THE LYRIC STAGE COMPANY OF BOSTON 2012-13 MUSICALS - The Lyric Stage Company Auditions

– Equity Performer Auditions by APPOINTMENT in Boston

Boston MA      NEAT category 6

At auditions: Producing Artistic Director Spiro Veloudos, Musical Director Jonathan Goldberg, and Producing Associate Nora Long

Equity Performer Auditions (Principal / Chorus) by APPOINTMENT:

Monday, May 21, 2012                                                        The Lyric Stage Company of Boston

10 AM – 6 PM                                                                      140 Clarendon Street

Lunch from 1 - 2.                                                                      Boston MA

To schedule an appointment, please e-mail artistic@lyricstage.com with the hour in which you would like to be seen and a contact phone number. You will receive an e-mail confirming your audition time.  Performers without e-mail may call (617) 585-5684, Monday – Friday from 10 – 5 and leave a message with a contact phone number and the hour during which you would like to be seen. You will receive a phone call confirming your audition time.

Audition slots are FIVE (5) minutes long. Each actor has a minimum of TWO (2) minutes to perform required audition material.

Actors auditioning for ON THE TOWN: please prepare 32 bars of ONE (1) song in the style of the show. Songs from the show are acceptable. Also prepare ONE (1) short comedicmonologue, contemporary or classical. An accompanist will be provided.

Actors auditioning for THE MIKADO: please prepare 32 bars of ONE (1) song from an opera or operetta. Songs from the show are acceptable.

Actors auditioning for both shows may sing two songs, one appropriate for each show, or sing one song, and perform one monologue.

Scripts are available for review at StageSource, 88 Tremont St, Suite 720, Boston, and also at the audition.

Please bring a headshot & resume to the audition, stapled together. Also, please bring your sheet music.

Note: No housing is available to out-of-area performers.

Auditions for the remaining show in The Lyric Stage Company of Boston’s 2012-13 season will be announced at a later date.

Actors of color are strongly encouraged to audition. The Lyric Stage Company shall conduct all auditions/interviews in such a manner as to promote fair consideration to ethnic minorities, women, seniors, and performers with disabilities. The Lyric Stage Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We have hired our Stage Manager for this production. Stage Managers interested as a possible replacement should send resumes to Matthew Whiton, Production Manager, at the Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St., Boston, MA 02116

THE MIKADO

Music by Arthur Sullivan

Book by W.S. Gilbert

Directed by Spiro Veloudos

1st rehearsal: August 14, 2012.

Runs September 7 – October 13, 2012

This production will operate under NEAT Category 6.

Seeking:

THE MIKADO OF JAPAN: Bass, cheerfully bloodthirsty,

NANKI-POO: His Son, disguised as a wandering minstrel, in love with Yum-Yum, Tenor, looks like a typical romantic love interest, but controls others to get what he wants.

KO-KO: Lord High Executioner of Titipu – Comic Baritone – charming and simple, though he thinks himself clever – he must rise to the occasion to save his village and himself. 

POOH-BAH: Lord High Everything Else –  Bass-Baritone – delightfully pompous and corrupt bureaucrat.

PISH-TUSH: A Noble Lord  – Baritone or Bass-Baritone – class-conscious, but friendly.

YUM-YUM: A Ward of Ko-Ko, also engaged to Ko-Ko  – Soprano – perfect romantic love interest, also charming monster of egotism.

PITTI-SING: Ward of Ko-Ko, sister of Yum-Yum and Peep-Bo –  Mezzo-soprano – lively Gal Friday-type.

PEEP-BO: Ward of Ko-Ko, sister of Yum-Yum and Pitti-Sing  –  Soprano or Mezzo-soprano – kinda wacky.

KATISHA: An Elderly lady, in love with Nanki-Poo – Contralto – terrifying, controlling woman, but secretly vulnerable and lonely.

Chorus of School-Girls, Nobles, Guards, Bunraku Puppetmasters, etc.

(Some roles will be doubled).

ON THE TOWN

Music by Leonard Bernstein

Book and Lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green

Based on an idea of Jerome Robbins

Director: Spiro Veloudos

First Rehearsal: April 16, 2013

Runs: May 10-June 16, 2013

This production will operate under NEAT Category 6.

Seeking:

OZZIE: Baritone, confident, ladies man, sailor

CHIP: Baritone, Naïve, enthusiastic, sailor
 

GABEY: Baritone, serious romantic type, shy with the ladies, sailor

HILDY ESTER: Soprano, confident, brash, taxi driver

CLAIRE DE LOONE: Soprano, elegant, intellectual, anthropologist,

IVY SMITH: Mezzo Soprano, naïve, shy, ambitious, small town girl trying to make it in NYC, strong dancer

MADAME MAUDE P. DILLY: Character Mezzo Soprano, loud, confident, world-wary, Ivy’s singing teacher.

JUDGE PITKIN W. BRIDGEWORK: Bass, 45 years old, serious, gullible, slightly ridiculous, Claire’s fiancé.

Other roles will be played by chorus members.