NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT Equity Principal Auditions - Broadway Theatre TBA Auditions

NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT

- Equity Principal Auditions

Broadway / Production Contract Current weekly minimum: $1,653.

Producers: Roger Berlind, Sonia Friedman

Score: George and Ira Gershwin

Book: Joe DiPietro (inspired by material by P. G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton)

Dir/Choreo: Kathleen Marshall

Mus Dir TBA

Casting: Binder Casting

1st reh: Mid – late January, 2012. Broadway opening: April, 2012.

Equity Principal Auditions:

Monday, August 29, 2011 Actors' Equity Association Audition Center

Tuesday, August 30, 2011 165 West 46th Street, 2nd Floor

Wednesday, August 31, 2011 New York City

9:30 AM – 5:30 PM all three days.

Lunch from 1 - 2.

Those auditioning for non-singing roles (Sen. Evergreen and Millicent) will read from sides, provided at the audition. All others: Prepare a brief song (traditional theatre music: Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Gershwin, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Jule Styne, etc.). Bring sheet music in the correct key; accompanist is provided, but may not transpose.

Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.

Musical screwball comedy set in 1927. All music is by George and Ira Gershwin.

Seeking (all roles are available unless otherwise specified; all actors must be skilled farceurs):

Billie Bendix:

Woman, mid 20s - early 30s. Tough, clever, feisty and streetwise. Partners in rum-running with her best friends Cookie and Duke. Has always lived in a man’s world until she meets Jimmy, a millionaire playboy, and falls in love. Very appealing, attractive and, underneath her tough veneer, must have a strong sense of vulnerability. Actress must be a skilled farceur. Chest mix. Must move very well.

Cookie McGee:

Man, early 30s - mid 40s. Fast-talking, wisecracking bootlegger. Can talk anyone into or out of anything. He is mistaken for Jimmy’s butler, and has to keep up the charade. Actor must understand old-fashioned vaudeville-style comedy a la Abbott and Costello. Character baritone.

Duke Mahoney:

Early 30s - mid 40s. Cookie’s sidekick. Not the brightest guy around. Very shy with women. By circumstance, he must pass himself off as the Duke of England. Falls in love with the beautiful, sexy chorus girl Jeannie Muldoon. He is the dim but sweet stooge, paired with Cookie. Baritone.

Senator Max Evergreen:

Late 50s-60s. Eileen’s father. Humorless career politician. Stuffy, stern and judgmental. Very distinguished-looking. In his youth, he was in love with Millicent Winter, Jimmy’s mother. Non-singing.

Eileen Evergreen:

Late 20s - mid 30s. Lush and lovely, she is the self-proclaimed finest interpreter of modern dance in the world – as well as being spoiled rotten and completely self-involved. Jimmy’s fiancée and Senator Evergreen’s daughter. A dish with great comic skills. Strong belt and mix. Must move very well.

Millicent Winter:

60s. Jimmy’s mother. She is “Auntie Mame”; full of life, with absolutely no pretenses, even though she is unbelievably rich. Lives life to the fullest. Has sex appeal. We find out she made all of her money as a rum-runner. Non-singing.

Estonia Dulworth, Duchess of Woodford:

Late 40s - late 50s. Upper-class, bejeweled dowager. Fervent prohibitionist – but underneath, there is a wild spirit just waiting to be freed. Strong belt and mix; legit head voice is a plus.

Jeannie Muldoon:

Mid 20s. Lovely, sexy, chorus girl from Brooklyn. Falls in love with Duke, who she thinks is the Duke of England. She still loves him for who he is once she finds out the truth. They are the perfect couple -- not too bright, but winning. Strong belt. Should be a dancer.

Chief Berry:

40s. Chief of the Long Island Police Department. Fiercely -- and to a fault -- dedicated to his job. Seems gruff on the outside. Baritone.

Jimmy Winter:

CAST. Wealthy and handsome playboy, about to be married.