LOVELESS TEXAS - NYC EPA
Boomerang Theatre Company
AUDITION DATE
Jul 13, 2017
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1:00-2:00 pm
CONTRACT
Showcase-NY
$1500 total fee for the run and rehearsals (Seasonal Showcase)
SEEKING
Actors for roles in LOVELESS TEXAS. See breakdown. Seeking diverse casting that looks like the world we live in.
PREPARATION
Prepare two brief songs: country (traditional or pop), an uptempo and a ballad. (total audition time not to exceed 2 minutes)
Please bring current Picture/Resume.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Cailin Heffernan, Director/Libretto
Henry Aronson, Music/Lyrics
Marci Skolnick, Production Stage Manager
Dan Renkin, Movement
OTHER DATES
Rehearsals begin Aug 6th
Performances begin September 6th
Final Performance September 24th
OTHER
www.boomerangtheatre.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
LOVELESS TEXAS is a new American musical with music and lyrics by Henry Aronson and libretto and direction by Cailin Heffernan.
The musical is set in Texas oil country during the Great Depression. With echoes of Shakespeare's Love's Labours Lost, it tells the story of two brothers who take very different paths toward romantic love and making an emotional home in the world.
Loveless Texas is a traditional book musical, with a score in a variety of traditional Americana styles, encompassing Texas swing, bluegrass, blues, Cajun waltz and two-step, and cowboy yodels. It is a fun, joyous, affirmative celebration of the power of love and the human spirit to prevail over hardship.
BEROWNE LOVELESS NAVARRE
(20s-30s). Cheeky, womanizing, mouthy but charming trust fund baby; idle Texas playboy. High tenor, solid A
(KING) LOVELESS FERDINAND NAVARRE
(late 30’s-early 50’s) Hardworking, judgmental, hot tempered older brother/father figure; charming authority - wealthy oilman and rancher
Baritone D-F#
BOYET (DUKE) DUMAINE
(20’s-30’s) Cajun boy - now more Texan than Cajun, tennis pro, eager to please - college educated though can be very literal minded
Baritone to E (pop up to G#)
KYLE (BUBBA) LONGAVILLE
(20’s-30’s) Baritone to E (pop up to G#), should have facility in Cowboy style yodeling.
Dallas boy, attorney, smart, corny and life of the party
PASTOR JOE DON ARMADO
(late 30’s-early 50’s) D-F (falsetto Ab), good bluesy quality Hobo, bit of a snake oil salesman, can be from anywhere, chameleon like - now passing for a preacher, been through some hard times
RANDY COSTARD
(20’s-30’s) Baritone to G, good blues facility. Sweet, simple minded (not stupid), a little naive, West Texas boy newly graduated from Texas A & M (an Aggie)
LAREINE BEAUSOLEIL
(20’s-30’s) Lighter soprano middle C# to F. Been through loss early in life, a little old fashioned, elegant, wealthy only child of a wealthy New Orleans Oilman/Plantation owner
ROSALINE AUCOIN
(20’s-30’s) Belt/mix to Eb. Quick tempered, lively, overly romantic, athletic and funny - the social chairman of a Sorority - from Baton Rouge
KATHY BRIDGE
(20’s-30’s) Bright belt, solid belt to C above middle C. Tiny, quirky, energetic, “good girl” from Texarkana, Sorority sisters with Rosaline, LaReine and Maria
MARIA BROUSSARD
(20’s-30’s). Belt/mix, middle C to F. Snobbish elite on the outside (plays the mean girl) but marshmallow middle. from Lake Charles
GWEN SOILEAU
(40’s-50’s) Lower belt, to C (possible D) Pulled herself up by the bootstraps from a Bayou Country girl to a Plantation Owner’s right hand in business, widow, very attractive and canny, suffers no fools
JACQUENETTA DUMAINE
(late teens). Solid belt to Eb, Cajun style if possible. Young girl from Big Mamou, boy crazy, listens to no one and terrified of turning 18 and not being married.
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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