PETER AND THE STARCATCHER Submission - Pioneer Theatre Company Auditions

Posted July 28, 2014
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PETER AND THE STARCATCHER - Pioneer Theatre Company

PETER AND THE STARCATCHER - Submit for NY Appt
Pioneer Theatre Company | Salt Lake City, UT


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richcolenyc@hotmail.com

Contract
LORT Non-Rep
B / $812

Seeking
NY auditions will be held 8/5 & 6 (Callbacks 8/7) by appointment only.

Seeking AEA members only for these appointments.
The AEA member must submit him/herself directly in order to be considered via this posting.

See breakdown for info.

Other Dates
Rehearse: 11/10/14
Open: 12/5/14
Close: 12/20/14

Deadline for submissions: 8/1/14

No phone calls or office visits.

Personnel
Art. Dir: Karen Azenberg
Dir: Jenn Thompson
By: Rick Elice
Based on novel by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson
Music: Wayne Barker
Choreog: Patti Wilcox
Casting Dir: Rich Cole

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Breakdown

NOTE: All actors must be proficient with English accents of various classes, move and sing well and have excellent physical comedy skills for this play with music The entire ensemble cast also portrays narrators, pirates, sailors, orphans, islanders, mermaids and various other creatures, locations and people in addition to their assigned principle role(s). Some of these roles may be cast in Salt Lake City prior to the New York auditions.

Boy/Peter:
18+ to play 13. A nameless and friendless 13-year-old Orphan, deeply mistrustful of adults and neglected to the point of never having seen the sun. His adventures allow him to find the hero within himself, and to take on a name worthy of the legend he becomes.

Molly Aster:
18+ to play 13. A 13-year-old apprentice Starcatcher desperate to prove herself to her father. Highly intelligent and physically adept, she remains socially awkward and something of a know-it-all, and her relationship with the Orphan Boys is driven as much by competition as it is by friendship.

Black Stache:
30s-40s. A highly intelligent but malapropism-prone Pirate chief, so called due to the black mustache that is a trademark in his family. In search of a great hero who he can oppose to become a great villain, Stache is given to scenery-chewing and anachronistic jokes, and has a hook in his future. Part Willy Wonka part Errol Flynn - this Stache has charm, buckets of humor and deadly menace. Excellent stage combat and sword play skills.

Smee:
30s - early 50s. Black Stache's faithful first mate. More intelligent than he gives himself credit for (but still not overly bright), Smee is willing to follow his captain in any amount of hare-brained schemes. Somehow, this ends up with him disguising himself as a Mermaid, which is far from a pretty sight.

Lord Leonard Aster:
40s. Molly’s father, A Starcatcher on a secret mission for Queen Victoria. He loves his daughter dearly but is perhaps guilty of placing his mission above her safety. Constantly paranoid about the security of top-secret conversation, he has trained Molly to converse in Dodo, Porpoise and Norse code (a Morse code-like system used by ancient Vikings.)

Ted:
18+ to play 10. One of the Boy's orphan companions, nicknamed Tubby Ted. Constantly hungry, ten-year old Ted is obsessed with food and faints at the mere mention of sticky pudding. He accepts Molly as a mother figure immediately, often referring to her by that title. Once on the Island, he spends most of his time attempting to figure out how to eat a pineapple.

Prentiss:
18+ to play 13. One of the Boy's orphan companions. Pompous and sarcastic, he is intent on proclaiming himself the leader of the gang of Orphans but is too cowardly to really do anything about it, and usually follows Peter and Molly with only nominal protest.

Mrs. Bumbrake:
late 30s - 50s. Molly’s faithful Nanny, a prim and proper Englishwoman prone to alliteration. In the tradition of the Pantomime dame, the role is written to be portrayed by a male actor, who also plays Teacher a wise and mysterious mermaid.

Alf:
30s - 40s. A salty and flatulent sailor on the Neverland, who falls deeply and instantly in love with Mrs. Bumbrake. He is somewhat coarse and has no time for children, but good-natured.

Fighting Prawn:
30s - 50s. The fierce chief of the tribe of Mollusk Islanders, who was sold into slavery in England as a boy, where he became a kitchen slave in a fine house. He speaks almost exclusively in Italian cooking terms. The actor in this role also portrays Grempkin, the sadistic schoolmaster of St. Norbert’s Orphanage for Lost Boys, Sanchez, one of Black Stache's crew, and Mack, the world's most incompetent Sailor.

Bill Slank:
30s - 40s. The nasty, greedy and cruel captain of the Neverland. It is Slank's greed for the Queen's secret treasure that sets the entire plot in motion. The actor in the role also portrays Hawking Clam, Fighting Prawn's son. Excellent stage combat and sword play skills.

Captain Robert Falcon Scott:
30s-40s. Upstanding Captain of the Wasp, and Lord Astor's old friend from their schooldays. Based loosely on the real Robert Falcon Scott.

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