CIVIL WAR VOICES Submission - Barter Productions Auditions

LORT

CIVIL WAR VOICES (Play with Traditional Music)

– Photo / Resume Request

U.S. Tour (major venues & cities)

Producer: Barter Productions (Abingdon, VA) LORT; $765/week minimum plus per diem

Producing Artistic Director: Richard Rose

Managing Director: Jeremy Wright

Director: Susanne Boulle

Composer / Arranger: Mark Hayes

Book: James R. Harris

Casting: Paul Russell Casting

1^st rehearsal: On/About 9/20/11. Opens: 9/29/11. Closes: 11/6/11

NYC auditions will be held on August 15, 2011 by appointment only.

Seeking submissions from Actors' Equity Members only for these auditions.

For consideration, mail picture and resume to:

Paul Russell Casting

Attn: CWV – AEA/PRC

P.O. Box 1355

New York, NY 10018

(Include role on envelope)

SUBMIT PICTURE & RESUME BY 8/5/11:

NOTE: Actors MUST be in New York for the time of the auditions. Not accepting or considering digital auditions.

SEEKING REPLACEMENTS:

Cook:

African-American male. 30s to 40s. Tenor or Baritone-Tenor. A showman. Fantastic singer. Exceptional actor with a great emotional range. In addition to ‘Cook’ actor portrays multiple, dynamic roles. Among the songs he sings: Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel/Great Day, Amazing Grace, Battle Cry of Freedom, When Johnny Comes Marching Home…

Elizabeth Keckley:

Mezzo (must be able to blend and harmonize). 30s - 50s, African-American. A true account; Elizabeth Keckley was a slave who bought her freedom and became a dress maker for both Mrs. Jefferson Davis and Mary Todd Lincoln. She latter wrote one of the first ‘tell-all-books’, Behind The Scenes, accounting her life and work in the White House during the Civil War. A woman of great emotional strength and intuition. Despite enduring rape and the loss of family traded away to other slave owners Elizabeth endured with courage and hope. Actress will play multiple characters in addition to Elizabeth. Among the songs she sings: Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child, Oh Freedom, Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel/Great Day, My Lord What A Mornin’, Amazing Grace.