FREAKY FRIDAY CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS
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FEMALE ROLES
ELLIE BLAKE– Leading role, singer with strong belt and vocal range. teenager, smart, funny, rumpled and a bit sloppy - uses humor and brash behavior to hide her sadness of having lost her father at an early age - resentful of her mother and her upcoming marriage. By spending a day in her mother’s shoes, she comes to appreciate her struggles, learn self-acceptance, and realize the immeasurable love and mutual respect that bond a mother and daughter.
Note: Actress playing Ellie spends roughly 10 minutes as herself and then switches acting styles to portray Katherine trapped in Ellie’s body. This switch remains until the final few minutes of the show.
Songs: Just One Day, The Hourglass, I Got This, Oh, Biology, Busted, Somebody Has Got to Take the Blame, Watch Your Back!, I’m Not Myself Today, Bring My Baby (Brother) Home, Adam’s Theme, Go, No More Fear, Today and Every Day
KATHERINE BLAKE - Leading Role, singer with strong belt and vocal range - Ellie’s young mother, decisive, smart, lovely, punctual - trying to keep her family and work life together as a single mom - in efforts to keep everything going well and be “perfect”, she’s lost successful communication with her daughter. By spending a day in Ellie’s shoes, she comes to appreciate her struggles, and realize the immeasurable love and mutual respect that bond a mother and daughter.
Note: Actress playing Katherine spends roughly 10 minutes as herself and then switches acting styles to portray Ellie trapped in Katherine’s body. This switch remains until the final few minutes of the show..
Songs: Just One Day, The Hourglass, I Got This, What You Got, Busted, Adam’s Theme, Somebody Has Got to Take the Blame, Parents Lie, I’m Not Myself Today, Bring My Baby (Brother) Home, Go, After All of This and Everything, Today and Every Day
TORREY – Supporting Role - Katherine’s assistant - a high-strung perfectionist
Songs: Just One Day, What You Got, Busted, I’m Not Myself Today, other company musical numbers
HANNAH – Supporting role - Ellie’s best friend - intense, emotional, lacks confidence
Songs: Just One Day, I Got This, Oh, Biology, Busted, Adam…Adam…, Watch Your Back!, Go, Today and Every Day
GRETCHEN – Supporting role - Also Ellie’s best friend - hacker-geek, self-described nerd.
Songs: Just One Day, I Got This, Oh, Biology, Busted, Adam…Adam…, Watch Your Back!, Go, Today and Every Day
SAVANNAH – Supporting role - The villain - brilliant, aggressive, a winner
Songs: Just One Day, I Got This, Oh, Biology, Busted, Adam…Adam…, Watch Your Back!, Go, Today and Every Day
MS MYERS (- gym teacher, extremely intense!
Songs: Watch Your Back! and other company musical numbers
MRS. LUCKENBILL - English teacher - empathetic
Songs: Somebody Has Got to Take the Blame, other company musical numbers
OFFICER SITZ - police officer who never received sensitivity training
Songs: Bring My Baby (Brother) Home, Adam’s Theme, other company musical numbers
DANIELLE - Weddings Magazine journalist - polished, grimly cheerful
Songs: Just One Day, What You Got, Busted, other company musical numbers
LAUREL - random teen, unimpressed with anything
GRANDMA HELENE - Katherine’s mother - fiercely opinionated, caring
Songs: Various solos in company numbers
MRS. TIME - antique shop proprietor - apathetic, doesn’t much like teenagers (speaking role)
 
MALE ROLES
ADAM - Leading Role, the Listmaster - a paragon of adorable cool. Adam likes Ellie and loves Katherine’s sandwiches
Songs: Just One Day, I Got This, Busted, Women and Sandwiches, Today and Every Day
MIKE - Leading Role - Katherine’s financé - confident, charming, kind
Songs: Just One Day, Vows, Busted, I’m Not Myself Today, Bring My Baby (Brother) Home, Today and Every Day
FLETCHER BLAKE - Supporting role, Ellie’s younger brother, eccentric, naive; obsessed with his puppets, especially ANGRY BOB, an enraged purple hippo, and CASPIAN, a proper British starfish
Songs: Just One Day, Busted, Shoppin’ With My Mom, Drivin’ With My Mom, Women and Sandwiches, Today and Every Day
PARKER - Ellie’s friend - completely average, best friends with Wells
Songs: I Got This, Oh, Biology, Busted, Adam…Adam…, Watch Your Back!, Go, Today and Every Day
WELLS - Ellie’s friend - dorky but not meek, best friends with Parker
Songs: I Got This, Oh, Biology, Busted, Adam…Adam…, Watch Your Back!, Go, Today and Every Day
SENOR O’BRIEN - Spanish teacher - argumentative and quarrelsome
Songs: Somebody Has Got to Take the Blame, other company musical numbers
Songs: I Got This, Oh, Biology, Busted, Adam…Adam…, Watch Your Back!, Go, Today and Every Day
LOUIS - Weddings Magazine photographer - seen it all, loves his job
Songs: Just One Day, What You Got, Busted, other company musical numbers
DR. EHRIN - School counselor, test obsessed and overworked
Songs: Somebody Has Got to Take the Blame, other company musical numbers
MR. BLUMEN - Biology teacher, a cynical lifer
Songs: Somebody Has Got to Take the Blame, other company musical numbers
OFFICER KOWALSKI - police officer who never received sensitivity training
Songs: Bring My Baby (Brother) Home, Adam’s Theme, other company musical numbers
PASTOR BRUNO - cheerful, loves weddings (speaking role)
GRANDPA GORDON - Katherine’s father - grumpy, stubborn, old-school (
Songs: Various solos in company numbers

ENSEMBLE - These performers will be on stage for much of the show servingas a Greek chorus. Some of them will also act as younger students at the high school as well as wedding guests. Some will also play select catering staff, vendors, Savannah’s minions, and wedding guests.  Ensemble will comment on action and facilitate some of the transitions in scenes.
Songs: Just One Day, I Got This, Adam’s Theme, Adam…Adam…, Oh, Biology, Busted, Watch Your Back!, I’m Not Myself Today, Go, No More Fear, Today and Every Day