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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Saturday, October 24, 2015
10:00 am-6:00 pm
(lunch from 1:30-2:30)
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Contract
Off Broadway
$593 weekly minimum
Location
Pearl Studios NYC 500
500 Eighth Avenue
(35th/36th Streets)
New York, NY 10018
4th floor
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Seeking
Equity actors with strong musical abilities. See breakdown.
Preparation
Please prepare a brief folk/ rock/ contemporary song that shows your style and vocal range. Bring sheet music in the correct key. A piano accompanist will be provided.
We strongly encourage any actors who are auditioning for Orpheus to accompany themselves.
Other Dates
First Rehearsal March 29, 2016
First Preview May 3, 2016
Opening May 23, 2016
Closing June 19, 2016
Extension Closing July 3, 2016
Personnel
Music and Lyrics: Anais Mitchell
Director: Rachel Chavkin
Casting: Jack Doulin
Casting Associate: Taylor Sharky Williams
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will be provided.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
AVAILABLE ROLES:
Seeking actors with strong musical abilities.
ORPHEUS: High Tenor. 20s to 30s, male, any ethnicity. Should feel like a perfect match for Eurydice. Orpheus is the unpredictable, the wanderer artist who desperately tries to get himself together over the course of the piece. 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 A MOBILE STRINGED INSTRUMENT.
FATE 2: Alto/Mezzo/ Soprano. Any age, female, any ethnicity. Powerful and dark. Operates as one of the ''voices in the heads'' of the other characters. Needs to play an instrument of some kind and be skilled with harmonies.
FATE 3: Alto/Mezzo/ Soprano. Any age, female, any ethnicity. Powerful and dark. Operates as one of the ''voices in the heads'' of the other characters. Needs to play an instrument of some kind and be skilled with harmonies.
The following roles have been cast, seeking possible replacements:
HADES: Bass. 40s-60s, male. Caucasian. 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. Could be a true bass.
PERSEPHONE: Alto/Mezzo. 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: Baritone. Late 20s-40s, male, any ethnicity. Hermes is a musician and a trickster. He is charismatic and warm with a folksy vernacular. He is a guy you want to hang out with. Hermes is the storyteller of the piece.
EURYDICE: Soprano. 20s to early 30s, female, any ethnicity. A practical leading heroine with an extremely vulnerable underbelly. Gets in the dirt and farms to feed herself and Orpheus. She takes the leap to the underworld as a step towards something reliable. There is a delicacy in both her being and her singing- pure and subtle.
FATE 1: Alto/Mezzo. Any age, female, any ethnicity. Powerful and dark. Operates as one of the ''voices in the heads'' of the other characters. Needs to play an instrument of some kind and be skilled with harmonies.
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