Skylight Music Theatre 2017-18 Season - Milwaukee EPA
Skylight Music Theatre
AUDITION DATE
Apr 23, 2017
12:00 pm - 8:00 pm (CDT)
Break from 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
APPOINTMENTS
Email Sam Nykiel at skylightauditions@gmail.com. No calls please.
CONTRACT
SPT SPT 9; $531/wk min
SEEKING
Adult musical theatre performers for 2017-2018 season.
PREPARATION
Prepare 2 contrasting musical theatre songs, from the show(s) if possible. Please bring 2 headshots and resumes.
LOCATION
Broadway Theatre Center
158 N Broadway
Milwaukee, WI 53202-6037
4th floor
PERSONNEL
Ray Jivoff, Artistic Director and Sam Nykiel, Artistic Administrator. An accompanist will be provided.
OTHER DATES
HOT MIKADO: September 5-October 15, 2017. ANNIE: October 24-December 23, 2017 (possible extension through December 30). ZOMBIES FROM THE BEYOND: January 9-February 18, 2018. URINETOWN: April 24-June 10, 2018. (Dates are First Rehearsal through Closing Performance.)
OTHER
Child performers will be seen at auditions on a different date. For more information, please visit http://www.skylightmusictheatre.org/about/employment-internships-auditions.
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
HOT MIKADO
Mikado: The big cat of Japan. An ardent stickler for the law, and a ruler who finds humor in every situation even when it is unjust or absurd. Loves a good show and is quite a showman and tapper himself.
Age: 45 to 60
Vocal range top: A5
Vocal range bottom: C4
Nanki-poo: The son of the Mikado. A fresh-faced rock crooner. Runs away from his father and the high court and pretends to be a wandering minstrel who plays the trumpet with lots of energy but little finesse.
Age: 22 to 28
Vocal range top: B5
Vocal range bottom: C4
Yum-yum: The ward of Titipu's Lord High Executioner and engaged to marry him. She loves Nanki-Poo. Pretty with a great figure. Honest.
Age: 18 to 24
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Pitti-sing: Yum-Yum's sister. Very matter-of-fact. Protective of her sister, and isn't afraid to stand up to Katisha.
Age: 20 to 28
Vocal range top: A5
Vocal range bottom: E3
Peep-bo: Yum-Yum's Sister. Cynical and sarcastic. Has the most attitude of all three sisters.
Age: 16 to 20
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: B3
Pish-tush: The coolest Gentleman of Japan. Thinks himself overly important when doing the Mikado's bidding. High-strung. Rash.
Age: 25 to 30
Vocal range top: B5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Ko-ko: Lord High Executioner. Was given his title the night before he was to be put to death for flirting. He has never killed anything in his life. An all-around nice guy.
Age: 35 to 50
Vocal range top: B5
Pooh-bah: Lord High's everything else. Took over all the offices of State when everyone else quit. Clever, money-hungry and selfish. Ko-Ko's right hand man.
Age: 30 to 45
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Katisha: Nanki-Poo's spurned and subsequently angry suitor. An oversexed femme fatale with a plain face. Threatens to tell everyone of Nanki-Poo's real identity to ruin his engagement to Yum-Yum.
Age: 30 to 40
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: F3
Ensemble
ANNIE
Warbucks: A successful businessman with a warm heart. Rich, stiff-collared, bullish. Male.
Age: 40 to 55
Vocal range top: Gb5
Vocal range bottom: B3
Grace Farrell: Faithful secretary to Mr. Oliver Warbucks. Poised, sweet, gentle. Female.
Age: 20 to 35
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Miss Hannigan: The orphanage matron who hates children but is fond of liquor. Very disillusioned, bitter, and cold.
Age: 30 to 45
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Rooster: Miss Hannigan's no-good brother looking for a quick buck. A sleazy, slick con man.
Age: 25 to 35
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: B3
Lily: Rooster's girlfriend, who is also out for a quick buck. She is considered to be a floozy and bimbo.
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: B3
Bert Healy: The ultimate radio personality. He helps Annie by broadcasting about the search for her birth parents. Doubles as Cop.
Age: 30 to 45
Vocal range top: G5
Vocal range bottom: E4
Roosevelt:The 32nd President of the United States. A Democrat and friend of Warbucks. Doubles as other ensemble characters.
Age: 40 to 60
Vocal range top: F4
Vocal range bottom: Eb3
Servants
The servants at the Warbucks mansion. Includes Drake, Mrs. Pugh, Mrs. Greer, Cecille, and Annette.
Age: 20 to 50
Ensemble
Servants (Drake, Mrs. Greer, Mrs. Pugh), Boylan Sisters, Cabinet Members, Hooverville Citizens
ZOMBIES FROM THE BEYOND
Trenton Corbett: Handsome Leading Man. All-American hero, heroic “Clark Kent” type. Trustworthy, honest brave, and ambitious. Egghead scientist with charm to spare.
Age: 25-35
Vocal Range: Baritone (to F#)
Rick Jones: “Noir” Leading Man. Shifty, sexy, aloof, and sly; a military high-ranker who’s actually a red agent. Does brief fake Russian accent. Sings “Rock ‘n Roll” mid 50s style.
Age: 25-35
Vocal Range: Baritone to top G
Billy Krutzik: Juvenile comic. Spunky, enthusiastic, and genuine, a tap dancing delivery boy who the audience loves at first sight.
Age: 20-30
Vocal Range: Tenor or high baritone
Major Malone: Character actor/ Older Leading Man. Square-jawed, no nonsense military man, warmly paternal; a benevolent Esienhower-esque presence.
Age: 40-55
Vocal Range: Bass baritone
Mary Malone: Leading Lady. Major Malone’s daughter, amateur scientist and all around genius. Strong, smart, altogether lovely and genuine. The perfect 50s woman, but with an edge.
Age: 25-35
Vocal Range: Soprano/ belt mix
Charlene “Charlie” Osmanski: Comic Soubrette. Wise-cracking, man hungry secretary with lots and lots of heart.
Age: 25-35
Vocal Range: Belt to D
Zombina: Comic character actress. Buxom alien aviatrix on the prowl for human males.
Age: any
Vocal Range: Coloratura soprano
URINETOWN
Officer Lockstock: The tongue-in-cheek narrator of our story, he is a corrupt policeman who secretly kills off the guilty offenders. Bold, brash, and larger than life in many ways.
Age: 35 to 55
Vocal range top: A4
Vocal range bottom: A2
Penelope Pennywise: The tough, jaded warden of the poorest, filthiest town urinal. She is Cladwell's one-time lover and mother to Hope who eventually softens her temper.
Age: 30 to 45
Vocal range top: C6
Vocal range bottom: A3
Bobby Strong: The dashing, rebellious everyman who works for Miss Pennywise at the poorest, filthiest town urinal. He becomes an unsuspecting protagonist and romantic hero when he starts a revolution and falls in love with Hope Cladwell.
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: C5
Vocal range bottom: A2
Little Sally: A precocious and irreverent street urchin. She serves as a quasi-narrator who often questions Lockstock and the play's logic.
Age: 20 to 40
Vocal range top: E5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Dr. Billeaux: Head of Research and Development at UGC. Doubles as TINY TOM: One of the Poor, he is an idiotic man-child.
Age: 30 to 50
Vocal range top: A3
Vocal range bottom: D3
Mr. Mcqueen: Cladwell's sycophantic lackey. A servile assistant.
Age: 30 to 45
Vocal range top: -1
Vocal range bottom: B2
Senator Fipp: A greedy politician in Cladwell's pocket. A bumbling coward.
Age: 40 to 55
Vocal range top: F4
Vocal range bottom: C#3
Officer Barrel: Lockstock's patrol partner. A thuggish and aggressive policeman.
Age: 30 to 50
Vocal range top: F4
Vocal range bottom: G2
Hope Cladwell: Cladwell's ravishingly beautiful daughter, torn between her father and her new love for Bobby. She begins as an innocent, naive angel but becomes vengeful and determined after being exposed to her father's evil.
Age: 20 to 30
Vocal range top: A5
Vocal range bottom: A3
Joseph Old Man Strong: Bobby's rebellious father. His refusal to pay the fee sends him to Urinetown, ultimately launching the revolution. Doubles as HOT BLADES HARRY: One of the Poor, he is a psychopathic and can become a violent loose cannon.
Age: 45 to 65
Vocal range top: F4
Vocal range bottom: A2
Soupy Sue: One of the Poor, she is excitable and easily panicked. Doubles as CALDWELL'S SECRETARY.
Age: 25 to 40
Vocal range top: B4
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Little Becky Two-shoes: One of the Poor. She is foul-mouthed, impulsive, and accusatory. Doubles as MRS. MILLENIUM.
Age: 20 to 40
Vocal range top: F5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Caldwell B. Cladwell: The evil president and owner of the Urine Good Company. He is a miserly money-grubber who gleefully exploits the poor.
Age: 50 to 65
Vocal range top: G4
Vocal range bottom: A2
Josephine ma Strong: Bobby's mother and Joseph's wife. A strong-willed woman with a bite, able to withstand the hard hand life has dealt her. Doubles as OLD WOMAN.
Age: 55 to 65
Vocal range top: D5
Vocal range bottom: Bb3
Ensemble
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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