Sharon Playhouse 2024 Season - NYC EPA Sharon Playhouse | Sharon, CT
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Thursday, March 21, 2024
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
SPT
$576 weekly minimum (SPT 6) - Principal roles $675
Equity actors for roles in Sharon Playhouse's 2024 Season (See breakdown).
FOR MUSICALS, please prepare a brief cut of a contemporary musical theatre or 80's rock song and bring sheet music in your key. FOR PLAYS, please prepare a 1-minute contemporary comic monologue. Please bring a picture/resume stapled together. Please note on your resume if you are a Sharon, CT local hire.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center 165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
Season Music Director: Eric Thomas Johnson
Expected to attend:
Artistic Director: Carl Andress
Associate Artistic Director: Michael Kevin Baldwin
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
Call back: April 8, 2024
See breakdown for production specific dates.
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Sharon Playhouse is a fully vaccinated company.
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition. An Equity Monitor will be provided.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
Written by Chris D'Arienzo
Director: Hunter Foster
Choreographer: Shannon Lewis
Rehearses June 3 - 20
Performs June 21 - July 7
JUSTICE CHARLIER: Any Gender Identity, but Female Presenting. BIPOC/PGM. Age Range: 30s - 50s. Vocal Range: Strong Belt G3-Db5. A former performer, maternal figure with commanding presence & easy charm.
LONNY BARNETT: Male Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: late 20s - 40s. Vocal Range: Strong Rock tenor, D3 - D5. Narrator of the story. Confident, silly, magnetic with a strong rock tenor voice.
DENNIS DUPREE: Male Presenting; BIPOC; Age Range: 30s - 40s. Vocal Range: Baritenor rock voice, D3-G4. Laid back and has seen it all. Runs the Bourbon Room club on the Sunset Strip.
SHERRIE CHRISTIAN: ROLE IS CAST. Female Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: 20s; Vocal Range: Mezzo Soprano or Soprano, G3-F5. A Midwestern girl, pursuing her dreams of stardom in LA.
STACEE JAXX: ROLE IS CAST. Male Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: 30s - 40s; Vocal Range: Rock tenor, C3-Eb5. A caricature of an over-the-top debauched rock star at the top of his game.
DREW: Male Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: late 20s - 30s. Vocal Range: Strong Rock tenor, Bb3 – G5. An appealing, good-guy rocker with great, easy comedic timing, a boyish charm. Works at the Bourbon Room waiting for his dreams to come true.
HERTZ KLEINMAN: Male Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: late 50s - 60s. Vocal Range: Comedically strong baritone or tenor vocals, F3 – G#4. Uptight, cold, intimidating German businessman trying to buy up the Strip to develop it. The bad guy of the show. Comedically strong baritone.
FRANZ KLEINMAN: Male Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: late 20s - 30s. Vocal Range: Db3 – A4 (E5 in falsetto). Hertz’s son, young, mildly flamboyant German. Works for his father but not by choice. Shy, gentle with a big heart. Strong vocals and excellent comedic timing.
REGINA: Female Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: 20s; Vocal Range: Eb5 – A3A. Fun, hippie type, earthy girl who fights against the attempted take-over of The Strip. Strong comedic timing and belt vocals.
Written by Matthew Sklar, Chad Beguelin & Bob Martin
Director: Carl Andress
Choreographer: Krystyna Resavy
Rehearses July 8 - 25
Performs July 26 - August 11
BARRY GLICKMAN: Male Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: 30s to 50s; Vocal Range: High Baritone/Tenor, B2 – F#4. Flamboyant, gay Broadway star with no filter and strong comic ability. Longs to be of help to Emma.
EMMA NOLAN: Female Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range 18+ to play teens; Vocal Range: Mezzo/Soprano, F3 - E5. An out, queer teenager living in Indiana. Very smart, a bit of a tomboy, does *not* fit in with her peers.
TOM HAWKINS: Male Presenting; BIPOC/PGM; Age Range: 30s to 50s; Vocal range: High Baritone, G2 – C4. A small-town, high school principal. Sincere, compassionate. Big fan of Deedee. Strong singer.
DEE DEE ALLEN: ROLE IS CAST. Female Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: 30s to 50s; Vocal Range: Alto with strong belt, E3 - D5. A Broadway diva with a huge ego to match her huge talent.
TRENT OLIVER: ROLE IS CAST. Male Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: Mid-40s to Early-60s; Wide vocal range, C3- Ab4. A pretentious Juilliard grad. Charming, confident, narcissistic, great sense of comedy.
ALYSSA GREENE: Female Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range 18+ to play teens; Vocal Range: Ab 3 - Eb5. A cheerleader and top student. Secretly Emma’s girlfriend. Faces constant pressure from her mother and friends. A strong singer and mover.
SHELDON or “SHELLY” SAPERSTEIN: Any gender; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: 30s to 50s; Vocal range: Open. A charismatic press agent who works for both Dee Dee and Barry. Dry wit.
ANGIE DICKINSON: Female Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: 30s to 50s; Vocal Range: Alto with strong belt, Ab3 - E5. A long running ensemble member in the Broadway production of Chicago. Jaded Fosse dancer with a heart of gold. Strong singer/dancer.
Written by Robert Harling
Director: Jackson Gay
Rehearses August 13 - 29
Performs August 30 – September 8
SHELBY: Female Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: Mid-20s. Loved by all in town but is rebellious. A diabetic; who doesn’t take her illness very seriously. Doesn’t want her mother fussing over her.
M'LYNN: Female Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: Early-40s to Mid-50s; Shelby’s mother. An overprotective mom who puts on a brave face and leans on her group of friends.
TRUVY: Female Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: 40s; Owner of a small-town beauty salon. Knows everyone’s business and has advice for anyone who asks, with a country saying. Southern charm, genuine, a good friend.
OUISER: Female Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: 60s; Eccentric, miserable, also very wealthy. A cranky old lady who often ends up being the butt of the joke.
CLAIREE: Female Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: 60s; Very wealthy, the widow of the former mayor of the town. Sarcastic, best pals with Ouiser but loves to poke fun. Doesn’t take anything too seriously.
ANNELLE: Female Presenting, Any Ethnicity; Age Range: 20s-30s; Painfully shy, awkward, beginner hairdresser. Develops into a person of faith, means well and is a sincerely caring person
Written by Clark Gesner, John Gordon, with additional material by Andrew Lippa, based on Charles M. Schulz’s comic strip Peanuts
Director: Julia Murney
Choreographer: Michelle Lemon
Rehearses September 2 - 19
Performs September 20 - 29
CHARLIE BROWN: Male Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: 30s to 40s; Vocal range: Baritenor. Bb2 to F4 He is loveable, self-deprecating, persistent against all odds. Smart, vulnerable. Good singer.
SALLY BROWN: Female Presenting. Any Ethnicity; Age Range: 30s to 40s; Vocal range: Soprano or Mezzo Belt. B3 to Ab5. Charlie’s little sister. Fun, bossy, perceptive & precocious. Balances angst with innocence.
LUCY VAN PELT: Female Presenting. Any Ethnicity; Age Range: 30s to 40s; Vocal range: Mezzo Soprano/alto, G3 to F#5. Sarcastic, crabby, opinionated, manipulative, self-important older sister to Linus who bosses Charlie Brown around.
SNOOPY: Any gender; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: 30s to 40s; Vocal range: Tenor. C3 to A4. Charlie Brown’s dog. A clownish, vaudevillian scene stealer, who is more human-like than dog. Great physical comedy skills.
LINUS VAN PELT: Male Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: 20s to 30s; Vocal range: High Baritone. Bb2 to E4. Encouraging, positive attitude and the most educated of the bunch. Acutely sensitive with brains and warmth.
SCHROEDER: Male Presenting; Any Ethnicity; Age Range: 20s to 30s; Vocal range: Tenor/Baritenor Bb2 to Ab4. Distinguished by his precocious skill at playing the toy piano, as well as by his love of classical music.
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