Hairspray Audition Details and Callback information

Auditions are in the Leon Chorus room on January 22 and 23 at 3:00pm. You will attend only one. Please read all info below!

Come dressed for dance, no need to change for the singing portion of the audition.

Callbacks are January 26 at 1:00 (for dance callbacks) and 2pm for singing and acting. Please note: If you are not called back, you may still be cast! We keep callbacks at a minimum as not to waste time. 🙂 Casting is not contingent upon receiving a callback!!

Actors will be notified by January 23rd, 9:00pm if they are needed for a callback.

To audition:

Please show up on Saturday at 9am to Leon! You can register there! (or email peckt2@leonschools.net if you need to discuss alternate auditions!)

Just as a reminder – this is the calendar.

Please bring with you a signed contract (here). Hard copies are available that day but you and your guardians must know what you’re signing!

Please prepare one of the following songs (for the character that most fits you, even if you just wish to be in the ensemble). All are in the same key as the Original Broadway production except as noted below:

For Tracy/Amber/Velma/Penny/Nicest Girl/Prudy: “Welcome to the 60’s” mm. 1-32. for sheet music click here. for the karaoke cut we will use at auditions click here

For Seaweed/Detention Boy: “Run and Tell That” mm. 13-33. for sheet music click here. *THIS SONG IS 1/2 step lower than the original Broadway production!* for the karaoke cut we will use at auditions click here

For Corny Collins/Link/Nicest Boy/Wilbur/Pink: “Nicest Kids in Town” mm. 9-22. for sheet music click here. for the karaoke cut we will use at auditions click here

For Motormouth: “I Know Where I’ve Been” mm. 1-36. for sheet music click here. for the karaoke cut we will use at auditions click here

For Edna: “You Can’t Stop the Beat” mm 5-16. (We do prefer this as a tenor bass voice). for sheet music click here. for the karaoke cut we will use at auditions click here

For Dynamite/Detention Girl/Little Inez: “Run and Tell That” mm. 77-94. for sheet music click here. *THIS SONG IS 1/2 step lower than the original Broadway production!* for the karaoke cut we will use at auditions click here

Callback information/songs to prepare will be sent BY EMAIL on the evening of 1/23/25 to those who are receiving a callback.

There will be cold reads at the callback as well, and music taught on site to see if harmony parts can be held.