The Gulf Coast Symphony will be hosting open auditions for its 2023-2024 Musical Theater season. The Gulf Coast Symphony will be producing five musicals this season, four at the Music & Arts Community Center and one at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall.

Show schedule is: Snowbird Follies, Nunsense 2, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Grand Night for Singing, Route 66, and The Music Man. This will be the fourth season of professional musical theater produced at the Music & Arts Community Center, Southwest Florida’s newest performing arts venue.

Auditions, by invitation, are being held for local and Florida-based actors at the Gulf Coast Symphony’s Music and Arts Community Center, 13411 Shire Blvd. in Fort Myers, between Thursday Aug. 24 to Sunday, Aug. 27. In-person auditions are strongly preferred, however video submissions will be accepted for these shows via Backstage.com. All dance calls and callbacks will be scheduled same day. We welcome auditions for the child and teens for Music Man, as well adults. In a continued commitment to diversity, Gulf Coast Symphony strongly encourages any actor of any race, ethnicity, identity, and ability to submit an audition.

Please send any questions to auditions@gulfcoastsymphony.org.

About The Gulf Coast Symphony

Founded in late 1995 by its current music director and CEO, Dr. Andrew Kurtz, the Gulf Coast Symphony (GCS) is now the second-largest non-profit performing arts organization in Lee County. The Gulf Coast Symphony (GCS) endeavors to challenge convention–with its rich tradition of unique and innovative collaborations across multiple genres and disciplines, high-quality dynamic musical performances, active community engagement, and our commitment to social change through arts education. Our ultimate goal is to use music and the arts as a vehicle to unite and strengthen our community. The Gulf Coast Symphony is one of the cultural jewels of Southwest Florida and one of the most dynamic orchestras in the United States. The GCS comprises the Gulf Coast Symphony, the Gulf Coast Chamber Orchestra, the Gulf Coast Jazz Collective, and the Music & Arts Community Center (MACC) which opened in January 2021. The GCS presents over 100 programs that present the best in classical music, jazz, world music, dance, opera, film and musical theater. The Symphony performs at both the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall, and its more intimate 270 seat theater at the MACC. For more information GulfCoastSymphony.org or email questions to julie@gulfcoastsymphony.org.

Source: Gulf Coast Symphony