A Noise Within 2023-24 Season - LA EPA A Noise Within | Pasadena, CA
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Saturday, July 15, 2023
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (P)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
LOA
$510 weekly minimum (Ref. LORT) - 30 hour work week.
$680 weekly minimum (Ref. LORT) - 40 hour work week. (Tech and opening week)
$510 weekly minimum (Ref. LORT) - Performance week. (5 shows/week)
$153 additional performance increment. (6th and 7th shows/week)
Equity actors for roles in A Noise Within's 2023-24 Season (See breakdown).
Please prepare a contemporary or classical monologue of your choosing. If auditioning for SWEENEY TODD, please also prepare 32 bars of a song of your choosing. Bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
A Noise Within 2023-24 Season
A Noise Within
3352 E Foothill Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91107
Parking in garage for Sierra Madre Villa Metro Station
Producing Artistic Directors: Geoff Elliott & Julia Rodriguez Elliott
Expected to attend:
Alison Rodriguez (Associate Producer)
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for production specific dates.
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EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition. An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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.
Director: Andi Chapman
First Rehearsal: July 25
Opening: September 2
Closing: September 24
CLAUDIA: Precocious, sensitive girl. Able to move gracefully between the innocence of youth and the wisdom of the narrator who has lived through it all. Dexterity with direct address.
FRIEDA/DARLENE: Claudia’s older sister. Somewhat more practical than Claudia. Possibly more stern, slightly less personable.
PECOLA: A shy, quiet, resigned and somewhat pained presence. She should be completely innocent. We must love her and want to take care of her, but not pity her. Perhaps there is a certain quiet pride that won’t let us tip over into pity. She has very dark brown skin.
MAMA: She possesses an imposing presence. She loves her children and this should be evident despite her stern manner.
MRS. BREEDLOVE: An older version of Pecola, also dark brown. Painfully shy and insecure, and still very adept at addressing the audience.
DADDY/SOAPHEAD CHURCH: Charismatic, odd, charming, mature.
CHOLLY: Mrs. Breedlove’s age, the shell of a man who may have been physically impressive at one time, dark brown complexion.
MAUREEN PEAL/WHITE GIRL: Light skinned, very pretty. More complicated than merely “snotty.” She is a real person, as complicated as the other characters.
Note: The children are played by adults. Women 1, 2 and 3 can be played by any of the women available.
Directors: Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and Geoff Elliott
First Rehearsal: September 5
Opening: October 14
Closing: November 12
Oberon: The king of the fairies.
Demetrius: A young man of Athens, initially in love with Hermia and ultimately in love with Helena. Lysander: A young man of Athens, in love with Hermia.
Hermia: Egeus’s daughter, a young woman of Athens. Hermia is in love with Lysander and is a childhood friend of Helena.
Helena: A young woman of Athens, in love with Demetrius.
Egeus: Hermia’s father.
Bottom: The overconfident weaver chosen to play Pyramus in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration.
Flute: The bellows-mender chosen to play Thisbe in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration.
Snout: The tinker chosen to play Pyramus’s father in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration.
Snug: The joiner chosen to play the lion in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration.
Directors: Julia Rodriguez-Elliott and Geoff Elliott
First Rehearsal: November 14
Opening: December 1
Closing: December 24
Ensemble
Director: Julia Rodriguez-Elliott
First Rehearsal: January 9
Opening: February 17
Closing: April 28
Anthony Hope- A naive and youthful sailor returning to London. He helps Todd return to London and unexpectedly falls in love with Johanna.
Beggar Woman- A woman who harbors a dark, surprising secret.
Mrs. Lovett- An entrepreneurial and amoral meat pie shop owner. She falls in love with Todd and turns his desire for revenge into a profitable business venture.
The Beadle- A pompous public official. He is deeply loyal to the corrupt Turpin.
Johanna- A spritely girl, full of innocence, constantly yearning for freedom. Todd's long-lost daughter and Turpin's ward.
Tobias Ragg- A poor youngster apprenticed to Pirelli. He finds a surrogate family in Todd and Lovett. Pirelli- An Italian rival barber; a charlatan with a secret past.
Jonas Fogg- The owner of Fogg's Asylum.
Director: Gregg T. Daniel
First Rehearsal: February 27
Opening: April 16
Closing: April 28
Tonya- King Hedley II's wife
Ruby- King Hedley II's mother
Elmore- a southern hustler (and former boyfriend of Ruby)
Mister- friend
Stool Pigeon- a wise man and a prophet
Director: Guillermo Cienfuegos
First Rehearsal: April 9
Opening: May 18
Closing: June 9
John Tarleton, Jr.- son of John Tarleton, Sr., working his way into his father’s underwear business Bentley Summerhays- son of Lord Summerhays, fiancee of Hypatia
Hypatia Tarleton- daughter of John Tarleton, fiancée of Bentley
Mrs Tarleton- wife of John Tarleton and mother of Johnny and Hypatia
Lord Summerhays- a former colonial governor, father of Bentley, at one time proposed to Hypatia, a very proper Englishman
John Tarleton- father of Johnny and Hypatia Tarleton, “has made a great deal of money out of Tarleton’s Underwear,” a great supporter of “free libraries.”
Joseph Percival- friend of Bentley and part-time aviator, a splendid specimen of humanity, later courts Hypatia
Lina Szczepanowska- member of a famous Polish family of acrobats who make it a point of honor to risk their lives at least once a day
Julius Baker- a peculiar young man who accuses Mr. Tarleton at gunpoint of, years ago, seducing and abandoning his mother, Mrs. Tarleton later takes him under her wing.
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