NRT CALLBACKS: Into the Woods

NRT: INTO THE WOODS CALLBACK LIST

CHARACTER BREAKDOWN

We are committed to inclusive casting and welcome submissions from performers of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, body types, and abilities for all roles. We encourage performers to submit for any role with which they identify and for which they meet the vocal and performance requirements.

The Baker - Baritone, Ab2–G4
An anxious, decent man who has learned to protect himself through control. He begins emotionally closed and becomes the show's reluctant adult. Needs warmth, humor, and vulnerability.

Baker's Wife - Mezzo/Soprano, F3–G5
Smart, funny, resourceful and restless. She loves her husband but wonders whether the life she wished for is enough. Needs exceptional text work—her comedy should come from thought rather than "playing funny."

Cinderella - Soprano, G3–G5
Intelligent, compassionate and chronically uncertain. She's not simply an ingénue; she's someone discovering that choosing is harder than wishing. Needs an excellent legit soprano who can make her thought process sound spontaneous.

The Witch - Mezzo/Alto, F3–G5
Ferocious, funny, controlling, perceptive and wounded. She genuinely loves Rapunzel but expresses love through possession. In Act II she becomes the person willing to say what everyone else refuses to hear. Huge acting role; vocal command and rhythmic precision matter enormously.

Jack - Tenor, B2–G4
Innocent, imaginative and socially a little out of step. His curiosity has catastrophic consequences before he understands what consequences are. Giants in the Sky needs wonder rather than just a big tenor voice.

Little Red - Mezzo, Bb3–F5
Precocious, voracious, funny and confident—until the world teaches her fear. Her journey is surprisingly dark: innocence → encounter with danger → self-protection. Needs superb comic timing without becoming a caricature.

Jack's Mother - Soprano/Mezzo, Bb3–Gb5
Practical, exhausted, loving and perpetually terrified by Jack's recklessness. Her anger comes from fear and scarcity. Also needs emotional weight.

Cinderella's Prince - Baritone/Tenor, approx. B2–F4/Gb4
Charismatic, overly confident, entitled and addicted to pursuit. He isn't consciously a villain—he genuinely thinks this is what romance is. That's what makes him funnier and more disturbing. Doubles as Wolf/Cinderella's Prince

The Wolf - Baritone, Bb2–Gb4
Appetite given human form: seductive, dangerous, theatrical and knowing. retain the traditional Doubles as Wolf/Cinderella's Prince

Rapunzel's Prince - Baritone, C#3–E4
Romantic, handsome, melodramatic and magnificently self-involved. Need an actor who understands that Agony becomes funniest when both princes take their suffering completely seriously.

Rapunzel - Soprano, B3–A5
Beautiful, sheltered and psychologically damaged by the Witch's possessiveness. Her instability shouldn't just be played for laughs.

Narrator - Baritone, G2–E4
Charming, articulate and apparently in command. He establishes the rules of storytelling but the Witch challenges that. Doubles as Narrator/Mysterious Man

Mysterious Man - Baritone
Eccentric, evasive and ultimately heartbreaking: the Baker's absent father. Doubles as Narrator/Mysterious Man

Cinderella's Stepmother - Mezzo, A3–F#5
Elegant, ambitious, cruel and status-obsessed. Avoid broad "evil stepmother" acting. She sincerely believes status is survival and has trained her daughters accordingly.

Florinda - Mezzo/Soprano, C4–Ab5
Vain, competitive and ruthless. Excellent comic instincts and willingness to commit physically.

Lucinda - Mezzo/Soprano, C4–Ab5
Same fairy-tale ecosystem as Florinda, but distinct personality from her.

Cinderella's Father - Ensemble singer
Passive, disconnected and ineffectual. His failure is his unwillingness to intervene.

Steward - Primarily acting / ensemble singing
Obedient, proper and seemingly innocuous until survival reveals his moral cowardice.

Cinderella's Mother - Soprano, roughly E4–F5
A supernatural maternal presence rather than simply "Mom." Double Granny/Cinderella's Mother/Giant.

Granny - Primarily acting
Small, wonderfully eccentric character role. Double Granny/Cinderella's Mother/Giant.

Giant - Spoken/offstage voice
Most important requirement is vocal authority and humanity. She's terrifying—but she's also a widow whose husband Jack killed. That moral complication matters enormously in Act II. Double Granny/Cinderella's Mother/Giant.

Snow White - Featured ensemble

Sleeping Beauty - Featured ensemble

Milky White TBD - Non-singing
Technically a character—and potentially a very important one depending upon how we ultimately realize her in the concept.

4-5 Ensemble Members
2 will be SW and SB

INTIMACY NOTE: Please be advised that "Cinderella's Prince" and the "Baker's Wife" will be required to have choreographed intimate moments. Partner dancing may also be required at times.

We look forward to seeing your work.