Pasadena Playhouse 2024-25 Season - LA ECC Dancers (Male Characters)
Pasadena Playhouse | Pasadena, CA
Notice: Audition Call Type: ECC
Friday, June 7, 2024
11:00 AM (P)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
LORT Non-Rep
$1100 weekly minimum (LORT B)
Equity chorus dancers (Male characters) for Pasadena Playhouse's 2024-25 Season (See breakdown).
Local Los Angeles area actors are
encouraged to audition.
Pasadena Playhouse is committed to inclusive and representative casting that reflects the diversity of our community, both on a local and national scale. Unless otherwise specified in breakdowns, we encourage actors of any race, ethnicity, age, national origin, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, with physical or mental disabilities, and body size to audition.
Some roles may be understudied.
Please come warmed up and prepared to dance. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Pasadena Playhouse 2024-25 Season - LA ECC Dancers (Male Characters)
Pasadena Playhouse
39 S El Molino Ave
Pasadena, CA 91101-5220
Carrie Hamilton Theater (2nd Floor).
Expected to attend;
Producing Artistic Director: Danny Feldman
Associate Producer: Jenny Slattery
Casting Director: Ryan Bernad Tymensky
Company Manager: Bonnie McHeffey
Choreographer: Annie Yee
All Directors and Choreographers are TBD for the season.
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for production specific dates.
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If there are any potential accessibility barriers preventing you from auditioning or if you require an ADA accessible route to the audition room, please reach out to seasonsubmissions@pasadenaplayhouse.org. ECC 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.
Book by Harvey Fierstein
Music and Lyrics by Jerry Herman
Based off the Play by Jean Pioret
First Rehearsal: October 15, 2024
Opening: November 17, 2024
Closing: December 15, 2024
ALBIN: Male. A performer of star quality; mature; great powerhouse of a Broadway voice; fine comic GEORGES: Male. A star; mature, good singer; energetic, loving and caring; moves well
JEAN-MICHEL: Male. Well-mannered, educated; desperately in love with his fiancée, Anne; sings and moves well
JACOB: Male. butler; brilliant comedian who sings and moves well
ANNE: Female. Jean-Michel's fiancée; spunky; a superb dancer
EDOUARD DINDON: Male. Anne's father; right-wing radical politician; pompous; quirky; must sing, move well, and be a fine comedian
MARIE DINDON: Female. Anne's mother; 48-52, shy, retiring, sexually repressed and sex-starved; good singer and moves well
JACQUELINE: Female. Mature, female friend of Georges and Albin; owns a chic restaurant; attractive, charming; very theatrical; not necessarily a singer
RENAUD: Male. Mature, male friend of Georges and Albin; owns a small cafe FRANCIS: Male. Stage manager in Georges' club; strong dancer
THE LES CAGELLES: Chantal, Monique, Dermah, Nicole, Hanna, Mercedes, Bitelle, Lo Singh, Odette, Angelique, Phaedra, Clo-Clo
TOWNSPEOPLE: Madame Renaud, Paulette, Hercule, Etienne, Babette, Colette, Tabarro, Pepe
Book by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse
Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
First Rehearsal: January 7, 2025
Opening: January 24, 2025
Closing: January 26, 2025
Reno Sweeney: [Role Filled] A sexy evangelist turned nightclub dancer
Hope Harcourt: A beautiful debutante
Evangeline Harcourt: Hope’s mother, a widow
Lord Evelyn Oakleigh: A wealthy Englishman
Elisha Whitney: A goggle-eyed tycoon
Billy Crocker: Whitney’s young assistant
Moonface Martin: A hapless gangster, Public Enemy #13 Erma: A sexy gangster’s gal
Luke and John: Two Chinese converts
Ship’s Captain
Ship’s Purser
Ship’s Crew and Passengers
Angel #1, #2, #3, #4: Showgirls with Reno’s act Male Quartet: Sailors
Fred: A bartender
Henry T. Dobson: A minister
Two Reporters
A News Photographer
Two FBI Agents
An Old Lady in a Wheelchair
Book By James Goldman
Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
First Rehearsal: January 14, 2025
Opening: January 31, 2025
Closing: February 2, 2025
Young Phyllis: A younger version of Phyllis, when she was an energetic and naïve Follies girl. Slightly sad and homesick. With all the drive and none of the sophistication of the adult Phyllis. Gender: Female, Age: 20 to 25, Vocal range top: E5, Vocal range bottom: B3
Young Buddy: A younger version of the Buddy we see today. Charismatic and lively, a man who knows how to have fun. Loves Sally blindly and wants to give her the world. Gender: Male, Age: 20 to 30, Vocal range top: G5, Vocal range bottom: C4
Young Ben: A not yet fully realized version of the man we see before us today, he is driven and intelligent but not quite so distinguished, and not yet frightened by his success. Gender: Male, Age: 20 to 30, Vocal range top: F5, Vocal range bottom: C4
Carlotta Campion: The one-time movie star, who is in terrific shape for her age. The kind of woman who has seen everything and is proud to be standing where she is. Gender: Female, Age: 45 to 55, Vocal range top: B4, Vocal range bottom: E3
Stella Deems: A portly woman who surprisingly moves with a special lightness; half of a former performing duo with her husband, but they gave it up to open a general store in Miami. Loves life and has led a good one. Gender: Female, Age: 55 to 65, Vocal range top: F5, Vocal range bottom: E3
Max Deems: A portly man who surprisingly moves with a special lightness; half of a former performing duo with his wife, Stella, but they gave it up to open a general store in Miami. Loves life and has led a good one. Gender: Male, Age: 55 to 65
Emily Whitman: A tiny, bright and papery woman. Married to Theodore, who teach dance together. Gender: Female, Age: 65 to 80, Vocal range top: D5, Vocal range bottom: B3
Hattie Walker: An appealingly tough, no-nonsense lady. A former knockout Follies girl from the earlier years of the shows. She has married several times and always to the same type: the bad boy. Gender: Female, Age: 65 to 75, Vocal range top: B4, Vocal range bottom: G3
Theodore Whitman: A tiny, bright and papery man. Married to Emily, who teach dance together. Gender: Male, Age: 65 to 80, Vocal range top: D4, Vocal range bottom: B2
Solange La Fitte: A French fashionista. Very much still alive and enjoying it, she is a perfume creator and seller. Has travelled the world but loves Paris more than any other place. Gender: Female, Age: 65 to 75, Vocal range top: G5, Vocal range bottom: A3
Heidi Schiller: Tall and queenly. Viennese. Incredibly rich and well known in elite social circles, she is constantly reminiscing. Gender: Female, Age: 65 to 75, Vocal range top: G5, Vocal range bottom: D4
Young Heidi: A younger version of the Heidi we see today. Already tall and queenly, but perhaps not yet rich and so well connected. Gender: Female, Age: 18 to 25, Vocal range top: A5, Vocal range bottom: E4
Dimitri Weissman: An acerbic, vital, energetic man who looks fifteen years younger than he really is. Staged the Follies every year between the great wars, and made stars of any girl he wanted from the legions who threw themselves at him. Gender: Male, Age: 70 to 80
Roscoe: An elderly showman with a majestic tenor voice who introduces the Follies girls as if no time has passed and they are still the beautiful young girls of years ago. Gender: Male, Age: 55 to 65, Vocal range top: A5, Vocal range bottom: D4
Sally Durant Plummer: Petite. Sweet-faced. Bubbly. Still remarkably like the girl she was thirty years ago. A former Follies girl, she married a man she didn't love. Needy and delusional at times. Gender: Female, Age: 45 to 55, Vocal range top: G5, Vocal range bottom: F3
Phyllis Rogers Stone: Stylish and intelligent. Her face is more beautiful now than it was thirty years ago. A woman who made her husband her life, the journey has hardened her and replaced the traces of life with cold sophistication and poise. Gender: Female, Age: 45 to 55, Vocal range top: E5, Vocal range bottom: F3
Buddy Plummer: A handsome, charismatic man with a sad face wrinkled from years of too much smiling. Stuck in a broken marriage and has had multiple affairs. Gender: Male, Age: 50 to 60, Vocal range top: F5, Vocal range bottom: C4
Benjamin Stone: Tall. Trim. Distinguished. Successful. Authoritative. A man bent on success from a young age who has achieved it and now realizes the toll it had on personal relationships. Gender: Male, Age: 50 to 60, Vocal range top: F5, Vocal range bottom: A3
Young Sally: A younger version of the adult Sally. She is perhaps the most similar to her adult counterpart of any of the foursome. Petite. Sweet-faced. Bubbly. Adventurous. Wants it all, but may not have the patience or drive to wait for it. Gender: Female, Age: 18 to 25, Vocal range top: G5, Vocal range bottom: C4
Ensemble: Old Showgirls, Showgirl Ghosts, Party Musicians, Party Staff
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