YOUTH AUDITION NOTICE: Hadestown - Valmy Academy
Updated: Jul 6
Title: Hadestown: Teen Edition
Presented By: Valmy Academy
Genre: Contemporary Musical Theatre
Synopsis: Hadestown: Teen Edition is a bold and contemporary musical presented as a fully staged holiday production for committed young performers. Designed for teens ready to engage in a focused rehearsal process, the production develops advanced ensemble skills and culminates in performances to a live ticketed audience in a professional theatre venue. With rich storytelling, layered ensemble work and contemporary musical theatre technique, this is a serious and rewarding performance experience.
Audition Date: Saturday March 14th, 2026
Audition Time: 1PM - 4PM
Audition Location and Address: 127 Sandgate Road, Albion
Audition Requirements: All participants will be cast. Auditions determine principal and featured roles.
Audition Registration: Registration required prior to audition. Register HERE.
Audition Pack: Provided upon registration (if applicable).
Performance Dates: Friday April 17th & Saturday April 18th, 2026
Performance Location: Old Museum Building, Bowen Hills
Rehearsal Dates: April 13th - 17th, 2026
Rehearsal Times: Intensive structured rehearsal process (daily schedule provided upon casting)
Rehearsal Location: 127 Sandgate Rd, Albion
Performer Age: 12–17 years
Production Website: Valmy Academy - Hadestown
Other Information:
Teen Holiday Production (13–18 April)
$495 per performer
Cast capped at 30 performers
Includes professional theatre venue performance
Stage lighting and sound design
Professional performance video
Available Roles / Character Breakdown:
ORPHEUS: High Tenor with falsetto up to G#5. (A2 – F5). Orpheus is an optimist, an idealist, a counter-culturalist. Orpheus should feel unique and have the sensitive soul of an artist. Plays guitar.
HADES: Bass. G1 – Eb4 Lord of the Dead. Powerful, immortal and deeply in love with Persephone. Strong authoritative presence. Tyrannical and a bit menacing.
PERSEPHONE: Alto/Mezzo. (E3 – C5). Goddess, playful, mercurial and fun. Persephone is not too feminine and lets her sharp edges show. She is the seasons and is cut from the same cloth as Orpheus. She must have a wryness and intelligence that she uses sharply for both entertainment and as a defense mechanism.
HERMES: Tenor/baritone. (D3 – B4) Hermes is the narrator/guide/emcee of the story. Charismatic, often mysterious, with a trickster-ish quality.
EURYDICE: Alto/Soprano. (E3 – E5). A practical leading heroine with an extremely vulnerable underbelly, a haunted bird. She takes the leap to the underworld as a step towards something reliable. There is both toughness and delicacy in her being and her singing; she uses a belt for some songs, real subtlety for others.
FATE 1: (F#3 – E5) FATE 2: (G3 – E5) FATE 3: (F3 – C5) Powerful and dark. Operate as one of the “voices in the heads” of the other characters. Fates may play instruments of some kind and should be skilled with harmonies
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