Producing Org TBD
CONTRACT
Short Engagement Touring $1,073 weekly minimum (Cat 1)
SEEKING
Equity actors of all gender identities for roles in HADESTOWN tour (see breakdown).
INSTRUCTIONS
Choose a brief NON MUSICAL THEATER song (folk, rock, jazz, gospel, etc…) using your own accompaniment. You also have the option to use the provided sheet music/accompaniment at www.dropbox.com/s/l5s2kjx1t1pvvxv/WORKER%20SIDES%20PACKET%20-%20APRIL%202021.pdf?dl=0 to film your audition. Please select a vocal line of your choosing and sing both cuts. Please slate before you audition, and send video in a downloadable link, such as WeTransfer, or Google Drive. Submit your headshot and resume.
Deadline: Tue, May 25, 2021
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Producers: Mara Isaacs, Dale Franzen, 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 (viewing auditions) and Benton Whitley, CSA of Stewart/Whitley
Casting Coordinator: Luke Schaffer, of Stewart/Whitley
Casting Assistants: Micah Johnson-Levy, Joseph Hayes, of Stewart/Whitley
General Manager: RCI Theatricals
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: On/About 8.23.2021
First Performance: On/About 10.05.2021
OTHER
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
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.
Currently Seeking:
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 should be something special about his pipes. Not a conventionally handsome leading man, Orpheus should feel unique and have the sensitive soul of an artist. MUST PLAY 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. Needs to have 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. All of the Fates MUST play an instrument of some kind and be skilled with harmonies. Essential for all Fates to be good movers.
FATE 1: Soprano. (F#3 – E5). Any age, female, any ethnicity.
FATE 2: Alto/Mezzo/ Soprano. (G3 – E5). Any age, female, any ethnicity.
FATE 3: Low alto. (F3 – C5). Any age, female, 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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