Hamilton Theatre Inc. is holding auditions for Grease!

HTI’s production of Grease is a Non-Equity, volunteer production. We are seeking performers ages 18+ for all roles.

A few technical notes to help you with your decision-making process:

• Grease runs from Friday, May 8, to Saturday, May 23, 2026.
• Tech Week is scheduled from Sunday, May 3, to Thursday, May 7, 2026.
• The first rehearsal will be on Sunday, February 15, 2026 at 1:00 pm.
• Rehearsals will be held three times a week: two weeknights and a weekend afternoon. 

All auditions will be held at the Hamilton Theatre Inc. Studio Theatre, located at 140 MacNab St. N.

Requirements

Please prepare one slow song and one up-tempo. One song should be from the general time period of the show (1950s). 

Please do not prepare any songs from Grease.

There will be no accompanist. We encourage you to bring a karaoke or backing track that can be shared via Bluetooth. Alternatively, you may sing a cappella. 

Walk-ins are welcome but will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. We kindly request that all audition participants wear a mask upon arrival at the theatre and while waiting for their audition slot. 

Available Roles

Due to the nature of the show, we are seeking performers who are 18 years and older. Performers of any gender will be considered for all roles. Please see the character descriptions below for the gender presentations of each role.

Danny
Male-Presenting | Presents as 16-25
The leader of the Burger Palace Boys. Nice-looking, with an air of cool easy-going charm. Strong and confident.

Sandy
Female-Presenting | Presents as 16-25
Danny’s love interest. Sweet, wholesome, naive, cute, like Sandra Dee of the “Gidget” movies.

Rizzo
Female-Presenting | Presents as 16-25
Leader of the Pink Ladies. She is tough, sarcastic and outspoken but vulnerable. Unconventional good looks. 

Frenchy
Female-Presenting | Presents as 16-25
A dreamer. Good-natured and dumb. Heavily made-up, fussy about her appearance – particularly her hair. She can’t wait to finish high school so she can be a beautician. 

Marty
Female-Presenting | Presents as 16-25
The “beauty” of the Pink Ladies. Pretty, looks older than the other girls, but betrays her real age when she opens her mouth. Tries to act sophisticated. 

Jan
Female-Presenting | Presents as 16-25
Compulsive and obnoxious. Loud and pushy with the girls, but shy with boys. 

Kenickie
Male-Presenting | Presents as 16-25
Second-in-command of the Burger Palace Boys. Tough-looking, tattooed, surly, avoids any show of softness. Has an off-beat sense of humour. 

Doody
Male-Presenting | Presents as 16-25 | Guitar skills an asset
Youngest of the guys. Boyish, open, with a disarming smile and a hero-worshipping attitude toward the other guys. He also plays the guitar.

Roger
Male-Presenting | Presents as 16-25
The “anything-for-a-laugh” type. Full of mischief, half-baked schemes and ideas. A clown who enjoys putting other people on. 

Sonny
Male-Presenting | Presents as 16-25
A braggart and wheeler-dealer who thinks he’s a real lady-killer. 

Patty
Female-Presenting | Presents as 16-25 | Strong movement an asset
A typical cheerleader at a middle-class American public high school. Attractive and athletic. Aggressive, sure of herself, given to bursts of disconcerting enthusiasm. Catty, but in an All-American Girl sort of way. She can also twirl a baton.

Cha-Cha
Female-Presenting | Presents as 16-25 | Strong dancer
A blind date. Slovenly and loud-mouthed. Takes pride in being “the best dancer at St. Bernadette’s”. 

Eugene
Male-Presenting | Presents as 16-25
The class valedictorian. Physically awkward, with weak eyes and a high-pitched voice. An apple-polisher, smug and pompous but gullible.

Vince Fontaine
Male-Presenting | Presents as 30s-40s
A typical “teen audience” radio disc jockey. Slick, egotistical, fast-talking. A veteran “greaser”. 

Johnny Casino
Male-Presenting | Presents as 16-25
A “greaser” student at Rydell who leads a rock ‘n’ roll band and likes to think of himself as a real rock ‘n’ roll idol. 

Teen Angel
Open Gender Presentation | Presents as 20s-30s
A good-looking falsetto-voiced, Fabian look-alike. A singer who would have caused girls to scream and riot back in 1958.

Miss Lynch
Female-Presenting / Presents as 40s-60s
An old maid English teacher.

About the Show

Here is Rydell High’s senior class of 1959: duck-tailed, hot-rodding “Burger Palace Boys” and their gum-snapping, hip-shaking “Pink Ladies” in bobby sox and pedal pushers, evoking the look and sound of the 1950s in this rollicking musical. Head “greaser” Danny Zuko and new (good) girl Sandy Dumbrowski try to relive the high romance of their “Summer Nights” as the rest of the gang sings and dances its way through such songs as “Greased Lightnin’,” “It’s Raining on Prom Night” and “Alone at the Drive-In Movie,” recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard and Elvis Presley that became the soundtrack of a generation. An eight-year run on Broadway and two subsequent revivals, along with innumerable school and community productions, place Grease among the world’s most popular musicals.

Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey

“Grease” is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc., a Concord Theatricals Company.
www.concordtheatricals.com

Production Team

Director: Jenn Helsdon
Musical Director: Kelly Knight
Stage Manager: Anastasiya Popova
Producer: Magdalen Zatterberg
Costume Designers: The Muses
Scenic and Props Designer: Terry Middleton
Lighting Designer: Max Herman
Choreographer: Katlyn Alcock
Apprentice Stage Manager: Naia Lee