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NAUGHTY MARIETTA
Written By: Music adapted and arranged by RONALD HANMER from VICTOR HERBERT’s original, Book revised and adapted by PHIL PARK from Rida Johnson Young’s lyrics.
Creative Team: Director – Tegan Muller
Musical Director – John Wilson
Set in 1780s New Orleans, Naughty Marietta, the Contessa d’Altena, flees an arranged marriage by disguising herself as a casquette girl (a young woman sent to New Orleans to marry colonists).
She arrives in New Orleans and meets Captain Richard Warrington, an American frontiersman tasked with capturing the pirate Bras Piqué, who is secretly Étienne Grandet, the son of the corrupt lieutenant governor.
Marietta insists she’ll only marry the man who can complete a melody she heard in a dream – a romantic motif that drives the plot – with the musical inspiration of Victor Herbert…
Musical numbers including “Tramp tramp tramp”, “Zing Zing”, “Falling in Love with Someone” and “Live for Today” are sure to get the toes tapping and bring back some memories for many in our audiences.
Information Session: 09/03/2026
7.30pm, at St Elizabeth Church Hall, Dwyer Ave, Oaklands Park
Audition Information: At Information Night – phone Pam 8294 6582
| Audition Information #:1 | |
| Date: | 16/03/2026 |
| Time From – Time to: | 19:00 – 23:59 |
| Character Descriptions #:1 | |
| Role Name: | MARIETTA |
| Gender: | Female |
| Stage Age: | |
| Role Information: | Young, pretty, gay, wayward and irrepressible. Posing as a ”Casket Girl”, she is in reality the Contessa D’Altena. Soprano |
| Character Descriptions #:2 | |
| Role Name: | CAPTAIN DICK WARRINGTON |
| Gender: | Male |
| Stage Age: | |
| Role Information: | Soldier-adventurer, young and personable. Wary of women, and professedly cautious and bachelor-minded, he has in fact an impulsive and affectionate nature. High Baritone |
| Character Descriptions #:3 | |
| Role Name: | LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR GRANDET |
| Gender: | Male |
| Stage Age: | |
| Role Information: | Baritone Weak, pompous, and an incurable procrastinator, he is sustained in his usurped position of authority by his stronger-minded son, from whose piratical enterprises he profits—somewhat uncomfortably. A comedy-character in the inefficient-official old-rogue tradition. |
| Character Descriptions #:4 | |
| Role Name: | SILAS |
| Gender: | Male |
| Stage Age: | |
| Role Information: | Baritone Dick’s ”man”. Regarding his servant status as unworthy of his talents, and therefore only temporary, he is constantly and confidently looking out for his Big Opportunity. Light comedy character. |
| Character Descriptions #:5 | |
| Role Name: | LIZETTE |
| Gender: | Female |
| Stage Age: | |
| Role Information: | Soubrette. A ”Casket Girl” in search of a husband; amusingly feather-brained, likeable and vivacious. |
| Character Descriptions #:6 | |
| Role Name: | RUDOLFO |
| Gender: | Male |
| Stage Age: | |
| Role Information: | Baritone Comedy stage-Italian, the proprietor of a Marionette Theatre. Warm-hearted, peace-loving, anxious to please—a ”character” part. |
| Character Descriptions #:7 | |
| Role Name: | ADAH |
| Gender: | Female |
| Stage Age: | |
| Role Information: | Contralto A sultry quadroon slave-girl, hitherto Etienne’s mistress. Tense, passionate, and unscrupulous in her anxiety to remain desirable in the eyes of her master. |
| Character Descriptions #:8 | |
| Role Name: | SIR HARRY BLAKE |
| Gender: | Male |
| Stage Age: | |
| Role Information: | Non-singing A genial Irish adventurer, an adjutant of Dick’s. |
| Character Descriptions #:9 | |
| Role Name: | FLORENZ |
| Gender: | Male |
| Stage Age: | |
| Role Information: | Non-singing Secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor. |
| Character Descriptions #:10 | |
| Role Name: | FANCHON / NANETTE / FELICE |
| Gender: | Female |
| Stage Age: | |
| Role Information: | Girls of New Orleans. Sopranos |
| Character Descriptions #:11 | |
| Role Name: | A CHORUS |
| Gender: | Undefined |
| Stage Age: | |
| Role Information: | A CHORUS of Various Night-watchman, sacristan, lamplighter, nun, beggars, street-sellers, street-sweepers, pirates, Indians, Dick’s men, Etienne’s men, flower-girls, convent girls, quadroon belles, Italians, young people, and so on… |
More Information at: www.facebook.com/SALightOpera
Performances at the Tower Arts Centre, Pasadena
Thursday August 20, 7.30pm
Friday August 21, 7.30pm
Saturday August 22, 2pm
Saturday August 22, 7.30pm
Sunday August 23, 2pm
INFORMATION Night Monday March 9, 7.30pm, at St Elizabeth Church Hall, Dwyer Ave, Oaklands Park
Contact: Pam (phone bookings) Tegan (Director)
teganmuller0001@gmail.com
8294 6582