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More Than Anything

More Than Anything
A Rock Musical
Book, Music & Lyrics by John Rea
Directed by John Rea
Choreography by Liz Fredette

In John Rea’s new rock musical, More Than Anything, a promising teen actress with horrible stage fright is blamed by the queen bee and her minions for the school’s cutting of the music program and their acting dreams because of her painfully embarrassing performance in last year’s high school show. When a dream role in this year’s Grease-like musical is up for grabs the teen must prove to herself, the cast and an eccentric producer who holds the rights to the show that she deserves a second chance.  She employs a quirky boy obsessed with the musical to help her with her anxiety but to no avail – the producer turns them down. So the teen actress must choose to abandon her acting dreams or take matters into her own hands with a risky plan to prove to the producer that she and cast have what it takes to do the musical justice.

Performances at the Swing in the Adrienne
Friday, December 3 at 7 PM
Saturday, December 4 at 7 PM
Sunday, December 5 at 3 PM

Friday, December 10 at 7 PM
Sunday, December 12 at 3 PM
Tickets may be purchased at the door or in advance at the Swing.
General Admission. Adults $10, Students $5

Auditions
Monday, September 13 from 6-8 PM
Actors between the ages of 8 and 18 should prepare 16 bars of a Broadway song from a rock musical. There will also be a dance audition.

Characters
Teen Girls
Samantha Anderson, junior, our hero, promising teen actress (lead)
Veronica Mathers, senior, queen-bee, wants fame (lead)
Daisy Maniechevitz, junior, best friend to Potter, the silent type but very loyal (lead)
Sally Greene, junior, God-fearin’ country girl
Lakeisha Brown, senior, Afro-American diva, Black Panther style
Hewig Sager, senior from another school, has a band called the Satanic Snow Weasels, punk but sweet
Lucy Marks, Veronica’s sidekick, a hopeless romantic
Gina Maggio, Veronica’s sidekick, addicted to the tabloids
Deedee Fitler, sophomore, would-be peacemaker
Mona Rierdon, teen actress playing Hermingo in Simon’s new musical, very self depricating

Teen Boys
Potter Bangs, junior, obsessive nerd, eclectic tastes, authority on The Greasers (lead)
Ben York, senior, hunk who has fantastic plans that never work (lead)
Jaiden Brooks, junior, football player, joining the musical to try to date girls
Martin Chapman, junior, over ambitious
Curly Hudson, junior, team player, still a boy soprano
Kip Stevens, junior, team player, “the hugger”

Adult Men
Mr. Sedgewick Felty, principal, exasperated, the world moves too fast for him (lead)
Simon Dean, producer of The Greasers, like Simon Cowell – tells it like it is with a slight British accent (lead)

Adult Women
Marilyn Bruce, drama teacher, very excitable, a little scatterbrained (lead)
Kiki Basku, choreographer, spiritual
Lorna Peabody, History teacher, former model, full of advice
Doimina Rodriguez, school secretary, much smarter than her job allows her to be
Clara Starr, Simon’s put-upon secretary
Hillary, Simon’s devoted assistant
Liza, Simon’s second devoted assistant