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Ballroom The Musical |
Music: Billy Goldberg
Book: Jerome Kass, Lyrics: Alen and Marilyn Bergman |
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Ballroom Plot Summary & Audition Tips |
List of Characters in Ballroom |
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 Ballroom 1975 Original TV Movie
 Ballroom 1979 Original Broadway Cast Rec.
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Based on the TV movie "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom".
Bea has been a widow for over a year, but hasn't moved on with her life. She reluctantly goes to the Stardust Ballroom one night, and meets new friends as well as a new man. The script centers around her realization that her life is not over, and her family's resistance to her choices.
Audition Preparation Suggestions for Ballroom
Ballroom requires ballroom dancing experience (big surprise!). |
- Bea Asher (Alto)
- recently widowed
- Alfred Rossi (Baritone, middle-aged)
- quiet, but married, man
- Helen
- Bea's sister-in-law
- Jack
- Helen's husband, Bea's brother
- Marlene (Alto)
- band singer
- Nathan Bricker (Baritone)
- band singer
- Angie
- Pauline Krim
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- Diane
- Bea's daughter
- Medium-Large Chorus
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Audition Preparation Materials |
List of Songs in Ballroom |
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- A Terrific Band And A Real Nice Crowd (Bea)
- A Song For Dancing (Marlene & Nathan)
- One By One (Band Singers with dancing)
- The Dance Montage (chorus)
- Somebody Did Allright For Herself (Bea)
- A Terrific Band And A Real Nice Crowd - Reprise (Bea)
- Goodnight Is Not Goodbye, I've Been Waiting All My Life (Band Singers with dancing)
- I Love To Dance (Al & Bea)
- More Of The Same (Band Singers with dancing)
- Fifty Percent (Bea)
- The Stardust Waltz
- I Wish You A Waltz (Bea)
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