A CHRISTMAS STORY Equity Chorus Call Dancers - SETA Tour Auditions

SETA

A CHRISTMAS STORY, The Musical

– Equity Chorus Call / Dancers

Short Engagement Tour Agreement Category 2; $741/week (see salary note)

Commercial Producers: Jerry Goehring, Roy Miller, Michael F. Mitri & Pat Addiss

Director/Choreographer: Warren Carlyle

Book: Joseph Robinette

Music and Lyrics: Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

Musical Director: Ian Eisendrath

Associate Choreographer: James Gray

Casting: Stephanie Klapper

1^st reh: 10/10/11 (3 weeks in Chicago, then 1 week in Hershey, PA).

Runs: 11/8 – 11/13 (in Hershey, PA); 11/15 – 11/27 (in Detroit, MI); 11/29 – 12/4 (in Raleigh, NC); 12/6 – 12/11 (in Tampa, FL); 12/14 – 12/30 (closing in Chicago, IL).

Equity Chorus Call / Dancers who sing:

Monday August 1, 2011 at Pearl Studios “500”

10 AM – Equity male dancers 500 Eighth Avenue. 12^th Floor (studio 1214)

2 PM – Equity female dancers New York, NY

Be prepared to dance first. Men should bring jazz, tap, and character shoes. Women should bring character and tap shoes.

For those asked to sing: Please prepare two sixteen-bar cuts from the contemporary musical theatre cannon (in the style of Ahrens and Flaherty, Stephen Schwartz, and Maltby and Shire). One up-tempo that displays ability to deliver fast, complex lyrics and one ballad that displays range and high mix. One song should display belt/mix and one song should display legit.

Bring picture and resume, stapled together.

Note: Equity Chorus Call procedures ARE in effect. However, this is an added, non-required audition; required auditions were previously held in Chicago.

Salary/housing note: This production will have a Chicago point of origin. Actors residing outside a 70 mile radius of Chicago will receive $50/day during rehearsals for Actors housing and living expenses. Actor must declare residence at the time of Actor’s audition. For the Tech Week in Hershey, PA and all performance weeks including Chicago, Actor may chose to receive $86/day and provide their own housing, OR $42/day and be provided a single room accommodation, OR $52/day and share a room.

For Chicago based Actors: In all cities except Chicago (ie. Hershey, Detroit, Raleigh, and Tampa), the performer may chose to receive $86/day and provide their own housing, OR $42/day and be provided a single room accommodation, OR $52/day and share a room.

This classic holiday tale centers on a mischievous, bespectacled boy, Ralphie, who dreams of getting a BB-gun for Christmas. In the weeks before the big holiday, Ralphie, his friends and his family get into all kinds of situations— including run-ins with a bully with “yellow eyes,” a tongue stuck to lamp post, a bar of soap in the mouth, a garish leg lamp, a major award and a Chinese Christmas dinner. Based on the humorist Jean Shepherd’s novel “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash,” this is a Tribute to the Original, Traditional, One-Hundred-Percent, Red-Blooded, Two-Fisted, All-American Christmas.

Casting Director’s Note: For the following roles, we are putting together an ensemble to play a variety of characters such as townspeople, shop keepers, parents, Miss Shields, Santa Clause, neighbors, characters in Ralphie’s fantasies, etc. We want to create an interesting, multiracial, off-beat, interesting, quirky group of talented actors to match this wonderful, wacky, quirky world. Looking for all shapes and sizes. All must exude personality, warmth, and be tremendously talented. Seeking great singer/dancers who can act. ALL ETHNICITIES. Tap skills are necessary.

This score requires 13 strong ensemble singers who have bright, present, contemporary voices that can run the gamut from contemporary musical theatre chorus voice to legit, choral voice. (It is crucial that these singers are able to sing tight harmonies at the top of their registers with and without vibrato.)

Ensemble Men:

Seeking 6 ensemble men who sing, dance and act to a high standard. (20s-40s):

• Male Ensemble 1/Santa: Tenor (w/ solo character voice) who sings to a high A.
• Male Ensemble 2/Elf: Tenor who sings to a high G.
• Male Ensemble 3: High tenor who sings to a high Bb.
• Male Ensemble 4: High tenor who sings to a high Bb.
• Male Ensemble 5/Asian Waiter: High baritone who sings to a high F#.
• Male Ensemble 6: High baritone who sings to a high F#.

Ensemble Women:

Seeking 5 ensemble women who sing, dance and act to a high standard (20s-40s):

Female Ensemble 1: Soprano who sings to a high A.

Female Ensemble 2/Female Elf: Mezzo.

Female Ensemble 3: High soprano who sings to a high C.

Female Ensemble 4: Soprano who sings to a high A.

Female Ensemble 5/Miss Shields: Mezzo.

Also seeking two Swings:

Male Swing: TBD

Female Swing: TBD

For more information:
http://www.achristmasstorythemusical.com/