This coming Monday, Nashville will host auditions for Janece Shaffer’s Troubadour, which will premiere at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre in January. Per a release, the play is a romantic comedy set in the 1950s, and follows the son of a famed country artist as he takes to the road with a singer-songwriter and rodeo tailor in the name of his father’s legacy. The music was written by country recording artist Kristian Bush.
“It’s very different,” Bush told us earlier this year about his songwriting for the play compared with his albums. “I’m kind of set up to win with this theatrical writing right now because the music is all being written for country singers that are inside the story. It’s set in a different time, so I’m trying to research what you would’ve said. One character’s a songwriter, one’s a star, one’s their friend, and all of those characters are trying to write songs.”
Details on the audition are below:
Monday, August 15
Johnson Theatre in the Tennessee Performing Arts Center
505 Deaderick St., Nashville, TN 37219
Sign up at 9:00 a.m.
To guarantee an audition slot, contact Emily Kleypas at emily.kleypas@alliancetheatre.org.
Details on character descriptions and songs to prepare can be found here.