MY VERY OWN BRITISH INVASION (Dev Lab) - NYC EPA
Producing Org TBD
AUDITION DATE
Tue, Jul 31, 2018
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1:30 to 2:30
CONTRACT
Developmental Lab $1000/week
SEEKING
Seeking Equity actor/singers for a few roles. Some roles have been CAST, however actors may be considered for possible replacements if needed.
PREPARATION
Please prepare a short, contemporary 1960’s or 1970’s pop/rock (preferably British) song that shows off your range. Actors who play guitar may accompany themselves if desired, otherwise, a piano accompanist will be provided. Please bring sheet music. All actors should bring an updated picture/resume stapled together
LOCATION
Pearl Studios NYC (519)
519 8th Ave
12th Fl
New York, NY 10018
PERSONNEL
Producer: Hal Luftig and Craig Haffner
Director: Jerry Mitchell
Book: Rick Elice
Music and Lyrics: Multiple Artists
Music Supervisor: Lon Hoyt
General Manager: Foresight Theatrical, Aaron Lustbader
Casting: Telsey + Company, Patrick Goodwin
OTHER DATES
3-week Lab in NYC (October 29 – November 16th, 2018) $1,000/week
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.
BREAKDOWN
PAMELA
(18, Female, Caucasian) The perfect English rose, she’s all peaches-and-cream, educated, and even aristocratic. Her father was a British Army officer and professor of Italian Lit at London University. Her mother is a baroness, and her maternal great-grandfather was related to Baron Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the 19th century Austrian whose erotic novels spawned the word “masochism.” Pam will understand masochism over the course of our show. And addiction.
Her parents divorced when she was six. Understandably, she’s looking for love. Unfortunately, she might not recognize it if she finds it. Pam’s the definition of a Bright Young Thing, the trendiest, most desirable, loveliest of the Swinging London It-Girls when we meet her – that’s why she’s being followed by a film crew. PRINCIPAL.
TRIP
(19, Male, any ethnicity) Rock and Roll’s reigning bad boy. Spoiled rotten by all that smoke blown up his bum, and very much enjoying his rock star status (which has just exploded at the beginning of our show), Trip is nevertheless drawn to Pamela like a magnet, but the memory of playing for no money in basement clubs and tube stations is never very far away, and it drives him hard. When our show starts, he’s just returned from his first tour in the United Kingdom; this was what Fallon, his manager, calls the training ground tour. Before that, Trip studied at the London School of Economics and planned to be an accountant. Somehow, he transformed into the guy all the girls secretly want, because he spells danger. Under the danger, of course, Trip is pretty bourgeois and wants what he thinks he deserves – which includes the girl he’s in love with, and would do anything for (including beating his competition to a pulp). PRINCIPAL.
GINO
(20, Male, African-American) Was stationed in the UK with the US Air Force, and stayed because, as an American R&B singer, he was exotic, exciting, sexy, smart – and divinely talented- which is how he got be the in-house Emcee at the Bag of Nails club – the hothouse where the about-to-be-famous in music, fashion, art, theater, hang out every night in Swinging London’s Soho. Gino’s a major singer, and a star in his own right – and if he picks you, you’re a winner. PRINCIPAL.
PETER
(17, Male, Caucasian) Blond, sweet-natured, optimistic, patriotic Brit, naïve. He’s beautiful and he’s talented; adorable enough to turn the girls’ heads – and he likes the ladies, no doubt about it. That’s part of the lure of music for him – a way to impress the girls. He’s old-fashioned enough to believe in Britain and the British Empire, even though nobody else his age does, because it ain’t cool. Peter’s not cool, but he’s cute. Born in working-class Lancashire, he attended St. Bede's College, Manchester. That’s why he carries the “north country” values close to his heart. By the time the show begins, he’s well known for cheesy acting roles on television, including on the still-running soap opera Coronation Street. But he’s got hits now, too, as Herman of Herman’s Hermits. They’re sort of a joke act, counter-programming for the rock and roll stars on the horizon, like the Beatles and the Stones. As Herman, beautiful, blond Peter’s even been on the cover of Time Magazine – in a collage showing new faces in pop music. Peter begins the show as a boy, and over the course of the show, learns how to be a man. PRINCIPAL. ROLE HAS BEEN OFFERED AND ACCEPTED.
FALLON
(28, Male, Caucasian) An English record producer, talent manager, impresario and booking agent. Noted for his flamboyant style. A garrulous, androgynous gangster who wears makeup and sunglasses and relies on his bodyguard Rich The Hammer to threaten all potential rivals. Fallon’s a self-proclaimed hustler who worked on Carnaby Street for soon-to-be-famous fashion designer Mary Quant. In April 1964, a journalist friend recommended that he see a young R&B singer named Trip. Fallon saw potential in the kid, and positioned him as rock’s newest bad boy, a perfect antidote to the cuddly moptop image of the Beatles at that time. Fallon books Peter, Pamela and Trip on a fateful series of American tours, as part of his contribution to the British Invasion. After our show ends, he’s done in by drug use and legal problems. PRINCIPAL. ROLE HAS BEEN OFFERED AND ACCEPTED.
JOHN
(21, Male, Caucasian) John Lennon. Principal songwriter and front-man of the Beatles. Confident, a real artist, on his own plane. A good friend to Peter and to Trip. Aware of the larger world, aware of the power of his pen to change that world – and not afraid of using that pen, his guitar and his insane popularity to change that world for the better. Soon to be the most famous person on the planet. PRINCIPAL. ROLE HAS BEEN OFFERED AND ACCEPTED.
RICH THE HAMMER
(35-40, Male, Any ethnicity) A tough, downmarket Brit thug – and fixer for Fallon and Trip. The sort of guy who’d just as easily break a chair over your head as listen to you. Famous for taking people for rides in his big American car. From which some never return. Born again, but brutal. PRINCIPAL. ROLE HAS BEEN OFFERED AND ACCEPTED.
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 audition.
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