TITANIC - NYC EPA
FIRESIDE DINNER THEATRE
SIGNUP INFO
Signups begin May 9, 11:45 am (EDT)
Open Jar Studios
1601 Broadway
New York, NY 10019
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Tue, May 16, 2023
9:30 AM to 5:30 PM (EDT)
Break: 1:00-2:00pm
Dinner Theatre
$745 weekly minimum
Equity actors for principal roles in TITANIC (see breakdown).
All stage management positions are filled.
PERFORMERS OF ALL ETHNICITIES, PHYSICAL TYPES, GENDER IDENTITIES, AND AGES ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND.
Please prepare a short song in the style of the show. Singing from the show is fine. Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.
Music and Lyrics by Maury Yeston
Story and Book by Peter Stone
Director: Ed Flesch
Musical Director: Mary Ehlinger
Choreographer: Doug Reed
1st rehearsal: August 21, 2023 in Wisconsin
Runs September 7, 2023 – October 29, 2023
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An Equity monitor will be provided.
EPA Procedures are in effect for 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:
Holding room 12N – Capacity - no more than 30 people
Audition room 12D - Capacity - no more than 10 people
Seeking:
Thomas Andrews 30’s, Tenor - Designer of The Titanic; Strong yet quiet, and full of integrity, he is the moral compass and intellectual barometer of the show. Sings multiple solos, including the gut-wrenching climactic Andrews’ Vision as the ship sinks onstage.
J. Bruce Ismay, 40’s, Baritone - Owner of the White Star Line. High-brow, aloof, easily frustrated when disregarded,
Captain E.J. Smith, 50’s-60’s, Baritone - A fatherly figure with white hair and beard, he commands with deep care for his passengers and encouragement toward his younger officers.
Frederick Barrett 20’s-30’s Tenor - A Stoker. He is strappingly strong, keenly intelligent, and capable. He questions the motivations of the powers-that-be.
Harold Bride, 20’s -early 30’s Baritone - Wireless operator. A shy and socially awkward young man, he obviously yearns for connection. He has found in his telegraph machine a fascinating and thoroughly engaging way to connect to people the world over.
William Murdoch 30’s Baritone -1st Officer, An experienced officer who really should have been a captain by now but isn’t sure he is up to it.
Henry Etches, 30’s-40’s Tenor - Senior Steward, 41, An experienced steward to first class passengers. Some might call him stuffy, but he just really cares.
Isador Straus late-50s/early-70s. Bass/Baritone - Owner of Macy’s department store in New York. Devoted to his wife.
Ida Straus, late-50s/early-70s Mezzo Soprano - Devoted to her husband, refused to get into a lifeboat without him.
Jim Farrell, 20’s-30’ – Baritone -One of a large number of Irish immigrants in steerage (3rd class) looking to start afresh in America.
Kate McGowan, 20’s – Mezzo Soprano – Another Irish immigrant. Strong, feisty, determined.
Alice Beane, 30’s-40’s, Alto -2nd class and very upwardly mobile, comic character with a big voice and personality.
Edgar Beane, 30’s-40’s, Baritone - more content and less ambitious than his wife. More dialogue than singing.
Caroline Neville 20’s-30’s, Soprano -Lovely young woman -engaged to marry Charles Clarke and looking to make a new start.
Charles Clarke 20’s – 30’s, Baritone -Young journalist, engaged to Caroline, wanting to make a new life for themselves in America.
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