AMID FALLING WALLS Equity Ensemble Singers - National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene Auditions

AMID FALLING WALLS - NYC ECC/Singers (morning - All genders)
National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene | New York, NY

AUDITION DATE

Friday, September 8, 2023
9:30 AM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CONTRACT

Off Broadway
$729 weekly minimum (Cat. 1) + health and pension – Favored Nations

SEEKING

Equity chorus singers (all genders) in AMID FALLING WALLS (see breakdown). NYTF is committed to diversity and encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to audition.

PREPARATION

Please sing 16 bars of song of your choice. The song should be a Yiddish song, a folk song, or a song from the Golden Age of musical theater. Show off voice and range. Please bring sheet music in the proper key. An accompanist will be provided. Audition selection can be in English. You will be asked to speak a Yiddish phrase. The link to the text and audio file can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rsxx2buaxw6o2o3/AACsNOaIYIVwmi4ZqB0pg1Uja?dl=0 . Please bring a headshot and resume, stapled together.

LOCATION

Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036

PERSONNEL

Dominick Balletta, Executive Director
Zalmen Mlotek, Artistic Director
Book: Avram Mlotek
Music: Various
Lyrics: Various
Director: Motl Didner
Musical Director: Zalmen Mlotek
Choreographer: Tamar Rogoff
Casting: Jamibeth Margolis Casting
Expected to attend:
Director: Motl Didner
NYTF Artistic Director and Musical Director: Zalmen Mlotek
Casting Assistant: Meredith Hoddeson
Casting Director: Jamibeth Margolis (4pm - 5:30pm only)

OTHER DATES

Rehearsals Begin: 10/16/23
First Preview: 11/14/23
Press Opening: 11/20/23
Closing: 12/10/23

OTHER

Venue: Edmond J. Safra Hall at the Museum of Jewish Heritage (NYC)
ECC 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

AMID FALLING WALLS / TSVISHN FALNDIKE VENT

SYNOPSIS: A new musical that tells the story of the perseverance of the Jewish spirit during the Holocaust as expressed through Yiddish song. Curated and arranged by Zalmen Mlotek, with a libretto by Avram Mlotek, and directed by Motl Didner, Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike Vent) features material written and performed in ghettos, cabarets, partisan encampments in the forests, concentration camps and clandestine theaters. Amid Falling Walls (Tsvishn Falndike Vent) includes firsthand testimony of Holocaust survivors through their own poetry and music. Although many of the young men and women in their 20s and 30s who created this remarkable work were murdered during World War II, their songs are brought to life in this theatrical production, the first of its kind: telling the authentic story of resistance and hope through the words and music of those who were there.

NOTE: AMID FALLING WALLS is performed entirely in Yiddish (with English supertitles). All should be excellent singers with strong music reading skills, ability to sing and act in foreign languages (experience with Yiddish and Hebrew a plus) and be able to move well. All roles are open to performers of any ethnicity. While the ensemble of actors are all versatile in that they play the partisans, poets, actors, mothers, daughters, fathers, sons of the period - nevertheless, they each have their unique defining sparks. Amid Falling Walls/Tsvishn Falndike Vent features an ensemble of eight with six leads and two ensemble/understudies who will sing in choral numbers and specialize in
movement.

SEEKING:

Esther: Ensemble/Understudy for Khane, Sore, Mina, 20s-30s - KHANE: fierce, dynamic hostess – belt, late 20s-30s., SORE: soulful, highly self-sufficient – mezzo belt, mid 20s-30s., MINA: resourceful,
talented, big hearted – soprano, 20s-30s.

Mendl: Ensemble/Understudy for Mordkhe, Moyshe, Yosl, 20s-30s - MORDKHE: fiery prophetic leader – high baritone, late 40s-60s., MOYSHE: depressed with violent streaks – bari-tenor, 20s-30s., YOSL: broken, spiritual, impassioned – bari-tenor, late 20s-30s.

Male off-stage swing, understudy Mendl

Female off-stage swing, understudy Esther