LES MISERABLES - NYC EPA
Cameron Mackintosh | New York, NY
Date of Audition:
2/23/2015
Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Monday, February 23rd, 2015
10 AM to 6 PM
lunch 1:30 to 2:30 Contract
Production (League)
$1861/week min
Location
Ripley-Grier 520 (Everyone must show
government photo ID to enter building.)
520 8th Ave. (36th/37th)
New York, NY
10th floor
Seeking
Equity actor/singers for replacements in the currently running Broadway production.
See breakdown.
Preparation
Please prepare a short traditional or legit musical theatre song. Opera, jazz, rhythm-and-blues and rock are not the proper styles.
Please bring sheet music a picture and resume, STAPLED TOGETHER. An accompanist will be provided.
Casting Director Statement: Due to expected turn-out, NO non-Equity actors (this includes
non-Equity children) will be seen. However, 'drop-offs' of pic/res are welcome
Other Dates
currently running on Broadway
Other
General Manager: Foresight Theatrical
Musical Supvsr: Stephen Brooker
Music Dir: Jim Lowe
Personnel
Music: Claude-Michel Schonberg
Book: Alan Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg
Lyrics: Alan Boublil and Herbert Kretzmer
Dir: James Powell & Laurence Connor
Casting: Tara Rubin Casting
ï EPA Rules are in effect.
ï A monitor will be provided.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
Breakdown
JEAN VALJEAN
35-40s. Sings to B (high lyric baritone or tenor with strong low notes). A poor peasant who rises to affluence, he has great natural nobility and dignity. A powerful figure, ideally a large man with a character of operatic size and passion. The voice needs to have a pop/rock sound or a classical sound of extraordinary textual clarity.
JAVERT
Baritone, sings to G. Policeman who relentlessly hunts Valjean. Ideally a large man. The ultimate “law and order” figure. Obsessed, to the point of irrationality, with a rigid and merciless moral code. He too is a character of operatic size and passion. Both belt voice and classical can suit this role but must have a darker quality than Jean Valjean.
THENARDIER
Late 30s-40s. Strong comic character role. A crooked innkeeper, later a petty, amoral thief. Greedy, irreverent, selfish, boorish, vulgar. Baritone, sings to F sharp.
MARIUS
20s. High baritone (sings to A) with a strong bottom (to A). A member of the revolutionary student movement. Attractive and romantic but in a sensitive, 19th century “byronic” way.
ENJOLRAS
20s-early 30s. High baritone (to G sharp/A) very strong singer. Charismatic
political figure. Leader of the revolutionary movement.
FANTINE
Late 20s, early 30s. Belt up to C, sings to E flat. Poor factory girl, struggling to support her fatherless daughter. Later is a pauper, a prostitute, a consumptive and a ghost. Earthy and poignant. Although is finally defeated by circumstances she should appear to be strong and a survivor. She puts up a valiant fight against the horrors of her life.
COSETTE
18-25 (the younger the better). Fantine’s daughter (first seen as and played by a child) delicate, elegant, vulnerable and beautiful. Falls in love with and later marries Marius. Soprano (to high C) but a light, young “floating” sound, without heavy vibrato.
EPONINE
An enormous and beautiful belt voice, to C in belt (sings to E flat). Daughter of the Thenardiers but in no way behaves like them. Fired by an unrequited love for Marius. Small, gamine, waif-like. Hasn’t learned to disguise her emotions; wears her heart on her sleeve.
MADAME THENARDIER
30s-early 40s. Tough, sharp, coarse, boorish, vulgar. Strong character comedienne role. Belter.
GAVROCHE **UPDATED**: Boy, age 7 - 11. 54" and under. Spunky
street urchin. Lots of personality. Sings very well.
YOUNG COSETTE AND YOUNG EPONINE **UPDATED**: Girls, age 7 - 11.
52" and under. Sweet innocent waifs. Pretty soprano voice.
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