Producing Org TBD
CONTRACT
Development Agreement $1300 weekly minimum (Tier III)
SEEKING
Equity actors for principal roles in BETTY BOOP (see breakdown).
INSTRUCTIONS
SEE PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS IN BREAKDOWN. Submit at https://tinyurl.com/BettyBoopForm2022 . Deadline for submissions is 6pm Thursday, March 17th 2022.
Deadline: Thu, Mar 17, 2022
PERSONNEL
Producers: Ostar Productions
General Manager: Foresight Theatrical
Based on the characters that populate Max Fleischer’s cartoons
Book by Bob Martin
Music by David Foster
Lyrics by Susan Birkenhead
Directed and Choreographed by Jerry Mitchell
Music Director, Daryl Waters (viewing auditions)
Casting: Tara Rubin Casting
Casting Director: Tara Rubin, CSA (viewing auditions)
OTHER DATES
Monday, May 16th, 2022 – Friday June 3rd, 2022
OTHER
Work session will take place in New York, New York.
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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS:
Please send one link and slate with your name and the material you’ll be singing. Film your audition from your waist up in front of a clean background, with no backlighting and with as much limit of ambient noise as possible.
Please prepare a VIDEO performing a pop or contemporary theater song that shows range with accompaniment OR performing the song “Always” with the provided accompaniment track at https://tinyurl.com/BETTY-BOOP-SONG-AUD-MATERIAL .
SEEKING:
BETTY BOOP - Early 20s, Any ethnicity, female presenting. Confident, curious, whip-smart, open-hearted, and bold. Searching for what’s “real” and what’s right. A very talented comic and jazz singer with immeasurable star quality. GOOD DANCER.
GRAMPY - 60+ years old, Any ethnicity, male presenting. A clever, brilliant, quirky inventor, but not scatterbrained. Protective of his granddaughter Betty. In love with Valentina.
DWAYNE - Early 20s, Hispanic, male presenting. Handsome, respectful, jazz musician/college student renting a room in Carol's brownstone. He is also Raymond’s speech writer. Betty’s love interest.
CAROL - 40-50 years old, Black, female presenting. The welcoming, generous owner of the Harlem brownstone where she lives with her daughter Trisha and her tenant Dwayne. She is Raymond’s campaign manager. Civic minded. Maternal presence.
VALENTINA - 60+ years old, any ethnicity female presenting. Astrophysicist, practical in every way and Grampy’s equal in hyper-intelligence. In love with Grampy.
RAYMOND - 40 + years old, White, male presenting. Slick mayoral candidate. Slight air of corruption about him.
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 submit.
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