New Harmony Theatre 2017 Season - NYC EPA
New Harmony Theatre
AUDITION DATE
Feb 21, 2017
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EST)
Lunch 1:30 to 2:30
CONTRACT
LOA ref. to LORT; approximately $637/week
SEEKING
Equity actors and actor/singers for various roles in the upcoming season. Also seeking an actor/piano player for the role of Cosme in SOUVENIR.
See breakdown.
PREPARATION
Actors will be asked to audition with a monologue of choice or read from a side, provided at the audition. If you are also auditioning for the musicals, you will also be asked to sing and/or play piano. IMPORTANT: Please read the specific audition preparation instructions suggested for each of the SHOWS / ROLES IN THE BREAKDOWN in order to know what pieces are preferred.
Total audition time not to exceed 2 minutes.
All bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Ripley-Grier Studios (520)
520 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6507
16th floor
PERSONNEL
Producing Artistic Director: Elliot Wasserman
Resident Associate Director: Eric Altheide
Managing/Marketing Director: John Parker
OTHER DATES
Around the World in 80 Days - rehearsal starts June 6, 2017
Ruthless! - rehearsal starts June 27, 2017
Souvenir - rehearsal starts July 11, 2017
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
AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS
by Mark Brown
rehearsal starts June 6, 2017
(Audition preparation note: Actors are suggested to read from the side provided at the audition, which will be a section of dialogue in which the actor will be playing all of the roles on the page and varying dialect. Of special interest will be high and low British dialects, which may range into Scottish and Irish, as well as French, Hindi and Chinese.)
This show is generally performed by 5 actors (4 Men, 1 Woman)
Looking for comic actors with a gift for improvisation, slapstick, and highly theatrical if not realistic dialect. One actor will play Phileas Fogg, while the other actors play multiple roles at a brisk pace.
ACTOR 1 (male):
Plays 16 roles with dialects representing the breadth of high and low born English speakers, as well as one Chinese gentleman.
ACTOR 2 (male):
Plays 8 roles employing dialects from England and India, also plays a female servant.
ACTOR 3 (male):
Plays 2 roles, Fogg’s French servant and a British Gentleman.
ACTOR 4 (female):
Plays 3 roles, a male servant, a priest, and Aouda, an Indian woman in distress.
ACTOR 5 (male):
Plays Fogg, a man of great but controlled energy, indefatigable, calm, Victorian, British.
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RUTHLESS, THE MUSICAL
by Joal Paley and Marvin Laird
rehearsal starts June 27, 2017
This is a musical farce that parodies a host of Hollywood films and seems to situate itself best in a fifties milieu, amped up with nervous energy.
(audition preparation notes: Actors prepare a 1-minute monologue of choice - a monologue acted in the style of 1950’s movie melodrama is suggested. Also prepare 16 bars of a song showing belt)
Seeking:
SYLVIA ST. CROIX
(male or female): There is an established tradition for a male to play this role, but the preference is for whoever embodies this character, of uncertain origin; she was a frustrated, failed actress now acting like a talent scout and personal agent, fully grounded in the “biz” side of showbiz. Perhaps a husky smoker’s voice? A failed actress. In the end reveals she is a legendary former Broadway musical star, so an ability to blend in a bit of some famous leading ladies couldn’t hurt.
JUDY DENMARK
(female): Mother of a talented daughter, she embodies the fifties housewife but with a desperate something extra. Imagine Donna Reed on diet pills speed reading Good Housekeeping while pulling the Electrolux. Don’t stop there, she transforms and finishes the act like Gloria Swanson, if Gloria had been Mary Martin.
TINA DENMARK
(female, youthful adult actress 18+): A third grade stage prodigy who plays the innocent child, but whose desire for stardom reveals the monster underneath. A brat, who prefers to kill rather than pitch a fit. Looking for an adult actress for the role. Small stature preferred. Short and Petite.
MYRNA THORN / MISS BLOCK
(female): We all know a Miss Thorn, one of those drama teachers who lack all sense of perspective; Miss Block is a reporter with an often undisguised interest in women.
LOUISE LERMAN / EVE
(female): Louise is a grade schooler who will be played by an adult, spoiled, petulant, and a bit thick-headed, who lords her status in the school play over Tina. Eve is the maid in Act 2 who is forced to pretend she is French and whose terrible secret animates a controlled animosity to the Broadway star she is forced to wait upon.
LITA ENCORE
(female): Judy’s mother and Tina’s grandmother, Lita is also a theatre critic. Any good actor knows how to play that one, with revenge in mind.
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SOUVENIR: A Fantasia on the life of Florence Foster Jenkins
by Stephen Temperley
rehearsal starts July 11, 2017
Seeking:
FLORENCE FOSTER JENNKINS
(female, middle age to late middle age): This is a historical character, Jenkins is tone-deaf, but gripped by the delusion she has operatic singing talent. Must be able to sing shrilly and operatically against the pitch.
(Florence audition preparation note: Prepare 16 bars from an aria in Italian or German, to be performed both on pitch and off pitch. Also prepare a monologue of choice)
COSME MCMOON
(male, a pianist, middle aged): MUST PLAY PIANO. Jenkins’ accompanist who bonds over time with his employer, is both in the scene and a narrator, navigates the ridiculous with an understated tact.
(Cosme audition preparation note: Actors must demonstrate strong piano skills, an ability to support an operatic recital, and to play challenging classical pieces with sensitivity. Please bring a brief classical piece for piano. You may also be given a piece to play while you are here. Also prepare a brief monologue no more than 1 minute.)
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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