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Auditions
The Sit-In EXPerience:
Ax-Handle Saturday Reenactment
Seeking 50 actors for Stage Aurora's production of The Sit-In Experience: Ax-Handle Saturday. Please see the audition instructions and important show dates below.
ABOUT
The Sit-In Experience: Ax Handle Saturday is an immersive reenactment of a 1960 Sit-In that occurred August 27, 1960 at Woolworth's Department Store and Hemming Plaza in downtown Jacksonville. The Experience will reenact Black students protesting at an 'All white' lunch counter. The Experience will fuse Entertainment, ‘Step’, Part Script, Improvisational Theatre and a cappella Negro music in remembrance of Ax-Handle Saturday.
AUDITION FORM DUE
August 17, 2025
Audition Instructions: Please submit your contact information using the form below. You will be contacted if we are interested in having you participate.
Submit the Google Form using the button below.
Important Show Dates
Performance:
Sunday, August 24 at 3:00 pm
WJCT Studios
100 Festival Park Ave, Jacksonville, FL 32202
Rehearsals:
August 19-August 24
Porgy and Bess
Seeking strong singers for Stage Aurora's production of Porgy and Bess. Please see the audition instructions and important show dates below.
ABOUT
Known worldwide as a masterpiece and an "American Folk Opera,” Porgy and Bess® was George Gershwin’s final work for the musical stage. Based on DuBose and Dorothy Heyward’s play Porgy, Porgy and Bess® combines elements of jazz, classical and American folk music. The opera's notable arias include "Summertime," "A Woman Is a Sometime Thing," "My Man’s Gone Now," "I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’," "It Ain’t Necessarily So," "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" and "I'm On My Way."
Virtual Auditions Due
August 17, 2025
Audition Instructions: Please submit a link to a YouTube or Vimeo (Public or Unlisted) video of you singing a song in the style of Porgy and Bess. Please sing a selection from Porgy and Bess; this can be a full song. Please reference the links below for material from the opera.
Submit the Google Form for Virtual Auditions using the button below.
Important Show Dates
Rehearsals:
October 1 - November 6
Principal Rehearsals:
One week before performances
Performances:
Friday, November 7 at 7:00 pm
Saturday, November 8 at 2:00 pm
Saturday, November 8 at 7:00 pm
FSCJ Kent Campus
3939 Roosevelt Blvd, Jacksonville, FL 32205