Hadestown Broadway LLC
CONTRACT
Production (League) $2323 weekly minimum
SEEKING
Equity actors for replacement principal roles in HADESTOWN (see breakdown).
INSTRUCTIONS
SEE PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS IN BREAKDOWN. Please submit your headshot/resume and send video in a downloadable link, such as WeTransfer, or Google Drive.
Deadline: Wed, Dec 1, 2021
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Producers: Dale Franzen, Mara Isaacs, Hunter Arnold, Tom Kirdahy
Book, Music, and Lyrics: Anais Mitchell
Director: Rachel Chavkin
Choreographer: David Neumann
Music Director: Liam Robinson
Casting Director: Duncan Stewart, CSA & Benton Whitley, CSA of Stewart/Whitley (viewing auditions)
General Manager: RCI Theatricals
OTHER DATES
Currently running on Broadway.
OTHER
Venue/Theater: Walter Kerr Theatre
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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS :
Choose a brief NON MUSICAL THEATER song (folk, rock, jazz, gospel, etc…) using your own accompaniment. Please slate before you audition.
You also have the option to use the provided sheet music/accompaniment at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m9yiog4296h30ld/AADHRArJhI8WKuViE7bGh2LRa?dl=0 to film your tape. Please select a vocal line of your choosing and sing both cuts.
NOTE FROM CREATIVE: We welcome performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and body types. We are seeking actors with unique, vibrant singing skills. Certain roles will also require strong instrumental abilities. Actors of diverse cultural and racial backgrounds are encouraged to apply. In general, we are not looking for conventional “music-theatre style”/vibrato singers. We are seeking singers capable of pure tones and/or vibrato that feels informed by jazz/rock/gospel
ORPHEUS: High Tenor with falsetto up to G#5. (A2 – F5). 20s to 30s, male, any ethnicity. Orpheus is an optimist, an idealist, a counter-culturalist. There is something special about his pipes. Not a conventionally handsome leading man, Orpheus feels unique and has the sensitive soul of an artist. PLAYS GUITAR.
HADES: Bass. G1 – Eb4 (will consider G2 – Eb4). 40s-60s, male, any ethnicity. Lord of the Dead. Powerful, immortal and deeply in love with Persephone. Has a major seductive power and strong authoritative presence. Tyrannical and a bit menacing.
PERSEPHONE: Alto/Mezzo. (E3 – C5). 40s to 60s, female, any ethnicity. Goddess, playful, mercurial, fun and sexy. Persephone is not too feminine and lets her sharp edges show. She is the seasons and is cut from the same cloth as Orpheus. She must have a wryness and intelligence that she uses sharply for both entertainment and as a defense mechanism.
HERMES: Tenor/baritone. (D3 – B4). 30s-80s, male, any ethnicity. Hermes is the narrator/guide/emcee of the story. Charismatic, often mysterious, with a trickster-ish quality.
EURYDICE: Alto/Soprano. (E3 – E5). 20s to early 30s, female, any ethnicity. A practical leading heroine with an extremely vulnerable underbelly, a haunted bird. She takes the leap to the underworld as a step towards something reliable. There is both toughness and delicacy in her being and her singing; she uses a belt for some songs, real subtlety for others.
THE THREE FATES: Powerful and dark. Operate as one of the “voices in the heads” of the other characters. Play an instrument of some kind and be skilled with harmonies. Good movers.
FATE 1: Soprano. (F#3 – E5). Any age, female identifying, any ethnicity.
FATE 2: Alto/Mezzo/ Soprano. (G3 – E5). Any age, female identifying, any ethnicity.
FATE 3: Low alto. (F3 – C5). Any age, female identifying, any ethnicity.
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 submit.
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