A Noise Within 2024-25 Season - LA EPA A Noise Within | Pasadena, CA
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Sunday, July 21, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (P)
BREAK: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
LOA
$557.23 weekly minimum (Ref. LORT) - 30 hour work week.
$743.00 weekly minimum (Ref. LORT) - 40 hour work week. (Tech and opening week)
$557.23 weekly minimum (Ref. LORT) - Performance week. (5 shows/week)
$162 additional performance increment. (6th and 7th shows/week)
Equity actors for roles in A Noise Within's 2024-25 Season (see breakdown).
All roles will be understudied.
1 classical & 1 contemporary monologue (no longer than 2 mins each) If auditioning for the musical 1 monologue & 16 bars of a song of your choosing (monologue must not exceed 2 minutes). Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
A Noise Within
3352 E Foothill Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91107
See breakdown for production-specific personnel.
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Alison Rodriguez: Associate Producer/Casting Director
Geoff Elliott: Director (THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH, CHRISTMAS CAROL, JANE EYRE)
See breakdown for production-specific dates.
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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.
By: Thornton Wilder
Directed By: Geoff Elliott & Julia-Rodriguez Elliott
1st Rehearsal: July 30th
Opening: September 7th
Closing: September 29th
Mr. Antrobus (50-65) Mr. Antrobus is a flawed but dynamic leader. He is a kind of everyman, susceptible to all the temptations every human is challenged by but ultimately, he prevails. He has a knack for seeing the positive in even the worst of situations. He loves and will do all he can for his family and community.
Mrs. Antrobus (50-65) is both the ideal suburban wife and the archetypal earth mother. She uncomplainingly endures nature’s disasters, her husband’s infidelities, and her children’s disobedience, always facing each new crisis with energy and determination to survive.
Sabina (30-50) The Antrobus’ maid. Her mercurial emotions, pessimism, and desire to have fun distinguish her from the unflinching, resilient, and pragmatic Antrobuses.
Ensemble (20-60)- The ensemble track takes on multiple roles throughout the production. Ensemble (20-60)- The ensemble track takes on multiple roles throughout the production.
By: August Wilson
Directed By: Gregg T. Daniel
1st Rehearsal: September 10th
Opening: October 19th
Closing: November 10th
Doaker (50-65) Doaker is the closest thing the Charles family currently has to a patriarch, as the more stable and grounded of the two surviving siblings. He has worked his entire life on the railroad, first laying rail and now as a cook, and is given to incorporating the mythos of the rail into his everyday philosophy. He refuses to take sides in the drama over the piano, but steps in to stop the situation from getting out of hand.
Boy Willie (30-40) Boy Willie is Doaker's energetic nephew, a schemer who is always embroiled in some plot or another. His current ambition is to validate his family's past and secure its future by purchasing the land they worked as slaves. But in order to do this, he must sell the piano. He gets his way not through persuasion but by bulldozing people, but his sister's conviction proves an insurmountable road block.
Lymon (30-40) Lymon is Boy Willie's friend from down South, and his partner in crime. Although Boy Willie considers himself the brains of the operation, Lymon is just more inclined to geniality and taking things as they come. He can be proactive, in a mild yet effective way that is often upstaged by Boy Willie's brash style. In the end, he gains a will and identity of his own, and parts ways from Boy Willie.
Berniece (30-40) Berniece is Boy Willie's sister. Her husband died three years previous, and she has lived with her uncle and daughter since, living day to day and worrying only about raising Maretha. Her stubborn refusal to change her ways is shown in her unwillingness to marry Avery or to sell - or even play - the piano.
Maretha (10-15) Maretha is Berniece's young daughter. She doesn't know much about her family's history, but she is interested when Boy Willie starts to tell her. Her mother allows Maretha to take piano lessons, but never explains why she herself won't play it. Maretha's fear of the ghost upstairs leads to Boy Willie's confrontation with the specter.
Avery (35-50) Avery considers himself Berniece's beau, although his affections are not quite reciprocated. He more than anyone in the cast has settled into his role in the white man's world and enjoys his steady job as an elevator operator while saving money to start his true calling as a preacher. Although not well educated, he makes a good show of it, and is called upon to help dispel the spirits from the house.
Wining Boy (50-65) Wining Boy is Doaker's brother, who appears in town whenever he is down on his luck. He is a charmer and a strong personality, similar to Boy Willie, and indeed he too has fun pushing Lymon around. Wining Boy used to make his livelihood on the piano before it became permanently parked in Berniece's living room, but he quit that life when he began to feel chained to the piano and his identity as an entertainer. Nevertheless, he is protective of the piano, and plays it when he is in town.
Grace (20-35) Grace is a girl that Boy Willie picks up in a bar, although Lymon had his eye on her first. She is perceptive and doesn't like to cause trouble or be around trouble - she leaves the apartment when Berniece disapproves of her tryst, and later when she senses the ghost's presence. In the end, Lymon begins to win her over.
By: Charles Dickens
Directed By: Geoff Elliott & Julia Rodriguez-Elliott
1st Rehearsal: November 12th
Opening: November 30th
Closing: December 24th
Narrator (20-60)- Guides the story through narration from start to finish. The voice of Charles Dickens in a sense.
Ensemble (20-40)- The ensemble track takes on multiple roles throughout the production. Ensemble (20-40)- The ensemble track takes on multiple roles throughout the production.
By: William Shakespeare
Directed By: Andi Chapman
1st Rehearsal: January 7th
Opening: February 15th
Closing: March 9th
Macbeth (35-45) A captain in Duncan's army, later the Thane (Lord) of Glamis and Cawdor. When Three Witches predict that he will one day be king of Scotland, he takes his fate into his own hands, allowing his ambition and that of his wife to overcome his better judgement. His bloody reign culminates in a battle against Malcolm and the English forces.
Lady Macbeth (30-45) The wife of Macbeth, whose ambition helps to drive her husband toward the desperate act of murder. Subsequently, her husband's cruelty and her own guilt recoil on her, sending her into a madness from which she never recovers.
Banquo (25-40) A fellow-captain and companion of Macbeth, who also receives a prophecy from the Witches: that his children will one day succeed to the throne of Scotland. This information is sufficient to spell his death at the hands of the resentful Macbeth, who is later haunted by Banquo's ghost.
Duncan (50-65) King of Scotland. His victories against rebellious kinsmen and the Norwegians have made him a popular and honored king. His decision to pass the kingdom to his son Malcolm provokes his untimely death at the hands of Macbeth.
Fleance (10-15) Banquo's son, who, by escaping Macbeth's plot on his life, will go on to be father to a line of kings.
Donalbain and Malcolm Duncan's two sons (25-35) Fearful of implication in their father's murder, they flee Scotland, Donalbain to Ireland and Malcolm to England, where he raises a large army with the intention of toppling the tyrant Macbeth.
Macduff (30-45) A thane (nobleman) of Scotland who discovers the murdered King Duncan. Suspecting Macbeth and eventually turning against him, Macduff later flees to England to join Malcolm. When Macbeth arranges the murder of his wife and children, Macduff swears personal revenge.
The Witches (20-60) Three agents of Fate who reveal the truth (or part of it) to Macbeth and Banquo and who later appear to confirm the downfall and tragic destiny of the tyrannical Macbeth.
By: Elizabeth Williamson
Adapted by the novel by Charlott Bronte
Directed By: Geoff Elliott
1st Rehearsal: February 18th
Opening: March 29th
Closing: April 20th
Blanche, Bessie and Grace Poole (25 to 35)
Mason, St. John Rivers and John Reed (35-45)
Adèle and Young Jane (10-12)
Priest, John, and Doctor (40-60)
Book By: Terrence McNally
Music By: Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics By: Lynn Aherns
Directed By: Julia Rodriguez-Elliott
1st Rehearsal: April 1st
Opening: May 10th
Closing: June 1st
ROBBIE (Tenor, 20 - 35) The handsome, young bus driver Alfie begins to fall in love with.
ADELE RICE (Soprano, 20 - 35) A pretty young woman who has fled her hometown after becoming pregnant out of wedlock. She meets Alfie on his bus, and he woos her into taking the leading role in Salome.
BALDY (Baritone, 50 - 70) Alfie’s retired friend and stage manager who takes every opportunity to poke at Alfie about St. Imelda’s rag-tag productions.
BRETON BERET (Non-singing, 20 - 35) A handsome, dangerous young man who tries to seduce Alfie. When he finally succeeds, he and a group of men jump Alfie, leaving him badly injured.
CARNEY (Baritone, 45 - 60) The butcher, Lily’s boyfriend, and one of St. Imelda’s prominent actors until he reports Alfie to the church sodality for putting on an obscene play.
ERNIE LALLY St. Imelda’s actor and propmaster who is extremely dedicated to his craft. FATHER KENNY (40 - 60) St. Imelda’s curmudgeonly but caring priest.
MISS CROWE A member of the St. Imelda’s Players, the wiry Miss Crowe has taken on the additional responsibility of costume design.
MRS. CURTIN (Non-singing, tap dance, 30 - 40) St. Imelda’s actor and choreographer with a strong tendency towards tap dancing in her choreographic choices.
MRS. GRACE (35 - 55) A full-figured kindly woman who recently took time off from St. Imelda’s players to tend to her ailing husband. Mrs. Grace paints watercolors.
MRS. PATRICK (40s) The middle-aged married woman who is having an affair with the younger Robbie.
OSCAR WILDE (30 - 50) The famous Irish, 19th century playwright, novelist, and poet who haunts Alfie Byrne’s waking hours until Alfie cannot tell where Wilde ends and he begins.
PETER (18 - 29) A young man with dreams of playing in his own rock band.
RASHER FLYNN (25 - 35) Former gymnast and St. Imelda’s resident electrician.
SULLY O'HARA (30 - 40) Currently unemployed, Sully has occupied his extra time by joining the St. Imelda’s Players.
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