Cape May Stage 2017 Season - NYC EPA
Cape May Stage
AUDITION DATE
Feb 23, 2017
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EST)
Lunch 1 to 2
Feb 24, 2017
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EST)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
SPT
SPT Tier 6 contract ($430/weekly) plus housing and round trip transportation
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles in the upcoming season. Also seeking an actor/singer/piano player for BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR. See breakdown.
PREPARATION
Please bring a short monologue and a photo and resume stapled together.
Piano players for “Billy Bishop Goes to War” be prepared to sing a song while accompanying yourself on the piano. If also wanting to audition for other shows in the season, then play/sing 16 bars and prepare a one-minute monologue.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Producing Artistic Director Roy Steinberg and Director Marlena Lustik will be in attendance.
OTHER
www.capemaystage.org
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity monitor will be provided.
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
BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR
by John Gray with Eric Peterson
directed by Marlena Lustik
rehearses May 9, previews May 24 opens May 25 closes June 23
Time/Place: World War I - Canada
Seeking:
Piano Player/Narrator
Male, 20’s, plays piano and sings well – World War I Canadian Soldier
Billy Bishop
Male, 20’s World War I Canadian Calvary and Fighter Pilot. Also plays 17 other characters of all ages, genders and nationalities from King George V to Lovely Helene.
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THE TALE OF THE ALLERGIST'S WIFE
by Charles Busch
directed by Roy Steinberg
rehearses June 13, previews June 28, opens June 29 and closes August 4
All characters need great comic timing – comic sexual situations for all but Mohammad
Seeking:
Marjorie Taub
50s female - attractive, stylish woman, Jewish, upper West Side, affected theatricality, New York accent, over educated, explosive
Mohammed
20s male – boyish, good-looking doorman from Iraq, poetic, educated, wise –may cast EMC
Ira
50s male – good looking, highly energetic, Jewish, vain, Allergist and Philanthropist
Freida
80s female – small, shrunken with a walker but tough as cowhide, Jewish, obsessed with her bowels
Lee Green
50s female, an energetic, mysterious, beautifully groomed woman, sensual, worldly, name-dropper, Jewish
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THE GIN GAME
by D.L. Coburn
directed by Roy Steinberg
rehearses July 25, previews August 9, opens August 10 and closes September 22
Very accomplished actors who can play nuance and be exact with the lines
Seeking:
Weller Martin
70s plus male – can be a bully at times, irascible, vulgar, prone to bluster
Fonsia Dorsey
70s plus female – passive aggressive, more proper, lady-like
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OUTSIDE MULLINGAR
by John Patrick Shanley
directed by Roy Steinberg
rehearses September 12, previews September 27, opens September 28 and closes November 10
All characters speak with an Irish accent
Seeking:
Tony Reilly
75 or so male, rural Irishman with sly eyes, irascible
Anthony Reilly
42 male, his son, a dreamer, painfully shy
Aoife
70s female - in bad health, ravaged with grief, their neighbor
Rosemary
36 female – her daughter, feisty and romantic
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THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW (abridged)
by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor
directed by Roy Steinberg
rehearses October 31 opens November15, closes December 31.
Seeking:
Three male actors – with great comic timing, improvisation background doing something akin to “The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged)”. Playing characters ages 20-40 – some musical ability is helpful
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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