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Call Type
Equity Principal
Date of Audition
5/31/2011
Location
Actors' Equity Building
557 W. Randolph St.
Chicago, IL 60661
Time(s)
Tuesday, May 31st
10 AM - 4 PM
Appointments
will be taken by the Equity office beginning Tuesday, May 24th at 9:30 AM. Call 312-641-0406 9:30 AM-12:30 PM and 3:00-4:30 PM only.
> EPA Rules are in effect.
> A monitor will be provided.
Personnel
Directors Kevin Christopher Fox, Morgan Hicks, and Robert Ford will attend with casting authority.
Other Dates
BOEING: 1st rehearsal August 9; runs September 1-25
FALL: 1st rehearsal March 20; runs April 12-29
Breakdown
TheatreSquared's 2011/2012 season includes a wide variety of offerings, including BOEING-BOEING, a classic French farce; a new adaptation of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE; a regional premiere of TIGERS BE STILL; and a new play recently premiered at Alabama Shakespeare Festival, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE. For these auditions, we will be seeing actors primarily for BOEING-BOEING and THE FALL OF THE HOUSE.
Character Breakdown:
BOEING-BOEING
BERNARD (25-40) – an American architect and swinging bachelor. He is a combination of Don Draper and Jack Tripper. A ladies man who thinks he has the fairer sex completely figured out.
BERTHA (40s-60s) – Bernard's long-suffering housekeeper, cut from the cloth of the comedy of manners.
ROBERT (25-40) – Bernard's old friend. Not a worldly chap. Jerry Lewis to Bernard’s Tony Curtis.
GABRIELLA (25-35) – the Italian fiancée, with a casual sensuality. A stewardess.
GLORIA (25-35) – the American fiancée, possibly southern, with an upbeat disposition. A stewardess.
GRETCHEN (25-35) – the German fiancée blessed with an aggressive nature. A stewardess.
FALL OF THE HOUSE
MUNNY, 17, 55 & very old, African American; escaped slave, charismatic, a healer
ELIZA POE, 24, white. Popular actress now dying of tuberculosis; mother of Edgar. Also plays WILSON, a lawyer in the present, and LUCY, a white kid on the gothic side in the present.
DAVID POE, mid 20s, white, Edgar's father and Eliza's husband. Also plays JACK, an English professor in the present, and CAGE, a lawyer in the present.
EDGAR ALLAN POE, 40, white, inventor of the detective story and the gothic horror story, editor, poet. Also plays SOCIAL WORKER and JUDGE in the present.
JANICE BERRY, early 20s & late 30s, African American, a celebrated architect
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Contract
Special Appearance
Actor min. $300/wk
Seeking
Male and Female Actors for BOEING-BOEING and FALL OF THE HOUSE. See breakdown.
Breakdown
A breakdown has been added for this notice. See below.
Preparation
BOEING-BOEING: Please prepare a comedic monologue.
FALL OF THE HOUSE: Please prepare one of the provided sides, available at the Actors Equity 3rd floor reception desk.
Bring headshot and resume.
Other
Possible callbacks June 1st.
Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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