Broadway-Bound SUPER FLY Gets March/April Workshop; Bill T. Jones Helms

According to an Equity Chorus Call notice, SUPER FLY, the musical based on the 1972 film directed by GorDon Parks, has taken new steps toward a Broadway production. The Mottola Group and The Dodgers Developmental Lab are now seeking actors for a March 12 - April 13, 2012. Chorus auditions will be held on January 24, 2012 at Chelsea Studios. This workshop is being held in anticipation of a future Broadway run as the notice states. Bill T. Jones is on board to direct and choreograph.

The Equity casting notice calls for dancers to bring Jazz shoes,  dance sneakers, dance heels, and tap shoes for tappers. Some dancers may be asked to sing, and are additionally asked to prepare 16 bars of a simple, sustained legit song and an R&B song from the 1970s Harlem era to show range. Auditioners should bring sheet music in the correct key, as accompanist is provided, but may not transpose. For more information, click here.

Super Fly features a book from Seth Zvi Rosenfeld and musical direction from Ron Melrose.

in Super Fly, Jones is a multi-talented artist, choreographer, dancer, theater director and writer, has received major honors ranging from a 1994 MacArthur "Genius" Award to Kennedy Center Honors in 2010. He was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2009. His ventures into Broadway Theater resulted in a 2010 Tony Award for Best Choreography in the critically acclaimed FELA! He also earned a 2007 Tony Award for Best Choreography in Spring Awakening as well as an Obie Award for the show's 2006 off-Broadway run.

In addition to creating more than 140 works for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Jones has received numerous commissions to create dances for modern and ballet companies, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Boston Ballet, Lyon Opera Ballet, Berlin Opera Ballet, and the Ravinia Festival which commissioned and premiered Fondly Do We Hope...Fervently Do We Pray in 2009. He last helmed Broadway's award-winning Fela!