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Contract
LORT Non-Rep
B; $812/week min. (theatre paying above min)
Seeking
NYC auditions 10/13, 10/14, by appointment only
Seeking submissions from AEA members only for these appointments.
The AEA member must submit him/herself directly in order to be considered.
Submit ASAP for consideration.
see breakdown
Other Dates
Co-production of the Cincinnati Playhouse (Cincinnati, OH) and the Milwaukee Repertory (Milwaukee, WI).
Actors MUST be available for all dates for both productions.
see breakdown for dates.
Personnel
Director: Blake Robison
Playwright: Rick Elice
Based on the book by: Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
Music by: Wayne Barker
Casting: Stephanie Klapper Casting
Other
Indicate in subject line: PETER AND THE STARCATCHER / NYC APPTS / AEA SUBMISSION
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Breakdown
PLEASE NOTE: This is a co-production. Actors MUST be available for all dates for both productions.
When the insatiably curious Molly, a starcatcher in training, meets an orphan boy longing for a home, they embark on the adventure of a lifetime. A daring sea mission, not-so-swashbuckling pirates and singing mermaids combine for a magical Peter Pan prequel.
SEEKING A DIVERSE ENSEMBLE OF ACTORS with strong language skills, physicality, and good voices. This is a very physical show. All actors should be fit and comfortable with rigorous, precise physical action. Strong, on-key singing is a must. Looking for “young souls.”
DIALECT: All roles require accents: British for the Orphans, “Pirate” for the Seafarers, and upper/lower class for the British Subjects.
SEEKING:
THE ORPHANS
PETER (20s): A boy who doesn’t miss much. Nameless, homeless, and friendless at the beginning of the play and a hero by the end. A survivor. More than anything in the world, he wants a home and a family. If he could grow up, he’d fall for Molly in a big way. But it’ll never happen.
PRENTISS (20s): Ambitious, hyperarticulate, logical; yearns to be a leader, even as he knows in his heart that he never shall be one. A bit of a blowhard with just the teeny-tiniest touch of cowardice.
TED (20s): Obsessed with food: the eating of, the fighting over, the dreaming about. A natural actor, an easy wit, perhaps a future poet. Called “Tubby” by Prentiss, though not due to girth, of which orphans, given their meager diets, have very little indeed.
THE BRITISH SUBJECTS
LORD ASTER (30s): The very model of a Victorian English gentleman, loyal subject to the Queen, devoted father, faithful friend. Also, and not irrelevant to our story, Lord Aster is a Starcatcher—dedicated to protecting the Earth and all who dwell thereon from the awesome power of starstuff.
MOLLY ASTER (20s): A true leader at a time when girls are mostly followers. Will risk everything for the sake of Doing Right. Curious, intelligent, beginning to feel things she doesn’t yet understand — romantic longings that revert to childish tantrums under pressure because, after all, she’s a thirteen-year-old kid. She’ll be a great woman one day.
MRS. BUMBRAKE (30s): Molly’s nanny. British to the bone. Still has enough of her girlish charm to turn a sailor’s head and leaven his dreams. Stiff in the lip, loose in the hip, fun on a ship. Played by a male actor. Doubles as Teacher: Formerly a salmon, now an ancient, knowledgeable mermaid. Teacher should have a Scottish accent.
THE SEAFARERS
BILL SLANK (30s): The Neverland’s vicious captain, without the skill or quality to lead anyone but himself, and always into disaster. A greedy bastard who’d sell his own mother for a ship to command and send boys to their doom for the favor of those who would use starstuff for personal gain, global domination, or worse. An orphan, too. Doubles as Fighting Prawn: King of the Mollusks. Kidnapped by British sailors and brought in chains to England where, for no good reason, he learned Italian wines and mastered Italian cuisine. Since returning to his island kingdom, he vengefully murders any English with the temerity to land on his Mollusk Isle domain. Fighting Prawn dialect should be something of the actors’ creation
ALF (30s): An old sea dog. Something about him appeals to the feminine sensibility — might be his bow legs, his saucy gait, or his kind heart.
THE BLACK STACHE (30s): Long after everyone else got out of the pirate business, The Black Stache continues to terrorize the seven seas in search of a hero worthy of his villainy. Famous for his face foliage, he started shaving at age ten, had a bushy handlebar by eleven, and the blood of twenty crews on his hands by twelve. Heartless and hirsute, suspiciously well read, partial to the poetical and theatrical, and given to a ferocity from which no good shall ever spring.
SMEE (30s): First mate to Black Stache. Single-mindedly dedicated to his captain’s every whim. His motto: “Tis good to be busy.”
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