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Call Type
Non-Required Principal
Time(s)
OPEN Auditions by APPOINTMENT (2 days)
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
4 PM - 8 PM
Monday September 15, 2014
2 PM - 8 PM
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Contract
Special Appearance
$216/week
Location
Compass Rose Theater
49 Spa Road
Annapolis, MD 21401
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Seeking
Equity and non-Equity performers for various roles in CATS.
see breakdown.
Preparation
See breakdown for full preparation instructions.
Other Dates
1st rehearsal: October 20, 2014. Runs November 14, 2014 – December 21, 2014 (Thursday - Saturday evenings, Saturday and Sunday matinees, select weekday matinees)
Personnel
Founding Artistic Director: Lucinda Merry-Browne
Stage Director: Lucinda Merry-Browne
Author: Andrew Lloyd Webber, text by T.S. Eliot
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
For appointment email audition@compassrosetheater.org.
Questions - please call 443-534-9033. Leave short message or text.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
Audition Instructions:
Bring a one minute monologue, and prepare 16 bars of two songs, one upbeat and one ballad. Bring sheet music in your key; an accompanist will be provided. No a cappella auditions. Please also wear or bring comfortable dance attire, as all auditioners will be required to learn a short dance/movement combination. There will also be cold readings from the script/songbook.
SEEKING:
Asparagus / Gus – The theatre cat. Dramatic, lives in memory. He was once an actor.
Bombalurina – A saucy red female. A principal vocalist and dancer.
Bustopher Jones – A fat cat, a “twenty-five pounder.” Elegant and refined.
Demeter – A very skittish female cat, principal vocalist.
Grizabella – The former Glamour Cat who has lost her sparkle and now only wants to be accepted. Strong vocalist.
Jennyanydots – The old Gumbie cat. Calm, self-possessed. She sits all day and rules the mice and cockroaches at night.
Macavity – A villain, clever, lives in shadow.
Mr. Mistoffelees – A young black tom with magical powers, which he doesn’t fully control. Strong dancer.
Mungojerrie – Half of a pair of notorious cat-burglars, fun loving, feisty.
Munkustrap – The show’s de facto narrator. A black and silver tom, second in command to Old Deuteronomy.
Old Deuteronomy – The lovable patriarch of the Jellicle Tribe. Wise, dignified, elder statesman.
Rumpleteazer – Female half of a pair of notorious cat-burglars, with Mungojerrie.
Rum Tum Tugger – The ladies’ tom. Wild temperament, clownish and serious, sensual.
Skimbleshanks – The railway cat, indispensable to the trains operation, organized, officious.
Victoria – A pure white kitten.”Jellicle Ball begins with her solo dance.
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