A CHORUS LINE - Philadelphia Equity Principal Dancer Auditions
Bucks County Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
AUDITION DATE
Tue, Feb 20, 2018 10:00 am (EST)
Female Principal Dancers who act and sing
Tue, Feb 20, 2018
2:00 pm (EST)
Male Principal Dancers who act and sing
APPOINTMENTS
Please call Debbie at BCCPA at (215) 297-8540 to schedule an appointment. AEA members without appointments seen as time permits.
CONTRACT
SPT 479/wk min Equity SPT Category 6 Contract
SEEKING
Casting actors/singers/dancers for all roles. See breakdown.
PREPARATION
Everyone should be warmed up and dressed ready to dance. Women please bring in heels and flats. Men please wear jazz shoes or dance sneakers. After everyone has danced some people may be asked to sing. Please have a 16 bar cut that is appropriate for the show prepared. Bring head shot and resume
LOCATION
Walnut Street Theatre
825 Walnut St
Philadelphia, PA 19107-5107
4th floor Rehearsal Space
PERSONNEL
Marvin Hamlish, music; Edward Kleban, lyrics; James Kirkwood, Jr. & Nicholas Dante, book
Expected at the auditions:
Howard Perloff, artistic dir.; Jim Raposa, dir.; Christopher Ertelt, music dir.;
Claudia Shell-Raposa, choreographer
OTHER DATES
Rehearsals begin July 23; runs Aug. 8-19 in Doylestown, PA.
OTHER
www.buckscountycpa.org
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
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.
BREAKDOWN
A Chorus Line - Character Breakdown
ZACH: Male. The director and choreographer of the show.
LARRY: Male. Tenor. Zach’s assistant, authoritative.
AL DELUCA: Male. Baritone. From the Bronx. Street tough, macho, and newly married to Kristine; very protective.
BEBE BENZENHEIMER: Female. Alto. From Boston. Very insecure about her looks, very funny which is a cover for her insecurities. Feels a little excluded but just wants to be liked.
BOBBY MILLS: Male. Baritone. Flamboyant, funny, bitchy, and witty. Very sharp tongued. Covers everything over with a joke; had a very hard childhood. From upstate New York.
CASSIE FERGUSON: Female. Soprano. Older Dancer. Returning to the chorus after years of being a featured performer. Very strong dancer. Shy and kind hearted. Previously had a relationship with Zach.
CONNIE WONG: Female. Alto. Experienced dancer. Married. Petite. A bit of a mother hen with a great sense of humor. Born in Chinatown , Lower East Side, New York.
DIANA MORALES: Female. Alto. Streetwise, a little bit tough, eternal optimist and starry eyed. A determined athletic dancer from the Bronx.
DON KERR: Male. Baritone. Ladies’ man; married; into cars, money, and women. Very sure of himself. All American guy; cocky; worked with Zach before. From Kansas City.
GREGORY GARDENER: Male. Baritone. Sassy, Jewish, gay man. Quite a smart-alec and has worked with Zach before. Very East Side New York.
JUDY TURNER: Female. Mezzo. Funny, gawky, nervous. Warm and hopeful. Very awkward except when dancing.
KRISTINE URICH: Female. Spoken. Al’s scatter-brained wife who can’t sing.
MAGGIE WINSLOW: Female. Mezzo. A sweetheart, little sister type. Dreamer. Fairly experienced dancer from California.
MARK ANTHONY: Male. Tenor. Optimistic; first-timer; naïve but charming. Great dancer and All-American kid. Obsessed with sex. Very young; from Arizona.
MIKE COSTA: Male. Tenor. Quite aggressive, determined, cocky, sure of himself BUT likeable. Tap dancer who worked with Zach before. Experienced; flirtatious. From New Jersey.
PAUL SAN MARCO: Male. Baritone. Introverted and slightly insecure but loves performing; only now starting to feel comfortable about being gay and accepted by his parents. From Spanish Harlem, New York. Friends wih Diana.
RICHIE WALTERS: Male. Tenor. From Missouri. African-American; strong dancer, enthusiastic, cool and very funny. Likeable and laid back.
SHEILA BRYANT: Female. Alto. Oldest dancer on the line. Confident, brassy, sexy, bitchy, and sophisticated. One of the more popular dancers; humorous.
VAL CLARK: Female. Alto. Sexy, sassy, funny. A foul-mouthed but excellent dancer who couldn't get performing jobs because of her looks until she had plastic surgery. A brazen, direct, attention-seeker from Vermont.
Extra Male & Female Dancers-chorus
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
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 audition.
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