BANDSTAND - Chicago EPA Williams Street Repertory | Crystal Lake, IL
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Thursday, March 7, 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (C)
BREAK: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
CAT
$343 weekly minimum (Tier 2)
Equity actors for roles in BANDSTAND (see breakdown).
Please prepare one 1-2 minute cut in a jazz/big band style and 1-2 minutes of a dramatic monologue with a clear beginning, middle and end. An accompanist will be provided. Please bring one copy of your headshot and resume. Musicians can send additional performance reels to casting@wsrep.org. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Actors' Equity Association - Chicago Member Center
557 W Randolph St
1st Fl
Chicago, IL 60661
WSR Artistic Director : Richard Kuranda
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Director: Daniel Ellis
Music Director: James Mablin
Invited callback at Raue Center for the Arts in Crystal Lake, IL on Friday, March 8th, 2024.
First Rehearsal: August 12, 2024
Opening: September 13, 2024
Closing: October 20, 2024
OTHER
https://www.rauecenter.org/williams-street-rep/
If you are unable to attend the audition, please email casting@wsrep.org.
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.
BANDSTAND
CASTING NOTE: Please note that there are roles that need to play their assigned instruments live on stage. If you are auditioning for a role that requires playing an instrument, please send a video demonstrating your ability before your audition or bring your instrument with you to self-accompany. A drum kit will be provided at call-backs. If you are not able to play the instrument at auditions, please provide a video demonstrating your musicianship. Please send videos to casting@wsrep.org.
CASTING NOTE: Please note that all characters are struggling with various degrees and relationships around wartime PTSD in 1945.
DONNY NOVITSKI: 20 - 30 years old, male-identifying, Baritone/Tenor (B-flat 2 - B-flat 4), a piano and accordion prodigy, passionate about swing music and writing his own songs, elusive star quality carrying dark weight of wartime experiences.
JULIA TROJAN: 20 - 30 years old, female-identifying, Soprano with strong belt (G3 - F-sharp 5), a gifted singer without the drive to be a star, smart, honest, natural ability to simply tell the truth when singing, emotionally translucent.
MRS. JUNE ADAMS: 45 - 55 years old, female-identifying, Alto (G3 - B4), Julia’s mother and a woman of modest means, nervous anxiety with a quirky sense of humor, grounded honesty when it comes to Julia’s happiness.
WAYNE WRIGHT: 20 - 30 years old, male-identifying, High Baritone (C3 - B-flat 4), gifted jazz trombone player and a veteran Marine Lieutenant, severe case of obsessive-compulsive disorder, carries enormous tension in his body and mind and maintains an aloofness that hides his emotional turmoil, intimidating in his silence.
JIMMY CAMPBELL: 20 - 30 years old, male-identifying, Baritone (C3 - G-sharp 4), gifted jazz reed player (predominantly saxophone and clarinet), bookish, thin, well put together, studying law after returning from the Navy, careful and guarded personality, fiercely loyal to Donny and the band. While the text never gives him away, Jimmy is privately gay and committed to fighting injustices in whatever ways he can.
JOHNNY SIMPSON: 20 - 30 years old, male-identifying, High Baritone (B2 - G-sharp 4), drumming phenomenon, returning Army Private, suffers from severe back pain after three surgeries and therefore has become reliant on pain medication, shows signs of traumatic brain injury with memory loss, almost childlike and gentle personality.
DAVY ZLATIC: Late 20s - 40 years old, male-identifying, wiz on upright bass, recent Army veteran who served in the European theater and liberated Dachau, modeled heavily on Shakespeare’s lovable Falstaff, big man of big appetites, drinks to no end, playing the clown but ultimately the protector.
NICK RADEL: Late 20s - 40 years old, male-identifying, genius trumpet player, recent Army veteran who spent the last three months of the European battles in a German prisoner-of-war camp, desperate for career and sense of personal security, outrageously confident in his musical talents, defensive of his deserved credit and compensation, has not been able to stop fighting for his life every day since returning home, sometimes hard to be a team player.
JEAN ANN RYAN: Mid 30s - Late 50 years old, female-identifying, warm Alto, glamorous local radio personality, prides herself on being the voice of several of WTAM Radio’s popular programs, believes herself to be more worldly and sophisticated than she likely is, a voice that recalls Judy Garland and Kate Smith.
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