Skyline College Drama & Music present our 2025 Fall Music, the Toxic Avenger, based on the 1984 film by Lloyd Kaufman. Tickets on sale Monday, October 13, 2025!

 

Greening the Grotesque: Panel Discussion Event

Join us for a conversation about monsters, media, and the environment as depicted through The Toxic Avenger, hosted in collaboration between the Skyline College Drama, Music, English, and Geography departments and Earth Day Every Day. The event will feature a sneak preview of songs from the fall musical production of The Toxic Avenger and a panel discussion including cast members, Director Nicole Odell, and special faculty & staff guests.

Monday, October 20

Location: Intercultural Center and on Zoom

Time: 12 – 1 p.m.

Free and open to all

Join on Zoom  
Toxic waste barrel with a green arm emerging. Purple waste symbol in background. Title and subtitle in white on black background.

About the Musical

Directed by Prof. Nicole Odell, The Toxic Avenger follows a deformed superhero from polluted New Jersey as he falls in love and battles bullies, mobsters, and corrupt politicians in the name of environmental justice.

An unconventional love story with an eco-friendly twist!   

Toxic Avenger is big green letters with green vapor rising, Fall 2025 Musical Auditions in a box with yellow background

Audition Dates:
Thursday August 14

  • Location: Rm. 1-111
  • Time: 1 – 4 pm.
  • Callbacks: Tuesday, August 19 & Thursday, August 21

Thursday August 21

  • Location: Rm. 1-111
  • Time: 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
  • Callbacks: Thursday, August 21 (same day)


Tuesday August 19

  • Location: Rm. 1-111
  • Time: 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.
  • Callbacks: Thursday, August 21


(For additional information about Auditions, please contact Jude Navari at navarij@smccd.edu.)

Important Instructions for Auditions

  • Prepare a one-minute contemporary, comedic monologue.
  • Prepare a contemporary musical theater selection (up tempo or ballad) or music in a rock musical style. Please do not sing any selections from the Fall musical selection for your audition.
  • Please bring your own back up accompaniment recording that can be played from your phone, tablet, or computer.

We are planning for a large and diverse cast. You can expect a professional rehearsal environment where cast members are treated with respect while being encouraged to perform to their optimum potential.

All who audition will be cast in a part and/or the ensemble.


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Performance Dates

  • Friday, November 14 @ 7:30 p.m.
  • Saturday, November 15 @ 7:30 p.m.
  • Sunday, November 16 @ 2:00 p.m.

Location: Skyline College Theater, Building 1
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Parking Lot F is closest to the Main Entrance of Building 1.

General Information about the Musical Theater classes and Fall 2025 Enrollment

Students participating in the Fall 2025 Spring Musical production must enroll in BOTH MUS 410 (1 unit) and DRAM 208/209 (2 units). 

  • MUS. 410.1* - Vocal Ensemble for the Musical Theater Production
  • DRAM 208*  - Theatrical Production

*Students who have previously participated in a Skyline College spring musical and enrolled in MUS. 410.x would enroll in the next class in the levelled sequence (either 410.2, 410.3, or 410.4). Students who have previously participated in a Skyline College musical and enrolled in DRAM 208 would enroll in DRAM 209. 

The two classes taken together provide the rehearsal time for the Spring Musical production. 
Together, these classes are scheduled to meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays for the Fall 2025 semester from 1 – 4:40 p.m.  Class meetings begin Aug. 26 and end Nov. 20.

For more information, contact: