Theatre SilCo 2023 Season - Chicago EPA Theatre SilCo | Silverthorne, CO
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (C)
Break: 12:00 - 1:00pm
SPT
$690 weekly minimum (SPT 8)
Equity actors for roles in Theatre SilCo's 2023 Season (See breakdown).
THEATRE SilCo is a proud equal opportunity employer. No person shall be excluded from the services of the organization because of race, color, religious beliefs, sex, age, gender orientation, national origin, or physical or mental disability.
If you are unable to audition in person, please submit video to casting@thesilco.org.
For Musicals: Please prepare a brief cut in the style of the show you are auditioning for. An accompanist will be provided. For Plays: Comedic monologue or Dramatic monologue. Prepared material should not exceed (2) minutes in length.
Actors' Equity Association - Chicago Member Center
557 W Randolph St
1st Fl
Chicago, IL 60661
Expected to attend:
Christopher Alleman: Producing Artistic Director
Melissa Livingston: Associate Artistic Director Whitney Carter: Production/Company Manager
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
AN ILIAD
Rehearsals: February 6, 2023
Performance: February 22 - March 5
HEAD OVER HEELS
Rehearsals: June 5
Performance: June 28 - July 30
THE HALF LIFE OF MARIE CURIE Rehearsals :July 24
Performance: August 4-27
BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY
Rehearsals: July 24
Performance: September 1-24
HOLIDAY FOLLIES
Rehearsals week of: November 20
Performance: December 8-23, 2023
OTHER
THEATRE SilCo is only hiring individuals who are fully vaccinated against Covid 19.
Everyone entering the audition venue (i.e. venue employees, Equity members, creatives, producers, musicians, COVID Safety Managers, etc.) will be required to undergo a symptom check and provide Proof Of Full Vaccination. “Fully Vaccinated,” as defined by the CDC, is more than 14 calendar days following receipt of a final dose of an FDA or World Health Organization authorized or approved vaccine.
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
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: 35
The maximum capacity in the audition room is: 45
by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare
A modern-day retelling of Homer’s classic. Poetry and humor, the ancient tale of the Trojan War and the modern world collide in this captivating theatrical experience. The setting is simple: the empty theater. The time is now: the present moment. The lone figure onstage is a storyteller—possibly Homer, possibly one of the many bards who followed in his footsteps. He is fated to tell this story throughout history.
DATES:
Rehearsals begin week of: February 6, 2023
Performance run: February 22 - March 5, 2023
The Poet [CAST] - (male, any age) the play's narrator and sole character, an intimate, incisive, and urgent storyteller.
Conceived by & original book by Jeff Whitty; adapted by James Magruder
Music & lyrics by The Go-Gos
Director/Choreographer - Josh Walden
THEATRE SilCo’s production will be performed by a cast of 14. HEAD OVER HEELS is the bold new musical comedy from the visionaries that rocked Broadway with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Avenue Q and Spring Awakening. This laugh-out-loud love story is set to the music of the iconic 1980’s all female rock band The Go-Go’s, including the hit songs, “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed,” “Vacation,” Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven is a Place on Earth” and “Mad About You.” A hilarious, exuberant celebration of love, HEAD OVER HEELS follows the escapades of a royal family on an outrageous journey to save their beloved kingdom from extinction—only to discover the key to their realm’s survival lies within each of their own hearts.
DATES:
Rehearsals begin week of: June 5, 2023
Performance run: June 28 - July 30, 2023
GYNECIA - (40s-50s, female) Queen of Arcadia. Sexy, wise, beautiful. Like any long standing spouse, knows how to get her way with her husband when push comes to shove. Alto, Pop
PAMELA - (20s-30s, female) Basilius and Gynecia's older daughter. Confident and obsessed with her appearance. Known to be the most beautiful bachelorette throughout Arcadia. Mezzo-Soprano Legit, Pop
MOPSA - (20s-30s, female) Handmaiden to Pamela. Warm, skeptical. Growing up without a mother has made her wise beyond her years about everyone and everything, which is why she is the (sometime) narrator to the show. Mezzo-Soprano, Pop
PHILOCLEA - (20s, female) Basilius and Gynecia's younger daughter. Shy and a good girl, she yearns to follow her heart rather than obey her father's orders. Soprano Legit, Pop
BASILIUS - (40s-50s, male) - King of Arcadia. A sexy, good ol' boy. A hothead, but not a despot. Blindly thinks Arcadia is doing great under his masculine rule, which will be sorely tested during the course of the show. Tenor, Pop
MUSIDORUS - ( 20’s, male) - A poor shepherd living in the 16th century kingdom of Arcadia. Neurotic, nervous, and pathetic, Musidorus longs to marry Philoclea, one of the Arcadian princesses, who desires to marry him as well. However, Philoclea’s father, King Basilius, will not allow the two to wed. Tenor Legit, Pop
DAMETAS - (40s-50s, male) - The King’s viceroy; father to Mopsa. Dametas is loyal to the king through and through. Tenor, Baritone, Bass, Pop
PYTHIO - (40’s-50’s, non-binary) - The Oracle; powerful, mysterious. Demanding. Great sense of humor, can see through everyone. In their past life, was the royal Arcadian viceroy Dametas’s wife and Mopsa’s mother, but because she came out as genderfluid, Dametas forced them to abandon Arcadia. Alto, Bass, Pop
6 ENSEMBLE MEMBERS - (20s-40s, any gender)
by Lauren Gunderson
Director - Melissa Livingston
In 1911, Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements radium and polonium. By 1912, she was the object of ruthless gossip over an alleged affair with the married Frenchman Paul Langevin, all but erasing her achievements from public memory. Weakened and demoralized by the press lambasting her as a “foreign” Jewish temptress and a homewrecking traitor, Marie agrees to join her friend and colleague Hertha Ayrton, an electromechanical engineer and suffragette, at her summer home in England. THE HALF-LIFE OF MARIE CURIE revels in the power of female friendship as it explores the relationship between these two brilliant women, both of whom are mothers, widows, and fearless champions of scientific inquiry.
DATES:
Rehearsals begin week of:July 24, 2023
Performance run: August 4-27, 2023
MARIE CURIE (44, female) – Polish-born, French national, Brilliant, shrewd, private, and patient scientist. At this point she has already won her first Nobel Prize in Physics with her husband, Pierre, in 1903. She is the mother of two daughters. She was widowed in 1906 when her husband died tragically.
HERTHA AYRTON (57, female) – British. A brazen, ambitious, fiercely intelligent engineer, inventor, and suffragist. Widowed in 1908, she continued her work in electrical experimentation while secretly housing suffragettes running from police. Of Jewish origin, she became an agnostic pragmatist who changed her name from Sarah to Hertha after a Swinburne poem about a goddess of the earth.
by Ken Ludwig
Director - Josh Blanchard
Get your deerstalker cap on — the play’s afoot! Comedic genius Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo) transforms Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic The Hound of the Baskervilles into a murderously funny adventure. Sherlock Holmes is on the case. The male heirs of the Baskerville line are being dispatched one by one. To find their ingenious killer, Holmes and Watson must brave the desolate moors before a family curse dooms its newest heir. Watch as our intrepid investigators try to escape a dizzying web of clues, silly accents, disguises, and deceit as five actors deftly portray more than forty characters. Does a wild hellhound prowl the moors of Devonshire? Can our heroes discover the truth in time? Join the fun and see how far from elementary the truth can be.
DATES:
Rehearsals begin week of: July 24, 2023
Performance run: September 1-24, 2023
SHERLOCK HOLMES (30s-40s male) – Highly intelligent, confident, quick-witted, and obsessive. Lives to solve mysteries and discover the truth. Thinks very highly of his close friend Watson.
DOCTOR WATSON (40-49, male) – Smart, grounded, and full of heart. Doctor Watson is full of wonder. He lives to have adventures and assist his close friend Holmes.
TRACK ONE (30s-40s, any gender) - Shows great versatility both physically and vocally. Multiple roles, including Stapleton (seemingly geeky butterfly lover persona conceals the psychopath within), Barrymore (mournful caretaker of Baskerville Hall), Milker (scrappy Dickensian urchin boy) and Dr. Mortimer (elegant, friendly, passionate).
TRACK TWO (20s-30s, any gender) - Shows great versatility both physically and vocally. Multiple roles, including Sir Hugbaskerville (brutal, cruel Cavalier), Wilson (exuberant, hearty head of messenger office), Sir Henry Baskerville (Texan relation to Baskervilles. Open-hearted, earnest, ready for adventure and to fall in love), and Inspector Lestrade (cocky police inspector).
TRACK THREE (20s-30s, female) - Shows great versatility both physically and vocally. Multiple roles, including Miss Stapleton (Stapleton’s initially secretive, scared “sister” who falls passionately in love with Sir Henry), Mrs. Barrymore (severe, humorless Swedish caretaker of Baskerville Hall), Mrs. Hudson (older, maternal housekeeper for Holmes).
Created and Directed by - Chris Alleman
Holiday Follies is a celebrated holiday variety show featuring yuletide classics, comic interludes, and audience favorites with special guest performers to liven up the festivities.
DATES:
Rehearsals begin week of: November 20, 2023
Performance run: December 8-23, 2023
Ensemble: (5 Males, 5 Females) Multi-talented performers of all ages to sing, share stories, and spread holiday cheer. Strong vocal and comedic ability desired. Performers of any race/ethnicity are encouraged to audition.
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