Knowing that auditioning can be a nerve-wracking experience, PALOA is pleased to offer again, for the fourth time, an Audition Workshop to empower actors and give them the confidence they need to best showcase their talents in an audition format.

The Workshop will be Friday, March 12th from 7:00-9:30 p.m. at the PALOA Center, 522 Mt. Pleasant Road. Cost of the workshop is $10.00 per person. The workshop will be taught by directors and seasoned actors who will walk you through successful techniques and strategies to help you prepare to audition.

This workshop is great for actors of all (or no) experience (recommended for ages 12 and up). This is not a pre-audition for Oklahoma! but a great way to mentally prepare for the PALOA auditions the following week, March 19th and 20th. The audition format of the workshop will be taught in the same format as the actual PALOA show auditions. Cast members from the past shows have really appreciated the confidence boost they gained from taking this workshop prior to auditions. We hope to see you there...and at auditions!

Open Auditions for Oklahoma! will be held at

Photos will be taken, so please dress accordingly.
Cast members must provide their own footwear,
and may be responsible for providing some costumes.

We eagerly look forward each year to see who will be in our cast.

PALOA holds open auditions for all roles and encourages people of all ages, ethnicities and sizes to apply.

Volunteers Needed

Synopsis of Oklahoma!

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today. Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Curly and Laurey both have feelings for each other but have difficulty expressing it because of their stubborness. Although the road to true love never runs smooth (Laurey is also actively courted by Jud Fry, the hired farm hand with a dark, sinister past), love’s journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. That they will succeed in making a new life together we have no doubt, and that this new life will begin in a brand-new state provides the ultimate climax to the triumphant OKLAHOMA!

Featuring some of the most well known and beloved songs in American Musical Theater, including, "Oh What a Beautiful Morning," "Surrey with the Fringe on Top," "People Will Say We’re in Love," "I’m Just a Girl Who Can’t Say No" and of course, the title song, "Oklahoma!," this show is chock full of great characters, music and sparkling dialogue that makes it a landmark hit. (For a detailed plot synopsis, please visit www.paloa.org.)

CAST REQUIREMENTS: PRINCIPALS - 3 Women - 4 Men

ENSEMBLE - Oklahoma! has great chorus demands with lots of singing and dancing for a spirited, engaged chorus to represent the territory farmers, cowboys and their families.

Character                     gender         singing voice     age

Curly                               male             baritone             22-33

Laurey                   female         soprano            18-25

Ali Hakim                        male                                        28-45

Aunt Eller                       female          mezzo             40-60

Will Parker                      male             tenor               25-35

Ado Annie Carnes        female         soprano          18-25

Jud Fry                           male             baritone           27-40

Andrew Carnes             male           tenor                 50-65

Gertie Cummings         female                                   18-25

Ike Skidmore                male            baritone             40-65

Cord Elam                    male            baritone             25-65

Fred                               male             baritone             18-35

Farmers, cowmen, towns people assorted         15-75