“Debate Team” is a darkly comedic, new musical in one act by Brooklyn composer Toby Singer. Like a cross between “The Book of Mormon” and Moliere’s “Candide,” peering through the lens of modern day Silicon Valley, Debate Team examines when cell phone technology, ego, and a blindly utopic vision of the future converge, with apocalyptic results.

 

Debate Team tells the story of Isaac, an idealistic young engineer who works at All & Ever, the biggest tech company the world has ever seen, and his adventures after his test of a new high-tech phone goes horribly awry. When he, along with his stoner journalist roommate Harriet, meet a merry band of anti-technology activists called the Debate Team, their ‘best of all possible worlds’ begins to crack and shake on its foundations, with potentially dire consequences.

 

Musically, Debate Team defies genre, pulling from the whole history of musical theatre, with satirical golden age Broadway tunes mashed up against Sondheim-ish motifs, alongside soul, rock, and folk.

 

Audition Info: Monday 2/15 from 10 am to 3 pm and Wednesday 2/17 from 330 pm - 6 pm, by appointment only in Northwest Austin.

 

Email silverkeytheatre@gmail.com to schedule and for more information.

 

Please prepare 16-32 bars of a song of your choice – CD player available, but no live accompaniment. Please wear comfortable shoes for movement assessment. Audition will be videotaped.

 

 

*Performance/Rehearsal Info: All actors must be available to travel to Fort Worth for rehearsal on Thursday 3/17 and performances on Friday & Saturday 3/18-3/19. $25 gas stipend. Housing not included. The Fort Worth Fringe Festival is splitting revenue with producing companies – revenue totals after production costs will determine any additional actor compensation.

 

All actors must be available for intensive evening rehearsals Sunday-Wednesday 3/13-3/16. Daytime vocal rehearsals will be scheduled that week based on availability.

 

Evening and/or weekend rehearsals will be scheduled throughout February and early March.

 

*Casting Info:

 

Looking to fill all roles. Vocal ranges flexible.

 

ISAAC: Panglossian, idealistic ingénue, All & Ever research assistant, mid-20s

 

DR. BRADLEY: Brilliant, British Ph.D, moral yet highly caffeinated, late-40s

 

MR. WORK: Hyper-masculine, competitive, possibly awful CEO, early-50s

 

GRETA: Eastern European, fraternal twin sister of Frances, All & Ever tech, ditzy, mid-20s

 

FRANCIS: Eastern European, fraternal brother of Greta, All & Ever tech, ditzier, mid-20s

 

HARRIET: Equal parts stoner & journalist, extremely addicted to her Gigaphone, mid-20s

 

GIRL: Basic, earbud-wearing, probably works in marketing, late-20s

 

MAN: Yankees fan, big and loud. A real New Yorker, none of this transplant shit, mid-30s

 

WOMAN: Nurse in scrubs, trying to get home to her mother, early-40s

 

ELIJAH: Quietly confident, bemused, Princeton-grad, parents are not impressed early-30s

 

SHIRLEY: Bartender, grizzled, has probably been bartending for fifty years, late-60s

 

FRANNY: Gruff, tough Bronx lady, mid-30s

 

JULIANA: Gentler half of the Bronx team, makes a mean latte, late-20s

 

ROBERTA: Brusque, deaf woman who is more than what she seems, early-50s

 

CHORUS: All & Ever employees, Debate Team, citizens, early-20s to mid-50s