A WALK WITH MR. HEIFETZ - NYC EPA
Primary Stages
AUDITION DATE
Mon, Oct 02, 2017
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
Off Broadway $677/week
SEEKING
Equity actors for 3 roles. Note: All characters are based on real people. Based on true events, A Walk With Mr. Heifetz is a World Premiere play by award-winning former Gramophone and Time Magazine journalist James Inverne
PREPARATION
Actors will read from sides, provided at the audition. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Primary Stages Studios
307 W 38th St
Ste 1510
New York, NY 10018
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Andrew Leynse
Executive Director: Shane D. Hudson
Artistic Associate: Erin Daley
Director: Benjamin Kamine
Playwright: James Inverne
Casting: Stephanie Klapper Casting
OTHER DATES
1st Rehearsal: December 19th, 2017
1st Preview: January 24th, 2017
Opening: February 11th, 2018
Closing: March 4th, 2018
venue: Cherry Lane Theatre
OTHER
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.
BREAKDOWN
Based on true events, A Walk With Mr. Heifetz is a World Premiere play by award-winning former Gramophone and Time Magazine journalist James Inverne. In 1925, an unforgettable event occurred when Jascha Heifetz, the most celebrated violinist in the world, played a concert in pre-Israel Palestine. People flocked from all over the globe to see this performance, including Yehuda Sharett, composer and brother of future Israeli Prime Minister Moshe Sharett. Legend has it that after the performance, Heifetz and Yehuda walked together and shared a remarkable conversation that resonated twenty years later when, in 1945, Moshe echoed Heifetz’s footsteps and navigated a similar exchange with his brother. In this inspiring new play, discussions about music resonate with the harmonies and discords of a new state struggling into being, all while reminding us of dreams that still sing today and refuse to be quieted.
Note: The following characters are based on real people.
SEEKING:
Jascha Heifetz
Late 20s, Male. Charismatic in a somewhat remote way, reserved, eclectic, he appears to feel - and in fact usually does feel - superior, aware that not many equal his intellect or his artistry. Like many great musicians, he has spent so many thousands of hours practicing, engaging with the great masterpieces of music and the spirits behind them, that he has acquired an air of being slightly cut off from the rest of the world. He is the most famous musician in the world, and is accustomed to being revered wherever he goes, and having to fend off the frequent attentions of fans. But beneath all of this, if his respect has been earned, there is a large kindness and humanity. He was forced to relocate to America from Russia. He has worked to assimilate and become a true American - but his Polish is somewhat affected. He has a rather formal American accent, albeit with occasional Russian inflections, as if he has worked on it and embraced his new homeland.
Moshe Sharett
Mid 40s- early 50s, Male. Measured, warm, perhaps above all, precise. But as with many precise people his precision channels and implements his passion, the sense of mission that otherwise perhaps would consume him. He believes in the unity of his people and his family - perhaps unsure whether that will provide enough strength for the coming battles, but better united than dispersed. He has spent years in London, where he has become both a polished diplomat and a skilled wordsmith - not a room-shaking orator like his close colleagues, but a consummate debater. He should share traces of Yehuda’s accent but much more Anglicised (he studied in London and used the elegant language of the Diplomat).
Yehuda Sharett
Mid or late-twenties in Act One. Eccentric composer, ardent socialist in an idealistic, fervent way. Fervent about everything he does and feels, in fact, both in joy and sadness. Restless in act one, that nervous energy buried and transmuted into deep, listless disappointment in Act Two (until reawakened). A pioneer Israeli, his father was one of the first immigrants from the Ukraine/Russia to venture to Palestine, seeking out the dream of a homeland, and that inheritance weighs upon Yehuda. Eastern European-Israeli accent.
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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