Casting

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Cast Size: Small (Up to 10 performers)
Cast Type: Ensemble Cast
Dance Requirements: None

Character Breakdown

Narrator
The storyteller providing all the transitions between the various scenes and occasionally speaking for the characters themselves. Philisophical, poetic, and a little opinionated.
Gender: female
Age: 20 to 55
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: F3
Sara
Once Tom's lover, she is an ambitious starving artist and musician. Initially depressed and jaded towards men after a sordid relationship. Michael helps her find happiness again through their marriage. She ends up straying from the marriage.
Gender: female
Age: 30 to 40
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: E3
Michael
A poetry PhD who Sara elicits and her eventual husband. Sweet and calming, he is willing to provide nothing but the best for those he loves. He shows how cold he can become when he finds out about Sarah's affair.
Gender: male
Age: 35 to 45
Vocal range top: A4
Vocal range bottom: F#2
Tom
Sara's first lover and an ambitious starving artist and actor. His alcoholism, constant affairs, and general selfishness put a strain on his relationships. He becomes obsessed and stalker-like in his mannerisms toward Sara.
Gender: male
Age: 35 to 45
Vocal range top: F#4
Vocal range bottom: G2