Our Character Insights section is designed to help you prepare for auditions with confidence. Each character card includes a brief description, vocal range, and age range to help you find the best fit for your voice and strengths. We encourage you to audition for any role you feel is right for you! Casting is open to all, and we welcome performers of all genders, ethnicities, ages, and body types.
Age: 16+
Vocal Range: Varied
Character Description: Cheerleaders, greasers, beauty school drop outs, and more! Making up the environment of Rydell High and beyond, the Ensemble brings energy and excitement to the stage.
Age: 16-20s
Vocal Range: Tenor
Character Description: The leader of the Burger Palace Boys (T-Birds). Strong & confident, with an air of cool, easygoing charm.
Age: 16-20s
Vocal Range: Soprano
Character Description: Danny’s love interest. New girl in town. Sweet, wholesome, naïve, cute, like Sandra Dee of the “Gidget” movies.
Age: 16-20s
Vocal Range: Alto
Character Description: Leader of the Pink Ladies. She is tough, sarcastic, outspoken, and vulnerable.
Age: 16-20s
Vocal Range: Alto
Character Description: A typical cheerleader; attractive, athletic, sure-of-herself, but can be given to bursts of disconcerting enthusiasm. She’s a bit of a pain and unpopular with the Pink Ladies. Baton skills are a plus, but not a necessity for this role.
Age: 16-20s
Vocal Range: Tenor
Character Description: The “anything-for-a-laugh” type. A clown who enjoys winding people up, he is full of mischief and is always dreaming up half-baked schemes and ideas.
Age: 16-20s
Vocal Range: Alto
Character Description: The “beauty” of the Pink Ladies. Pretty, looks older than the other girls, but betrays her real age when she opens her mouth. Tries to act sophisticated.
Age: 16-20s
Vocal Range: Tenor
Character Description: Youngest of the guys. Boyish, open, with a disarming smile and a hero-worshipping attitude toward the other guys. Guitar skills are a plus, but not a necessity for this role.
Age: 16-20s
Vocal Range: Alto
Character Description: A dreamer. Good-natured and dumb. Heavily made-up, fussy about her appearance— particularly her hair. She can’t wait to finish high school so she can be a beautician.
Age: 16-20s
Vocal Range: Tenor
Character Description: Second-in-command of the Burger Palace Boys. Tough-looking, tattooed, surly, avoids any show of softness. Has an off-beat sense of humor.
Age: 16-20s
Vocal Range: Alto
Character Description: Funny, loud, compulsive eater, and awkward member of the Pink Ladies. Loud and pushy with the girls, but shy with boys.
Age: 16-20s
Vocal Range: Baritone
Character Description: A braggart and wheeler-dealer who thinks he’s a real lady-killer.
Age: 40s+
Vocal Range: Flexible
Character Description: A no-nonsense, serious, loud English teacher.
Age: 16-20s
Vocal Range: Tenor
Character Description: The class valedictorian; physically awkward, with weak eyes and a high-pitched voice. He’s a typical ‘apple-polisher’ – both smug and pompous, but gullible.
Age: 16-20s
Vocal Range: Alto
Character Description: The best dancer at St. Bernadette’s; a loud mouth, she wins the dancing competition with Danny.
Age: 16-20s
Vocal Range: Tenor
Character Description: All-American, rock-star “greaser” student at Rydell High, whose real name is Clarence.
Age: 20s+
Vocal Range: Flexible
Character Description: A typical “teen audience” radio disc jockey. Slick, egotistical, fast-talking. A veteran “greaser.”
Age: 16+
Vocal Range: Tenor
Character Description: Frenchie’s suave and slick guardian angel, who encourages her to stay in school.