MONICA! The Musical Casting Breakdown Looking for young, hip and versatile actors with exceptional comic timing. Not interested in any sort of impersonations or lookalikes. Great singers with dynamic and uninhibited personalities. Bill Clinton High baritone with strong tenor notes, up to an A-flat and higher. A simple, Midwestern good ol'boy with big dreams. A handsome young leading man, with impeccable comic timing. Charming and earnest, loves to have a good time. He ends up torn between the temptations of lust and his love for the U.S. of A. The absolute leading man of the show. Hillary Clinton Young character woman with great belt. Plays Hillary from young hippie chick to "close friend" and confidant of Janet Reno (acumen with Melissa-Etheridge style rock duet a must!) through to her plight as a frigid, tragic victim of public humiliation. A little too tightly wound, until the moments when she lets herself bust loose. Monica Lewinsky The classic ingénue role. Must be able to pull off the lyric "Like a cow grazing, aimlessly mooing / Shooting more air balls than Patrick Ewing" with absolute, heart-breaking sincerity. George Stephanopoulos Baritone with tenor range, and sometimes the other way around. He struggles to maintain the public face of the Oval Office. Possesses a vaguely sycophantic disposition toward the President, but he's really more of a protector than an outright ass-kisser. Meticulous, officious and pulled together, but a raging queen underneath that sharp exterior. Smithers from the Simpsons meets Jack from Will and Grace. Janet Reno Exceptional comedienne, with strong belt voice. A flannel shirt wearing, truck driving lesbian, who is desperately and earnestly in love with Hillary. Song styles range from rock duet to Sondheim and everything in between. Vernon Jordan African-American, high baritone. Jive-talking sidekick to the Prez. Loves the ladies and good times, a completely intentional racial stereotype. He's Saturday Night Live's "The Ladies Man" reincarnated as a second banana in a black-meets-white buddy comedy. Ken Starr Baritone villain role. A combination of D.C.'s biggest pariah and the show's ubervillain. Has a Javert quality mixed with the histrionics of a nebbish and nerdish outsider as he continues his undying quest to bring down the D.C. cool kids, especially Bill. Song styles range from Gillbert and Sullivan to a driving tango to Les Miz. Tom Jones Straight-up impersonator role, the only time in the show in which that's true. The role that redefines the cameo. Huge in stature and personality. A musical theatre name would be ideal. Limited commitment required -- sings one big song that is an Austin Powers-like production number in Act I. Betty Currie African-American. The actress will play several roles throughout, but prominently featured as Betty with a tear-down-the-house gospel number in Act II. Should be able to blow the roof off of an Aretha-style soul/gospel song and understand how to parody that as well.