PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT **Revised Date** Equity Chorus Call Singers - The Palace Theatre Auditions

PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT

– Equity Chorus Calls Singers

Broadway/Production Contract Currently $1,653/week minimum.

Producers: Bette Midler, James L. Nederlander, Garry McQuinn et al.

Exec Prod: Alecia Parker

Book: Stephan Elliott and Allan Scott

Dir: Simon Phillips

Originally Choreographed in Australia by Ross Coleman

Assoc Choreo: Andrew Hallsworth

Mus Sprvsr: Stephen “Spud” Murphy

Mus Dir: Jeffrey Klitz

GM: B.J. Holt

Casting: Telsey + Company/Craig Burns

Currently running at the Palace Theatre.

Equity Chorus Call / Singers:

Tuesday, August 30, 2011 Telsey + Company

10:30 AM – Equity female singers 315 West 43rd Street, 10th Floor

2 PM – Equity male singers New York City

Men should not dress in drag. Prepare 16 bars of a pop or disco song showing range. Bring sheet music in the correct key; accompanist is provided, but may not transpose.

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

Based on an Oscar-winning movie, the musical tells the funny and moving story of three drag performers who set off from Sydney across the Australian desert in a battered, old tour bus christened “Priscilla”. Show contains over 20 classic pop and disco hits such as “I Will Survive” “I Love the Nightlife” and “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”.

Seeking, for possible future replacements in the Broadway company:

Ensemble (M/F):

Characters are ages 20–40, all ethnicities. Seeking performers with excellent acting, singing and dancing ability to play a variety of ensemble characters and, in several cases, understudy principals. Men must be 5’10” or taller; any drag experience a plus. Women must have spectacular vocal ability.