City Center Encores! 2025 Season Equity Principal Actors - New York City Center Inc. Auditions

City Center Encores! 2025 Season - NYC EPA New York City Center Inc. | New York, NY

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Thursday, July 11, 2024

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)

Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:30PM

CONTRACT

Special Agreement

$2063 weekly minimum

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in City Center Encores! 2025 Season (See breakdown).

PREPARATION

Please prepare a short musical theatre selection in the style of the show for which you’d like to be considered. Please bring sheet music for the piano accompanist provided. Please bring a headshot and resume stapled together.

BREAKDOWN

City Center Encores! 2025 Season

LOCATION

Ripley-Grier Studios (520)

520 8th Ave

New York, NY 10018-6507

Holding room - Studio 17D

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:

Destiny Lilly (Casting Director)

Kevin Metzger-Timson (Casting Director) Patrick Goodwin (Casting Director) Priya Ghosh (Casting Director)

Karyn Casl (Casting Director)

Kristian Charbonier (Casting Director)

See breakdown for production specific personnel.

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:

Destiny Lilly (Casting Director)

Kevin Metzger-Timson (Casting Director) Patrick Goodwin (Casting Director) Priya Ghosh (Casting Director)

Karyn Casl (Casting Director)

Kristian Charbonier (Casting Director)

See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

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.

BREAKDOWN

City Center Encores! 2025 Season

URINETOWN

Music and Lyrics: Mark Hollman

Book and Lyrics: Greg Kotis

Director: Teddy Bergman

Choreographer: Mayte Natalio

Music Director: Mary-Mitchell Campbell

Casting: Tara Rubin Casting / Kevin Metzger-Timson, CSA

Rehearsals: 1/21/25 – 2/4/25

Performances: 2/5/25 – 2/16/25

SEEKING:

Caldwell B. Cladwell: 50-65. The evil president and owner of the Urine Good Company. He is a miserly money-grubber who gleefully exploits the poor. Bass/Baritone.

Penelope Pennywise: ROLE IS ON OFFER. 30-45. The tough, jaded warden of the poorest, filthiest town urinal. She is Cladwell's one-time lover and mother to Hope who eventually softens her temper. Mezzo.

Bobby Strong: 20s. ROLE IS CAST. The rebellious everyman who works for Miss Pennywise at the poorest, filthiest town urinal. He becomes an unsuspecting protagonist and romantic hero when he starts a revolution and falls in love with Hope Cladwell. Tenor.

Hope Cladwell: 20s. Cladwell's good hearted daughter, torn between her father and her new love for Bobby. She begins as an innocent, naive angel but becomes vengeful and determined after being exposed to her father's evil. Soprano.

Officer Lockstock: ROLE IS ON OFFER. 35-55. The tongue-in-cheek narrator of our story, he is a corrupt policeman who secretly kills off the guilty offenders. Bold, brash, and larger than life in many ways. Baritone.

Officer Barrel: 30-40. Lockstock's patrol partner. A thuggish and aggressive policeman. Bass/Baritone.

Little Sally: 10-12. A precocious and irreverent street urchin. She serves as a quasi-narrator who often questions Lockstock and the play's logic. Mezzo.

LOVE LIFE

Music and Lyrics: Kurt Weill and Ala Jay Lerner

Book: Alan Jay Lerner

Director: Victoria Clark

Choreographer: JoAnn Hunter

Guest Music Director: Rob Berman

Casting: The Telsey Office (Destiny Lilly, CSA)

Rehearsals: 3/11/25 – 3/25/25

Performances: 3/26/25 – 3/30/25

Note: THE COOPER FAMILY Never ages as story time-jumps from 1781 to 2025. Any and all ethnicities and cultural origins. JOHNNY and ELIZABETH have planned this show (“Love Life”) as an event to bring their newly separated parents SAM and SUSAN together to re-examine their marriage and relationship. When SUSAN and SAM attend the performance, they have no idea they will become the focal point of the story and asked to re-enact their life together over the past 224 years. (1781- 2025)

SEEKING:

JOHNNY: Male, (Age 10-13) Alto (Pre-voice change if possible). Strong singer and excellent tapper. At first wants to be just like his dad, but as the story progresses, that view starts to shift.

ELIZABETH: Female, (Age 8-10) Soprano/alto, Strong singer and excellent tapper. Younger than her brother, but three steps ahead.

SAMUEL: Male, (Age 35-65) Golden-Age full-voiced romantic Baritone with exceptional musical and vocal skills to play a wide range of styles. Head of the Cooper family. When story begins, estranged from his wife. When he goes back in time, their marriage is thriving. His first trade is as a carpenter who has his own shop. As we move through history, he becomes a factory foreman, an employee for the railroad, and finally a salesman. Mercurial and unpredictable: restless, longing, funny, hard working family man. Represents in some ways the restless history of our country. (“Uncle Sam.”).

SUSAN: THIS ROLE IS CAST. Female, (Age 35-60) Legit soprano with easy conversational mix/belt. A dry comic wit. Wife, Mother, Professional. Doesn’t fit in the box. Outspoken, confidant, and practical. When the story goes back in time, she is content to be a wife and mother. As story progresses, she wants more, fights for the suffragette movement and eventually becomes the primary bread-winner for the family.

THE DRIFTER: Male, (Age 30-65) Legit Baritone. Homeless and observant, traveling from place to place as a stowaway. Sings “Love Song,” an anthemic warning of the dangers of living in a rapidly evolving America. He accompanies the Cooper family as they travel through history and assists the Cooper children in their plan to bring their parents together for this event.

THE WILD PARTY

Music and Lyrics: Michael John LaChiusa

Book: Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe

Director: Saheem Ali

Choreographer: Darrell Grand Moultrie

Music Director: Mary-Mitchell Campbell

Casting: The Telsey Office (Patrick Goodwin, CSA and Priya Ghosh)

Rehearsals: 4/15/25 – 4/29/25

Performances: 4/30/25 – 5/11/25

SEEKING:

QUEENIE: Female, Black, 30s but feels ageless. A fading vaudeville chorine. Attracted to dangerous, violent men. Strong-willed yet damaged. Strong mezzo with a belt. Moves well.

BURRS: Male, Black, 30s-40s. Queenie’s lover. Vicious, impulsive, complicated, vulnerable. A blackface vaudevillian clown. Strong tenor. Moves well.

KATE: Female, any ethnicity, 30s. A dagger-tongued, sharp-witted former chorine. Knows how to get what she wants and how to survive. Strong mezzo belt. Moves well.

BLACK: Male, biracial or multiracial, 30s-40s. Handsome, charming, suave. An escort. Strong baritone or baritenor. Moves well.

JACKIE: ROLE HAS BEEN OFFERED. Male, white, 30s-40s. A sexually fluid, impulsive playboy with a dark edge. Strong tenor. Moves well.

MISS MADELAINE TRUE: Female, any ethnicity, 40s-50s. A nearly famous stripper. A lesbian. Strong alto/mezzo with a belt. Moves well.

SALLY: Female, white, 30s. Madelaine’s date. A morphine addict. Mezzo/Soprano with a belt. Moves well.

DOLORES: ROLE HAS BEEN OFFERED. Female, any ethnicity, 70s, yet ageless. A former star of the stage from years ago. Has lived through it all. Strong alto/mezzo.

EDDIE: Male, Black, 40s. An aging boxing champion. Physically imposing. Strong baritone or baritenor. Moves well.

MAE: Female, white, 30s-40s. Eddie’s wife, a former chorine. Ditzy. Playful. Strong soprano with a belt. Moves well.

NADINE: Female, white, 18+ to play 14. A minor who wants to be in the hustle and bustle of it all. Naïve and eager. Strong mezzo/soprano. Moves well.

PHIL D’ARMANO: Male, Black, 20s-30s. Half of a duo performance act along with Oscar. Strong baritone/tenor. Moves well.

OSCAR D’ARMANO: Male, Black, 20s-30s. Half of a duo performance act along with Phil. Strong baritone/tenor. Moves well.

GOLD: Male, white, 40s-50s. Aspiring vaudeville producer with lofty Broadway ambitions. Strong baritone/baritenor. Moves well.

GOLDBERG: Male, white, 40s-50s. Aspiring vaudeville producer with lofty Broadway ambitions. Strong baritone/baritenor.