City Center Encores! 2018 Season - NYC ECC / Male Singers
New York City Center Inc.
AUDITION DATE
Wed, Sep 06, 2017
9:30 am (EDT)
CONTRACT
Special Agreement ($1,499/ Week) (favored nations)
SEEKING
NOTE: The Encores! Series presents fully staged concert versions of rarely produced American musicals. All performances will be at City Center. They include a full orchestra and chorus.
The singing ensemble will play various step out roles in all three shows. Seeking singers of all types, ages, and vocal ranges. Characters are early 20s-50s
PREPARATION
Prepare a brief song of Golden Age Musical Theatre Material. Examples: Cy Coleman, Adams and Strause, Jerry Herman, Maury Yeston, Frank Loesser, Rodgers and Hammerstein etc.
Bring sheet music; accompanist provided. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Jack Viertel
Encores! Musical Director: Rob Berman
Casting: Binder Casting
OTHER DATES
see breakdown for schedule
OTHER
ECC 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.
BREAKDOWN
Show # 1 - HEY LOOK ME OVER
Artistic Director: Jack Viertel
Conceived by: Jack Viertel
Director: Marc Bruni
Choreographer: Denis Jones
Musical Director: Rob Berman
Casting: Binder Casting
Rehearsal: 1/23/18 Open: 2/7/18 Close: 2/11/18
NOTE: HEY LOOK ME OVER is a compendium of musical numbers and scenes from musicals that were succès d'estimes rather than major hits. They all have one thing in common: wonderful songs. The shows include: Wildcat, All American, Greenwillow, High Spirits, Mack and Mabel, Milk and Honey, George M!, Sail Away, and Jamaica.
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Show #2 - GRAND HOTEL
Artistic Director: Jack Viertel
Music and Lyrics: Robert Wright, George Forrest
Additional Music and Lyrics: Maury Yeston
Book by: Luther Davis
Director: TBD
Choreographer: TBD
Musical Director: Rob Berman
Casting: Binder Casting/ Jay Binder, CSA Rehearsal: 3/6/18
Open: 3/21/18
Close: 3/25/18
NOTE: Grand Hotel opened November 12, 1989 at the Martin Beck Theatre.
It is 1928. The world is between wars, the stock market is booming, Berlin is the center of high life and optimism rules the day. However, underneath it all, much is happening with the Grand Hotel's illustrious clients. Inspired by Vicki Baum's period novel, issues of life and death, financial ruin, the beginnings of National Socialism, love and murder converge as people and come and go through the lobby of the Grand Hotel.
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Show #3 - ME AND MY GIRL
Artistic Director: Jack Viertel
Music by: Noel Gay
Lyrics and book by: Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose
Book Revised by: Stephen Fry
Contributions to revisions: Mike Ockrent
Director and Choreographer: Warren Carlyle
Musical Director: Rob Berman
Casting: Binder Casting
Rehearsal: 4/24/18
Open: 5/9/18
Close: 5/13/18
NOTE: Me and My Girl is a true classic English music hall style musical. The upper class characters are all reminiscent of characters in a Nancy Mitford novel. The show opened on Broadway at the Marquis theatre on August 10, 1986. The production made Robert Lindsay an international star. It was first performed on the West End in December of 1937 as a vehicle for the popular clown, Lupino Lane. For the modern incarnation, Noel Gay’s son, Richard Armitage, went on a search to put back together the script that was largely lost through the years. Along with original director Mike Ockrent, he and Stephen Fry incorporated songs from other shows and came up with the show that is available today.
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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