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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions (2 days)
Thursday, November 14, 2014
Friday, November 15, 2014
10 AM to 6 PM each day
lunch 1:30 to 2:30
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Contract
Production (League)
$1807/week minimum
Location
Telsey + Company
315 West 43rd Street, 10th floor
New York, NY
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Seeking
Equity actors men, women.
see breakdown for details.
Preparation
Sides will be provided at the auditions.
Bring picture and resume, stapled together.
Other Dates
1st Rehearsal: December 2013
Performances commence January 2014
(open-ended run)
Personnel
By: Robert Schenkkan
Director: Bill Rauch
Casting: Telsey + Company: Will Cantler and Karyn Casl
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will be provided.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
HUBERT HUMPHREY/STROM THURMOND/ENS
White male—mid-late 50s. Ability to differentiate multiple characters a must. Humphrey: Senator from Minnesota. Crusader for civil rights, charismatic speech-maker and leader of Senate liberals. Affable, bright, and decent. Thurmond: Key member of Southern Caucus. Known for vitriolic racist language and extreme views on segregation.
MCNAMARA/ EASTLAND/ENS
White male—50s. Ability to differentiate multiple characters a must. McNamara: Secretary of Defense with reputation as a “whiz kid.” A chief architect of American policy in Vietnam. Eastland: Senator (Mississippi) and key roadblock to civil rights legislation. A plantation owner and virulent racist.
GEORGE WALLACE/WALTER REUTHER/ENS
White male—late 40s-50s. Ability to differentiate multiple characters a must. Wallace: Racist, outspoken, brash and colorful, a political opportunist and thorn in LBJ’s side. Reuther: plain-spoken union leader and ardent ally of the civil rights movement.
RICHARD RUSSELL/ENS
White male—late 60s. Ability to differentiate multiple characters a must. Russell: Major southern leader in Senate. Mentor and close friend to LBJ. An ardent racist but known for his polite and decorous manner and commitment to party unity.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL/ENS
African-American male—20s. Ability to differentiate multiple characters a must. Carmichael: Civil rights field organizer. Bold and unimpressed by authority; a strong advocate for an increasingly more militant approach.
FANNIE LOU HAMER/CORETTA SCOTT KING/ENS
African-American female—30s. Ability to differentiate multiple characters a must. Hamer: A former sharecropper turned civil rights leader. Uneducated, irrepressible and inspiring. King: Married to MLK. Committed to him and to the cause but troubled by his exhausting travel schedule and the infidelities she suspects.
WITNESS # 1/Ensemble:
Caucasian male, 50s, also covers LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON.
WITNESS #2/Ensemble
Caucasian male, 40s to 50s. Also covers the STANLEY LEVISON/SEYMORE TRAMMEL track and the GEORGE WALLACE/WALTER REUTHER track.
WITNESS #3/Ensemble
Caucasian male, 40s. Also covers the WALTER JENKINS track.
OFFSTAGE MALE U/S #1
Caucasian, 40s—50s. Covers the HUMPHREY, McNAMARA, HOOVER, JUDGE SMITH and RUSSELL tracks.
OFFSTAGE MALE U/S #2
African-American male, late 30s to early 50s. Covers the MLK, STOKELY CARMICHAEL, BOB MOSES, ROY WILKINS and RALPH ABERNATHY tracks.
OFFSTAGE FEMALE U/S #1
African-American, 30s to 40s. Covers CORETTA KING/FANNIE LOU HAMER track and WITNESS #1, #2 and #3
OFFSTAGE FEMALE U/S #2
Caucasian, late 30s to early 50s. Covers LADYBIRD JOHNSON and MURIEL HUMPHREY tracks, as well as WITNESS #1, #2 and #3.
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The following roles have been CAST.
Actors may be considered for possible replacements if needed.
LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON
CAST. White male—mid-late 50s. US President and master politician. Brave and brutal, compassionate and cruel, intelligent and insensitive, with an uncanny instinct for the jugular of his allies and adversaries. Possessing a marvelous, often crude sense of humor. Privately a font of extraordinary insecurity and vulnerability. CAST (Bryan Cranston)
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
CAST. African-American male—30s. Civil rights leader trying hard to keep the movement together through impossible tradeoffs. Charismatic, insightful and conciliatory. Not a saint, but a man of high ideals. (CAST)
HOOVER/BYRD/ENS
CAST. White male—60s. Ability to differentiate multiple characters a must. Hoover: FBI Director, whose paranoia and desire for power leads him to sanction massive corruption and illegal surveillance. Byrd: Senator from West Virginia. Strongly opposed integration. (CAST)
RALPH ABERNATHY/ENS
CAST. African-American male—late 40s. Ability to differentiate multiple characters a must. Reverend, civil rights leader and best friend to MLK. Funny, compassionate and devoted. (CAST)
BOB MOSES/DAVID DENNIS/ENS
CAST. African-American male—early 30s. Ability to differentiate multiple characters a must. Moses: Brilliant civil rights strategist (co-founder of SNCC). Known for his calming spiritual presence and total devotion to the movement. Dennis: young civil rights organizer. Delivers an emotional, galvanizing speech at the funeral of a civil rights worker. (CAST)
ROY WILKINS/ENS
CAST. African-American male—early 60s. Ability to differentiate multiple characters a must. Wilkins: Head of NAACP and an expert at legislative strategy. Dapper and urbane. Very troubled by radical approaches and at times jealous as other civil rights leaders ascend. (CAST)
''JUDGE'' SMITH/ EVERETT DIRKSEN/ENS
CAST. White male—late 50s-60s. Ability to differentiate multiple characters a must. Smith: a staunch segregationist and unscrupulous wheeler-dealer. Dirksen: famously pompous Senate Majority Leader from Illinois. Likes the sound of his own voice. (CAST)
WALTER JENKINS/ENS
CAST. White male—40s. Ability to differentiate multiple characters a must. Jenkins: LBJ’s long-suffering, loyal Chief of Staff. Raised in Texas, has been with LBJ from the beginning, becoming a surrogate son. Deftly arranges tumult of calls and meetings. (CAST)
STANLEY LEVISON/SEYMORE TRAMMEL/ENS
CAST. White male—40s. Ability to differentiate multiple characters a must. Levison: Jewish businessman and former Communist from New York. Chief advisor to MLK. Plain-spoken realist. Trammel: Officially a campaign aide but in reality a “bagman” for Wallace. Physically intimidating but definitely subordinate to Wallace. (CAST)
LADY BIRD JOHNSON/KATHERINE GRAHAM/ENS
CAST. White female—late 40s-early 50s. Ability to differentiate multiple characters a must. Lady Bird: First Lady. An ideal political wife. Committed above all to her husband’s political schedule, socializing and emotional needs. Possessed of surprising spine when necessary. Graham: high-powered publisher of Washington Post. Alleged to have had an affair with LBJ. (CAST)
LURLEEN WALLACE/MURIEL HUMPRHEY/ENS
CAST. White female—late 30s-early 40s. Lurleen: dutiful homemaker and First Lady of Alabama. Adores Wallace. Muriel Humphrey: very intelligent, able to strategize at a high level with her husband. It’s a marriage of soul mates. Ability to differentiate multiple characters a must. (CAST)
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