Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre
AUDITION DATE
Sat, Nov 02, 2019
11:00 am - 5:00 pm (CDT)
Call Backs 11/3/19 2pm-5pm
APPOINTMENTS
Please visit www.lepetittheatre.com and the click the link to sign up, or email casting@lepetittheatre.com, or call (504) 522-2081 x1 to book an appointment. Please include the role you are reading for in the comments section of the sign up sheet, or in the subject line of your email.
CONTRACT
SPT SPT 2 Transitional $309 Per week minimum
SEEKING
Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carré is casting All Roles in its upcoming production of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches.
PREPARATION
Sides will be emailed shortly after booking your appointment, or at the audition location if walking in. Please bring headshot and resume to your appointment, and email a digital copy, if you have it, to casting@lepetittheatre.com
LOCATION
Lusher High School
5624 Freret St.
New Orleans, LA 70116
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director/ Director, Maxwell Williams
OTHER DATES
REHEARSALS: 03/02/2020—04/09/2020
PERFORMS: 04/10/2020—05/03/2020 (possible extension through 05/10/2020)
OTHER
AEA walk-ins will be guaranteed an appointment slot.
EPA Procedures are in effect for audition.
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of 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.
BREAKDOWN
Roy M. Cohn (50s-60s)—Successful New York lawyer and unofficial power broker. Extremely smart, cunning and tremendously vicious; Roy's hatred and denial of most everything in his life, including his battle with AIDS, isolates him further and further from the community around him; a closeted homosexual, he is full of hate and bile; actor also plays Prior 2 and The Angel Antarctica.
Joseph Porter Pitt (25-35)—Chief clerk for Justice Theodore Wilson of the Federal Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Caucasian. Handsome, Republican lawyer who is deeply closeted; Mormon; married to Harper; actor also plays Prior 1, The Eskimo, The Father, The Angel Europa. Some nudity required.
Harper Amity Pitt (25-35)—Joe’s wife, an agoraphobic with a mild valium addiction. Her crippling fears have alienated her from the world and from her husband, who she knows has demons of his own. She often escapes reality in a series of fascinating and revealing hallucinations; actor also plays Martin Heller and the Angel Africanii. Some nudity required.
Louis Ironson (25-30s)—A word processor working for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Extremely intelligent, neurotic, anxious, emotionally fragile. Louis abandons his lover Prior when Prior reveals he has AIDS, which fills him with conflict and guilt; actor also plays The Angel Australia.
Prior Walter (25-30s)—Louis’s boyfriend; occasionally works as a club designer or caterer, otherwise lives very modestly but with great style off a small trust fund. Extremely charismatic and bitingly witty, he also reveals himself to be frail, intense and vulnerable; The Angel appears to him; he becomes the prophet of the Great Work; actor also plays The Man in the Park. Some nudity required.
Hannah Porter Pitt (50s-70s)—Joe’s mother, currently residing in Salt Lake City, living off her deceased husband’s pension. Opinionated, practically minded; a devout Mormon, she moves to New York when Joe comes out to her, and her warmth is revealed when she meets and cares for Prior. Actress also plays Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz, Henry, Ethel Rosenberg, Aleksii Antedilluvianovich Prelapsarianov, and the Angel Asiatica.
Belize (20s-30s)—A former drag queen and former lover of Prior’s. A registered nurse. Belize’s name was originally Norman Arriaga; Belize is a drag name that stuck. Prior s best friend and Roy's caretaker; extremely stylish with a personality to match, he is all flair; actor also plays Mr. Lies, The Angel Oceania, and the voice of Caleb.
The Angel—Four divine emanations, Fluor, Phosphor, Lumen and Candle; manifest in One: the Continental Principality of America. She has magnificent steel-gray wings. Terrifying and powerful. Role requires strong physical theatre background and vocal prowess; actor also plays Emily, Sister Ella Chapter, a Homeless Woman, the voice of Orrin, and the voice of The Mother
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 audition.
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