AUDITIONS for Barnum. Booth. Lincoln.

🎪 Step right up — we are casting musical theatre performers and actors!! 🎪

“Can you tell me how a celebrated Shakespearean actor becomes the assassin of a president?”

📌 Auditions: March 14 to March 21 (times flexible!)

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Narrated by an older Edwin Booth and guided by his friend P.T. Barnum as ringmaster, the show unfolds inside a circus tent of memory, where history, performance, and spectacle collide. Woven through Edwin’s recollections of his younger brother, John Wilkes Booth, is the unlikely but true friendship between Barnum and Lincoln. The story traces the rise and fall of the Booth brothers: one destined to become the preeminent actor of his time, the other destined to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.

This new musical blends theatre, history, and spectacle, and we’re looking for both musical theatre performers and actors (singing is not required for all roles) to bring it to life!

🎭 Performance: The Corpus Playroom Late Show, May 13-16 (Week 2 of Easter Term 2026)

🌟 Future plans: We are planning to take the show to the Edinburgh Fringe!

✨ Experience: No experience? No problem! Enthusiasm is the only requirement!

📣 Questions? Please don’t hesitate to reach out — we’re so happy to chat!

📩 Contact: asm217, bmaaa2, cwh42.

🎪 We can’t wait to see you at auditions! 🎪

Contact asm217@cam.ac.uk, bmaaa2@cam.ac.uk, cwh42@cam.ac.uk before 19th Mar 2026 00:00 for more details.