FOLLIES - San Diego, CA EPA
Cygnet Theatre Company | San Diego, CA
AUDITION DATE
Monday, March 10, 2025
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (P)
BREAK: 1:30PM - 2:30PM
APPOINTMENTS
For an appointment please email
auditions@cygnettheatre.com with your preferred time(s).
CONTRACT
SPT
$605 weekly minimum (SPT 6)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in FOLLIES (see breakdown).
PREPARATION
Prepare a brief song from the show, or in the same style of the show. No longer than one minute. We are looking for strong singers that make grounded choices and have a strong sense of storytelling. Bring your book in case we'd like to see more. Please bring a copy of your headshot and resume.
LOCATION
Cygnet Theatre Rehearsal Space
2555 State Street
Suite 104
San Diego, CA 92101
Entrance is off of Maple St. Parking is residential.
PERSONNEL
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Sean Murray, Director / Artistic Director
Katie Banville, Choreographer
Patrick Marion, Music Director / Accompanist
Craig Campbell, Producing Director
Allen Lucky Weaver, Casting Director.
OTHER DATES
August 4, 2025 Rehearsals begin
August 26, 2025 Tech Begins
September 9, 2025 Invited Dress
September 10, 2025 Previews begin
September 13, 2025 Opening
October 5, 2025 Closing (with possible extension up to October 19, 2025)
OTHER
www.cygnettheatre.com
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition. 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.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
BREAKDOWN
FOLLIES
SYNOPSIS
This Sondheim classic takes place in a crumbling Broadway theater, now scheduled for demolition, previously home to a musical revue (based on the Ziegfeld Follies). The evening follows a reunion of the Weismann Girls who performed during the interwar period. Several of the former showgirls perform their old numbers, often accompanied by the ghosts of their younger selves.
SEEKING:
- Benjamin Stone: Male, Age 50-60, Vocal Range A2 to F4; must be able to move well. Tall, Trim. Distinguished. Successful, Authoritative. A man bent on achieving success from a young age who has attained it and has begun to realize the toll it has had on his personal relationships. A man with serious “imposter syndrome.”
- Buddy Plummer: ROLE IS CAST Male, Age 50-60, Vocal Range C3 to F4. A handsome, charismatic man with a sad face wrinkled from years of too much smiling. Stuck in a broken marriage and has had multiple affairs.
- Max Deems: Male, Age 45-65. Must be able to move with a special lightness; half of a performing duo with his wife, Stella. They have since retired and opened a general store in Miami. Loves life and has led a good one.
- Roscoe: ROLE IS CAST Male, Age 55-75. An elderly showman.
- Theodore Whitman: Male, Age 55-80, Vocal Range A2 to D4. Must be able to move well. A bright, and ‘papery’ man. Married to EMILY WHITMAN, half of a performing team, they now teach dance together.
- Dimitri Weismann: Male, Age 60-80. A charming elderly showman. Staged the Follies every year between the great wars and made stars of any girl he fancied. He is authoritative, a Ziegfeld-type. Can be a little rude, and a womanizer.
- Young Ben: Male, Age to read 18-23, Vocal Range C3 to F4, must be able to dance well. A younger version of Ben, a not yet fully realized version of the older Ben we see before us today, he is driven and intelligent but not quite so distinguished, obsessed with getting ahead at all cost. A player.
- Young Buddy: Male, Age to read 18-23, Vocal Range C3 to G4, must be able to dance well. A younger version of Buddy we see today. Charismatic and lively, a man who knows how to have fun. Loves Sally blindly and wants to give her the world.
- Sally Durant Plummer: ROLE IS CAST Female, Age 45-60, Vocal Range F3 to G5. Sweet and bubbly. Still remarkably like the girl she was thirty years ago. A former Follies girl, she married a man she didn’t love.
- Phyllis Rogers Stone: ROLE IS CAST Female, African American, Age 45-60, Vocal Range F3 to E5. Stylish and intelligent. A woman who made her husband her life, the journey has hardened her and replaced the traces of life with cold sophistication and poise.
- Stella Deems: ROLE IS CAST Female, Age 45-65, Vocal Range E3 to F5. A woman who moves with a special lightness; half of a performer duo with her husband, but they gave it up to open a general store in Miami. Loves life and has led a good one.
- Heidi Schiller: ROLE IS CAST Female, Age 55-75, Vocal Range D4 to G5. Tall and queenly. Incredibly rich and well known in elite social circles, she is constantly reminiscing.
- Hattie Walker: ROLE IS CAST Female, Age 45-75, Vocal Range B3 to D5. An appealingly tough, no-nonsense lady. A former knockout Follies girl from the earlier years of the shows. She has married several times and always to the same type: the bad boy.
- Solange LaFitte: ROLE IS CAST Female, Age 45-75, Vocal Range A3 to G5. A French fashionista. Very much still alive and enjoying it, she is a perfume creator and seller. Has travelled the world but loves Paris more than any other place.
- Emily Whitman: ROLE IS CAST Female, Age 55-80, Vocal Range B3 to D5. A tiny, bright and papery woman. Married to Theodore Whitman, who together teach dance.
- Carlotta Campion: ROLE IS CAST Female, Age 45 to 55, Vocal range C4 to F5. The one-time movie star, who is in terrific shape for her age. The kind of woman who has seen everything and is proud to be standing where she is.
- Young Phyllis: Female, African-American, Age to read 18 to 23, Vocal range B3 to E5, must be a good dancer, tap a must. A younger version of Phyllis, when she was an energetic and naive Follies girl. Slightly sad and homesick. With all of the drive but none of the sophistication of adult Phyllis.
- Young Sally: ROLE IS CAST Female, Age to read 18-25, Vocal Range C4 to G5. A younger version of the adult Sally. She is perhaps the most similar to her adult counterpart of any of the foursome. Sweet and bubbly. Adventurous. Wants it all but may not have the patience or drive to wait for it.
- Young Heidi: Female, Age 18-30, Vocal Range E4 to A5. A younger version of Heidi we see today. Already tall and queenly. A strong romantic soprano voice.
- Female Ensemble of 5: Age 18-25, strong dancing, tap a must. Show Girls, Why-Don’t-You-Love-Me Girls, Waitresses, Loveland Chorus. Young versions of the older Follies girls: Young Stella, Young Emily, Young Solange, and Young Carlotta.
- Male Ensemble of 4: Strong dancers, tap a plus. Characters to be played from this ensemble include: Young Theodore, Young Roscoe, Kevin, Chauffeur, Loveland Chorus, TV Interviewer, Camera Man, Waiters.
