CHENANGO RIVER THEATRE 2022 SEASON Submission - Chenango River Theatre Auditions

CHENANGO RIVER THEATRE 2022 SEASON - EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS

Chenango River Theatre

CONTRACT

SPT $271 weekly minimum (SPT 1) - each performance week $332.60 weekly minimum (SPT 3) - first two rehearsal weeks Housing and transportation provided.

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Chenango River Theatre's 2022 Season to include MEN ON BOATS, I LOVE YOU YOU’RE PERFECT NOW CHANGE, ART, and DR. JEKYLL AND MR HYDE (see breakdown).

BIPOC actors encouraged to audition.

INSTRUCTIONS

Submit video of a comedic contemporary monologue (less than two minutes) along with headshot and one page resume. If you are interested in I Love You, You’re Perfect Now Change, please submit a short, preferably comic musical number and a comedic contemporary monologue (combined not to exceed three minutes). If you would like to perform something from the show, song cuttings are available on our website, along with recorded accompaniment. https://www.chenangorivertheatre.org/employment

Deadline: Tue, Mar 22, 2022

SUBMIT TO

info@chenangorivertheatre.org

PERSONNEL

Viewing auditions:
Zach Curtis, Producing Artistic Director/Director – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Kiara Pipino – Director, Men On Boats
Kory Yamada – Director, I Love you You’re Perfect Now Change
Craig Johnson – Director, Art

OTHER DATES

MEN ON BOATS
Rehearses May 16-June2
Performs June 3-26 (performances Thu-Sun weekly).

I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE
Rehearses June 27- July 14
Performs July 15 – Aug 7 (performances Thu-Sun weekly).

ART
Rehearses Aug 8-25
Performs Aug 26 – Sept 18 (Performances Thu-Sun weekly)

DR. JEKYLL AND MR HYDE
Rehearses Sept 19-Oct 6
Performs Oct 7-23 (Performances Thu-Sun weekly)

OTHER

If you have auditioned or worked for CRT in the past, you are encouraged to audition again, as we have a new Artistic Director.

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 submit.

BREAKDOWN

MEN ON BOATS by Jaclyn Backhaus

Although the characters in MEN ON BOATS were historically cisgender white males, actors who are racially diverse and/or who are female-identifying, trans-identifying, gender-fluid, and/or non-gender-conforming are encouraged to submit.

John Wesley Powell – one-armed leader of the expedition.

William Dunn – hunter and trapper.

John Colton Sumner – former soldier, current explorer.

Old Shady – Powell’s older brother, Civil War vet.

Bradley – lieutenant, manic with youth.

O.G. Howland – printer and hunter.

Seneca Howland – O.G’s quiet little brother.

Frank Goodman – British, so excited.

Hall – mapmaker, old soul.

Hawkins – the cook.

I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE by Joe Dipietro and Jimmy Roberts

4 extremely talented vocal artists for multiple roles – broad comedy, close harmonies and wide style range:

Woman 1: (low A to top Bb)

Woman 2: (low F# to Db)

Man 1: (middle C to high G#)

Man 2: (middle C to high G#)

ART by Yazmina Reza

Marc (40’s): the self-proclaimed leader and intellectual, Marc somewhat contradictorily has little appreciation for modern art. Always having fancied himself mentor to the younger men, a void opens up inside him as he wrestles with the possibility that the student has outgrown the teacher.

Serge: (40’s): well-to-do, divorced, and overcompensating, Serge has always relied on his two best friends for company and comfort. Influenced by Marc’s domination but desirous of making a statement, he purchases a ridiculously expensive painting to (perhaps unknowingly) declare his aesthetic equality, which Marc is not having.

​Yvan (30’s): meekest of the trio and something of a pet in the eyes of the older men throughout his aimless but entertaining youth, Yvan is drawn haplessly into the argument as a kind of referee. Already stressed out and conflicted about his upcoming nuptials and ill-fitting attempts at normalcy, he desperately wants Marc and Serge to make up already so that he might, finally, get a little of their attention for himself.

DR. JEKYLL AND MR HYDE adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher

British accents required.

Man 1: Dr. Henry Jekyll.

Man 2: Hyde, Utterson.

Man 3: Hyde, Carew, Enfield, Sanderson, Inspector.

Man 4: Hyde, Lanyon (Scottish), Police Doctor, Student.

Woman 1: Hyde, Poole, Student, Maid.

Woman 2: Elizabeth.

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 submit.