PERSUASION **Revised** Equity Principal Audition - Theater Emory Auditions

PERSUASION

– Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT in Atlanta

Theater Emory Atlanta GA SPT (approval/salary level pending; 2010-11 weekly minimum: $457).

Author: Jane Austen

Adaptation / Dir: John Ammerman

Casting Coordinator: Robert Schultz

1st reh: 10/12/11. Runs 11/10-11/20.

Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT:

Saturday, May 14, 2011 The Theater Laboratory

10 AM - 6 PM Schwartz Center for the Arts/Emory University

Lunch from 1 - 2. 1700 North Decatur Road

Atlanta GA 30322

Main floor, off North Lobby, opposite room 203.

Parking in Fishburne Parking Deck.

For a five-minute appointment, call 404/712-9118, M-F 9-4, beginning Tuesday, 5/3. Note: This call’s appointment list is separate from that of LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE; the auditions will take place concurrently, in separate rooms. Equity Members without appointments will be seen throughout the audition day, as time permits.

Sides will be provided at the audition, and available at the theater and online in advance. In addition to reading from sides, please prepare a one- to two-minute period monologue (post-1770 but no later than 1925).

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

Callbacks, if needed, will be held on Monday, 5/16.

Seeking (the following will be or may be on Equity contracts):

Note: Theater Emory states that it casts entirely from the Atlanta / North Georgia area. No housing is available to out-of-area performers.

Mr. Musgrove:

50s. Exuberant. Landowner. Happily married. Has a robust sense of life and good fortune. Well-mannered, but with a boisterous sense of humor. Not aristocratic.

Mrs. Musgrove:

50s. Confident. A social “butterfly”, especially in the country. Happy mother and grandmother. “Country” wit with very little talent, but loves a good opportunity to rub elbows with the elite.

Mr. Shepherd:

40s-50s. Solicitor to Sir Walter Elliot. Accommodating. Person of reason/logic. Well-mannered, but not stuffy.

Admiral Croft:

50s. Career naval officer. Married and very happy. Easily amused and confident. Neither arrogant nor threatened by higher status. Enjoys good social company.

Mrs. Croft:

50s. Confident and mature. Well-mannered, yet very approachable. Happily married, and the “anchor” for Admiral Croft.

Captain Wentworth:

30s. Successful naval officer. Former love of Anne Elliot. Quiet, but strong and determined. Well-mannered and socially astute. Maintains a social formality suited to a naval veteran.

The following roles are cast. Auditioning performers will be considered as possible (emergency) replacements, should any become necessary.

Sir Walter Elliot:

CAST. 60s. Patriarch of the House of Elliot. Pompous, arrogant; absorbed in his position as a baron, and expects to be admired for his place in society. Widower. Ultra mannered.

Lady Russell:

CAST. 50s. Close friend and confidante to the Elliots. Socially adept and highly mannered. Confident, opinionated. Almost a surrogate mother to Anne Elliot.

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