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Cast Size: Medium (11 to 20 performers)
Cast Type: Teens, Star Vehicle Female

Character Breakdown

Casting Note

The roles of SCARLET/DUCKIE/HOBBS can be played by any gender and pronouns may be changed accordingly. The name SCARLET may be changed to SCOTTIE.

Always Something There... is committed to supporting a cast and crew of diverse theatre workers. This diversity includes, but is not limited to, gender identities, ethnic and racial backgrounds, sexual orientations, body types, ages, and ability.

Samantha Craig

A girl with a huge heart, classic teenage angst, and a newly discovered voice (Age: 18).

Gender: female
Samantha Craig (Stevens/Roy)

Initially seen as a woman at the bottom of the barrel, and later as a woman living her best life (Age 45).

Gender: female
Camelia Shacklebaum

Samantha's best friend. A trend setter and feminist before feminism was trendy (Age: 18).

Cooper Roy

Samantha's secret crush, he is shy and sensitive in the way that Led Zeppelin fans often are (Age: 18).

Gender: male
Johhny Stevens

This boy will not survive the #metoo movement as he ages. Samantha's bully of a high school boyfriend and eventual ex-husband (Age: 18).

Gender: male
Winston Lee

Cooper's friend. He basically started Dungeons and Dragons as like a thing. One day, he will invent "apps" and marry Camelia (Age: 18).

Gender: male
Ensemble Woman

 HOTEL CLERK (a wry sense of humor and an unusual hairdo will get her far). SAMANTHA'S MOM (never met a Jane Fonda video she couldn't drink a Tab while watching. She's the kind of mom with secret passions who also sometimes forgets her daughter's birthday) (Age: 40s).

Gender: female
Señora Jackson

Spanish Teacher at the high school.

Gender: female
Studio Club Singer

A Madonna lookalike at Studio Nightclub.

Gender: female
Ensemble Man

STAGE MANAGER, PRINCIPAL KANEFSKY, ADULT COOPER ROY (Samantha's husband in a revised alt-realty) (Age: 40s).

Gender: male
Ensemble Teens

TEEN 1: HOTEL CONCIERGE, DEBBIE WALLER, Sam's replacement in the band. Never met another girl she wasn't ready to buoy. A sensitive, pragmatic feminist ahead of her time. A Joan Cusack-esque gal.

 

TEEN 2: HOBBS TOTONCHI. "Hobbs on Keys" is what he wants on his gravestone. Ella is what he wants for the dance.

 

TEEN 3: DUCKIE MELBER, the anxious drummer in Cooper's band with a mad crush on Scarlet.

 

TEEN 4: ELLA MENKEN, Sam and Camelia’s friend. She loves lip gloss so much, she keeps one in each pocket, her locker, and her Trapper-Keeper. She is a closet brainiac.

 

TEEN 5: SCARLET WALTON, Sam and Camelia's other friend. She is serious about two things in the world: Ralph Macchio and fashion.

 

TEEN 6: GAVIN LOUIS, Johnny's sidekick. He's never been in an actual fight, but he has threatened to "punch the lights out" of 27 kids in his graduating class. This week.

 

TEEN 7: HOTEL GUEST, STUDENT, LESLIE HUFFINGTON (a Teen Madonna lookalike).

 

TEEN 8: STUDENT, LACY (Adult Sam and Adult Cooper's daughter).

 

TEEN 9: STUDENT, GREG (Adult Sam and Adult Cooper's son).