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Call Type
Equity Principal
Date of Audition
5/7/2012
Location
Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park
962 Mt. Adams Circle
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Please check in at the Admin front desk when arriving.
AppointmentsTime(s)
Monday, May 7th
9 AM-4 PM
Musical auditions 2:30-4 PM
will be taken by the Producer. Contact Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park at 513-345-2242 or email at: administration@cincyplay.com
> EPA Rules are in effect.
> A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Personnel
Incoming Artistic Director Blake Robison and Associate Artistic Director Michael Haney will attend with casting authority.
Other Dates
See breakdown.
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Contract
LORT Non-Rep
Tiers B & D; Actor min. $832/wk & $566/wk
Seeking
Male & Female Actors and Actor/Singers for THREE MUSKETEERS; BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS; ABIGAIL/1702; DOUBLE INDEMNITY; HANK WILLIAMS:LOST HIGHWAY; LEVELING UP; THE BOOK CLUB PLAY; and SHIPWRECKED! AN ENTERTAINMENT. See breakdown.
Breakdown
A breakdown has been added for this notice.
Preparation
Please prepare 1 or 2 (contrasting) monologue(s) not to exceed 3 minutes total; OR for musical audition 1 monologue and 1 song not to exceed 3 minutes total. Bring clearly marked sheet music in your key; accompanist provided (no pre-recorded music or a cappella). Bring headshot and resume.
Other
Actors are hired on a per show basis.
To be considered for both Musicals and Non-Musicals, audition when accompanist is present. A cappellasinging is not allowed.
Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
Breakdown
THE MARX THEATRE SEASON (LORT B)
THREE MUSKETEERS by Ken Ludwig, adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas;
directed by Blake Robison
1st Rehearsal 7/31/12; runs 9/1/12–9/29/12
AVAILABLE ROLES:
Male:
D’ARTAGNAN
ATHOS
PORTHOS
ARAMIS
ROCHEFORT/STANLEY
KING LOUIS XIII/D’ARTAGNAN’S FATHER/BASILLE/FOUQUET/FACHE
TREVILLE/DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM/RAVANCHE/RUFFIAN/INNKEEPER/DEBRIS
Female:
SABINE (D’ARTAGNAN’S SISTER)
MILADY/OLD WOMAN
CONSTANCE BONACIEUX/ADELE/SISTER AT SCHOOL
QUEEN ANNE/D’ARTAGNAN’S MOTHER/ELISE/MOTHER SUPERIOR/ABBESS
BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS by Neil Simon; directed by Steven Woolf
NOTE: This is a received co-production, which will originate at THE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST. LOUIS.
Dates –The Repertory of St. Louis: 1st rehearsal 8/14/12; runs 9/5/12–9/30/12
Dates - Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: 1st rehearsal on or about 10/9/12; runs 10/13/12–11/10/12
AVAILABLE ROLES:
Male:
EUGENE MORRIS JEROME - almost 15
STANLEY JEROME - 18½ , Eugene’s older brother
JACK JEROME - about 40, Eugene’s Father
Female:
BLANCH MORTON - late 30’s, Eugene’s widowed aunt
KATE JEROME - about 40, Eugene’s mother, a strong Jewish matriarch
NORA MORTON - 16½ , Eugene’s beautiful older cousin
ABIGAIL/1702 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa; directed by Blake Robison
1st rehearsal 12/21/12; runs 1/19/13–2/17/13
This is a new script which explores what happened to The Crucible’s Abigail Williams 10 years after the infamous witch trials.
AVAILABLE ROLES:
Male:
YOUNG MAN – plays John Brown, a man with a dubious past who comes to be healed by Abigail, mid 20s
OLDER MAN – plays Reverend Parris, Judge Sewell and the Man in Gray, 40s to 50s
Female:
YOUNG WOMAN – plays Abigail Williams also goes by the name Rachel Meadows (a healer), late 20s
OLDER WOMAN – plays Margaret Hale (a healer), the Crone and Elizabeth Proctor, 40s to 50s
DOUBLE INDEMNITY by James M. Cain; Adapted for the stage by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright; directed by Michael Evan Haney
NOTE: This is a received co-production, which will originate at THE REPERTORY THEATRE OF ST. LOUIS.
Dates –The Repertory of St. Louis: 1st rehearsal 2/19/13; runs 3/13/13–4/7/13
Dates - Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: 1st rehearsal on or about 4/16/13; runs 4/20/13–5/18/13
AVAILABLE ROLES
Male:
WALTER HUFF - Insurance salesman for 15 years. Smooth-talking huckster. Calculating. (Fred MacMurray role in the film.) Mid-30s
HERBERT NIRLINGER - Older husband of Phyllis. Well-to-do, driven & in his 50s
BARTON KEYES - Long-time employee & colleague of Walter’s. Friend/father figure to Walter. Obsessive, determined, instinctive. A company man with a soul. Male, 50s.
NINO SACHETTI (daughter’s boyfriend) / JACKSON (train passenger) / MR. NORTON (owner of the insurance company Walter works for) – 30s to mid 40s
Female:
PHYLLIS NIRLINGER - Much younger wife of Herbert Nirlinger, beautiful, seductive, duplicitous female. (Barbara Stanwyck role in the film.) late 20s – mid 30s.
LOLA NIRLINGER – Phyllis’ stepdaughter. Pretty, flirtatious, naïve, sweet. Youthfully self-absorbed. Late teens to early 20s. Will also play Nettie, the secretary, in the Cincinnati run.
THE SHELTERHOUSE THEATRE (LORT D)
HANK WILLIAMS: LOST HIGHWAY by Randal Myler & Mark Harelik; directed by Randal Myler; Music Director TBD
1st rehearsal 10/16/12; runs 11/3/12–12/30/12
AVAILABLE ROLES
Male:
HANK WILLIAMS – early 20s to mid 30s, must play guitar
TEE-TOT – Black south Alabama street singer of indeterminate age. Must play piano & Other instruments TBD
HOSS – Member of Hank’s band The Drifting Cowboys. Big, boyish, about Hank’s age. Must play upright bass.
JIMMY (BURRHEAD) - Member of Hank’s band. From Oklahoma, especially in speech. Must play lead electric guitar.
LEON (LOUDMOUTH) – Member of Hank’s band and a skillfull musician on many instruments, featured on the fiddle. Pleasant and taciturn.
FRED ROSE (PAP) – A founder and executive of a Nashville music publishing company. A Midwesterner from Chicago. Non-singing role.
Female:
THE WAITRESS – The keeper of an all-night diner somewhere in the south. A cheerful, lonely person. Non-singing role.
MAMA LILLY – Hank’s mother. A “Marjorie Main” – strong and somewhat overbearing. Singer.
AUDREY WILLIAMS – Hank’s first wife, later his professional widow. A blond Alabama beauty, sweet, exuberant, sure. Singing role, but she’s not a good singer.
WE WILL NOT BE LOOKING AT MUSICIANSHIP AT THIS AUDITION.
LEVELING UP by Deborah Zoe Laufer; directed by Wendy Goldberg
1st rehearsal 1/11/13; runs 2/9/13–3/10/13
This is a new script about four 20-somethings struggle to transition from college to a “real” life that is rarely spent outside the glare of a video game monitor. This thought-provoking, often humorous world premiere focuses on a generation straddling the fuzzy line between reality and virtual reality.
AVAILABLE ROLES (all in their early 20s)
Male:
IAN – Awesome gamer – Nevada State champ. A bit of a nerd. Very bright.
CHUCK – Ian’s roommate. All around good guy.
ZANDER – Ian’s other roommate. Very good looking. A bit of a wheeler dealer.
Female:
JEANNIE – Zander’s girlfriend. Very sweet and innocent. Excellent student.
THE BOOK CLUB PLAY by Karen Zacarías; directed by Blake Robison
1st rehearsal 2/22/13; runs 3/23/13–4/28/13
AVAILABLE ROLES
Male:
ROB – 30s. Ana’s Husband, handsome, charismatic under-achiever who is starting to search for meaning. Upper Crust background.
WILL – 30s. Rob’s conservative, well read, well dressed, disciplined college roommate. Ana’s former boyfriend. History buff. Unmarried.
ALEX – 30s. The New Guy. A very smart, well-read academic who has lost his moorings and is searching for real connection. Professor of Comparative Literature.
Female:
ANA – 30s. Pronounced “Ah-nuh.” Beautiful. Charming. Smart. Accomplished. Organized. A columnist for a Daily paper, The Mother Bee. Her grace masks a need to control.
JEN – 30s. Ana’s friend. Pretty. Shy. Smart. Tends to burst out with awkward truthful comments. Despite some lack of self-confidence, she is the grounding center of the
group. Unorganized and oblivious to her own attractiveness. Unmarried.
LILY – 20s. A go-getter, former debate captain who is on the cusp of all
current trends and yet can still put her foot in her mouth in social occasions. Laughs
at appropriate and inappropriate times. A great lover of books and Ana’s protégé at the paper.
Non-Gender specific Role:
PUNDIT – 30’s to 50’s. Plays several roles: Mrs. Simpson(retired Librarian), Sam (the Wal-Mart guy), Frank (Secret Service Agent), Elsa (jaded Literary Agent), Dawn (a doctor), Carl (Book Dealer)
SHIPWRECKED! AN ENTERTAINMENT: The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told by Himself) by Donald Margulies; directed by Brendon Fox
1st rehearsal 4/16/13; runs 5/11/13–6/16/13
AVAILABLE ROLES
Male:
LOUIS DE ROUGEMONT - 30s–40s, a would-be explorer who embarks from Victorian England on a daring expedition only to find himself marooned on a desert island. Or did he?
PLAYER #2 – indeterminate age. Plays various roles including: A Barkeep,
Gunda (a tribal chief and father to Yamba), Bobo (Yamba’s brother), A Society Lady,
An Austrialian Prospector, Albert (a boy), Queen Victoria, among others.
Female:
PLAYER #1 - indeterminate age. Plays various roles including: Louis’s Mother, Captain Jensen, Yamba (an Aborigine princess and later Louis’s wife), Fitzgerald (a magazine editor), An Octopus Expert, among others.
There are no available roles at this time for A CHRISTMAS CAROL, TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, or THROUGH THE NIGHT
THERE ARE NO ANTICIPATED OPENINGS FOR STAGE MANAGERS THIS SEASON.
Stage Managers should feel free to send their information to Jenifer Morrow, Production Stage Manager at the theatre.
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