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Instructions to Make an Appointment:
For Equity members to schedule an appointment, please visit our digital sign-up sheet at: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0b4ea8a829a7fd0-lyric and select the time you would like to be seen. Equity members must fill in an email address, a contact phone number, and AEA Member number. You can opt to receive an e-mail confirming your audition time, and you will receive an appointment reminder the day before your audition.
PLEASE NOTE: This audition day is only for AEA members.
Auditions for Non-Equity actors will be held on April 16, 2015, (visit http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0b4ea8a829a7fd0-nonunion)
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Preparation Instructions:
Audition slots are FIVE (5) minutes long. Each actor has TWO (2) minutes to perform. Please prepare appropriate material of your choosing, which may be from one or more of the season’s shows. Scripts, a reader, and an accompanist will be provided at the audition. Please be prepared to state your starting & stopping places. You may audition for one or more roles in the season. There are no auditions sides.
If singing, please bring sheet music. Please bring a headshot & resume to the audition, stapled together.
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Other Dates: The Lyric Stage Company of Boston will also be attending the StageSource Equity Auditions on April 13, 2015 at ImprovBoston, 40 Prospect Street Cambridge, MA 02139. For more information on those auditions, visit www.stagesource.org or call (617) 350-7611.
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2015-16 SEASON:
No understudies are being cast.
Actors of color are strongly encouraged to audition.
Note: No housing is available to out-of-area performers.
MY FAIR LADY
Book & Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
Music by Frederick Loewe
Adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s Play and Gabriel Pascal’s motion picture “Pygmalion”
Director, Scott Edmiston
1st reh: 8/11/15. Opens: 9/4. Closes: 10/11
Seeking:
ELIZA DOOLITTLE, a young Cockney woman who sells flowers
HENRY HIGGINS, a professor of phonetics
ALFRED P. DOOLITTLE, Eliza’s father
COLONEL PICKERING, Higgin’s friend
FREDDY EYNSFORD-HILL, Eliza’s suitor
MRS. HIGGINS, Henry’s socialite mother
MRS. PEARCE, Henry’s head of household
Various Ensemble Roles
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SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY MORNING
by Katori Hall
Director, TBD
1st reh: 9/29/15. Opens: 10/23. Closes: 11/22
Seeking:
TAFFY, Late teens-early 20s, African-American, female. Mabel’s disgruntled younger sister, an ugly duckling longing to be a swan, a bit socially inept.
MISS MARY, Thirty going on sixty, African-American, female. The owner of the beauty shop/boarding house, widow, lost her husband during WWII.
MABEL, Early 20s, African-American, female. From Chattanooga, loose, wild woman searching for adventure on the streets of Memphis. Taffy’s older sister.
LEANNE, Early 20s, African-American, female. Mockingly nicknamed the ‘beauty queen from Texas,’ she passionately awaits letters from her lover Bobby, who’s fighting overseas. Her depressed moods cast a shroud over the otherwise lively beauty shop. Also voices Curlin’ Curlin’.
BUZZ, Mid 20s, African-American, male. A businessman/postman who could not fight in the war because of his bum leg.
DOT, 30s-40s, African-American, female. Round as a dot, a loyal customer to ‘Miss Mary’s Press and Curl.’
JACKIE, 30s-40s, African-American, female. Skinny as a stick, yet another loyal customer. Dot’s best friend.
GLADYS, Early 20s, African-American, female. A churchgoing girl from Birmingham, an aspiring writer.
BOBBY, Mid 20s – Early 30s, African-American, male. The dashing soldier, Leanne’s long-lost lover.
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BUYER & CELLAR
By Jonathan Tolins
Director, Courtney O’Connor
1st reh: 11/10/15. Opens: 12/4. Closs: 1/3/16
This a one-person show. The role of Alex More has been CAST.
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SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM
By Stephen Sondheim, James Lapine
Director, Spiro Veloudos
1st reh: 12/22/15. Opens: 1/15/16. Closes: 2/21
Please note two men and 3 women have already been cast.
Seeking:
SINGER 1, male, any age, baritone
SINGER 2, male, any age, tenor
SINGER 3, female, 20s, soprano Men
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MR. BURNS: A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY
By Anne Washburn
Director, A. Nora Long
1st reh: 2/9/16. Opens: 3/4. Closes: 3/27
Seeking:
MATT, 30s, male, a savant-like ability to recount episodes of The Simpsons
JENNY, 30s, female, a great eye and ear for detail,
SUSANNAH, 30s, female, empathetic, a natural story-teller
SAM, 30s, male, probably plays guitar
COLLEEN, 30s, female, the director, a little jumpy
GIBSON, 30s, male, an amateur Gilbert and Sullivan performer
QUINCY, 30s, female, a ringer
All of the parts require some singing and dancing – ability to play non-electric musical instruments, a plus.
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PETER AND THE STARCATCHER
by Rick Elice
Based on the novel by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Director, Spiro Veloudos
1st reh: 4/26/16. Opens: 5/20. Closes: 6/26
Seeking:
BLACK STACHE: Famous for his face foliage, heartless and hirsute, suspiciously well read, partial to the poetical and theatrical, and given to a ferocity from which no good shall ever spring.
MOLLY: 20s, female, A true leader, curious, intelligent, 13-year-old kid.
BOY: 20s, male, An orphan, a survivor, nameless, homeless, friendless who will become a hero.
GREMPKIN/MACK/SANCHEZ/FIGHTING PRAWN, mean schoolteacher, a very bad sailor, a hard-working Spanish pirate, and King of the Mollusks with a mastery of Italian wine and cuisine.
MRS. BUMBRAKE/TEACHER: Molly’s nanny, British to the bone. Stiff in the lip, loose in the hip, fun on a ship, also plays a knowledgeable mermaid.
SLANK/HAWKING CLAM: The Neverland’s vicious captain without the skill or quality to lead anyone but himself and always into disaster. Also, plays heir to the Royal Clam Clan.
SMEE, First mate to Black Stache. Single-mindedly dedicated to his captain’s every whim.
PRENTISS, an orphan, ambitious, hyper articulate, logical; yearns to be a leader. A little bit of a blowhard with just the teeny-tiniest touch of cowardice.
ALF, An old sea dog. Something about him appeals to the feminine sensibility – might be his bow legs, his saucy gait, or his kind heart.
LORD ASTER, The very model of a Victorian English gentleman, loyal subject to the Queen, devoted father, faithful friend.
CAPTAIN SCOTT, Captain of Britain’s fastest frigate, the Wasp.
TED, An orphan, obsessed with food, a natural actor, an easy wit, perhaps a future poet. Called “Tubby” but not due to girth, of which orphans, given their meager diets, have very little indeed.
All actors serve variously as sailors, seamen, seafarers, orphans, pirates, and Mollusk natives.
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Stage Managers: Equity Stage Managers are invited to send resumes to Matthew Whiton, Production Manager, at the Lyric Stage Company, 140 Clarendon St., Boston, MA 02116. Please note all Equity Stage Manager positions have been filled at this time.
Other Information: Auditions for the remaining show in The Lyric Stage Company of Boston’s 2015-2016 season and callbacks for individual productions will be announced at a later date. All shows, dates, and information subject to change.
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