Call Type
Equity Principal
Date of Audition
6/9/2011
Location
Moonspace
250 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94111
Walking distrance from MUNI or BART (Civic Center). Metered parking/lots.
Time(s)
Thursday, June 9th
2:00 pm - 7:00 pm
(AEA only day)
· A monitor willnot be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
Annette Lai, Office Manager, (415) 255-8207; email: alai (at)
42ndstmoon.org*
Mon.-Fri., 10 am - 6 pm, *email is preferred. Thank you.
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Contract
Bay Area Theatre
$340
Seeking
Seeking local San Francisco Bay Area talent. All ethnicities encouraged. Please see breakdown.
Preparation
Please prepare 2 songs from the Golden Age of B'way: Cole Porter, the Gershwin's, Rodgers & Hart, etc. Sondheim and Jerry Herman are OK. Please no rock musicals or Andrew Lloyd Webber. One classic ballad and one character/comedy song. Please be prepared to sing the entire song.
Other Dates
First rehearsal for OH, KAY is Oct 11. Previews are Nov. 2 - 4. Opening Night is Nov. 5. Closing is Nov. 20, 2011.
First rehearsal for THREE SISTERS is Nov 7. Previews are Nov. 30 - Dec. 2. Opening Night is Dec. 3. Closing is Dec. 18, 2011.
Other
www.42ndstmoon.org
General Auditions on Monday, June 6, 2-6pm
Personnel
TBA
(Shows are fully staged, with choreography & performed off-book)
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| Breakdown
Casting for OH, KAY! (Gershwin/Gershwin/Bolton/Wodehouse, 1926), 7f, 8m; the role of Larry Potter is pre-cast. One contract will be a Chorus Contract.
Casting for THREE SISTERS (Kern/Hammerstein II, 1934), 8f, 7m. Roles of Tiny and George Purvis are pre-cast. One contract will be a Chorus Contract. This is an NEA-Sponsored American Premiere. NOTE: This is a musical, not the Chekov play.
42nd Street Moon presents intimately produced versions of uncommon musicals, specializing in early to mid-20th Century American Musical Theatre.
Rehearsals are typically weeknights from 6 - 10 and weekends from Noon - 5 or 1 - 6 pm. You may not be called to every rehearsal, but you will need to keep these times available for us.
Regular show schedule: Wednesdays @ 7 pm; Thursday & Friday nights @ 8 pm; Saturday evenings at 6 pm and Sunday afternoons @ 3 pm. There is one added Family Matinee at 1 pm on the second Saturday of the run.
OH, KAY! (Gershwin/Gershwin/Bolton/Wodehouse)
7f, 8m; the role of Larry Potter is pre-cast.
KAY - Late 20s, English, soprano
SHORTY McGEE - 30s - 40s, character actor, baritone
JIMMY WINTER - 30s, leading man, lyric baritone - has the air of a song and dance man
THE DUKE OF DURHAM - English, late 30s - 40s
LARRY POTTER - Pre-cast
DOLLY RUXTON - 20s
PHYLLIS RUXTON - 20s
OFFICER JANSEN - 40s - 50s
CONSTANCE APPLETON - late 20s, early 30s - soprano
JUDGE APPLETON - 50s - 60s
MAY, MOLLY MORSE and PEGGY - All three are chorus girls in their 20s
2 CHORUS MEN - 20s
NOTE: All roles except Shorty, The Duke, Constance and the Judge must dance.
THREE SISTERS (Kern/Hammerstein II)
8f, 7m; the roles of Tiny and George Purvis are pre-cast.
All characters are English.
WILL BARBOUR - 50s to early 60s - character man, character baritone
DORRIE - middle sister, tall, elegant, soprano, must dance; late 20s-30ish
MARY - youngest sister, early 20s, soprano
GYPSY HOOD - late 20s, early 30s - traveling busker - leading man, lyric baritone
EUSTACE TITHERLEY - mid to late 30s to 40s - character actor with nice lyric baritone, good comic timing
MABEL TATMARSH/MIRANDA VALE - 20s to 30s, Mabel is Cockney
ZENIDA GRUNDY - 20s, also Cockney
ALF/DAVID GLAINLEY - character man, late 30s to late 40s
SIR JOHN MARSDEN - late 30s to 40s, handsome, elegant, must dance
LADY MARSDEN/GLADYS CRUMP - 50s - 60s. LADY MARSDEN is elegant; GLADYS is Cockney
BERT/SERGEANT WATT - late 30s
MRS. RAMMAGE - 30s - 40s
MRS. WICKHAM - 30s - 40s
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