2025 Auditions
Join the greatest show in the West – The Medora Musical – in a high-energy, country-western variety show performed under the beautiful badlands sunset.
We are looking for featured singers, dancers, and singers/dancers to join us for our 60th season! Submit your virtual audition and join the best show in the Badlands!
Audition Information
Please include at least one link to any vocal, dance, movement, costume character, or other performance reel/video that clearly shows your talent. Singers should provide movement or dance footage in addition to vocal material. Actors please include a vocal reel as well as a monologue and the attached sides.
Rehearsals begin May 5, 2025, in Medora, North Dakota and the contract runs through September 14, 2025. Performers are paid a weekly salary, as well as room and board and meals. Transportation is provided.
The Medora Musical’s casting team, RWS Global, will also be present at the following conferences: A1 Conference January 17-20, UPTA February 7-10, SETC Auditions March 19-22.
a wild
west boom
Medora began as a military cantonment called Little Missouri. It was officially named Medora in 1883 by the Marquis de Mores, an entrepreneurial French nobleman with a big dream for a meat-packing empire. He named the town after his wife, Medora von Hoffman.
That same year, a young Theodore Roosevelt made his first visit to Medora — where he would later find solace and strength after the death of his wife. Many years after that, he would tell an audience in Fargo: “I never would have been President had it not been for my time in North Dakota.”
cowboy businessman
In the 1950s, Harold Schafer—North Dakota-born businessman and owner of the Gold Seal Company—took an interest in a worn-out cowtown called Medora.
He purchased and revitalized the historic but run-down Rough Riders Hotel. He acquired an amphitheatre built into the side of a butte and helped create the Medora Musical. Then, in 1986, he retired from business and donated the entirety of his Medora properties to establish the non-profit Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation.
Medora is now North Dakota’s #1 tourist destination—thanks to the passion and generosity of Harold Schafer, the cowboy businessman.
more to explore than ever!
Harold Schafer’s investment in Medora kick-started a revival of this historic town. And that revival continues today!
Medora’s official population is just over 100. Each summer, that population more than quadruples as a workforce of over 300 seasonal employees arrives to serve the traveling public.
Now, in 2025 we expect to entertain over 120,000 guests at the 60th anniversary of the Medora Musical.
Technicians
Stage technicians, theater operations, and character roles are also needed for the 2025 Medora Musical season. Learn more from the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation.
LITTLE PICTURES. BIG MOMENTS.
The Medora Musical is owned and operated by
For over 50 years, we’ve believed Medora is a special place. It’s our mission to preserve this place for generations and to connect people to Medora for positive, life-changing experiences. Learn more and give at foundation.medora.com.