Music Theater Heritage 2024 Season - Kansas City, MO EPA Music Theater Heritage | Kansas City, MO
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Friday, November 10, 2023
2:00 PM - 9:00 PM (C)
No break scheduled
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$512 weekly minimum (SPT 5)
Equity actors for roles in Music Theater Heritage's 2024 Season (See breakdown).
If you are interested in auditioning for only GLASS MENAGERIE or IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE, please prepare a one-minute monologue. If you’d like to show both monologue and song, both selections must be short. If you are only singing, please prepare a short cut of something you absolutely love to sing. Bring your book with you in case additional selections are requested.
Music Theater Heritage
2450 Grand Blvd STE 301
Kansas City, MO 64108
Mainstage of Music Theater Heritage, 3rd Floor of Crown Center.
Expected to attend:
Artistic Director: Tim Scott
Artistic Associate: Emily Shackelford
See breakdown for production specific dates.
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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.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
Performances: Feb 29th, Mar 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th.
First Rehearsal: Feb 12th, 2024
Amanda Wingfield - 40s - 50s, Female Presenting. Any ethnicity. Laura and Tom’s mother. A proud, vivacious woman, Amanda clings fervently to memories of a vanished, genteel past. She is simultaneously admirable, charming, pitiable, and laughable.
Laura Wingfield - 20s, Female Presenting. Any ethnicity. Amanda’s daughter and Tom’s older sister. Laura has a bad leg, on which she has to wear a brace, and walks with a limp. Twenty-three years old and painfully shy, she has largely withdrawn from the outside world and devotes herself to old records and her collection of glass figurines.
Tom Wingfield - 20s - 40s, Male Presenting. Any ethnicity. Amanda’s son and Laura’s younger brother. An aspiring poet, Tom works at a shoe warehouse to support the family. He is frustrated by the numbing routine of his job and escapes from it through movies, literature, and alcohol.
Jim O’Connor - 20s, Male Presenting. Any ethnicity. An old acquaintance of Tom and Laura. Jim was a popular athlete in high school and is now a shipping clerk at the shoe warehouse in which Tom works. He is unwaveringly devoted to goals of professional achievement and ideals of personal success.
First Rehearsal: April 1st, 2024
Performances: April 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, May 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th.
Player One (Jesus) - [CAST] 20s/30s, Tenor, Male Presenting, Any Ethnicity - Charismatic, a natural leader. Strong singer and moves well.
Player Two (John the Baptist / Judas) - [CAST] 20s/30s, Baritone, Male Presenting, Any Ethnicity - A revolutionary. Intellectual. Strong singer and moves well.
Player Three (Lamar) - 20s/30s, Tenor, Any Gender, Any Ethnicity - Stong singer and moves very well.
Player Four (Herb) – 20s/30s, Baritone, Any Gender, Any Ethnicity - Strong singer and moves very well.
Player Five - [CAST] 20s/30s, Tenor, Any Gender, Any Ethnicity - Strong singer and moves very well.
Player Six - [CAST] 20s/30s, Mezzo Soprano, Any Gender, Any Ethnicity - Strong singer and moves very well.
Player Seven - [CAST] 20s/30s, Mezzo Soprano, Any Gender, Any Ethnicity - Strong singer and moves very well.
Player Eight - [CAST] 20s/30s, Soprano, Any Gender, Any Ethnicity - Strong singer and moves very well.
Player Nine - [CAST] 20s/30s, Alto, Any Gender, Any Ethnicity - Strong singer and moves very well.
First Rehearsal: May 20th, 2024
Performances: June 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, and 23rd.
Bess - [CAST] Soprano - Black, Female Presenting - a young woman and friend of Crown, later of Porgy. Lives with Porgy during Crown’s absence but returns briefly to Crown.
Porgy - Bass-Baritone - Black, Male Presenting - An old beggar. He is frail in body, but his hands are powerful. He says little but observes much. When Bess moves in and becomes his woman after Crown has fled following Robbins’ murder, Porgy is transformed from an impassive observer of life to a lover of children as well as of Bess. Fearful of losing Bess to Crown, Porgy kills him, but he loses her anyway.
Crown - [CAST] Baritone - Black, Male Presenting - violent lover of Bess. Dangerous when drunk. Sportin’ Life - [CAST] Tenor - Black, Male Presenting - drug dealer from New York.
Jake/Ensemble - baritone – Black, male presenting – a fisherman.
Clara/Ensemble - soprano – Black, Female Presenting – Jake’s wife.
Ensemble - 3 Black Men and 3 Black Women to play multiple parts representing the residents of Catfish Row.
First Rehearsal: July 15th, 2024
Performances: August 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th.
Albin - Baritone. 40s/50s, Male Presenting, Any Ethnicity. A performer of star quality; mature; powerhouse voice, comedic.
Georges - Bass-Baritone. 40s/50s, Male Presenting, Any Ethnicity. A star; mature; good singer; energetic, loving, must move well.
Jean-Michael - Baritone. 20s, Male Presenting, Any Ethnicity. Well-mannered, educated; desperately in love with his fiancee, Anne.
Jacob -Baritone. 40s/50s, Male Presenting, Black. Butler; brilliant comedian who sings and moves well.
Anne - 20s, Female Presenting, Any Ethnicity. Jean-Michael’s fiancee; spunky’ a superb dancer who acts well.
Edouard Dindon - 50s/60s, Baritone. Male Presenting, Any Ethnicity. Anne’s father; right wing radical politician; pompous; quirky; must sing, move well, and is a fine comedian.
Marie Dindon - 40s/50s, Mezzo-Soprano. Female Presenting, Any Ethnicity. Anne’s mother; shy, retiring, sexually repressed and sex-starved; good singer who moves well.
Cagelles/Ensemble - 3 men and 2 women
First Rehearsal: September 16th, 2024
Performances: October 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th.
Sweeney Todd - 40s/50s Male Presenting. Any ethnicity. Vocal Range: F2- Gb4. A wrongfully imprisoned barber seeking to right the wrongs committed against him. He is Johanna's father, singularly focused on taking bloody revenge. Our story's tormented protagonist.
Mrs. Lovett/Ensemble - 30s/40s Female Presenting. Any ethnicity. Vocal Range: G3- E5. An entrepreneurial and amoral meat pie shop owner. She falls in love with Todd and turns his desire for revenge into a profitable business venture.
Anthony/Ensemble - 20s Male Presenting. Any ethnicity. Vocal Range: Bb2- F4. A naive and youthful sailor returning to London. He helps Todd return to London and unexpectedly falls in love with Johanna.
Johanna/Ensemble - 20s Female Presenting. Any ethnicity. Vocal Range: Bb3-A5. A spritely girl, full of innocence, constantly yearning for freedom. Todd's long-lost daughter and Turpin's ward.
Tobias/Ensemble - 12 to 18 Male Presenting. Any ethnicity. Vocal Range: Bb2-Ab4. A poor youngster apprenticed to Pirelli. He finds a surrogate family in Todd and Lovett.
Judge Turpin/Ensemble - [CAST] 50s/60s Male Presenting. Any ethnicity. Vocal Range: E2-Gb4. A lecherous public official who portrays himself as a sanctimonious authoritarian. He takes advantage of his position in the city and is responsible for imprisoning Todd.
The Beadle/Fogg/Ensemble - 40s/50s Male Presenting. Any ethnicity. Vocal Range: D3-D5. A pompous public official. He is deeply loyal to the corrupt Turpin.
Beggar Woman/Ensemble - 30s to 50s Female Presenting. Any ethnicity. Vocal Range: Ab3-F5. A deranged and schizophrenic woman who harbors a dark, surprising secret.
Adolfo Pirelli/Ensemble - 30s/40s Male Presenting. Any ethnicity. Vocal Range: B2-C5. A flamboyant Italian rival barber; a charlatan with a secret past.
First Rehearsal: November 18th, 2024
Performances: December 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, and 23rd.
Freddie Filmore - 30s/40s Male Presenting, Any Ethnicity. Plays Announcer and many others. Jake Laurents - 30s, Male Presenting, Any Ethnicity. Plays George Bailey.
Sally Applewhite - 20s/30s, Female Presenting, Any Ethnicity. Plays Mary Hatch. Lana Sherwood - 20s/30s, Female Presenting, Any Ethnicity. Plays Violet and many others. Harry Heywood - 30s/40s, Male Presenting, Any Ethnicity. Plays Harry, and many others.
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