Geva Theatre Center 2012-13 Season
– EPA’s by Appointment in Rochester
Rochester, NY LORT B, $765/week minimum
Artistic Director: Mark Cuddy
Directors: Mark Cuddy, Robert O’Hara, Bruce Jordan
Casting Office: Elissa Myers Casting
Casting Director: Paul Fouquet
Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT
Monday, June 18, 2012 – accompanist provided at the Geva Theatre Center
10 AM – 6 PM 75 Woodbury Boulevard
Lunch from 1 - 2. Rochester, NY 14607
AND
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 ** - accompanist NOT provided
10 AM – 6 PM
For an appointment, call 585-232-1366.
**Please note that an accompanist will only be available on Monday the 18th, and appointments will be taken for that day first. If the slots for Monday have not been filled then the 19th auditions will be cancelled. AEA members without appointments will be seen as time permits.
Prepare EITHER 1) two contrasting monologues, totaling four minutes together, for dramatic only auditions; or 2) if also auditioning for the musical, prepare a brief monologue in the style of Company, and bring sheet music for accompanist provided.
Bring picture and resume, stapled together.
2012-13 Season:
YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU by Kaufman and Hart
Directed by Mark Cuddy
1st reh: 8/21/12. Runs 9/11–10/7/12
Seeking:
Martin Vanderhof (~70) Patriarch of the family. Wise, collected and well-balanced. Comfortable with himself and his individuality. Projects love and calm to all who encounter him. Enjoys collecting stamps and attending graduations.
Alice Sycamore (20-30) Romantic female lead. Daughter of Paul and Penelope. The most conventionally "normal" of the Sycamore family. Loves her family but knows they seem very different to others. Very “head-over-heels” in love with Tony.
Tony Kirby Kirby (20-30) Romantic male lead. Heir to the Kirby empire. Very “head-over-heels” in love with Alice. Ready to accept her and her entire “unusual” family. At a juncture where he must either accept his father's conservative values or assert his own individuality.
Olga Katrina (40-60) A Grand-duchess of Russia, deposed in the 1917 Russian Revolution. Now works in a diner. Has made the adjustment very well, considering her long fall from wealth and leisure. Makes prize-winning blintzes.
FREUD’S LAST SESSION by Mark St. Germain
Directed by Skip Greer
Both roles are cast.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL, adaptation by Mark Cuddy with Music by Gregg Coffin
Directed by Mark Cuddy
1st reh 11/6/12. Runs 11/23 – 12/23/12
Seeking:
Belle/Martha Cratchit/Fred’s Wife//Young /Londoner
(20-30) ingénue with some character range. Soprano with own solo song.
NEXT TO NORMAL
Music by Tom Kitt
Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Directed by Scott Schwartz
Co-produced with Alliance Theatre of Atlanta, which is conducting all casting
THE BOOK CLUB PLAY by Karen Zacarias
Directed by Sean Daniels
1st reh 1/29/13. Runs 2/19 – 3/24/13
Seeking:
Ana: White Female, 30s. Pronounced “Ah-nuh” Beautiful. Charming. Smart. Accomplished. Organized. A columnist for a Daily paper. The Mother Bee. Her grace masks a need to control. Also plays MRS SIMPSON-RETIRED LIBRARIAN
Rob: White Male, 30s. Her golden-boy handsome charismatic under-achiever husband who is starting to search for meaning. Met in College. Upper Crust background. Also plays SAM-WAL-MART GUY
Will: White Male, 30s. ROB’s conservative, well read, well dressed, disciplined college roommate. Ana’s former boyfriend. History buff. Unmarried. Also plays FRANK-SECRET SERVICE AGENT
Jen: White Female, 30s. Ana’s friend. Pretty. Shy. Smart. Tends to burst out with awkward truthful comments. Despite some lack of self confidence, she is the grounding center of the group. Unorganized and oblivious to her own attractiveness. Unmarried. Also plays ELSA- JADED LITERARY AGENT
Lily: African American Female, 20s. A go-getter, former debate captain who is on the cusp of all current trends and yet can still put her foot in her mouth in social occasions. Laughs at appropriate and inappropriate times. A great lover of books and Ana’s protégé at the paper. Also plays DAWN-DOCTOR
Alex: White, Latino, Asian, Middle Eastern, or Southeast Asian, 30s. The New Guy. A very smart, well-read academic who has lost his moorings and is searching for real connection. Professor of Comparative Literature. Also plays CARL-BOOK DEALER
THE WHIPPING MAN by Matthew Lopez
Directed by Tim Ocel
Co-produced with Indiana Repertory Theatre, which be conducting all casting for this production.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare
Directed by Mark Cuddy and Skip Greer
1st reh 4/9/13. Runs 5/7–6/14/13
Seeking:
Oberon (30-45) The king of the fairies, Oberon is initially at odds with his wife, Titania, because she refuses to relinquish control of a young Indian prince whom he wants for a knight. Oberon’s desire for revenge on Titania leads him to send Puck to obtain the love-potion flower that creates so much of the play’s confusion and farce.
Titania (30-45) The beautiful queen of the fairies, Titania resists the attempts of her husband, Oberon, to make a knight of the young Indian prince that she has been given. Titania’s brief, potion-induced love for Nick Bottom, whose head Puck has transformed into that of an ass, yields the play’s foremost example of the contrast motif.
Lysander (18-22) A young man of Athens, in love with Hermia. Lysander’s relationship with Hermia invokes the theme of love’s difficulty: he cannot marry her openly because Egeus, her father, wishes her to wed Demetrius; when Lysander and Hermia run away into the forest, Lysander becomes the victim of misapplied magic and wakes up in love with Helena.
Demetrius (18-22) A young man of Athens, initially in love with Hermia and ultimately in love with Helena. Demetrius’s obstinate pursuit of Hermia throws love out of balance among the quartet of Athenian youths and precludes a symmetrical two-couple arrangement.
Hermia (18-22) Egeus’s daughter, a young woman of Athens. Hermia is in love with Lysander and is a childhood friend of Helena. As a result of the fairies’mischief with Oberon’s love potion, both Lysander and Demetrius suddenly fall in love with Helena. Self-conscious about her short stature, Hermia suspects that Helena has wooed the men with her height. By morning, however, Puck has sorted matters out with the love potion, and Lysander’s love for Hermia is restored.
Helena (18-22) A young woman of Athens, in love with Demetrius. Demetrius and Helena were once betrothed, but when Demetrius met Helena’s friend Hermia, he fell in love with her and abandoned Helena. Lacking confidence in her looks, Helena thinks that Demetrius and Lysander are mocking her when the fairies’ mischief causes them to fall in love with her.
Egeus (45-55) Hermia’s father, who brings a complaint against his daughter to Theseus: Egeus has given Demetrius permission to marry Hermia, but Hermia, in love with Lysander, refuses to marry Demetrius. Egeus’s severe insistence that Hermia either respect his wishes or be held accountable to Athenian law places him squarely outside the whimsical dream realm of the forest.
Theseus (30-45) The heroic duke of Athens, engaged to Hippolyta. Theseus represents power and order throughout the play. He appears only at the beginning and end of the story, removed from the dreamlike events of the forest.
Hippolyta (30-45) The legendary queen of the Amazons, engaged to Theseus. Like Theseus, she symbolizes order.
Nick Bottom (35-60)The overconfident weaver chosen to play Pyramus in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration. Bottom is full of advice and self-confidence but frequently makes silly mistakes and misuses language. His simultaneous nonchalance about the beautiful Titania’s sudden love for him and unawareness of the fact that Puck has transformed his head into that of an ass mark the pinnacle of his foolish arrogance.
Peter Quince (40-65)A carpenter and the nominal leader of the craftsmen’s attempt to put on a play for Theseus’s marriage celebration. Quince is often shoved aside by the abundantly confident Bottom. During the craftsmen’s play, Quince plays the Prologue.
Francis Flute (30-50)The bellows-mender chosen to play Thisbe in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration. Forced to play a young girl in love, the bearded craftsman determines to speak his lines in a high, squeaky voice.
Robin Starveling (30-60) The tailor chosen to play Thisbe’s mother in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration. He ends up playing the part of Moonshine.
Tom Snout (30-60) The tinker chosen to play Pyramus’s father in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration. He ends up playing the part of Wall, dividing the two lovers.
Snug (30-60) The joiner chosen to play the lion in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration. Snug worries that his roaring will frighten the ladies in the audience.
Philostrate (25-40) Theseus’s Master of the Revels, responsible for organizing the entertainment for the duke’s marriage celebration.
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