FORESTBURGH PLAYHOUSE 2011 SEASON **Updated** Equity Principal Audition - Forestburgh Playhouse Auditions
Forestburgh Playhouse
Forestburgh Playhouse 2011 Season
– Equity Principal Auditions
Forestburgh, NY LOA $484/week minimum. Housing, transportation, all meals provided.
Managing Dir: Norman Duttweiler
Artistic Dir: Ron Nash
Associate Managing Dir: Sarah Norris
Equity Principal Auditions:
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Actors' Equity Association Audition Center
Wednesday, March 30, 2011 165 West 46th Street, 2nd Floor
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM both days. New York City
Lunch from 1 - 2.
Prepare EITHER A) a legit Broadway song or Broadway pop/rock song OR B) a brief monologue OR C) 16 bars of a song and a one-minute monologue. If singing, bring sheet music; accompanist provided both days.
Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.
All dates below are in 2011. All roles that will be or may be on Equity contracts are listed. All listed roles available unless otherwise specified.
IDAHO! Music: Buddy Sheffield and Keith Thompson. Book/Lyrics: B. Sheffield, Dir: Matt Lenz. Choreo: Michele Lynch. 1st reh: 5/10. Runs 6/1–6/12.
Slim Johnson:
Late 20s – early 30s. Unfalteringly good-natured and eternally optimistic, with a winning smile. A good friend when the chips are down. Requires strong voice with the ability to really sell a comic “patter song”. Excellent, athletic dancer.
Cassie Purdy:
20s - early 30s. Virgin mail-order bride from back east. Bright and pretty, if slightly naïve. Struggles with the duty she owes to the man who bought her and the unexpected love she finds with a likable spudbuster. Lead. Requires excellent non-operatic soprano voice. Needs a completely winning personality. Must move well.
“I Do” Ida Dunn:
20s – early 30s. The town trollop. Ida’s butt has more fingerprints than the FBI, but she is honest and completely unapologetic about it. Still, she is not the typical “ruined” woman. To her, what she does is completely natural and shameless. Requires a very strong belting voice. Excellent comedic skills needed. Strong dancer.
Mavis White:
30s-40s. Stalwart African American townswoman posing as a Native American. You have to get up very early to put one over on Mavis. She sees it like it is and tells it like it is. Requires a very strong belt voice. Excellent comedic skills needed. Must move well.
Aunt Pearlie:
Update, posted 3/23/11: Role previously listed as cast is now AVAILABLE. 40-55. “God-fearin’ frontier woman” and matriarch of the community. Steadfast in her beliefs, but not above bending the rules a bit for the sake of young love. Her bucolic honesty brings out a lot of “zingers” aimed at the folks around her. Requires massive comedic skills. Strong mezzo-soprano. Needs the ability to “own” the stage.
Whip Masters:
CAST. 30ish. Handsome and dashing, yet fun-loving and sensitive. A man of impeccable character, yet not wed to convention. Lead. Requires a very strong baritone voice, solid up to G. Must move well.
Jed Strunk:
CAST. 35-50. Classic comic bad guy with sadomasochistic undertones. Just smart enough to get himself into trouble. All of the moral fiber of a wounded jackal. Requires excellent comedy skills. Strong baritone voice, low A to F above middle C. Imposing presence.
Uncle Fate:
CAST. 50-60. Avuncular community patriarch and local Justice of the Peace. Devoted to his duty, but easily cowed by his strong-willed wife. Requires a pleasant voice (baritone, low A to D above middle C). Excellent comedy skills needed.
SHIRLEY VALENTINE by Willy Russell. Dir: Ron Nash. 1st reh: 6/7. Runs 6/14-6/19.
Shirley:
Early 40s. Average, middle-class English housewife; still has a trace of courage, romance and adventure in her heart, which in the course of the play she brings to rich life. Comic and dramatic tour-de-force role requiring enormous honesty, truth, depth and above all, humor. Shirley needs to make us laugh, make us cry, and make us care. Actresses who have already done the role preferred, but not required.
BILOXI BLUES by Neil Simon. Dir: Scott Evans. 1st reh: 6/10. Runs 6/21-6/26.
Eugene Morris Jerome:
Late teens - early 20s, Jewish. Aspiring writer from Brooklyn. The play is told through his eyes. Romanticizes life, but has experienced very little of it—this is his first time away from home. Grows up during the course of the play, both as a man and a writer. Seeking a gifted comedic actor who has the ability to charm the audience with both sincerity and wit.
Arnold Epstein:
Late teens - early 20s, Jewish. Highly intelligent and well-educated. Has a slight frame and a sensitive stomach—physically weak, but strong in character. Has very little respect for the Army or his intellectual inferiors. The play’s moral center. Seeking a strong dramatic actor.
Sgt. Merwin J. Toomey:
30s. Southern. Tough-as-nails drill sergeant who seems to take pleasure in pushing his platoon to extreme physical, mental and emotional limits.
Joseph Wykowski:
Early 20s. Physically imposing. Bully. Crude, aggressive, testosterone-driven, alpha-male...and according to Eugene,"probably the best soldier in the platoon".
Rowena:
30s. Good-hearted prostitute.
MAN OF LA MANCHA Music: Mitch Leigh. Lyrics: Joe Darion. Book: Dale Wasserman. Dir: Ron Nash. Choreo: Dann Dunn. Mus Dir: Mindy Cimini. 1st reh: 6/16. Runs 6/28-7/10.
Don Quixote (Cervantes):
Over 35. Charismatic and ridiculous madman who opens the eyes and heart of all he meets. Excellent actor, baritone (low B to F).
Sancho Panza:
Over 30. Earthy, loyal servant and sidekick. Excellent comic actor, tenor (C to G).
Aldonza (Dulcinea):
25–35. Jaded, hardened prostitute whose wild strength and power is matched by the depth of her vulnerability when she allows Don Quixote to touch her heart. Soprano (low Ab to high Ab).
Padre:
Over 30. Sympathetic, with a sense of world weariness. Beautiful tenor voice (F to high G).
JEKYLL AND HYDE Music: Dr. Jekyll / Mr. Hyde:
28-45. Tortured leading man-type. Presents both a good and evil side. Requires an excellent actor, charismatic, sexy. High baritone/tenor.
Lucy Harris:
20-35. Kind-hearted prostitute. Main attraction at the “Red Rat”. Mezzo.
John Utterson:
25-45. Jekyll’s lawyer and best friend. Baritone /tenor.
Sir Danvers Carew:
40-60. Emma’s father. Chairman of the Board of Directors. Baritone.
BUDDY, THE BUDDY HOLLY STORY Book: Alan Janes. Score: Various. Dir: Larry Smiglewski. Choreo: Stacy Alley. Mus Dir: Mindy Cimini. 1st reh: 7/14. Runs 7/26-8/7.
Buddy Holly:
Should read under 25. Six feet tall or over. Singer-songwriter and star from Lubbock, TX. Buddy is intelligent and charismatic. Performer must play guitar, sing and act, and have a feel for rock ‘n’ roll. Some serious star potential; must have a desire to live as a rock ‘n’ roll superstar every night.
Joe Mauldin:
Should read under 25. Double-bass player from Lubbock, TX. Serious, square young man with musical ability. Performer must be able to sing and act.
Jerry Allison:
Should read under 25. Drummer from Lubbock, TX. Good-looking, irrepressible, with musical ability. Performer must be able to sing and act.
J. P. Richardson (The Big Bopper):
Six feet tall or over. Former DJ. Texan with an irrepressible, larger-than-life character. Has the ability to command the stage on his own as a single performer. His key song is “Chantilly Lace”.
Ritchie Valens:
Hispanic American, under 25. Good-looking, attractive, handsome boy with serious charisma, a dedicated eye for the ladies, and the ability to hold the stage in his own right. His key song is “La Bamba.”
CHICAGO Music: John Kander. Lyrics: Fred Ebb. Book: F. Ebb and Bob Fosse. Dir/Choreo: Dann Dunn. Mus Dir: Steven Cuevas. 1st reh: 7/28. Runs 8/9-8/21.
Roxie Hart:
25–35. An innocent with the ability to murder. Seeking sexy, comic actress with a great belt. Spectacular Fosse-type dancer.
Velma Kelly:
25-35. Sarcastic, sexy, tough murderess with a keen eye for publicity. Requires a great belt and spectacular Fosse-type dancer.
Billy Flynn:
35–50. Suave, con-man lawyer whose clients get away with murder. Tall, sexy, masculine, debonair. Baritone.
Amos Hart:
30–45. Charming, funny, vulnerable milquetoast of. Seeking character man; must sing well. Baritone.
Mary Sunshine:
Any age, Seeking male soprano or countertenor who can sing legitimately up to a high B flat. Good comic actor and great legit singer.
Ain’t Misbehavin’ Music: All characters are African American, ages 25 – 45.
Andre:
Unrepentant party hound. Bass-baritone with a tenor range.
Ken:
Jovial, loud, larger-than-life. Bass-baritone.
Nell:
Confident, charming, worldly. Alto belter.
Armelia:
Voluptuous and oversexed. Soprano with a good belt.
Charlaine:
Sweet, young and innocent (should be a little younger than the others). Alto belter.
Theatre’s statement: “The Forestburgh Playhouse practices non-traditional casting.”
Forestburgh Playhouse is approximately 100 miles from NYC.
Frank Wildhorn. Book/Lyrics:
Leslie Bricusse. Dir: Sarah Norris. Choreo: Dann Dunn. Mus Dir: Steven Cuevas. 1st reh: 6/30. Runs 7/12-7/24.
Thomas “Fats” Waller. Concept:
Murray Horwitz and
Richard Maltby,Jr. Dir/Choreo: Michelle Robinson. 1st reh: 8/12. Runs 8/23-9/4.
