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Character list and Voice Parts


​Johnny

The self-proclaimed "Jesus of Suburbia." Bored of his do-nothing, go-nowhere existence, he takes off for the city to get a new lease on life. He wages an inner war between a budding love for Whatsername and growing dependency on St. Jimmy and drugs.
Gender: Male
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: B4
Vocal range bottom: B2

Tunny
Johnny's friend who follows him to the city and eventually enlists in the army. He travels to the Middle East. A dreamer who is easily swayed, first by Johnny's ideas and then by patriotism and the American Dream.
Gender: Male
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: B4
Vocal range bottom: D3

Will
Johnny's friend. He ends up staying in Suburbia to take care of pregnant girlfriend Heather. The more he stays on the couch, the more he becomes slowly disconnected from the world and his own relationships.
Gender: Male
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: A4
Vocal range bottom: C#3

St. Jimmy
Johnny's alter ego. Known as the "city badass." An enigmatic and charismatic enabler who gets Johnny addicted to drugs and grows jealous of his relationship with Whatsername.
Gender: Male
Age: 30 to 40
Vocal range top: F#5
Vocal range bottom: C3

Heather
A girl in Suburbia and Will's girlfriend. She discovers she is pregnant but has difficulty telling her boyfriend of the news. Once she settles down with him, she struggles to maintain their relationship with his despondency and eventually leaves him.
Gender: Female
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: A3

Whatsername
A girl in the city who falls for Johnny. A rebellious activist who is willing to follow Johnny to the ends of the earth, but fights to have him embrace their authentic relationship rather than pursue his addiction.
Gender: Female
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: D#5
Vocal range bottom: F#3

Extraordinary Girl
A girl in the Middle East who appears as a sexual hallucination to injured Tunny. Attractive and mysterious, she later appears as his nurse and accompanies him home after the war.
Gender: Female
Age: 20 to 35
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3

Ensemble
The Men (Carson, Daniel, Brandon, John, Jamal, Dustin, Jared); The Women (Chelsea, Ashley, Aurie)
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  • Home
  • 2025-2026 Season
    • MY COUNTRY SPEAKS
    • BOEING BOEING
    • 10x11 Festival (THE307: Directing for the Stage)
    • THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE
    • ROCK OF AGES - Summer Rep 2026
  • The Carroll Players
    • Student Org Meetings
    • Executive Board
  • THEATRE PROGRAM
    • Theatre Major
    • Minors
    • Certificates
  • Gallery
    • Summer Repertory Series >
      • Summer Rep 2014 - THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST & ANTON IN SHOW BUSINESS
      • Summer Rep 2015 - RENT & WOMEN OF MANHATTAN
      • Summer Rep 2016 - AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
      • Summer Rep 2017 - NEXT TO NORMAL
      • Summer Rep 2018 - ALMOST MAINE
      • Summer Rep 2019 - SPRING AWAKENING
      • Summer Rep 2022 - AMERICAN IDIOT
      • Summer Rep 2023 - HEATHERS THE MUSICAL
      • Summer Rep 2024 - SWEENEY TODD
      • Summer Rep 2025 - ALICE BY HEART
    • 2012-2013 >
      • True West
      • The Shape of Things
      • The Mystery of Edwin Drood
      • Hairspray
      • Vagina Monologues - 2013
      • Six Strangers
      • High School Musical
      • Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
    • 2013-2014 >
      • 24 Hour Show: Wake-Up Call
      • StopKiss
      • Spring Awakening
      • Tales of Odysseus
      • Minchin's
    • 2014-2015 >
      • Bat Boy: The Musical
      • Felt
      • Weekend of Women
      • Lucifer: Before the Red
      • Dead Man's Cell Phone
      • CUSS Festival
    • 2015-2016 >
      • Every-Body
      • Fat Pig
      • Sondheim's Women
      • The Untitled Women Project
      • A Workshop Musical: Heathers
    • 2016-2017 >
      • The Glass Menagerie
      • Senseless
      • Legally Blonde
      • Fefu and Her Friends
    • 2017-2018 >
      • Antigone
      • Numbers Nerds
      • Hamlet (A Cover)
    • 2018-2019 >
      • Stop Kiss
      • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
      • Tartuffe
      • The Wonderful World of Dissocia
    • 2019-2020 >
      • Broadway's Best: A Cabaret
      • Once Upon A Mattress
      • Virtual Musical Theatre Cabaret
    • 2020-2021 >
      • ROMEO + JULIET (A COVER)
      • Festival of New Works
    • 2021-2022 >
      • Some Enchanted Evening
      • The Importance of Being Earnest
    • 2022-2023 >
      • 24 Hour Show - A Party To Die For
      • Godspell
      • THE THANKSGIVING PLAY
    • 2023-2024 >
      • LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
      • 10x11 Play Festival
      • THE LIGHTNING THIEF
    • 2024-2025 >
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      • My Country Speaks
      • THREADS - Play Festival
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