Pride Films and Plays seeks men and women with great voices and who move well for the Chicago premiere of the musical "Yank!" - A WWII Love Story", Book and Lyrics by David Zellnik, Music by Joseph Zellnik. "Yank!" will be directed by PFP Executive Director David Zak with musical direction by PFP Artistic Associate Robert Ollis.

Synopsis:
YANK!, originally produced off-Broadway in 2010, is a love song to Hollywood's "it takes one of every kind" platoon flicks and to 1940s Broadway. Suffused with songs (swing, big band, boogie-woogie), it explores what stories get told in wartime, and how WWII became the great catalyst in bringing gay men and women together. It's the story of Stu, a scared Midwestern kid who gets drafted in 1943, and who spends Basic Training wrestling with fears of whether he "has what it takes" to make it in the Army. But unlike most guys, Stu also falls in love with a fellow Private, Mitch. When Stu strikes a friendship with Artie, an unapologetically queer reporter for Yank Magazine, Artie shows Stu a glimpse of the gay world that thrived just beneath the surface of the US Army in the 1940s.

Available roles include:
STU (the scared kid who gets drafted and our narrator)

MITCH (the handsome squad member that Stu falls for)

Plus 9 other fellow soldiers from a variety of backgrounds including:
TENNESSEE (Southern squad member with capability of violence.)

CZECHOWSKI (Lovable dockworker from Brooklyn who's everybody's best friend)

PROFESSOR (A good natured squad member from Boston who's not too bright)

ROTELLI (Comedic squad member and immigrant soldier from Sicily.)

COHEN (Scrappy and sweet Jewish kid who wants to kill Nazis)

ARTIE (reporter who taps and a classic song and dance fellow)

SARGE

LIEUTENANT

SOLDIER / INDIA

LOUISE (a woman who also doubles as various radio-singers of the era)

Please note: Many roles in "Yank!" require partial or full nudity. Pride Films and Plays is a pilot group of Not In Our House and closely follows their Chicago Theatre Standards which has guidelines regarding onstage nudity.