Peninsula Players 2017 Season Musicals - Chicago EPA Days
Peninsula Players Theatre Foundation, Inc.
AUDITION DATE
Dec 13, 2016
10:00 am - 5:00 pm (CST)
Lunch from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dec 15, 2016
11:00 am - 3:30 pm (CST)
Lunch from 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
APPOINTMENTS
AEA Members may schedule an appointment online beginning Tuesday, December 6 at 12:00 PM.
CONTRACT
CORST
CORST Z; $756/wk minimum
SEEKING
Male and female actors for the upcoming productions of PETER AND THE STAR CATCHER and THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY. All roles except Black Stache in PETER and Robert in BRIDGES. Please see breakdown for more information.
PREPARATION
32 bars in the style of the shows; bring your books; and a short monologue appropriate for either show (can be from the show).
LOCATION
Actors' Equity Association - Chicago Member Center
557 W Randolph St
1st Fl
Chicago, IL 60661
Dial 011 at front door.
PERSONNEL
Greg Vinkler, Artistic Director -- Valerie Maze, Music Director
OTHER
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
Dates listed in the following order: first rehearsal, opening and closing dates:
5/26 - 6/13 - 7/2 - THE ACTUARY by Steven Peterson
6/14 - 7/5 - 7/23 - PETER AND THE STARCATCHER by Elice/Barker
7/6 - 7/26 - 8/13 - THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY by Norman/Brown
7/27 - 8/16 - 9/3 - LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME by Constance Cox, adapted from Oscar Wilde
8/17 - 9/6 - 10/15 - ALMOST, MAINE by John Cariani
All roles available except Ed Brooks in THE ACTUARY , Black Stache in PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, and Robert in BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
THE ACTUARY:
Barb - married to Ed Brooks, a sales leader for Bonnie Bay Cosmetics. In her 50s.
Tabitha - their daughter, a social worker and mother-to-be. In her late 20s.
Lyle - Tabitha's husband, leading Whozit, a high-tech startup. In his late 20s.
Richard - Lyle's best friend and business partner in Whozit. In his late 20s.
Avery - Tabitha's best friend and Richard's fiancé, in public relations. In her late 20s.
PETER AND THE STARCATCHER:
Black Stache - a notorious pirate, terrorizing the seven seas in search of a worthy adversary. Heartless, hirsute and suspiciously well read. Partial to the poetical and theatrical, which causes him to behave quite flamboyantly. Male. 30 -50.
Molly Aster - a young girl and Starcatcher apprentice who is taken aboard the Neverland as precious cargo. Curious and intelligent, she is only beginning to understand the confusing romantic longings that come with her age. She will risk anything for the sake of what is right. Female. 18 - 25.
Boy/Peter - a lonely and hardened orphan who doesn't miss much. Nameless, homeless and friendless at the beginning of the play and a hero by the end. He wants a home and a family more than anything, and dreams of a life of being free. Male. 18 - 25.
Grempkin - the schoolmaster of St. Norbert's Orphanage for Lost Boys. Mean and malodorous, he revels in keeping his boys in the dark and malnourished. Probable doubling. Male. 40 - 60.
Mrs. Bumbrake - Molly's nanny, a stereotypical British cad and outfitted with the duty of teaching Molly about womanhood.She still has enough charm in her age to attract a sailor or two. Probable doubling. Male. 40 - 60.
Bill Slank - the vicious orphaned captain of the Neverland. Does not possess the capacity to lead anyone but himself, which puts himself constantly in disaster. Greedy enough to send boys to their doom for the chance of gaining starstuff. Probable doubling. Male. 35 - 55.
Smee - Black Stache's first mate. He is single-mindedly dedicated to his captain's every whim. Male. 25 - 55.
Prentiss - an orphan, ambitious, hyper articulate and logical. He yearns to be leader, even when he knows in his heart that he'll never be one. A bit of a blowhard with a touch of cowardice. Male. 18 - 25.
Alf - a seafarer, an old sea dog proud of his tenure. His kind heart gives him an appeal to the feminine sensibility. Male. 50 - 65.
Lord Leonard Aster - Molly's father, a loyal subject to the Queen. The very model of a Victorian English gentleman, he is a faithful friend and a secret Starcatcher. Male. 40 - 60.
Captain Robert Falcon Scott - Lord Aster's old school friend, the capatain of the Wasp, Britain's fastest frigate. Lives with nautical bravura and heroic patriotism. Male. 35 - 45.
Ted - an orphan obsessed with food. A natural performer with easy wit and quite poetic language. Male. 18 - 25.
LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME:
Baines - Lord Arthur's faithful butler. A sort of Jeeves to Arthur's Wooster. About 50.
Lord Arthur Savile - a gentleman. Engaged to Sybil. Young and pleasant but not overburdened with brains.
Sybil Merton - his fiancée. Young, lovely and charming.
The Dean of Paddington - his uncle. A spry old gentleman, of some absence of mind.
Lady Windermere - his aunt. A beautiful woman in the 40s.
Lady Clementina Beauchamp - his great-aunt. A delightful woman of about 60.
Lady Julia Merton - Sybil's mother. One feels instinctively that she is closely related to Lady Bracknell.
Mr. Podgers - a cheiromantist. A stout little man, with gold-rimmed spectacles.
Nellie - a young parlormaid.
Herr Winkelkopf - an anarchist. A voluble, excitable German of about 40.
THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY:
Francesca - a beautiful Italian woman, generous, luminous and funny, now married to a farmer and living in Iowa. Female. 35 - 45.
Richard Bud Johnson - Francesca's husband, an Iowa farmer, a good guy, diligent and dependable, but always exhausted and irritated that things haven't gone easier. Male. 40 - 50.
Marian - Robert Kincaid's former wife, a musician. Female. 35 - 45.
Chiara - Francesca's sister still living in Italy. Female. 35 - 45.
Michael - Francesca and Bud's son, to play 16. Male. 18+.
Carolyn - Francesca and Bud's daughter, to play 14. Female. 18+.
Marge - Francesca's neighbor, sassy and nosy. Female. 45 - 60.
Charlie - Marge's husband. Male. 60 - 70.
ALMOST, MAINE:
Two men and two women to play the various residents of the town of Almost, Maine. 25 - 45.
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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