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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions - in NYC
Monday, March 14, 2016
9:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Lunch 1 to 2
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Contract
LOA
ref. to COST. $500/week (actors)
Location
Nola Studios
250 West 54th Street (enter at 250 W 54 ONLY)
(not 244 W 54)
New York, NY 10019
11th floor Studio C
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Seeking
Equity actors and actor/singers for various roles in the upcoming season.
See breakdown
Preparation
Prepare either:
1) 16 to 32 bars of an up-tempo and a ballad. Bring music in your key; OR
2) a brief monologue appropriate to the character; OR
3) 16 bars of a song and a 1 minute monologue
Total audition not to exceed 2 minutes.
Bring picture and resume, stapled together.
Other Dates
Callbacks from this EPA will be held Thursday, March 17 at Nola Studios, 250 West 54th Street, NYC by appointment only.
Lebanon PA EPA on 3/12, 10 AM to 6PM at Movement Laboratory (see separate notice)
Other
Visit: www.GretnaTheatre.com/Auditions for directions and additional info.
Directors, Musical Directors and Choreographers attend the EPA as they may be available.
Personnel
Auditions will be conducted by:
Producing Art. Dir.: Larry Frenock
Associate Art. Dir.: Renee Krizan
Casting Dir: Christian Saint-Girard
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
GENERAL AUDITION AND SEASON INFO:
• 4 AEA Actor contracts per show, to be cast among all available roles. For any role CAST, actors will be considered for possible replacements.
• CHILDREN: Child actors for TARZAN will be hired ONLY non-union.
• STAGE MANAGERS: Our season AEA SM will return from last year. SMs may attend EPAs for initial interviews for future consideration. SMs are encouraged to submit resumes to producer Larry Frenock at larryfrenock@gretnatheatre.org for future consideration.
• IMPORTANT! Have recent photo and current resume, stapled back to back. Have your full contact info on resume including where you live (need to know for housing purposes if you are local, have possibility of local housing, or an out of town artist). Note correct height & weight and vocal type on resume.
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GRETNA THEATRE 2016 SEASON
[Due to short rehearsal period, special consideration will be given to those who have performed these roles previously.]
BREAKING LEGS
by Tom Dulack
Dir: TBA
Seeking
Terence O’Keefe
Late 40s-early 50s. Playwright & English Professor. Good-looking, physically fit man with some boyish charm. Not the image of the bumbling, absent-minded, ivory-tower English teacher. He is a stud to his female students and object of their sex fantasies. World traveler, urbane, sophisticated. Intellectual and shy, feels out of place in Angie’s restaurant; awkward about his reason for being there – to ask for money to back his new play. Excellent actor with presence & good comic timing.
Lou Graziano
55. Proprietor of the Italian restaurant. Stereotypical Italian father; wants to see his daughter married BUT still working for & living with the family. Food and drink are not only important but the basis of and solution to everything. Enjoys a good gamble. Dabbles in “other types” of business with his friends Mike and Tino. Excellent comic character actor.
Tino De Felice
50s. Business associate; Mike's sidekick. Among many business interests, is primarily a real estate developer. In contrast to Mike, dresses soberly. A man of few words & even fewer social graces. Excellent comic character actor.
Frankie Salvucci
50s. Horse-player - not a good one. Loser in debt to the others. Pale, nervous, beaten little man trying to maintain front of false heartiness & joviality. Excellent comic character actor.
Angie
28. Lou’s daughter and Keeps the books for his restaurant; helps manage the place. Flamboyant, tough, sexy “Italian Princess” type with a mouth on her. Brunette with great figure & legs which she shows off in tight mini-skirts & high heels. Excellent actor with great presence and comic timing.
Mike Francisco
ROLE CAST. Late 50’s. Exotic Sicilian-American
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Disney’s TARZAN
Music/Lyrics: Phil Collins
Book: David Henry Hwang
Dir/Musical Staging: Jason Summers
Choreo: Judy Williams Henry
(One of the 4 AEA contracts will be a Chorus Contract with rider to play principal role)
1st reh: 7/5 (1 wk only). Runs: 7/14 -7/24 (5 perfs/wk for 2 wks)
Seeking:
Terk
Tenor Eb3-B4, 20’s. Sarcastic ape. Tarzan’s best friend since childhood. Thinks he knows it all; often relies on sense of humor to get by. Excellent actor/singer with good comic timing & a rock/pop/soul tenor voice with good understanding of groove & ad-lib vocal skills. Role is written to be sung consistently in upper register. African American.
Tarzan
Lyric Bar/Tenor B2-Bb4, 20s. Vulnerable, fearless young man raised by apes; still untainted by civilization. Young, attractive leading juvenile type. Excellent actor/singer with long, lean, athletic physique & agility who will look and feel comfortable in loin cloth costume. Acrobatics/flying experience a plus. Role written for a pop style high baritone or tenor with solos primarily written in high register requiring a good belt mix.
Kala
Mezzo/Alto mix E3-Eb5, 35-45. Motherly ape; raises Tarzan as her own. Kerchak’s mate. Incredibly strong with emotional depth equal to, if not greater than, any human. Excellent actor/singer with great presence. Requires a warm, mature sound with understanding of pop style phrasing and an ability to sing a low G in full voice. Typically cast African American; could be Asian, Latina or other ethnicity.
Kerchak
Role CAST. Baritone Ab2-Gb4, 40-50.
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IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU
Book/Lyrics: Brian Hargrove
Music: Barbara Anselmi
Add'l Lyrics: Michael Cooper, Will Randall, Carla Rose Fisher, Ernie Lijoi, Jill Abramowitz
Dir/Choreo: Dennis Courtney
1st reh: 7/12 (2 weeks). Runs: 7/28- 8/6 (5 perf/wk for 2 wks)
Seeking:
Murray Steinberg
Tenor, 50s -60s. Father of bride. Usually defers to domineering wife Judy than cause trouble. Loving, supporting husband & father with sardonic outlook. Excellent comic actor/singer.
George Howard
Baritone, 50s-60s. Father of groom. Ultimate WASP; not happy about son marrying a Jewish girl. Handsome, successful, you could imagine him drinking cocktails at the club with golf buddies in Polo shirt. Excellent former leading man type with good comic timing. Must be able to dance an excellent soft-shoe.
Judy Steinberg
(offer has been made) Alto/Belt, 50s–60s. SEEKING STAR NAME A NON-NYC AUDIENCE WILL RECOGNIZE. Mother of bride. Typical Jewish mother; elated her daughter is marrying even if it is to a WASP. Domineering but with a smile; can also be hard as nails & not afraid to say what she thinks. Usually gets her way in almost everything. Excellent actor/singer with terrific comic timing and presence.
Georgette Howard
Role CAST. Alto/Belt, 50s - 60s. Mother of the groom
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8 TRACK: THE SOUNDS OF THE 70s IN CONCERT
Conceived by Rick Seeber
Dir/Choreo: TBA
1st reh: 8/16 (for 1 wk only). Runs: 8/25-8/28 (5 perfs over 4 days)
Seeking:
TENOR
18-30. The Lovable Loser. Typically cast African American. A happy soul. Shy. Perhaps bit geeky. Lovable loser who never gives up. The Real Pop Thing with monster top soaring range: Bottom E Flat with Belt to B and Strong mix to C#. A solid mix/head voice to E. Must move well.
BARITONE
18-30. The Lover. Confident, alpha-male rock singer with an intensity of purpose. Young leading man. Pop-Rock Baritone/Second Tenor: Bottom A to top A (full voice) with Falsetto to D. Must move well
SOPRANO
18-30. The Seeker. Typically cast African American. Alluring, attractive young leading woman. Soulfully searching for spiritual path through the the 1970s. Pop Second Soprano with tons of soul: Bottom E Flat with Belt to C. Strong mix to F# and legit (head voice) to G. Must move well
ALTO
18-30. The Feminist. Radiating new-found pride, rock-chick power, seductiveness, vulnerability. Great Pop-Rock Sound: Bottom E Flat with Belt to B. Strong mix to C#. Solid mix/head voice to E. Must move well
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