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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Thursday, July 14, 2016
9:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Lunch 1 to 2
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Contract
ANTC
Category 6 (contract/salary pending)
Location
Primary Stages Offices
307 West 38th Street
15th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Update 7/11 - please note new location
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Seeking
Equity actors for various roles.
See breakdown
Preparation
Actors will read from sides, provided at the audition.
Bring picture and resume
Update 7/11: Please note the EPA will take place at the Primary Stage Offices at 307 West 38th Street, Suite 1510
Other Dates
1st Rehearsal: August 16th
1st Preview: September 14th
Opening: October 5th
Closing: November 6th
Other
In attendance at the EPA: Andrew Leynse (Artistic Director), Stephanie Klapper (Casting Director)
Personnel
Artistic Director: Andrew Leynse
Director: Michael Wilson
Playwright: Horton Foote
Casting: Stephanie Klapper Casting
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will be provided.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
In this beautiful masterpiece, three women living in Houston, Texas in the 1920s grapple with the eternal question, “Where is home?” The Roads to Home offers a rare chance to experience a Foote gem not seen on the New York stage in over 25 years, in one of New York’s most intimate and historic venues, the Cherry Lane Theatre. This timeless production will feature direction by Michael Wilson (Foote's longtime collaborator who won Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for The Orphans' Home Cycle) and performances from Drama Desk winner Devon Abner and Tony-nominated Hallie Foote, the foremost the foremost contemporary interpreter of Horton’s work.
SEEKING:
Vonnie Hayhurst
(50) Married to Eddie. Mabel's best friend, a transplanted Louisianian. She moves from dignity and assurance to controlled hysteria when the certainties of her life are brought into question. She seeks refuge at Mabel’s after her own household is rocked by her husband's infidelity. However, she refuses to give him the divorce he requests. She is religious and ‘will pray night and day that’ her husband gets over his affair and returns to her.
Annie Gayle Long:
(30) Emotionally brittle yet graceful as she witnessed her father’s public murder as a child. Visits the Votaugh residence regularly when her husband is at work, despite his instructions not to. Some days she just sits and doesn’t speak. She enjoys riding streetcars. Though Annie is married to Mr. Long and has two children, she constantly gets facts and names confused and continually drops in every day on Mabel rather than look after them. Annie may sing "the sun shines bright," but there is darkness within her. Underneath her elegant chapeau is a mind in disarray. Eventually, losses touch with reality and is institutionalized in Austin.
Mr. Long (in Act 1)/Dave Dushon (in Act 3):
Mr. Long: (30's) Annie’s husband, works in produce. He is phoned often at work to come and collect his wife who has been showing up unannounced at the Votaugh residence;
Dave: (30's) From Harrison. Now is in the asylum in Austin. Doesn’t speak. Perhaps catatonic. He is caught and arrested in time like a statue as he sits besides Annie Gayle on a bench during the entire third and final act.
Eddie Hayhurst (in Act 2)/Greene Hamilton (in Act 3):
Eddie: (40's) Married to Vonnie. He works days – ‘and nights’ - on the rail but is having an affair with a woman on his trips to Harrison. He confides this information to Jack, his neighbor, and eventually asks Vonnie for a divorce. He is both innocent and impassioned as he sounds a theme and one of the few loud outcries amid the frustrated reserve of the others: "I'm very confused. I've tried to live right all my life, to be good and do the right thing."
Greene: (40's) From Harrison. Now is in the asylum in Austin. Annie notes that he is a ‘ graceful dancer.’ Has an issue with time – remembers things out of order and creates events that didn’t happen. For example, he notes he a visit to his parent’s house a day prior that didn’t occur. Dave, Cecil and Greene do not know what day it is, let alone what roads might ever take them home. This role could be played by a Latino actor.
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