The People in the Picture - San Jose Appointments
Guggenheim Entertainment
CONTRACT
SPT Minimum - $366/wk
SEEKING
See breakdown.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please email Shannon Guggenheim, Casting Director
Deadline: Sun, Dec 31, 2017
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Iris Dart, book and lyrics
Mike Stoller, composer
Artie Butler, composer
Scott Guggenheim, director/producer
OTHER DATES
Rehearsals begin March 5, 2018
Rehearses March 5 - April 4, 2018
Opens April 5, 2018
Closes May 6, 2018
OTHER
Downtown San Jose will soon be home to 3Below, a newly reimagined performing arts venue in which live professional musicals, film, comedy, and music events will be presented. Guggenheim Entertainment, Inc (a theatrical production company serving California since 1990) is producing The People in the Picture as part of its Professional Live Theatre Series.
This production will perform at 3Below Theaters in Downtown San Jose located at 288 S. Second Street. Rehearsals will take place in San Jos
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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
The People in the Picture is a remarkably touching and tender production penned by Iris Dart (author of Beaches) and composers Mike Stoller (Smokey Joe's Café) and Artie Butler. Donna Murphy was nominated for a Tony for her performance of Bubbie/Raisel, a funny, smart, brave comedienne/ tragedienne who starts a Yiddish film company in 1930s Poland, and goes back and forth in time between Nazi-occupied Poland where she is creating the films and making a life for herself and her acting troupe, and 1970s New York where she is a grandmother wanting to pass the Yiddish culture on to her grandchild.
Raisel Rabinowitz and Bubbie (two parts played by the same actress): female singer/actress, about 50 years of age, F - G#; funny, smart, brave comedienne/ tragedienne with ability to seamlessly move between two time periods; carries the show with song and emotion
Avram Krinsky: male actor/singer, about 50 years of age, Bb – F# (F); hammy, egomaniac, loves the theater, overacts in every part, straight man for…
Yossie Pinsker: male actor/singer, about 40 years of age, Bb – F#; comic and a kibitzer, always has a joke
Moishe Rosenwald: male singer/actor, about 40 years of age, G - Ab; handsome tenor, with a big voice and a big heart
Chaim Bradovsky: male singer/actor, about 40 years of age, Bb - F; tall, handsome, redheaded (hence the name of his daughter); a good natured, not too bright man who is the love of Raisel’s life.
Chayesel Fisher: female singer/actress; ageless; F# - G; once a revered actress in Russia, very elegant; doubles as…
Dobrisch: devoted Polish/Catholic housekeeper who saves Red’s life and takes her into her home
Doovie Feldman: male, actor/singer, Bb-E; a very old actor who created the Warsaw Gang rep company
Red Martin: female singer/actress, age 35-40, G# - E; Raisel’s daughter, a driven comedy writer, divorced, a lost soul, trying to find herself; she works hard and is worried about her mother (who’s losing it) and her mother’s influence on her daughter.
Jenny Martin: female, age 10; excellent singer/actress, G – C#; caught between her mother and her Bubbie; she understands what her Bubbie is trying to pass on to her and that it’s urgent for her to glean it all before it’s too late
Young Red: female, age 8; excellent singer/actress, A - C; torn from her adoptive parents at a young age and caught between her past and a future with a woman claiming to be her mother but whom she does not know
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 submit.
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