QUEEN OF THE MIST Equity Principal Auditions - Transport Group Auditions
Transport Group
QUEEN OF THE MIST – Equity Principal Auditions
Transport Group LOA-NYC (approval/salary level pending)
Artistic Dir / Stage Dir: Jack Cummings III
Words/Music: Michael John LaChiusa
Mus Dir: Chris Fenwick
Choreo: Scott Rink
1st reh: 9/5/11. Runs 10/11-11/13.
Equity Principal Auditions:
Friday, July 22, 2011 Actors' Equity Association Audition Center
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM 165 West 46th Street, 2nd Floor
Lunch from 1 - 2. New York City
Please prepare a brief contemporary or traditional musical theatre song. Bring sheet music in the correct key; accompanist is provided, but may not transpose.
Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.
World premiere musical. Story of Anna Edson Taylor, the real-life lady daredevil who survived a plunge over Niagara Falls. She was the first person to survive a spill over the falls in a barrel, in 1901. Taylor celebrated her 63rd birthday when she performed the perilous stunt. The musical spans the time period from right before her trip over the falls through her death in 1921.
Theatre’s casting note: “All of the actors play a number of [characters] of varying types. Need strong actors with exceptional voices, strong musicianship skills (excellent ear for harmonies), as well as great comedic and dramatic sensibilities.”
Man:
AVAILABLE. Track age: Mid 40s - mid 60s. Multiple characters. Bass.
Leon Czolgosz / Others:
AVAILABLE. Mid 30s - mid 40s. Czolgosz assassinated President McKinley in 1901. Baritone to F.
Carrie Nation / Others:
AVAILABLE. Early 30s - early 40s. Soprano with strong mix.
The following roles are cast. Auditioning performers will be considered as possible (emergency) replacements, should any become necessary.
Anna Taylor:
CAST (Mary Testa). Late 40s – early 60s. Feisty, funny, driven, and tragically blind to her own faults. Mezzo soprano.
Frank Russell:
CAST. Mid 30s - early 40s. Sad man with many inner demons. Baritone.
Mike Taylor / Others:
CAST. Tenor. Mid - late 20s. Innocent, naïve and full of hesitant hope.
Jane / Others:
CAST. Soprano. 40s. Confused, guilty, and unable to see the world outside the comfort of her own marriage.
