ARCADIA Equity Principal Audition - Broadway Theatre TBA Auditions
Broadway Theatre TBA
ARCADIA – Equity Principal Auditions
Broadway / Production Contract Currently $1,653/week minimum.
Producers: Sonia Friedman Productions, Bob Bartner, Roger Berlind
Playwright: Tom Stoppard
Dir: David Leveaux
CD: Jim Carnahan
1st reh: Early-mid 2011. 1st preview and opening dates TBA. Broadway theatre TBA.
Equity Principal Auditions:
Monday, November 1, 2010 Ripley-Grier Studios
Tuesday, November 2, 2010 520 Eighth Avenue, 16th Floor
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 New York City
10 AM – 6 PM all three days.
Lunch from 1:30 – 2:30.
Sides will be provided at the audition.
Please bring a resume & a picture (of yourself), stapled back-to-back.
Takes place at a country house in Derbyshire in both 1809 and the present day.
Seeking (all roles are available (i.e. not yet offered and accepted) unless otherwise specified):
Note: All actors must have excellent British accents.
Septimus:
Early - mid 20s. Thomasina’s tutor. Incredibly smart and confident. Has a way with women.
Thomasina:
16. Precocious young genius. Inquisitive and insatiably curious. Not afraid to express her own opinion.
Lady Croom:
Mid – late 30s. Thomasina’s mother, who rules the old-world estate with an iron fist. Beautiful, sexual, strong, she engages in much flirtation with Septimus and the other gentlemen in the house.
Valentine Coverly:
Mid 20s. Post-graduate student in Mathematical Biology. Has a genuine intellectual passion. A bit internal. Chloe’s older brother.
Chloe Coverly:
18. Uncomplicated, smart, straightforward sassy teenager.
Chater:
30s-40s. Unsuccessful poet. Repeatedly cuckolded by his wife’s multiple trysts with guests in the house. So driven by his vision of himself as a great poet that he completely fails to notice anything else.
Brice:
40s-50s. Lady Croom’s brother. A sea captain, largely through patronage rather than any conspicuous talent. Falls in love with Chater’s wife.
Jellaby:
60s+. The Crooms’ butler. Chiefly spreads gossip and delivers letters. Has an uncanny ability to have noticed absolutely everything, observed usually without comment in the tradition of a master butler.
Noakes:
40s-50s. Landscape architect. Something bucolic and bumbling about him. A self-appointed design prophet, though in reality his “vision” is likely appalling.
Gus / Augustus:
16. Two roles for one actor. Gus: Valentine and Chloe’s younger brother. Has been mute from age 5. Augustus:Thomasina’s trouble-making younger brother. Actor spans the gap between past and present.
Hannah Jarvis Understudy:
Role of Hannah is CAST. Seeking Understudy only. Hanna is in her 30s. Author. Intelligent and confident, she has a competitive streak in her. Values academic knowledge over romance.
Bernard Nightingale Understudy:
Role of Bernard is CAST. Seeking Understudy only. Bernard is in his late 30s. Professor at Sussex. Extremely literary and a bit pompous, he tends to value literature and fame over scientific research.
