CITY THEATRE COMPANY 2011-12 SEASON equity Principal Auditions - City Theatre Company Auditions
City Theatre Company
LORT
City Theatre Company 2011-12 Season
– EPAs by Appointment in Pittsburgh
(Pittsburgh, PA) LORT D; $630/week
Artistic Director: Tracy Brigden
Managing Director: Mark R. Power
Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT
Monday, August 15, 2011 at City Theatre Company
AND Charles Morris Building Rehearsal Hall
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 1300 Bingham Street, 2nd Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
10:30 AM – 6:30 PM each day
Lunch from 1 - 2.
For an appointment, email (preferred method) Amy Claussen at
aclaussen@citytheatrecompany.org, or call (412) 431-4400 x463.
Please prepare a contemporary monologue under 3 minutes. If you wish to audition for the musical POP!, please also prepare 16 bars of a contemporary pop/rock song from the musical theatre or popular music canons. Note, an accompanist will be provided on August 15th only.
Bring picture and resume, stapled together.
TIME STANDS STILL
By: Donald Margulies
Director: Tracy Brigden
1st Rehearsal: September 20, 2011.
Runs: October 15 – November 6, 2011
Seeking:
Sarah Goodwin: Female, late 30s – early 40s, a photojournalist
James Dodd: Male, late 30s – early 40s, a freelance journalist
Richard Erlich: Male, 50-55, a photo editor
The role of Mandy is CAST.
THE MONSTER IN THE HALL
By: David Greig
Director: Tracy Brigden
1st Rehearsal: February 14, 2012
Runs: March 10 – April 1, 2012
Seeking:
Duck Macatarsney: Female, 18+ to play 16, a teenage girl who cares for her biker dad whose MS is getting increasingly bad.
Lawrence Lofthouse: Male 18+ to play 16, Duck’s classmate, a sexually ambiguous wannabe-interior designer.
Agnetha: Female, 30s-40s. Duke’s girlfriend whom he met in an online videogame. Wild, a rocker, unpredictable, a little scary.
Mrs. Linda Underhill: Female, 30s – 50s, a social worker.
The role of Duke (Duck’s Dad) is CAST.
NOTE: All characters speak in a Scottish dialect.
TIGERS BE STILL
By: Kim Rosenstock
Director: Matt Morrow
1st Rehearsal: March 6, 2012
Runs: March 31 – May 6, 2012
Seeking:
Sherry: Female, 24. An art therapist; perky and quirky.
Zack: Male, 19. Joseph's troubled son.
Joseph: Male, 50. Sherry's boss, a high school principal. A recent widower.
Grace: Female, 29. Sherry's older sister; depressed, a couch potato.
POP!
By: Maggie-Kate Coleman and Anna K. Jacobs
Director: TBA
1st Rehearsal: April 3, 2012
Runs: May 5 – May 27, 2012
Seeking:
Andy Warhol: Male, 30-40, Tenor; approx. low Bb to high A (2 8ves). American artist, painter, underground filmmaker, public figure, and celebrity who was a central figure in the Pop art movement. The cultivation of the character ‘Andy Warhol’ was perhaps his greatest work of art.
Candy Darling: Male, 18-30, Baritenor/Countertenor; male range- approx. low G# to high A (2 8ves); female range- approx. low G high Eb (1.5 8ves). A beautiful, glamorous pre-op transsexual who acted in several Warhol films and was part of his entourage in the late 60s. She models herself after the Blonde Bombshells of early Hollywood.
Valerie Solanis: Female, 20-30, Alto; approx. low F#- high F (2 8ves). Radical feminist writer and founder of a “group” called S.C.U.M. (the Society for Cutting Up Men, she was also the only member). A street hustler and sometimes hooker, she is intelligent, outspoken and often shocking. She became famous for shooting Andy Warhol.
Edie Sedgwick: Female, 18-25, Soprano; approx. low A- high A (2 8ves). Heiress, drug addict, sometime model, style icon of the sixties, Warhol Superstar. With Andy she was half of the most desired social pair in New York in 1965. The ultimate Poor Little Rich Girl.
Viva: Female, 20-28, Mezzo-soprano; approx. low G- high A (2 8ves). Warhol Superstar of the late sixties, she starred in many of Andy’s films, often in sexual situation. She is intelligent, educated, and well-spoken, but can be very unpredictable.
“Pope” Ondine: Male, 20-30, Baritone; approx. low F- high F# (2 8ves). Ondine was a central figure in the Silver Factory and the leader of the amphetamine driven culture there. He is known for histrionics and adores opera, particularly Maria Callas. He is wry, oversexed, intelligent, and bitchy.
Gerard Malanga: Male, 20-30, Baritenor; approx. low Bb- high G# (2 8ves). Andy’s first assistant and collaborator, working with him on silkscreens; he also acted in many of Andy’s films. A poet and artist, he brought in many of those who became the Factory regulars.
