CHENANGO RIVER THEATRE 2023 SEASON - EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS
CHENANGO RIVER THEATRE
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$368.28 weekly minimum (Tier pending) - rehearsal weeks $300 weekly minimum (Tier pending) - performance weeks
Equity actors for roles in Chenango River Theatre 2023 Season (see breakdown).
BIPOC actors encouraged to audition. If you have auditioned or worked for CRT in the past, you are encouraged to audition again, as we have a new Artistic Director.
INSTRUCTIONS
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Deadline: Thu, Mar 23, 2023
Zach Curtis, Producing Artistic Director, director – Lend Me a Tenor
Adara Alston – director, The Mountaintop
Attending via zoom:
Kory Yamada – Director, SHOUT
Craig Johnson – director, Wait Until Dark
See production dates in breakdown.
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All auditions, rehearsals and performances are in Greene, NY (near Binghamton, about 3.5 hours from NYC) at Chenango River Theatre, 991 State Highway 12, Greene NY 13778.
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of audition.
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.
Submit video of a comedic or dramatic contemporary monologue or two contrasting monologues (less than three minutes) along with headshot and one page resume.
If you are interested in SHOUT: The Mod Musical, 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
Rehearses May 15-June 1
Performs June 2-25 (performances Thu-Sun weekly)
Casting eight high energy, comic performers for:
MAX: (30+, male-identifying) Saunders’ long-suffering assistant, who is forced to take Tito’s place in the role of Canio. Not required to sing, although those auditioning that can sing may be an option.
MAGGIE SAUNDERS: (20-30, female-identifying) Saunders’ daughter, and Max’s girlfriend. She has a great admiration for Tito. This character at one point appears in undergarments.
SAUNDERS: (45+, male-identifying) The Cleveland Grand Opera’s general manager, and Maggie’s father A blowhard who often loses his temper at the slightest mishap.
TITO MERELLI: (35+, male-identifying) The world’s most renowned opera tenor, and notorious “ladies man”. Opera singing a plus, but not required. Believable Italian accent.
MARIA MERELLI: (35+, female-identifying) Tito’s suffering wife, with a temper. Desperately loves Tito, despite his roving eyes. Believable Italian accent needed.
DIANA: (25-45, female-identifying) The opera’s ingenue soprano, who is “fighting her way” to the top. A seductive woman, and she knows it. This character at one point appears in undergarments.
BELLHOP: (30+, male-identifying) A comic relief character who has an ongoing feud with Saunders. An obnoxious opera fan.
JULIA: (40+, female-identifying) Chairwoman of the Cleveland Opera Guild, who believes she holds quite an important position at the Opera (she doesn’t).
Rehearses June 26- July 13
Performs July 14 – Aug 6 (performances Thu-Sun weekly).
Seeking 5 extremely talented female-identifying vocal artists for broad comedy, close harmonies and wide style range:
Blue Girl: (high soprano belt - low Bb to High C) A blue-blooded fashion model. Sophisticated, poised, and cool.
Yellow Girl: (Alto with big rock diva belt - F below Mid C to belt Eb) A loud, uninhibited and brash American girl. She is a ray of sunshine with a surprising vulnerability.
Orange Girl: (soprano with belt - low Bb to High Bb) The “mother” of the group. Domestic and maternal, she is wise, soulful, and mature. Slowly asserting her new-found independence.
Green Girl: (Mezzo) A good-time girl. Blousy, middle-class, and zany. She is a bit frayed at the edges, and hopelessly single. A comedian of sorts.
Red Girl: (soprano with belt – low Bb to High C - The “baby” of the group, she is an exciting blend of youthful contradictions. Quirky, enthusiastic, and naïve. A hopeless romantic who is insecure about her looks.
Rehearses Aug 7-24
Performs Aug 25 – Sept 17 (Performances Thu-Sun weekly)
Seeking:
Susan – (20’s-30’, female-identifying) – a blind housewife
Mike - (25-30’s, male- identifying) smart charismatic conman.
Sam - (25-30’s, male- identifying) Susan’s husband, ex-marine.
Carlino - (25-45+, male- identifying) small-time grifter, coarse, with flexible ethics.
Gloria - (10-15, female- identifying) – young girl with absent parents, sensitive, smarter than anyone knows.
Rehearses Sept 18-Oct 5
Performs Oct 6-22 (Performances Thu-Sun weekly)
Seeking:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (late 20’s-late 40’s, male- identifying, African American)
Camae (Any age, female- identifying, African American)
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