DANGEROUS (Off Broadway) - NYC EPA
Directors Company, The | New York, NY
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Off Broadway
$690 weekly minimum (Level 3 Development)
Equity actors for roles in a developmental workshop of DANGEROUS, A New Musical (See breakdown).
No Equity stage managerial positions available at this time.
Please prepare a 1-2 minute monologue, appropriate to 1930s AND 16-bars in the style of Jazz / Swing 1930s. Please bring sheet music. An accompanist will be provided. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
Producer: The Directors Company (Michael Parva, Artistic Director/Leah Michalos, Managing Director, Heather Arnson, Associate Artistic Director)
Denis Jones - Director/Choreographer
Music Director: Phil Reno
John C. Introcaso - Book, Music, and additional Lyrics
Michael Colby - Lyrics
Judy Henderson - Casting
Expected to attend:
Director: Denis Jones
Lyrics: Michael Colby
Book/Music/additional Lyrics: John C. Introcaso
Casting Director: Judy Henderson
Casting Associate: Emily Grayce
First Rehearsal: September 30, 2024
Presentations: October 17, 18 2024
www.directorscompany.org
Presentations at Open Jar Studios
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.
Jake “The Dancer” Kinberg: 30s - 40s. Born: Jacob Ruben Kinberg in Brooklyn. Tough, smart, Jewish gangster. Great singer/dancer. Jake struggles between his love of being a gangster and his love of Rose.
Kathleen “Rose” Mc Sweeny, a.k.a. “Broadway Rose”: 30s – 40s. Born in Hell’s Kitchen, Rose comes from the lower lower-middle class, tough, street-smart Irish woman, has a head for business and a fiery temper with a heart of gold. Great singer with scatting ability.
Jazz: 30s. Black cabaret performer with slight Eastern European dialect. Fantastic singer with belt/soprano with scatting ability.
Jilly/Nelson: Jilly: Gender fluid, British music hall entertainer/maître d’. London Accent Buoyant playful personality. Alridge Nelson: 40s, FBI agent. All-American type with West Point polish. Easternseaboard born.
Klaus Von Schuler: 30s – 40s. Aryan Gestapo agent. High-born, spoiled, well-educated, with a German pro-accent.
Myrtle Glutz: 30s - 40s. Street smart cigarette girl/pickpocket, Jewish. Flatbush Brooklyn. Best friend to Rose.
Inspector Cedrick Kittering: 50s. Upper class British accent. Buffoonish with a penchant to drink.
Perceval Bouchard: 30s – 40s. Lieutenant in the Sûreté . French and a bit prickly.
Qasif: 30s – 40s. Egyptian born. Bartender with British education.
Abbu: Street smart Egyptian born teenager who becomes Jake’s wingman.
Prof Zweben: 50s – 60s. Renowned Jewish scientist. Helped to develop the atomic bomb.
Russian Woman: 20s - 30s. Russian Spy.
Monk Genna: 20s -30s. Tough, Brooklyn born, “Murder Inc type gangster”. Cold blooded killer.
Hornbeck: 30 - 40s. Scotland yard detective Bristol British. Wry sense of humor
Female SS Officer: 30s. strong, ice cold.
Meyer Lansky: 40s. tough gangster
Bugsy Siegal: 30s. Suave gangster
Senator: 30s - 40s. Narcissistic politician
Reva: 30s - Female Jewish resistance fighter.
Male: 30s - Jewish resistance fighter
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