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Seeking
Equity/non-equity actor/singers for BAD APPLES. Please see character breakdown.
Preparation
2 16-bar music cuts, 1 ballad, 1 up tempo, both rock style, plus a 1-minute contemporary monologue
Other Dates
Rehearsal starts week of Aug 8, 2016
Tech - Aug 29
Previews begin - Sept 6, Opens - Sept 9
Closes Sept 25
Other
Co Presented with ACT as part of their ACTLab series
Please bring resume and head shot to audition
Please bring your AEA card.
Personnel
Director - John Langs
Associate Director/Choreographer - Crystal Dawn Munkers
BAD APPLES - By Jim Leonard, Music by Beth Thornley and Rob Cairns
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
Email
casting@sidecountrytheatre.org
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
9 cast members play multiple roles. Multicultural casting unless otherwise specified. All are encouraged to apply.
Bad Apples is a new rock musical that follows three characters inspired by the three National Guard soldiers behind the atrocities at Abu Ghraib prison in 2003/2004. Jim Leonard has created a compelling, jarring, beautiful and heartbreaking story that asks how this tragedy came to be. Who were the victims? Who were the villains? Is sadism part of being human? Was Abu really an aberration brought on by a few “bad apples?”
Principal characters:
Pvt. Lindsay Skinner, F, 18-30, Caucasian. Recent National Guard recruit, likeable working class Tennessee gal with self-esteem issues; comes on tough but naïve and vulnerable underneath
Lt. Margaret Scott, F, 30-40, smart, strong, sexy, a former teacher now career military
Mama, F, 40-60 Lindsay’s mother. Caucasian. Working class Tennessee, tough, pragmatic, direct, dry deadpan humor.
Sgt. Chuck Shepard, M, late 20s-40, African-American, charismatic, masculine, manipulative – a rock star in Army fatigues.
PFC Curt “Cunny” Lingus, M, 20s, a nice Southern Christian boy, naïve, conflicted, terrified to find himself in an actual war zone. Guitar skills a plus.
Abdulaziz Al-Omari, M, 20s/early 30s, Middle Eastern, one of the 9/11 terrorists. Committed, passionate, volatile.
Mohamed Atta, M, 40ish, Middle Eastern, one of the 9/11 terrorists. Experienced, level-headed, sense of humor
Burris, M, 45 -60, Caucasian. Lindsay’s stepfather (formerly her uncle) and Mama’s husband. Working class Tennessee, beer ‘n’ baseball guy, brusque but loving, deeply suspicious of the government and the military.
Female, 20s-30s, multiple roles/ensemble
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