Lake Theatre 2023 season - NYC EPA Lake Theatre | Lake George, NY
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Monday, April 17, 2023
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Dinner Theatre
$546 weekly minimum (Tier 1)
Equity actors for Lake Theatre's 2023 season (See breakdown).
All the stage managerial positions have been filled.
Please prepare a 1-2 minute contemporary comedic monologue. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center 165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
Expected to attend:
Bruce Jordan: Director of SHEAR MADNESS Jarel Davidow: Artistic Director and Director of MARRIAGE IS MURDER
SHEAR MADNESS
First Rehearsal: June 12
Opening: July 6
Closing: Aug 26
MARRIAGE IS MURDER
First Rehearsal: Aug 28
Opening: Sept 14
Closing: Oct 14
OTHER
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition. An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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 attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
Equity encourages members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and dressing rooms.
Holding/Audition room information:
The maximum capacity in the holding room is: 80
The maximum capacity in the audition room is: 28
Director: Bruce Jordan
First rehearsal: June 12th
Opening: July 6
Closing: Aug 26
BARBARA DEMARCO (25-45) is the hairstylist who keeps Shear Madness running. She answers the phone, takes appointments, restocks shelves, cleans mirrors, sweeps floors, etc. She is a wise cracking, gum-snapping, nail polishing hairdresser cum manicurist. She moves sassily and well. She is likeable, ambitious and street-wise and she can spot a bad dye job at 20 paces. She works well with TONY and looks forward to working on her favorite customer, MRS. SHUBERT.
MIKEY THOMAS (20-30) is a preppy-looking, eager-beaver who’s a capable and earnest undercover cop. MIKEY is bright, quick, affable, somewhat deferential, and very helpful at the same time being innocent, naive, and impressionable. He is a believable, ambitious young cop who supplies much of the credibility to the investigation. The character gets his hair washed and blown dry at every performance.
EDDIE LAWRENCE (30-50) is the “mystery man” of the piece. He is a well-dressed, nice-looking confidence man who covers a dangerous interior with a smooth, suave, and occasionally charming exterior. He walks the fine line between possessing definite danger while at the same time being able to execute the quick-thinking comedy of the piece. We must admire EDDIE’S ability to scramble out of the position of “prime suspect”.
TONY WHITCOMB (25-45) is the flamboyant, irrepressible proprietor of the Shear Madness salon. He is interested in everything and everyone. Shear Madness is a “salon” in the truest sense; where TONY thrills to the twists of “All My Children,” swaps recipes, shares gossip and dramatizes the happenings of his life. Shear Madness is his salon and TONY is the king (or queen) of it all. He is fun, devilish, interesting, passionate and a real character. He is not jaded in any way. His “shoot from the hip” comedy endears him to all. He is able to do the physical comedy easily and with great flair. His toes must never touch the ground. TONY loves “playing for an audience”. He loves creating and executing merriment, and mirth.
NICK ROSSETTI (or NICK JOHNSON or TOM O’BRIEN depending on ethnic background, 30-50) He is a bright, quick thinking, personable guy who can also be an excellent straight man. He is not intimidated by a boisterous audience who is trying to help him solve the murder. He is good looking, masculine with a solid voice and solid skills who can learn the dynamics that will keep the investigation on track. NICK is a hardworking “gumshoe” detective who is a likeable, approachable, forceful cop. He has to make many decisions throughout the show. He is the heartbeat of “Shear Madness”. He has an emotional and intellectual stake in solving this crime. His frustration is frequently apparent.
MRS. SHUBERT (45-70) is an old-money socialite of impeccable breeding and manner. She moves and speaks with natural— not artificial— grace and style. She can really turn on the charm when needed. MRS. SHUBERT is an old-line WASP and she’s shocked when anyone thinks otherwise. At her finest she’s a real class act. The character has her hair cut to a specified classic length so that it is easy to wash and set onstage – which happens every performance.
Director: Jarel Davidow
First rehearsal: Aug 28
Opening: Sept 14
Closing: Oct 14
SYNOPSIS: MARRIAGE IS MURDER is a two-hander about ex-spouses (and writing partners) who are forced to reunite in order to write a screenplay based on their most famous detective. Their unique writing style involves them acting out each murder to test the realism. Are they acting or is one of them in real danger? This play requires two actors with great verbal and physical dexterity
PAUL BUTLER (age range 40-50) is living a dismal existence since the breakup of his marriage to Polly 18 months ago. A once very successful mystery writer (in partnership with his ex), Paul is now living in a messy one-bedroom apartment unsuccessfully writing his autobiography. He is very suspicious of Polly when she shows up out of the blue.
POLLY BUTLER (age range 40-50) has become a very successful screenwriter since leaving her husband. Since she and her ex share the copyright of their most famous character, she is forced to come back to write with him when Hollywood comes calling. She is just as suspicious of him.
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