LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
AUDITION INFORMATION
Auditions: February 17th, 2025 from 10:00am-6:00pm at Music Theatre of CT. Auditions by appointment only. Those auditioning for the Cagelles may be asked to stay/return for a dance callback at 6:30PM. For questions or to book an appointment email AUDITIONS@MUSICTHEATREOFCT.COM OR contact Alex at 203-454-3883.
Preparation: Please prepare a song in the style of the show. 4 sides available below for Georges, Albin, Jacqueline and Jean-Michel. Cagelles be prepared to dance.
Production Info: LA CAGE AUX FOLLES begins rehearsal on 3/18/25 at Music Theatre of Connecticut. Production opens Friday, 4/4/25 and runs Thursday - Sunday for 3 weeks closing on Saturday 4/19/25. MTC is unable to provide housing.
AUDITION SIDES
JACQUELINE
(Jacqueline is welcoming patrons to her very popular nightclub. She is warm, engaging and very French)
JACQUELINE. Welcome to Chez Jacqueline! (aside to a ringside table) And thank you for accommodating my friends last night. You do know how to put on a show. No one’s heard from them since. (to full audience) Mais Attention. Attention! Messieurs-dames. As those of you who frequent our little establishment know, we count many celebrities and heads of state among our treasured clientele. And I would never think of disturbing their privacy by introducing them. BUT tonight, I cannot resist because among you sits one of my favorite people on this earth. Someone who has made their own unique place in the world and from there spreads happiness to us all.
GEORGES
(He is explaining to Albin, his longtime partner and co-parent of Jean-Michel, that JM’s fiance’s VERY conservative parents are coming to dinner and he is asking Albin (who is gay but normally lives and dresses as a woman) to come to dinner as “Uncle Al” so as not to scare the parents off and cause the potential marriage to go awry. As a beard, Georges wants to invite JM’s biological mother Sybil to the event to make the family look “normal”.
While we’re on the subject of mothers, you know Anne’s parents are coming tomorrow to meet Jean-Michel’s parents and I thought it would be nice if he had his mother there. (a beat – delicately). Ummmm…not you, Albin, Sybil. Jean-Michel’s mother. I know you think she has never been there for him – at times he called her, wrote her, begged to see her and always the same reply “So sorry, son, some other time.” Nevertheless, she is his mother and I have called her and she is coming.
ALBIN
(Georges is explaining to Albin, his longtime partner and co-parent of Jean-Michel, that JM’s fiancée’s VERY conservative parents are coming to dinner and he is asking Albin (who is gay but normally lives and dresses as a woman) to come to dinner as “Uncle Al” so as not to scare the parents off and cause the potential marriage to go awry. As a beard, Georges wants to invite JM’s biological mother Sybil to the event to make the family look “normal”.
What right has she to butt into the boy’s like now? Where has she been all these years when he was growing up and actually needed his mother? I’ll tell you where – huddled in every corner of the world, in any corner of the room with any kind of man she could lay her claws on, that’s where she’s been. When I think of the times he called her, wrote her, and always the same reply – “So sorry, son, some other time” – Oh I could swat her silly. (seeing Georges’ reaction and how important this is, Albin reconsiders). But Jean-Michel is our son, and this is such an important night….well….you know you play my heart like a concertina. You’re such a poet and basically you are correct. This is all about love, this wedding. Not jealousies or wounds. So, Sybil can come. And the three of us shall bear witness to our son’s marriage together. Hand in hand…in hand.
JEAN-MICHEL
Jean-Michel, who has been raised by Georges (his biological father) and his partner Albin (Georges’ gay partner and surrogate mother to Jean-Michel) who normally lives in drag but has dressed as “Uncle Al” for this important dinner with JM’s fiancee Anne’s very conservative parents in anticipation of a wedding. Albin is VERY uncomfortable and out of place trying his best to be “masculine”. It’s not working and JM is not buying the whole scheme.
This is never going to work. Crazy people coming in and out. Mother’s not here yet. It’s going to be a disaster. Papa, I love Anne and I’m going to lose her. (beat – turning his focus on having Albin there at all). I should have known better. I ask for one lousy favor from him and look. I should have known better. When I think of what I’ve been through because of him. The beatings I got defending him. The gawking stares every time we left the house because he’d always insist we stroll arm in arm. I’d need a shirt for school he’d buy me a blouse. How about a little respect for what I want? How about a little understanding?
