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DI GOLDENE KALE (The Golden Bride) NYC EPA
Breakdown Update 4/26
National Yiddish Theatre - Folksbiene | New York, NY
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Date of Audition:
5/10/2016
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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
9:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Lunch 1 to 2
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Contract
Other
Folksbiene Agreement; $420/week AEA min
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 are excellent legit singers with experience in 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 able to move well.
Preparation
Prepare a brief song from light opera, operetta, or legit, traditional musical theater repertoire only. An accompanist will be provided. Bring sheet music in your proper key.
Bring picture and resume, stapled together.
Update 4/26: Age change to character BROKHE. See breakdown
Other Dates
Rehearsals begin June 20, 2016
First preview is July 4, 2016
Show opens on July 10, 2016 and closes on August 28, 2016 with a possible extension through September 18, 2016.
Other
Casting: Jamibeth Margolis
Bryna Wasserman, CEO/Exec. Dir.
Zalmen Mlotek, Artistic Dir.
Christopher Massimine, COO/Executive Producer
Personnel
Music: Joseph Rumshinsky
Libretto: Frieda Freiman
Lyrics: Louis Gilrod
Edited: Michael Ochs
Directors: Bryna Wasserman and Motl Didner
Musical Dir: Zalmen Mlotek
Choreo: Merete Muenter
- 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
All roles are open to performers of all ethnicities.
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.
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:
Update for role:
Brokhe Sheyndl
Now 20s - 30s (was 50’s-60’s) – soprano or alto - An imposter pretending to be Goldele’s long lost mother
Yankl
20’s – high baritone or tenor – suitor seeking Goldele’s fortune. Comic role
Berke
20’s – baritone – suitor seeking Goldele’s fortune. Comic role
Motke
20’s – high baritone or tenor – suitor seeking Goldele’s fortune. Comic role
Chorus
20’s – 60’s – Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Baritone/Bass with operetta or light opera experience and good movement skills.
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The following roles have been CAST. Actors may be considered for possible replacement if needed:
Goldele
ROLE CAST. 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. - CAST
Khanele
ROLE CAST. Light opera subrette (soprano), 20’s, Goldele’s best friend, comic role - CAST
Misha
ROLE CAST. Lyric tenor romantic lead, 20’s, Goldele’s love interest. - CAST
Jerome
ROLE CAST. Tenor, 20’s, Goldele’s American cousin, Khanele’s love interest, comic role - CAST
Toybe
ROLE CAST. 40’s-60’s - mezzo – inn keeper, Goldele’s care taker, comic role - CAST
Pinchas
ROLE CAST. 40’s-60’s baritone - inn keeper, Goldele’s care taker, comic role - CAST
Kalmen
ROLE CAST. 30’s-60’s tenor – matchmaker, comic role - CAST
Benjamin
ROLE CAST. 40’s-60’s baritone – Goldele’s American uncle, Jerome’s father - CAST
Sheyndl Rivke
ROLE CAST. 50’s-60’s – soprano or alto - An imposter pretending to be Goldele’s long lost mother - CAST
Sheyndl
ROLE CAST. 50’s-60’s – soprano or alto - Goldele’s real mother - CAST
This production will be presented entirely in Yiddish (with English and Russian supertitles)
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