Saint Vincent Summer Theatre 2018 Season - Latrobe PA EPA
Saint Vincent College
**Full Breakdown Added**
AUDITION DATE
Sat, Mar 17, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EST)
Lunch break tbd
Sun, Mar 18, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EST)
APPOINTMENTS
No appointments. Actors seen on a first come, first seen basis. Sign-in at the theatre begins at 8:30am.
CONTRACT
LOA $598/week
SEEKING
Equity actors and actor/singers for various roles in the upcoming 2018 Summer Season. See breakdown.
PREPARATION
Prepare EITHER: A brief Broadway song or show-appropriate song for the musical; OR 2) One comedic monologue; OR 3) A one-minute, comedic monologue and 16 bars of a song. Total audition time is 2 minutes
LOCATION
Saint Vincent Theatre
300 Fraser Purchase Rd
Latrobe, PA 15650-2667
Robert S. Carey PAC, 3rd floor
PERSONNEL
Greggory Brandt, Producing Artistic Director
OTHER
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
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
All roles currently available
HARVEY
Director: Greggory Brandt
First Rehearsal: May 14, 2018
Runs: May 24 – June 10, 2018
This has a cast of 12: 6 male roles, 6 female role
Elwood P. Dowd - the central character of the play, a friendly eccentric who spends his days and nights in the taverns of his unnamed town. Elwood’s best friend is Harvey, an invisible six and a half-foot-tall rabbit. The play leaves open several possibilities regarding exactly what Harvey is, whether he is a figment of Elwood’s imagination, as the psychiatrists would like to believe, or he is, as Elwood asserts, a supernatural being known as a “pooka”.
Ethel Chauvenet - an old friend of the family. She is a member of the town’s social circle, which Veta wants Myrtle to break into, and so they both flatter her and curry her favor.
Myrtle - a young woman, the daughter of Veta. The main reason why she and her mother are concerned about their standing in the community is that they both are concerned that Myrtle find a man to marry.
Veta Louise Simmons, - Elwood’s sister, an important character in this play because she joins the play’s two opposing forces, logic and imagination.
Dr. William B. Chumley - an esteemed psychiatrist and the head of the sanitarium, “Chumley’s Rest,” to which Veta has Elwood taken. He is a difficult, exacting man, feared by his subordinates, unwilling to tolerate his mistakes.
Betty Chumley (the doctor's wife) - more concerned with socializing than with science: told that her husband has to examine a patient, she tells him, “Give a little quick diagnosis, Willie — we don’t want to be late to the party.”
Judge Omar Gaffney - an old family friend of the Dowd family, a representative of the people in town who are accustomed to seeing Elwood talking to Harvey and who do not think anything of it.
Miss Johnson - listed in the Cast of Characters as “a cateress,” but her dialogue in the play is tagged “Maid.” She only appears briefly in the first act.
Nurse Ruth Kelly - a sympathetic character, a pretty young woman who appears to have some sort of love/hate relationship with Dr. Sanderson.
E. J. Lofgren – a cab driver who makes Veta realize that the treatment that is supposed to make Elwood stop seeing Harvey might drain him of his kind personality.
Dr. Lyman Sanderson - young, for a psychiatrist, but very qualified — Dr. Chumley has picked him out of the twelve possible assistants that he tried. He is just as infatuated with Nurse Kelly as she is with him, but he only reveals his concern indirectly.
Wilson - the muscle of Chumley’s Rest, a devoted orderly responsible for handling the patients who will not cooperate voluntarily.
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NUNSENSE
Director: Greggory Brandt
Choreographer: Renata Marino
Music Director: Wendy Feaver
First Rehearsal: June 18, 2018
Runs: June 28 – July 15, 2018
This has a cast of 5 female roles
Sister Mary Regina - Mother Superior: a feisty, overweight Sophie Tucker-type who can't resist the spotlights. Mezzo Soprano
Sister Mary Hubert - Mistress of Novices: the second-in -command, she is always competing with the Mother Superior. Alto
Sister Robert Anne - a streetwise, tough character from Brooklyn, a constant source of irritation for the Mother Superior.
Sister Mary Amnesia - this nun lost her memory after a crucifix fell on her head; she is very sweet. Soprano
Sister Mary Leo - the novice, who has entered the convent with the firm desire to become the first nun ballerina. Soprano
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Ken Ludwig’s LEADING LADIES
Director: Greggory Brandt
First Rehearsal: July 23, 2018
Runs: August 2 – August 19, 2018
This has a cast of 8: 5 male roles, 3 female roles
Leo - early 40’s, English actor. Still dreams big of “making it” as an actor. Has the bright idea that he & Jack will pretend to be Florence’s long-lost relatives and “inherit” her money.
Jack - also early 40’s English actor, but ready to “settle down.” Has had enough of the “actor life” and Leo’s plans for him.
Meg - a local girl in her early 30’s, engaged to Duncan. She’s vivacious, with enormous warmth and a great sense of humor. She also has the fresh, unstudied beauty that most women would kill for. She knows there’s a big world outside York, Pa., but hasn’t seen much of it yet. She harbors a world of dreams, and sleeps on them every night. They keep her alive, but she doesn’t know it.
Duncan - the local minister and substantially older than Meg. He’s a good man at heart, but rather fussy, set in his ways, a bit scatterbrained and lives in his own world.
Audrey - about 20, extremely well-built and extremely sweet and good-natured. She’s a knockout. Roller-skating waitress and dating Butch.
Florence - Meg’s aunt. Very old, extremely crusty, and her eyesight is terrible. A millionairess on her death bed.
Doc - Chief Moose of the Shrewsbury Moose Lodge. A crusty, likable curmudgeon, a country doctor who takes no guff from anybody.
Butch - early 20’s, Doc’s son. A little slow on the uptake, but earnest and sincere, with a good heart. He played football in high school. Doc and Butch argue a lot and adore each other.
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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