would do their best to accommodate everyone.
For more information, visit www.thesauk.org.
