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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
9:30 AM to 5:30 PM
lunch 1 to 2
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Contract
Other
Folksbiene Agrmt; $420/week for AEA Members
Location
Actors' Equity Association NYC Audition Center
165 West 46th Street
16th Floor
New York, NY 10036
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Seeking
Equity actors who sing for various roles.
See breakdown.
Preparation
Be prepared to sing a song from light opera, operetta, or legit, traditional musical theater repertoire only. An accompanist will be provided. Please bring sheet music in your proper key and bring a headshot and resume, stapled together.
See breakdown for additional preparation note
Other Dates
Rehearsals begin November 9, 2015.
First preview is December 2, 2015
Show opens December 8, 2015 and closes on December 27, 2015 with a possible extension through January 3, 2015
Venue: Off Broadway’s Safra Hall at MJH, NYC
Other
Bryna Wasserman, CEO
Zalmen Mlotek, Artistic Director
Chris Massimine, Chief Operating Officer
Personnel
Music: Joseph Rumshinsky
Libretto: Frieda Freiman
Lyrics: Louis Gilrod
Edited By: Michael Ochs
Directors: Bryna Wasserman and Motl Didner
Musical Dir: Zalmen Mlotek
Casting: Jamibeth Margolis
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will be provided.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS AND ADDED NOTE:
Please be prepared to sing a song from light opera, operetta, or legit, traditional musical theater repertoire only. An accompanist will be provided. Please bring sheet music in your proper key and bring a headshot and resume, stapled together.
All should be excellent legit singers with experience singing Gilbert and Sullivan, operetta and light opera, strong music reading skills, ability to sing and act in foreign languages (experience with German and Hebrew a plus) and be able to move well.
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Synopsis: Di Goldene Kale (The Golden Bride) is a 1923 comic operetta Written in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan and Viennese Operetta with elements of klezmer, Jewish cantorial music, Eastern European folk music, ragtime and jazz. Di Goldene Kale was the hit show of the 1923 season, running for 18 weeks at Kessler’s 2nd Avenue Theater (a 2,000 seat house in the heart of the “Jewish Broadway”). This run was followed by national and international tours and had several revivals through the 30’s and 40’s. The first act is set in Russian Jewish village (shtetl) where Goldele, a poor young lady who was abandoned as a child has learned that she has inherited a fortune from her father who had gone off to America shortly after her birth. She is suddenly pursued by every young man from her village, including the handsome university student Misha who she is in love with. But Goldele announces that she will marry whoever can find her long lost mother. The second act brings Goldele and several of her friends to America where they are adapting the hustle and bustle of life in New York. The would-be grooms converge, but which one of them has found Goldele’s mother and with it, the hand of the Golden Bride?
SEEKING:
Goldele
light opera lyric coloratura soprano, 20’s, poor young lady from a Russian shtetl who was abandoned as a child who inherits a fortune from her long lost father and emigrates to America.
Khanele
light opera subrette (soprano), 20’s, Goldele’s best friend, comic role
Misha
lyric tenor romantic lead, 20’s, Goldele’s love interest.
Jerome
Tenor, 20’s, Goldele’s American cousin, Khanele’s love interest, comic role
Toybe
40’s-60’s - mezzo – inn keeper, Goldele’s care taker, comic role
Pinchas
40’s-60’s baritone - inn keeper, Goldele’s care taker, comic role
Kalmen
30’s-60’s tenor – matchmaker, comic role
Benjamin
40’s-60’s baritone – Goldele’s American uncle, Jerome’s father
Yankl/Motke/Berke
20’s – baritone – three suitors seeking Goldele’s fortune. Comic role to be played by one actor
Sheyndl Rivke
50’s-60’s – soprano or alto - An imposter pretending to be Goldele’s long lost mother
Brokhe Sheyndl
50’s-60’s – soprano or alto - An imposter pretending to be Goldele’s long lost mother
Sheyndl
50’s-60’s – soprano or alto - Goldele’s real mother
Chorus
20’s – 60’s – Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone/Bass with operetta or light opera experience and good movement skills.
This production will be presented entirely in Yiddish (with English and Russian supertitles)
All roles are open to performers of all ethnicities.
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