NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
AUDITION INFORMATION

Giving our community stars their chance to shine!

The Simcoe Little Theatre stage is open to any and all! Please see below for audition information.

Audition Information:

Audition Dates and Times: June 9 and 10 at SLT from 6:00 pm—9 pm. Appointments encouraged.
Email Dicksonjanet20@gmail.com to request an audition day and time.

Audition Notice: Nice Work If You Can Get It

A hilarious comedy & 2012 Tony award winner: NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT pokes fun at the Prohibition era in a clash of elegant socialites and boorish bootleggers, all set to the glorious jazz songs of George and Ira Gershwin.

Performance Dates
3 weekends: Nov. 20-23, Nov 27–30, Dec. 4 –7, 2025.
Thursday and Friday night shows at 7:30 pm, Saturday* and Sunday afternoon matinees at 2:00 pm
*Note: Saturday matinee replaces the Saturday evening show.

Rehearsal Times:
Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday nights, beginning in early September.
Additional rehearsals on Sunday afternoons as needed.

Audition dates
June 9 and 10 at SLT from 6:00 pm—9 pm. Appointments encouraged.
Email Dicksonjanet20@gmail.com to request an audition day and time.

Audition details

1. Please prepare a song to sing from a musical  (accompaniment optional, approx. one verse and chorus)
2. Prepare a 2-minute reading or monologue. Does not have to be memorized!

Lead roles
Jimmy Winter: A wealthy and handsome playboy, dripping with charm and charisma.
Cookie McGee:  A fast-talking, wise-cracking male bootlegger.
Billie Bendix: A tough, feisty and street-wise young woman. Partners in rum-running with Cookie & Duke. Cookie McGee: A fast-talking, wisecracking male bootlegger.
Eileen Evergreen:She is the self-proclaimed finest interpreter of modern dance in the world.

Supporting roles
Duke Mahoney: Cookie’s sidekick. Not the brightest guy around.
Senator Max Evergreen: Eileen’s father. A humourless career politician. Serious, stern, judgmental.
Duchess Estonia Dulworth: Duchess of Woodford. A noted prohibitionist and bejewelled dowager.
Jeannie Muldoon: A lovely chorus girl from Brooklyn.
Chief Berry: Chief of the Long Island Police Department. Fiercely dedicated to his job.
Millicent Winter: A wealthy matron with great élan. Jimmy’s mother.

Chorus: The Chorus Girls, Flappers, The Vice Squad, Bootleggers

Rehearsals begin in September!
Contact Janet Dickson with any questions. Email dicksonjanet20@gmail.com
Please note: Successful participants are required to complete a volunteer registration form. A police record Vulnerable Sector Check (VSC) will be required for all productions involving vulnerable persons, at no cost to the participant.