CARRIE The Musical Equity Principal Audition - MCC Theatre Auditions

CARRIE The Musical – Equity Principal Auditions

MCC Theater Equity Agreement Pending (Off-Broadway or ANTC). Salary level TBD

Artistic Dirs: Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, William Cantler

Exec Dir: Blake West

Music: Michael Gore

Lyrics: Dean Pitchford

Book: Lawrence D. Cohen, based on Stephen King’s novel.

Based on the novel by: Stephen King

Dir: Stafford Arima

Choreo: Matt Williams

Mus Dir: Mary-Mitchell Campbell

Casting: Telsey + Company/Craig Burns

1st reh: 12/13/11. 1st preview: 1/31/12. Lucille Lortel Theatre. Open/close TBD.

Equity Principal Auditions:

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 Telsey + Company

10 AM - 6 PM 315 West 43rd Street, 10th Floor

Lunch from 1:30 – 2:30. New York City

Please prepare a brief pop/rock song or contemporary musical theatre pop/rock song showing range. Bring sheet music in the correct key; accompanist is provided, but may not transpose.

Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.

Seeking (all roles are available (i.e. not yet offered and accepted) unless otherwise specified):

Sue Snell:

Seeking actress 18+ to play late teens. Sue acts as a narrator – the haunted supervisor and witness to events of the past in which she was a participant. Sweet, straight-A smart and well-liked good girl who’s been popular her whole life – half of the Romeo-Juliet pair of every high school in America, who’s remarkably at ease with herself and who she is at 17. Then finds herself participating in an unthinking act of cruelty that changes everything, and a moment of conscience causes her to embark on a different path that sets her apart from her peers and tests her. Actress must have a very strong voice with warmth and lyricism.

Tommy Ross:

Seeking actor 18+ to play late teens. Tommy is the most popular senior, varsity star athlete and all-around handsome good-guy. Yet within this icon, also sweetly self-effacing and blessed with the quirky sensitivity of a poet – not afraid to stand up to peer pressure and do the right thing. Actor must have a very strong voice, with pop/rock versatility.

Chris Hargensen:

Seeking actress 18+ to play late teens. Chris is a rich, spoiled-rotten, popular beauty who radiates a natural ringleader – and a bully. Loaded with sexual dynamite, she’s arrogant, has serious daddy issues and a sense of entitlement that makes her think she deserves to get her own way … and God help you if you cross her. Actress must have a powerful, rhythmic rock/belt voice.

Billy Nolan:

Seeking actor 18+ to play late teens. Billy is hot. A little older than the other students. Works as a gas attendant. Goofy in a hot-kinda-way, crazy-wild with arms and abs of steel. Actor must have a great rock voice.

Miss Gardner:

Woman, early 30s – early 40s. The girls’ Physical Education teacher. Can be disciplinarian when the situation calls for it, but also a warm “fairy godmother” (vs. Margaret’s nightmare mother). Goes from angrily wanting to take Carrie and shake her in the shower to protective and encouraging Carrie to dream – only to find herself in a situation that’s way over her head. Actress must have a warm voice with a solid alto belt.

The roles of Margaret White and Carrie White are cast (with Marin Mazzie and Molly Ranson, respectively). Auditioning performers will be considered as possible replacements, should any become necessary.

ECC/Singers: June 27.

Casting director’s statement: “Actors of all ethnicities are welcome to attend.”