{"id":1304,"date":"2025-10-20T22:32:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2025-10-23T22:47:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:47:55","slug":"grease-auditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/music-diary\/grease-auditions\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Grease&#8217; auditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the 18th and 19th of October 2025 I attended the chorus and the principals auditions for a production of the musical <em>Grease<\/em> with the theater company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenparrot.be\/index.php\">Green Parrot<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Green Parrot is quite similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/bloc-brussels.com\">BLOC<\/a> in that they\u2019re an amateur musical theatre company, so theres a lot of overlap in terms of members. I heard about the auditions for <em>Grease<\/em> from my <em>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/em> castmates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The auditions went quite well, on the first day we had to do a dance audition, and despite dance really not being my forte, i still got through it surprisingly well. I auditioned for the role of Doody, it\u2019s the first time i\u2019ve ever gone for a non \u201cfemale voice\u201d role. I don\u2019t know whether i\u2019m getting that part yet, but i have been told that i\u2019m almost certainly in as a Thunder Bird, just not which one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenparrot.be\/index.php\/auditions\">https:\/\/www.greenparrot.be\/index.php\/auditions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Grease &#8211; book, music &amp; lyrics: Jim Jacobs &amp; Warren Casey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Performances: 19th &#8211; 22nd March 2026 at the W:Hall, Woluwe-St-Pierre<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1080\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1080;\" width=\"1920\" controls src=\"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9257.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 18th and 19th of October 2025 I attended the chorus and the principals auditions for a production of the musical Grease with the theater company Green Parrot. Green Parrot is quite similar to BLOC in that they\u2019re an amateur musical theatre company, so theres a lot of overlap in terms of members. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[60,58,59],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-diary","tag-auditions","tag-green-parrot","tag-musical-theatre"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_9307.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayweiner.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}