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Roles are available unless otherwise specified. For roles that are pre-cast, auditioning performers will be considered as possible (emergency) replacements, should any become necessary.
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
1st reh Aug. 6
1st preview Aug. 23
Closes Oct. 14 (8 week run)
Production conception, English Lyrics, and Additional Material by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman. Based on Jacques Brel’s Lyrics and Commentary. Music by Jacques Brel. Director: Serge Seiden. Choreographer: Matt Gardiner.
Themes of love and loss, youthful hopes and dreams, old age and death, and, of course, the horrors of war. A remarkable blend of ballads and tangos, boleros, rock and classics all done with poetry and passion, transcending time, place and language.
AUDITION MATERIAL NOTE: Audition songs should be in the Brel style.
Woman 2:
cabaret singer. vocal range: mezzo soprano with belt.
Man 2:
cabaret singer. vocal range: bari-tenor.
Woman 1:
CAST. cabaret singer. Vocal range mezzo soprano with belt.
Man 1:
CAST. cabaret singer. vocal range bari-tenor.
A Broadway Christmas Carol. Creator: Kathy Feininger. Director and choreographer: Michael Sharp. 1st reh: 10/30/11. Runs 11/15-12/23, 2012
Parody of “A Christmas Carol”, using Broadway showtunes.
AUDITION MATERIAL NOTE: Best to audition with a comic monologue and a Broadway showtune.
The Man Who Isn’t Scrooge:
Actor plays multiple characters, including Cratchit, Tiny Tim and Fred. Vocal range: G to G, and strong falsetto.
The Woman Who Isn’t Scrooge:
CAST. Actress plays multiple characters, including Marley, Mrs. Cratchit and Marie. Vocal range: High belt, as well as some soprano chops.
Scrooge:
CAST. Classic Dickens character. Vocal range: tenor.
Ladies Swing the Blues, A Jazz Fable. Book and lyrics: Thomas W. Jones II. Original music: William Knowles. Director: Thomas W. Jones II, Music Director: William Knowles. 1st reh: Jan. 2. Runs Jan. 24-Mar. 17, 2013
World premiere. The year is 1955. The place is New York City's 52nd Street, the cultural mecca of jazz in the universe. Explore the jazz folklore, mythologies and backstage stories of the 40's and 50's at a gathering to commemorate the passing of jazz legend Charlie Parker. Four jazz divas in the tradition of Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald, and Peggy Lee gather in a dressing room waiting to go on. From their lips we hear the tapestry of bebop, blues, and jazz in music, and the collective storytelling that gave rise to the mythic folklore of jazz mythology about Miles, Monk, Bird, Basie, Ellington and others.
AUDITION MATERIAL NOTE: Best to audition with a monologue and a jazz standard.
Lee:
Caucasian woman, 30’s-early 40’s. A jazz siren…passionate seductive. Has a clarity and coolness of delivery. In the tradition of Peggy Lee. Soprano.
Lady:
African American woman, 30’s- early 40’s. A jazz diva hardened by a volatile upbringing imbues lyrics with the pain and passion of a life hard lived. In the tradition of Billie Holiday. Contralto.
Sassy:
African American woman. Fiery quick tongued and quick witted—emboldened by her belief in her own correctness. Sings with a fire and a high level of improvisation. In the tradition of Sarah Vaughn. Alto.
Ella:
African American woman. Buoyant, precise and intent. Lives and speaks with a clarity of seeing life for what it is yet eternally optimistic about tomorrow’s possibilities. Can vocally improvise like nobody’s business. In the tradition of Ella Fitzgerald. Alto.
Man / Parker:
30’s-40’s. a jazz iconic virtuoso. raging Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Generous…huge hearted who can turn on a dime. Fuels his pain with drugs and alcohol. In the tradition of Mark Murphy or John Hendricks. Bebop music. vocal range: tenor.
Ghost-Writer By Michael Hollinger. Director: John Vreeke. 1st Reh: Mar. 26. Runs Apr. 18-May 26, 2013.
Novelist Franklin Woolsey dies mid-sentence, but his typist (think Henry James and his typist in the early 1900s) continues to take dictation. A drama about the writing process, creativity and love---as seen through the eyes of his secretary/typist.
AUDITION MATERIAL NOTE: When choosing an audition monologue, keep in mind that the play takes place in 1919.
Myra Babbage:
35-early 40’s-cerebral, verbally facile, not a stunning beauty but a quiet internal beauty, knows how to type…loves control and uses her smarts for control and passion (modeled on Henry James’s typist in the early 1900s at the advent of the typewriter.)
Franklin Woolsey:
late 50’s early 60’s, erudite, acclaimed writer (modeled on the novelist Henry James), still passionately involved in his life as a writer but has a deep internal life that is barely revealed.
Vivian Woolsey:
Franklin’s wife, may be 5 years younger than her husband, still very pretty, holds her head up with great dignity and guards her emotions with great care and appropriate high society barrier.
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