FLAMBEAUX OPEN - Showcase Auditions

Call Type
Non-Required Principal

Time(s)
OPEN CALL
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
5:00 pm-10:00 pm

Contract
Showcase-NY

Location
Focus Lounge
337 Nostrand Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11216

Seeking
Equity and non-Equity actors who sing, dance and act.

Please see breakdown.

Preparation
Please prepare a song of your choice and be prepared to do some choreography/movement. Sides will be provided.

Other
Participant at the DREAM UP Festival at Theater for the New City, NYC

Personnel
Director: Roderick Warner
Music Director: Jeff Bolding

· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.

Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.

Breakdown

MARY: African. A woman, 60-70s. Her head is tied with a black cloth, as a symbol of grief over her dead son, Sello. She is Homer Yard’s Matriarch and Lucretia’s Godmother. She is also clairvoyant.

SAGARAT: African. A striking young man in his early twenties; one of an emerging group of African-Trinidadians with the ability to read and write. He is a country boy from the village of Cedros.

BREEZE: African. An elderly but strong chantwelle (town singer); the founder “Homer Yard.” He is very fond of Rum.

SELLO: African. A famous young prizefighter schooled in the art of stickfighting: an indigenous form of battle using sticks cut from the poui tree. He dies in battle and his apparition is often seen in Homer Yard.

ADMINISTRATOR: A white man, early 40s, excellent carriage. He is top-level colonial official but he is not the boss. He is Lucretia’s Father.

LUCRETIA: A young mulatto woman of 16; awkward but very lovely. She is very refined; her long, coarse red hair is usually concealed in a scarf. She is half sister to Sybil and the daughter of the administrator.

SYBIL: African. An attractive woman in her mid-30s. Dark, bossy, sassy, crude and sexy: like an early dominatrix. She a well-packaged; well-worn woman and renown Queen of the Homer Yard masquerade band.

BIG CITY: African. Homer Yard’s “bad-John:” a visionary and troubled leader. He is middle-aged; extremely strong and powerful. He consumes everything and everyone in his path and is accustomed to getting his way.

RAMJIT: An East Indian tailor, who lives along the Homer Yard track. In love with Sybil.

CHORUS: The inhabitants of Homer Yard; men, women children. Various ethnicities.