ROLES

Arpad Laszlo

• Male or Female, 14-18, Baritone or Mezzo
• Delivery person at Maraczek’s Parfumerie. His/her exuberance is infectious and commitment to his/her job is remarkable. He/She is ambitious and adorable.
• Vocal range top: E4, bottom: Bb2

Ladislav Sipos

• Male or Female, 40-55, Baritone or Mezzo
• Not the brightest employee at Maraczek’s Parfumerie. A confidant to Georg, he or she is an optimistic family man or woman who looks like a huggable father or mother/everyman type.
• Vocal range top: E4, bottom: A2

Ilona Ritter

• Female, 25-35, Mezzo
• Employed at Maraczek’s Parfumerie. She is sexy and learned in the ways of romance, but longing for something more from the game of love.
• Vocal range top: E5, bottom: F#3

Steven Kodaly

• Male, 25-35, Tenor
• A well respected and liked employee at Maraczek’s Parfumerie. Though he is considered dapper and occasionally charming, he is more of a shallow womanizer.
• Vocal range top: A4, bottom: B2

Georg Nowack

• Male, 25-35, Baritone
• An established employee of Maraczek’s Parfumerie, he resembles a hopeless romantic. Shy, intelligent, and soft-spoken.
• Vocal range top: F4, bottom: B2

Mr. Maraczek

• Male, 50-65, Baritone
• Owner of Maraczek’s Parfumerie. With a commanding presence, his dedication to the trade is rivaled only by his faithfulness to his wife.
• Vocal range top: C4, bottom: B2

Amalia Balash 

• Female, 20-35, Soprano
• The eager new employee at Maraczek’s Parfumerie. Despite being a skilled saleswoman, she easily becomes intimated and nervous. Attractive, bright, and a lover of literature.
• Vocal range top: B5, bottom: C4

Waiter/Detective

• Male, 30-60, Tenor
• Maître d’ of the romantic Café Imperiale. Determined to keep a romantic atmosphere in the café despite a clumsy waiter and quarreling patrons. Doubles as DETECTIVE

Ensemble

• Including Busboy, Carolers, Couples, Customers, Keller
• Open to all genders and ages to fill out the cast and create dynamic, quirky, comedic, romantic, perfume shop customers, carolers, café patrons, etc. The Ensemble will be heavily featured in this production as rich fully developed characters of the audience will know as well as the perfume shop employees.

ROLES

Franklin Shepard (spans 40’s to 20’s)
Charismatic, ambitious and supremely talented – Franklin is the man who got it all, but at a very steep cost, and is now the center of a universe that is falling to pieces around him. His vulnerability to temptation is liable to lead him astray, even amidst his triumphant successes. Ability to play the piano is a plus.

Charley Kringas (spans 40’s to 20’s)
Best friend, writing partner, a major talent in his own right, but also a man with both feet on the ground.  Charley believes in the work but is able to balance work and life.  In fact, Charley can handle anything but betrayal, and he does what he has to do to keep on doing the work his way.

Mary Flynn (spans 40’s to 20’s)
The third corner of the triangle of friends, Mary is a writer – and a good one – who has the good fortune to write a bestseller and the misfortune to be unable to follow it up.  Eventually, her career in journalism leads her to become that most despised of creatures – a theatre critic.  It is also her misfortune, from day one, to be hopelessly in love with Frank.  Over the years, she tries valiantly to hold the three friends together, but in the end, she drinks too much and tells the truth too much.

Gussie Carnegie (spans mid to late 40’s to mid to late 20’s)
Glamorous, jaded and ever so toxic, Gussie starts out as a great star beginning to face the advance of middle age. As the years fall away, we see that Gussie started out as the secretary who married the boss and then worked her way up to the successful composer, leaving ruin in her wake. Gussie gets what she goes after, and she doesn’t play fair; but she forgets that what goes around comes around.

Beth Spencer (spans from 40 to 20)
Franklin’s first wife. She never stops loving him, but when push comes to shove, Beth knows how to face her mistakes and fight for what she wants.  It starts out so well.  First she performs in the cabaret show that starts it all, then does the good wife thing and takes a day job to support them through the lean times.  Her loyalty is not rewarded.

Joe Josephson (spans from 50 something to 30 something)
Gussie’s discarded first husband, once a successful Broadway producer, now down on his luck and trying to hit up Gussie for a few bucks to get by.  Joe is instrumental in getting the boys to their first big hit and then inexorably pulls them away from the work they want to do, losing his wife – and his touch – in the process.

Frank, Jr.
Frank and Beth’s son who Frank loves and neglects. Approximately 10 — of small stature.

12 – 15 Ensemble Members:

This is not your run of the mill ensemble!  Not only do they sing some of Sondheim’s trickiest rhythms and lyrics, but they also play a variety of supporting roles including good friends, bad friends, girlfriends, agents, parents, paparazzi and guests at some amazing parties. We need singers, actors and movers!  

• Tyler – Invented the answering machine, got rich and sails people around on his yacht.
• Jerome – Lawyer who handles the difficulties of celebrities
• Dory – His significant other
• Scotty – An agent
• K.T. – Publicist turned TV Entertainment Hostess
• Meg – Up and coming starlet and Frank’s new romantic entanglement
• Terry –The gay friend
• Bunker – Pianist and friend (actual piano playing a plus)
• Mr. and Mrs. Spencer – Beth’s disapproving parents
• Evelyn – Charley’s wife, hardly ever seen, usually pregnant
• Ru – screenwriting wannabe, in the right place at the right time
• News anchors, make up artists, party guests, hangers on, etc.