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Cast Size: Medium (11 to 20 performers)
Cast Type: Trained Singers, Teens, Strong/Large Chorus, Star Vehicle Male, Star Vehicle Female, Older Roles
Dance Requirements: None

Character Breakdown

Francesca

A beautiful Italian woman, generous, luminous, and funny, now married to a farmer and living in Iowa.

Gender: female
Age: 35 to 45
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: G3
Richard "Bud" Johnson

Francesca's husband. An Iowa farmer, a good guy, diligent and dependable, but always exhausted and irritated that things haven't gotten easier.

Gender: male
Age: 40 to 50
Vocal range top: F#4
Vocal range bottom: B2
Robert Kincaid

A ruggedly handsome, worldly, visionary photographer.

Gender: male
Age: 40 to 50
Vocal range top: A4
Vocal range bottom: G2
Marian

Robert's former wife, a musician.

Gender: female
Age: 35 to 45
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Chiara
Francesca's sister still living in Italy.
Gender: female
Age: 35 to 45
Michael

Francesca and Bud's son

Gender: male
Age: 16 to 16
Vocal range top: G#4
Vocal range bottom: D3
Carolyn

Francesca and Bud's daughter

Gender: female
Age: 14 to 14
Vocal range top: C#5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Marge
Francesca's neighbor, sassy and nosy
Gender: female
Age: 45 to 60
Vocal range top: C5
Vocal range bottom: G3
Charlie

Marge's husband.

Gender: male
Age: 60 to 70
Vocal range top: C#4
Vocal range bottom: B2
Ensemble
Townspeople