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Seeking
Equity actors, singers, dancer/movers for various roles in the upcoming season.
Housing provided for out of town actors cast.
see breakdown.
Preparation
Prepare one uptempo and one ballad 16-32 measures each. Performers may be asked to dance/move at callbacks as needed.
Bring picture and resume.
Other Dates
Season begins October 1, 2015 through May 30, 2016
Forum Rehearsals Begin September 15, 2015
Other
www.thewick.org
Personnel
Marilynn A. Wick, Executive Producer
Music Director: Michael Ursua
- A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
No appointments. First come, first seen.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
2015-16 SEASON
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM, HELLO DOLLY, SOUTH PACIFIC, CURTAINS, I LOVE A PIANO
FORUM
Director - Dom Ruggiero
Choreographer - Angela Morando
1st reh: 9/15/15. Opens: 10/1. Closes: 11/1
Pseudolus: A Roman slave, owned by Hero, who seeks to win his/her freedom by helping his/her young master win the heart of Philia.
Hysterium: The chief slave in the house of Senex.
Hero: Young son of Senex who falls in love with the virgin, Philia.
Philia: A virgin in the house of Marcus Lycus, and Hero's love interest
Senex: A henpecked, sardonic Roman senator living in a less fashionable suburb of Rome.
Domina: The wife of Senex. A manipulative, shrewish woman who is loathed by even her husband.
Marcus Lycus: A purveyor of courtesans, who operates from the house to the left of Senex.
Miles Gloriosus: A captain in the Roman army to whom Marcus Lycus has promised Philia.
Erronius: Senex's elderly neighbor in the house to the right. He has spent the past twenty years searching for his two children, kidnapped in infancy by pirates.
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HELLO DOLLY
Director - Norb Joerder
Choreographer – TBA
1st reh: 10/20/15. Opens: 11/5. Closes: 12/6
Dolly Levi: A widow in her middle years who has decided to begin her life again. She is a matchmaker, meddler, opportunist, life-loving woman.
Horace Vandergelder: The proprietor of a Hay & Feed store and a client of Dolly Levi. A well-known half-a-millionaire, he is a widower, gruff, set in his ways, and authoritative.
Cornelius Hackl: Vandergelder’s chief clerk who yearns for one exciting day in NYC. Energetic, enthusiastic, and adventurous young man who has a sweet innocence about him.
Barnaby Tucker: An assistant to Cornelius at Vandergelder’s Hay & Feed store. He is sweet, naïve, energized, and a follower.
Irene Molloy: A widow, beautiful, smart, fun-loving milliner with a hat shop in New York. Dolly has introduced her to Horace Vandergelder but she yearns for romance.
Minnie Fay: A young girl who works in Irene’s hat shop. Irene’s assistant, she is a naïve, strait-laced, fresh, follower.
Ambrose Kemper: A young and explosive struggling artist seeking to marry Ermengarde.
Ermengarde: The young niece of Horace Vandergelder. She cries often and wants her independence and wants to marry Ambrose.
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SOUTH PACIFIC
Director - Lee Roy Reams
Choreographer - TBA
1st reh: 12/22/15. Opens: 1/7/16. Closes: 2/14
Nellie Forbush: An unsophisticated young U.S. Navy nurse
Emile de Becque: A middle-aged expatriate French planter
Lt. Joseph Cable: A young Marine officer
Liat: A young Tonkinese woman
Bloody Mary: Liat's mother; an island wheeler-dealer
Seabee Luther Billis: An entrepreneurial sailor
Capt. George Brackett, U.S.N: Military commander of the island
Cmdr. William Harbison, U.S.N.: Brackett's executive officer
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CURTAINS
Director – TBA
Choreographer - TBA
1st reh: 2/9/16. Opens: 2/25. Closes: 3/27
Lieutenant Frank Cioffi: The central character, a Local Boston detective who is also a musical theatre aficionado. Aside from being exceptionally good at his job, he has also aspired to be a musical theatre performer his entire life. He falls in love with Niki.
Georgia Hendricks: Female half of songwriting team. Ends up taking on the leading lady role of the show-within-the-show.
Carmen Bernstein: The show's brassy producer, unhappily married to Sidney and Bambi's estranged mother.
Aaron Fox: The composer of the show-within-the-show. His songwriting partner, Georgia, is also his wife from whom he's separated
Niki Harris: Pretty, naïve ingénue. Niki is playing a supporting role and is Jessica Cranshaw's understudy in the show-within-the-show during its Boston tryout. She is eager to make her Broadway debut. She meets and falls in love with Detective Frank Cioffi, who is investigating a murder at the theatre.
Christopher Belling: English director.
Bambi Bernét: Performer in the chorus and daughter of Carmen, the lead producer. Hungry to work her way up to leading performer; she has a contentious relationship with her mother, who insists on calling her by her real name, Elaine (Bambi is a stage name.)
Bobby Pepper: The choreographer and male star of the show within the show, he is Aaron's charming rival and the current boyfriend of Georgia.
Daryl Grady: A Theatre critic for the local Boston newspaper, he enjoys using the power he has to make or break shows during their out-of-town tryouts.
Sidney Bernstein: The co-producer of an out of town flop. Sidney is tough and self-serving.
Johnny Harmon: The Stage Manager of the show-within-the-show. Johnny is gruff but lovable. He keeps the company in line and on their toes throughout the rehearsal process.
Oscar Shapiro: The general manager and sole investor. An agreeable if slightly gruff man. He is always looking for any angle to find money.
Randy Dexter: One of the stars of the show within the show.
Harv Fremont: One of the stars of the show within the show, Randy's sidekick.
Detective O'Farrell: Cioffi's associate from the Boston Police Department, assists in the investigation.
Jessica Cranshaw: Fading Hollywood star. A diva, who has no right to be one, she is a terrible singer and actress who stars in the show within a show and is murdered on its opening night.
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I LOVE A PIANO
Director/Choreographer - Kelly Shook
Music of Irving Berlin
1st reh: 3/29/16. Opens: 4/14. Closes: 5/22
Requires 3 Female and 3 male triple-threat performers. While the cast retains their identities and names throughout the show, they play different characters in different time periods.
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