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

Ballroom 1975 Original TV Movie
Ballroom 1979 Original Broadway Cast Rec.

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.

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

 

Diane

Bea's daughter

Medium-Large Chorus

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Audition Preparation Materials

List of Songs in Ballroom

• Improve your ballroom dancing skills.

• 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)