Imagination Stage 2017-18 Season - Bethesda MD EPA
Imagination Stage
AUDITION DATE
Feb 16, 2017
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm (EST)
Feb 17, 2017
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm (EST)
APPOINTMENTS
For appointments please email Jenna Duncan at audition@imaginationstage.org. Auditions will be in 5 minute time slots. AEA members without appointments will be seen as time permits on the day of.
CONTRACT
TYA Tier 1; $475.00/week
SEEKING
Actors who are strong singers and dancers as our season includes a number of musicals. We are seeking actors 18 years or older. Actor/Musicians (Piano, Guitar, Harmonica, etc.) and puppeteers are highly encouraged to audition.
PREPARATION
Please prepare a 2 minute monologue.
Your audition material does not need to be from a children's show.
Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Imagination Stage
4908 Auburn Ave
Bethesda, MD 20814-2629
Red line to Bethesda Metro, Circulator or 10 minute walk
PERSONNEL
Attending the audition will be:
Janet Stanford, Artistic Director, Imagination Stage
Kate Bryer, Associate Artistic Director , Imagination Stage
Jenna Duncan, Casting Director, Imagination Stage
OTHER DATES
See breakdown for show dates.
OTHER
www.imaginationstage.org
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
2017/2018 Season
THE SMARTEST GIRL IN THE WORLD
by Miriam Gonzales, Directed by Kathryn Chase Bryer
First Rehearsal: 9/11/17. Opening Night : 10/7/17. Closing 10/29/17
Description: Leo is studying to get on his school’s team for the TV Challenge while his younger sister would prefer to play. The two share dreams of being successful, and making life easier for their overworked parents. When Mami & Papi forbid Leo from accepting a place on the team because he has sickle cell and cannot travel, Leo feels thwarted. Lizzy decides to help by studying to make the Challenge team herself and thereby achieve Leo and her dreams.
LIZZY MARTINEZ, a second grader. Later a third grader.
LEO MARTINEZ, Lizzy’s big brother. A sixth grader, later a seventh grader. / CROCKETT ELEMENTARY QUIZ SHOW CONTESTANT
HECTOR, Leo and Lizzy’s cousin. Same age as Leo. / PAPI, Leo and Lizzy’s father. Early thirties. / QUIZ SHOW HOST
CHERYL, Lizzy’s neighbor and playmate. Same age as Lizzy. / MAMI, Leo and Lizzy’s mother. Early thirties. / AUNT KID, Leo and Lizzy’s aunt. Their Mami’s sister. Forties, early fifties. / PIERCE ELEMENTARY QUIZ SHOW CONTESTANT
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CHARLOTTE’S WEB
by Joseph Robinette, Directed by Kathryn Chase Bryer
First Rehearsal 10/23/17. Opening Night 11/18/17. Closing 1/7/18. Poss Ext 1/8/18-1/14/18
Fern Arable is a soft-hearted farm girl who objects to her father’s plan to kill the runt of the pig litter. As a result, she gets to bottle-feed Wilbur and, during this time, she develops a strong attachment to him. Her father agrees to board Wilbur with the family relations so that Fern can visit him after school. At the Zuckerman Farm, Wilbur meets a silly goose, a morbid sheep, the selfish rat Templeton, and the spider Charlotte. Everyone but young Wilbur knows that the pig is being fattened up for slaughter but when she sees Wilbur’s despair, Charlotte makes a plan to save him.
(Actor/Musicians encouraged to audition)
FERN - a young girl who forms a bond with Wilbur. / GOOSE / SPECTATOR / JUDGE
CHARLOTTE - A spider; she saves Wilbur’s life through her webbing “miracles.” / MRS. ARABLE (off-stage voice) / BABY SPIDER (off-stage voice)
AVERY - Fern’s brother. / HOMER - Fern’s uncle. / SHEEP / SPECTATOR / JUDGE
TEMPLETON - A rat; doesn’t often do things for anyone but himself. / JOHN ARABLE - Fern’s father / LURVY - A hired hand / LAMB
WILBUR - A pig who is being fattened up for slaughter while Charlotte tries to save him by weaving words into her web about him.
GANDER / GOOSE / REPORTER / UNCLE (the Pig) / FAIR PRESIDENT
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THE PRINCESS AND THE PAUPER: A BOLLYWOOD TALE
by Anu Yadav, with music by Ashwin Subramarian, Directed by Janet Stanford
First Rehearsal 1/16/18 Opening Night 2/10/18 Closing 3/18/18
Set in long ago and faraway India, this adaptation stars a spoiled Princess called Razia and a shy peasant girl named Zainab. Zainab accompanies her mother Hema to the palace to deliver a coronation cape, but while Hema is fitting the Wazir, Zainab sneaks into the Princess’s mango garden. The girls notice how similar they are in looks and exchange clothes. A mix-up ensues and Razia ends up living Zainab’s life and vice-versa. Razia soon discovers how unfairly the common people are treated.
RAZIA - the princess / GHOST of the Sultana
ZAINAB - the paupress
HEMA - Zainab’s mother, a dressmaker
AYAH - Razia’s nanny / CHANDRA - a dog
WAZIR - a high minister of the Sultanate
NAVEEN - a family friend of Zainab’s / GUARD
ZOYA - Zainab’s younger sister / FARHAN - a shopkeeper
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ROBIN HOOD
by Greg Banks, Directed by Janet Stanford
First Rehearsal 3/19/18. Opening Night 4/14/18 Closing 5/20/18 Poss Ext. 5/21/18-5/27/18
The traditional story is framed with contemporary beggar characters who beg from the audience and wonder if any hero will ever come along to set right their world’s injustices. Suddenly we transform into The Sherwood Forest where The Sheriff of Nottingham kills a peasant for poaching a royal deer. The peasant’s son, Much, is saved by the arrival of Robin who takes the Sheriff's money bags and welcomes the boy to his Merry Men. This event kicks off the Sheriff’s long battle to trap Robin and put an end to his do-gooding.
ACTOR 1 - The Sheriff/King Richard/Soldier 3
ACTOR 2 - Prince John/Will Scarlett/Soldier 1/Little John/Friar Tuck
ACTOR 3 - Much/Maid Marian
ACTOR 4 - Robin Hood/Marian’s Dad/Soldier 2
2 Musicians/Merry Men/Soldiers
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YOU’RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN
Book Music and Lyrics by Clark M. Gesner, Additional Dialogue by Michael Mayer, Additional Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa, Directed by Aaron Posner
First Rehearsal 5/29/18 Opening Night 6/23/18 Closing 8/12/18 Poss Ext. 8/13/18-8/19/18
The play features five Elementary School children and their dog, Snoopy, in a series of vignettes that reveal much about their lives and relationships.
SALLY BROWN - Charlie’s younger sister and vacillates between nasty and nice to him.
LUCY VAN PELT - The bully of the piece. Wants to become queen Lucy.
SNOOPY - Snoopy displays his dreams of grandeur in the melodramatic Red Baron number, then celebrates extravagantly in Suppertime when Charlie Brown
SCHROEDER - A mini-musical prodigy always playing Beethoven on his toy piano.
CHARLIE BROWN - Charlie suffers humorously from a terrible inferiority complex.
LINUS VAN PELT - Carries his security blanket and tries to stay out of the way of his domineering sister Lucy.
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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