RAGTIME - NYC ECC Singers (Male Characters) New York City Center Inc. | New York, NY
Notice: Audition Call Type: ECC
Monday, July 15, 2024
2:00 PM (E)
Special Agreement
$2063 weekly minimum
Equity chorus singers (Male characters) for New York City Center Gala Production of RAGTIME (See breakdown).
All Equity Stage Managerial positions are filled.
Please prepare 16-bars of a musical theatre song in the style of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, showing range. Please bring sheet music for the piano accompanist provided. Please bring a headshot and resume stapled together.
Ripley-Grier Studios (520)
520 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6507
Holding room - Studio 10D
Book: Terrence McNally
Music: Stephen Flaherty
Lyrics: Lynn Ahrens
Director: Lear deBessonet
Choreographer: Ellenore Scott
Music Director: James Moore
New York City Center VP & Producer of Musical Theater: Jenny Gersten
Casting: The Telsey Office/Craig Burns, Alex Cortinas
Expected to attend:
Music Director: James Moore
Rehearsals: October 15, 2024 — October 29, 2024
Performances: October 30, 2024 — November 10, 2024
OTHER
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.
RAGTIME
[BOOKER T. WASHINGTON] Character is male (cis, transgender, or nonbinary), 45–55, Black. Brilliant Black social activist. He is an eloquent and articulate gentleman with no patience for Black Americans leading less than exemplary lives. D3—Eb4.
[WILLIE CONKLIN] Character is male (cis, transgender, or nonbinary), 30–45, Caucasian. Irish American fire chief who is racist and takes out his anger on Coalhouse. Baritenor-Tenor.
[SARAH’S FRIEND] Character is female (cis, transgender, or nonbinary), 20–30s, Black. Wry, passionate, soulful, sings the gospel number for Sarah's funeral. Low G to stratospheric scat top note—Gospel Lyric Soprano or Alto.
[GRANDFATHER] Character is male (cis, transgender, or nonbinary), 70s, Caucasian. Mother's patrician father. He is a retired professor, and easily irritated by nearly everything.
[ENSEMBLE] Characters are male and female (cis, transgender, or nonbinary), 20s– 60s, all ethnicities. Excellent musical theatre voices. Movement ability. To play a variety of characters and possibly understudy principal roles.
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