Phoenix Theatre 2023-24 Season - Phoenix, AZ EPA/ECC Singers
Phoenix Theatre | Phoenix, AZ
Sunday, April 2, 2023
10:00 AM - 8:00 PM (M)
Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
To schedule an audition appointment please go to:
https://phoenixtheatre.com/about-us/audition-callback-and-casting-information.
Appointments are mandatory.
LOA
$739 weekly minimum (Ref. LORT)
Equity actors and singers for principal roles and chorus singer parts in Phoenix Theatre's 2023-24 Season (See breakdown).
For Musical auditions, prepare a short up-tempo song, a short ballad, and 1-1 1⁄2 minute monologue. Your second song selection will be sung only upon request. For Non- Musical (straight play) auditions you should prepare 2 contrasting monologues, no more than 1 1/2 minutes each.
Phoenix Theatre
1825 N Central Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85004
Holding Room: Hardes Theatre
Pasha Yamotahari (Associate Producing
Director/Artistic Director of Partners That Heal)
Expected to attend:
Chelsea Anderson (Casting Director)
Michael Barnard (Producing Artistic Director)
Kevin White (Resident Music Director)
See breakdown for production 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.
Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical
mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas
are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
Equity encourages members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and dressing rooms.
Holding/Audition room information:
The maximum capacity in the holding room is: 150
The maximum capacity in the audition room is: 22
2023-2024 Season Breakdown
All dates are subject to change.
Rehearsals begin August 15, 2023
Performances September 8-November 26, 2023
Content-informed casting note: Discussion of racism and violence against Black-identifying individuals,
allusions to illicit drug use, discussion of difficult relationships.
Billie Holiday: the great jazz singer in the last year of her life (age 44).
Jimmy Powers: a piano player, any age.
Rehearsals begin September 5, 2023
Performances October 2-29, 2023
Content-informed casting note: Tiananmen is a fictional musical that dramatizes events of the 1989
Tiananmen Square student protests in Beijing. The story contains violence related to war and
hunger/food insecurity related to hunger strikes.
Fan Xilan: she/her. Teenager in 1989, middle-aged in present day; East Asian
Fan Xirui: she/her. A student at Beijing Normal University
Sheng Yingjie: he/him. A student at Beijing Normal University
Wu Guoxin: he/him. Graduate student at Beijing Normal University
Gao Wei: he/him. A solider in the People’s Liberation Army
Tay Lee: she/her. A rock star who supports the students
Deng Xiaopeng: he/him. Paramount Leader of China
Zhao Ziyang: he/him. General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
Li Peng: he/him. Premier of the People’s Republic of China
Featured ensemble: including Mothers, Stranger, Street Vendor, Hong Kong Reporter, Party Official
Yuan Mu, Hong King Police Officer, students, and soldiers.
Rehearsals begin October 31, 2023
Performances November 24-December 31, 2022
Buddy: Born a human but raised at the North Pole as a Christmas Elf, Buddy is eager to find his palce
in the world.
Jovie: Buddy’s girlfriend. An employee at Macy’s with a cyncial outlook on life and love because of the
men she’s dated. Caught off guard by Buddy’s genuinely big heart.
Walter: Buddy’s workaholic father. A children’s book writer who lacks Buddy’s childlike spirit. Selfish,
tense, and generally angry with life.
Emily: Walter’s wife. Sweet and willing to take in Buddy. Wishes her husband would spend more time
with the family.
Michael: Buddy’s stepbrother. Age 12-16.
Deb: Walter’s secretary. A bit of a suck-up and feels under appreciated.
Manager: Manager at Macy’s.
Greenway: Walter’s boss. A tyrannical workaholic who cares nothing about the people around him or
who work for him.
Santa: Loves his job and Christmas. A natural storyteller.
Chadwick: One of Walter’s right-hand men. Desperate to keep his job and not very bright.
Matthews: One of Walter’s right-hand men. Desperate to keep his job and a schemer.
Ensemble: includes Mrs. Claus, Elves, Charlie, Tiara, Mr. Narwhal, Teenager, Employees, Security
Guards, Customers, Sales people, Store Elves, Fake Santa, Boy, Mother, Policemen, Sarah, Jim,
Vendor, Waiter, Charlotte, and others.
Rehearsals begin January 2, 2024
Performances January 26-February 11, 2024
Content-informed casting note: Includes discussion of suicide and mention of death, war, and slavery.
These three characters play all other characters in the play.
Henry Lehman
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Emanuel Lehman
Mayer Lehman
Rehearsals begin January 16, 2024
Performances February 9-March 17, 2024
Content-informed casting note: Includes depiction of murder, cover-up, prostitution.
Winnie Ruth Judd
Jack Williams, Judge Speakman
TRACK 1: Fred Palmer, Andrews #2, Hangman, Citizen, Letter writer, Intimate Detective Editor
TRACK 2: Anne LeRoi, Andrews #1 & 3, Nancy, Mary Moore, Letter writer, Matron
TRACK 3: Sammy Samuelson, Donna Jean, Jennie McGrath, George Brooker, Mother Judd, Eva
Dugen, Letter writer, jump-rope girl
TRACK 4: Jack Halloran, Bailiff, Richard Schwartz, RR Creasy, Dr. Stephens, Father Judd, Juror
TRACK 5: Dr. Judd, Herman Lewkowitz, Caller, Warden, Citizen, Cop, Melvin Belli
TRACK 6: Steward, Clerk, Dr. Brown, Bartender, Letter writer, Len
Rehearsals begin February 13, 2024
Performances March 8-April 28, 2024
Content-informed casting note: discussion of drug use
Carole King: an aspiring singer/songwriter. A reluctant star with no pretense and a passion for music.
Gerry Goffin: Carole’s boyfriend, songwriting partner, and eventual husband. An ambitious artist
always striving for more.
Barry Mann: A songwriter who becomes romantically involved with Cynthia. Ambitious but likeable.
Cynthia Weil: A songwriter. Carole’s best friend. Sophisticated, smart, and chic with a quick wit.
Don Kirschner: An influential music publisher and producer. Powerful, diretr, and sometimes
intimidating.
Genie Klein: Carole’s Jewish mother. Once an aspiring playwright. Portective of Carole and
unforgiving of her husband’s mistakes.
Ensemble: including Neil Sedaka, Nick, Janelle Woods, Marilyn Wald, Lou Adler, Bobby Vee, Lead
Drifter, Back-up Drifters, Lead Shirelle, Back-Up Shirelles, The Righteous Brothers, soloists, Lucille,
Betty, Little Eva.
Rehearsals begin March 19, 2024
Performances April 12-June 16, 2024
Content-informed casting note: discussion of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking,
abortion and its stigmatization
Heidi Schreck: formerly a Constitutional debater.
Legionnaire
Debate student
Rehearsals begin April 30, 2024
Performances May 24-July 7, 2024
Content-informed casting note: discussion of social and political issues with a religious context,
concepts of interfaith marriage, gender roles, socialism, religious intolerance, and some moments of
violence.
Tevye: likeable, hard-working, pious dairyman and father.
Golde: Tevye’s strong-willed wife
Tzeitel: Tevye’s eldest daughter
Hodel: Tevye’s second daughter
Chava: Tevye's middle daughter
Shprintze: Tevye’s fourth dauther. Age 9-13
Bielke: Tevye’s youngest daughter. Age 8-12
Yente: The meddling matchmaker
Motel: Poor and meek tailor; in love with Tzeitel.
Perchik: Outspoken student and visitor to Anatevka. Challenges the traiditions of the town.
Lazar Wolf: Feisty and brawny butcher. The town’s wealthiest citizen.
Avram: Runs the local bookshop.
Grandma Tzeitel: Golde’s deceased grandmother
Fruma-sarah: Lazar Wolf’s deceased first wife
Constable: Russian military official stationed near Anatevka
Fyedka: A strong, young, Russian soldier
Ensemble: villagers and Russian soldiers.
Rehearsals begin June 18, 2024
Performances July 12-August 11, 2024
Sam and others: the actor plays all of the characters in the play
Rehearsals begin July 9, 2024
Performances August 2-September 1, 2024
Content-informed casting note: sexual references, adult content, alcohol and drug use, some
language, mild violence, allusion to the Holocaust and war
Sally Bowles: A flapper headling at the Kit Kat Club
The Emcee: Master of Ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub
Clifford Bradshaw: An American writer who has come to Berlin to writer a novel
Fraulein Schneider: a German woman who runs a boarding house
Herr Schultz: a Jewish fruit shop owner
Ernst Ludwig: A German smuggler who befriends Cliff; later revealed to be a Nazi
Fraulein Kost: a German prostitute
Ensemble: including Kit Kat Klub perfomers, Max
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