PETER AND THE STARCATCHER - NYC EPA
Argyle Entertainment LLC
AUDITION DATE
Thu, Jul 12, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
LOA ref. to COST; $450/week + health/pension/travel
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles. See breakdown for details
PREPARATION
Please prepare a brief (1 minute or so) monologue, in the style of the show. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Evan Pappas, Artistic Director
Mark Perlman and Dylan Perlman, Managing Directors
DIRECTOR: Amanda Connors (expected at the EPA)
MUSIC DIRECTOR: Ilana Atkins
BOOK: Rick Elice
MUSIC: Wayne Barker
CASTING DIRECTOR: Michael Cassara, CSA (expected at the EPA)
OTHER DATES
First rehearsal: on/about 8/20
First performance: 9/13
Closes: 10/21
Performances will generally run Wednesday-Sunday. Production rehearses in Manhattan until early September, and then moves to Babylon, Long Island. Theatre is about an hour from midtown, via LIRR (producers cover all travel).
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
PETER AND THE STARCATCHER
SPECIAL NOTES:
This is the third production at the Argyle Theatre, a brand new, 500-seat regional theatre located in Babylon, New York. The Argyle was built in 1922 as a vaudeville house, became a movie theatre, and has just undergone a $3 million renovation. The state-of-the-art facility will bring live theatre and more to residents of Suffolk County and beyond.
Performances will generally run Wednesday - Sundays. This production rehearses in Manhattan until early September, and then moves to Babylon, Long Island. The theatre is about an hour from midtown, via LIRR (producers cover all travel to and from LI).
SEEKING:
(all performers should be 18+)
The following 7 roles are open to AEA performers, though only 5 contracts will ultimately be available.
[BLACK STACHE]
30s, male, any ethnicity. Comic star turn. Long after everyone else got out of the pirate business, Black Stache continues to terrorize the seven seas in search of a hero worthy of his villainy. Famous for his face foliage, he started shaving at age ten, had a bushy handlebar by eleven, and the blood of twenty crews on his hands by twelve. Heartless and hirsute, suspiciously well read, partial to the poetical and theatrical, and given to a ferocity from which no good shall ever spring.
[SMEE]
late 20s-30s, male, any ethnicity. First mate to Black Stache. Single-mindedly dedicated to his captain's every whim. His motto: Tis good to be busy.
[MRS. BUMBRAKE]
30s-40s, man playing a woman, any ethnicity. Molly's nanny. British to the bone. Still has enough of her girlish charm to turn a sailor's head and leaven his dreams. Stiff in the lip, loose in the hip, fun on a ship. Also plays [TEACHER] Formerly a salmon; now an ancient, knowledgeable mermaid.
[LORD LEONARD ASTER]
40s-50s, male, any ethnicity. The very model of a Victorian English gentleman, loyal subject to the Queen, devoted father, faithful friend. Also, an not irrelevant to our story, Lord Aster is a Starcatcher--dedicated to protecting the Earth and all who dwell thereon from the awesome power of starstuff.
[BOY (PETER)]
20s, male, any ethnicity. A boy who doesn't miss much. Nameless, homeless, and friendless at the beginning of the play and a hero by the end. A survivor. More than anything the world, he wants a home and a family. If he could grow up, he'd fall for Molly in a big way. But it'll never happen.
[MOLLY ASTER]
18+ to play young. A true leader at a time when girls are mostly followers. Will risk everything for the sake of Doing Right. Curious, intelligent, beginning to feel things she doesn't yet understand--romantic longings that revert to childish tantrums under pressure--because, after all, she's a thirteen-year-old kid. She'll be a great woman one day.
[ALF]
30s-50s, male, any ethnicity. An old sea dog. Something about him appeals to the feminine sensibility--might be his bow legs, his saucy gait, or his kind heart.
The following roles are most likely going to be cast with non-Equity performers:
[PRENTISS]
20s, male, any ethnicity. Ambitious, hyper-articulate, logical; yearns to be a leader, even as he knows in his heart that he never shall be one. A bit of a blowhard with just the teeny-tiniest touch of cowardice.
[TED]
20s, male, any ethnicity. Obsessed with food: the eating of, the fighting over, the dreaming about. A natural actor, an easy wit, perhaps a future poet. Called Tubby by Prentiss, though not due to girth, of which orphans, given their meager diets, have very little indeed.
[CAPTAIN ROBERT FALCON SCOTT]
30s-40s, male, any ethnicity. Captain of Britain's fastest frigate, the Wasp. Years later, he would lead an expeditionary team to the South Pole, freeze to death, and become the iconic British hero, Scoot of the Antarctic.
[GREMPKIN]
The mean and malodorous schoolmaster of St. Norbert's Orphanage for Lost Boys. Likes to keep his boys in the dark, as sunlight is known to feed rebellion notions, and on account of the preference in certain quarters for lads that are white and pasty. Also plays [FIGHTING PRAWN] King of the Mollusks, son of Jumbo Prawn and Littleneck Clam. Kidnapped by British sailors and brought in chains to England, he served as souschef in a country estate in Derbyshire, where, for no good reason, he learned Italian wines and mastered Italian cuisine. Since returning to his island kingdom, he vengefully murders any English with the temerity to land on his Mollusk Isle domain. Also plays [MACK] A very bad sailor who wants to be anywhere but under the thumb of bill Slank. Also plays [SANCHEZ] A hard-working Spanish pirate with an identity crisis.
[BILL SLANK]
The Neverland's vicious captain, without the skill or quality to lead anyone but himself--and always into disaster. A greedy bastard who'd sell his own mother for a ship to command and send boys to their doom for the favor of those who would use starstuff for personal gain, global domination, or worse. An orphan too. Also plays [HAWKING CLAM] Son of Fighting Prawn and Sweet'n'sour Shrimp. One day, he will ascend the Clam throne as head of the Royal Clam Clan.
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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