MARY POPPINS - New Canaan, CT EPA Summer Theatre of New Canaan | New Canaan, CT
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Friday, March 29, 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (E)
Contact between 10 am and 4 pm to request appointment time - Email: casting@stonc.org; Phone: 203-966-4634
Actors without appointments will be seen if time permits.
LOA
$667 weekly minimum (LOA ref LORT)
Equity actors for roles in MARY POPPINS (see breakdown).
Please prepare song cut in style of musical. Bring Headshot and Resume.
Summer Theatre of New Canaan
70 Pine St
New Canaan, CT 06840
Located 1 block from New Canaan Metro North station on the New Haven line.
Original Music and Lyrics: Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman
Book by Julian Fellowes
New Songs and Additional Music and Lyrics by Anthony Drewe, George Stiles
Director/Artistic Director: Melody Libonati Choreographer: Doug Shankman
Music Director: Nick Wilders
Personnel with authority to hire stage managers will be present.
Rehearsals begin June 18, Tuesday - Sunday based on call
Show Runs July 12 - 28,
4 Performances per week Fridays through Sundays
OTHER
Theatre will provide Metro North tickets to cast.
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
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.
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MARY POPPINS - Female 30-40 yrs old. Range: Gb3 - C6. Jane and Michael Banks's new nanny. She is extraordinary and strange, neat and tidy, delightfully vain yet very particular, and sometimes a little frightening but always exciting. She is practically perfect in every way and always means what she says. Moves well.
BERT - Male 30-39 yrs old. Range: B2 - F#4. Narrator of the story and a good friend to Mary Poppins. An everyman, Bert has many occupations, including hurdy-gurdy player, sidewalk artist, and chimney sweep. Bert watches over the children as well as the goings on in Cherry Tree Lane. He has charm, speaks with a Cockney accent, and is a song-and-dance-man.
WINIFRED BANKS - Female 30-40 yrs old. Range: A3 - D5. George's wife and Jane and Michael's mother. A former actress, she is a loving and distracted homemaker who is busy trying to live up to her husband's desire to only associate with the best people as well a model wife and mother. She suffers from the conflicting feelings that she's not up to the job of being Mrs. Banks, yet, she is, and more. She has a great warmth and simplicity to her tone.
GEORGE BANKS - Male 40-45 yrs old. Range: Bb2 - Eb4. Father to Jane and Michael Banks. He is a banker to the very fiber of his being. Demanding precision and order in his household, he is a pipe and-slippers man who doesn't have much to do with his children and believes that he had the perfect upbringing by his nanny, the cruel Miss Andrew. His emotional armor, however, conceals a sensitive soul.
JANE BANKS - Female 11 yrs old. Range: A3 - F#5. High-spirited daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Banks. She is bright and precocious but can be willful and inclined to snobbishness.
MICHAEL BANKS - Male 9 yrs old. Range: A3 - E5. Cute and cheeky son of Mr. and Mrs. Banks. Excitable and naughty, he adores his father and tries to be like him. Both he and Jane misbehave in order to get the attention of their parents.
MISS ANDREW/ MRS. CORRY - Female 40-60 yrs old. As Ms. Andrew: Range: Gb3 - F5. George's overbearing and scary nanny. With her bottle of nasty-tasting brimstone and treacle to keep naughty children in line, she is a bully who only knows one way of doing things - her way. As Mrs. Corry: Owns a magical gingerbread shop. She is a mysterious woman of great age who is quite stylized and speaks with an exotic accent.
ROBERTSON AY - Male 20-30 yrs old. Range: F3 - G#4. Houseboy to the Banks family. Lazy, sleepy, and grumbling, he never gets things right and believes himself to be useless.
BIRD WOMAN/ MRS. BRILL - Female, 50-60 yrs old. As Bird Woman: Range: Gb3 - C5. Covered in a patchwork of old shawls, her pockets are stuffed with bags of crumbs for the birds. She tries to sell her crumbs for the birds to passersby, who ignore her as if she doesn't exist. She has a gruff, folksy quality to her voice that reflects the hardness of her life. As Mrs. Brill: Range: F#3 - D#5. Housekeeper and cook for the Banks family. Overworked and harassed, she's always complaining that the house is understaffed. Her intimidating exterior is a cover for the warmth underneath. Mrs. Brill doesn't have a high opinion of nannies in general and Mary Poppins in particular.
ADMIRAL BOOM - Male 50-60 yrs old. A retired Royal Navy man and neighbor of the Banks family. A physically large man with a loud and booming voice, he speaks in Navy jargon and has a soft spot for his neighbor, Miss Lark.
ENSEMBLE MALE DANCERS & SINGERS (who are good movers): Men 20s to 30s. Dancers must be athletic with strong technique. All ethnicities and character types. Understudies will come from ensemble.
ENSEMBLE FEMALE DANCERS & SINGERS (who are good movers): Women 20s to 30s. Dancers must be athletic with strong technique. All ethnicities and characters types. Understudies will come from ensemble.
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