MSP's mission is to produce quality theatre that involves, reflects, and nourishes the community.
03/12/2025
Main Street Productions will hold auditions for our summer 2025 youth production: PUFFS, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic by Matt Cox. Directed by Amber Roth.
Youth actors ages 12-18 are welcome to audition.
Audition Dates:
Saturday, April 26th from 3:00pm-5:00pm
Sunday, April 27th from 10:00am-12:00pm
Auditions will be held at the Basile Westfield Playhouse 220 N. Union Street, Westfield, IN 46074. Please enter through the right-side doors at the front of the building. Auditions will be held upstairs.
How to Prepare:
YOU MUST FILL OUT AUDITION GOOGLE FORM BEFORE AUDITIONS:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoVCduSmJ_sSdgmoj0rCHfcOGdFsWZ0bsmYZFrKI5tjTV4Kg/viewform
Headshots/resumes are encouraged but not required. Auditions will consist of a prepared (age-appropriate and memorized) one-minute monologue, including slating (introducing who you are, what play the monologue is from, and who wrote the play) along with reading from the script.
Video auditions will also be accepted for those unable to attend in-person auditions. Prepare a 1+ minute monologue; in your video, please slate (introduce yourself) and the piece you are performing. Submissions must be emailed to the director at [email protected] by 6:00 PM on Sunday, April 27th, 2025.
Scripts are available for perusal by emailing the director at [email protected]
Rehearsals: Rehearsals will typically be three days a week. The exact days may vary. Please look at the rehearsal schedule on the Google Audition Form for exact dates and times.
Show synopsis: For seven years a certain boy wizard went to a certain Wizard School and conquered evil. This, however, is not his story. This is the story of the Puffs... who just happened to be there too. A tale for anyone who has never been destined to save the world.
Roles to be cast (All roles are open)
Narrator: The host of the evening. They know everything about the Puffs and A Certain School of Magic and Magic.
Wayne Hopkins: Our hero. An American 90's kid obsessed with video games, pop music, and peak cinema like Free W***y. A kid with a great heart who is determined to be the hero, even if a certain boy with a magic scar keeps stealing his thunder.
Oliver Rivers: A math prodigy born to muggles; he struggles with basic magic. Spastic, nerdy, and very enthusiastic about advanced mathematics, he is Wayne's best friend and develops a crush on Megan.
Megan Jones: If a Puff could be moody and goth, she found a way, Sarcastic, angry, and embarrassed of being a Puff. Looks up to her missing mother, a Puff who works for the Dark Lord. Deep down, all she wants is to feel loved and accepted.
Cedric: The Puffs' golden boy. Perfect smile, perfect attitude, and the perfect leader. A Disney Channel hero somehow stuck in the Wizarding World. Also Plays Mr. Voldy: The Wizarding Dark Lord. He's a real Snake.
Ernie Mac: An Irish boy who fancies himself as "the best Puff".
Hannah Abbott: A socially awkward and painfully shy Puff. She doesn't have the best social cues.
J. Finch Fletchley: The youngest puff. Very sweet and fun-loving. Ernie's best friend.
Leanne: An energetic and very excitable Puff. She's lived in a cabin in the woods her whole life and has never been. around other children until being sent to Magic School. Probably the most pure of hearts Puff.
Sally Perks: A near-sighted Puff who refuses to wear her glasses. She has a crush on Wayne and would do anything for him to notice.
Susie Bones: A sad and creepy Puff girl. She has a lot of scary stories about her wizarding family and their bad luck.
Mr. Potter: A certain "Boy who lived", A well-meaning, but cocky boy who rules the school and treats it like he owns it. Takes opportunities from the Puffs and doesn't seem to notice the Puffs at all.
For more information, including a list of the Ensemble characters to be cast, visit:
westfieldplayhouse.org/auditions-3
