New York City Center Inc.
AUDITION DATE
Wed, Sep 11, 2019
9:30 am (EDT)
Male Singers
CONTRACT
Special Agreement TBD no less than ($1,544/ Week)
SEEKING
MALE SINGERS
Characters are early 20s to mid 50s: The singing ensemble will play various step out roles in all three shows. Seeking singers of all types, ages, and vocal ranges. The MACK AND MABEL ensemble is comprised of comic character men. LOVE LIFE contains several major featured roles that will come from the ensemble. THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE will require a barbershop quartet.
See breakdown for shows/dates.
Encores! City Center is seriously committed to an entirely diverse cast for each of the productions of the 2020 Season.
PREPARATION
Come prepared to sing a cut of a Golden Age musical theatre song. Suggested composers: Irving Berlin, Rogers and Hammerstein, Rogers and Hart, Jule Styne, Sigmund Romberg, Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern, American Kurt Weill. We prefer that actors do not sing from the shows being presented. Bring a picture and resume, stapled together, and sheet music (an accompanist will be provided).
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Jack Viertel
Encores! Musical Director: Rob Berman
Casting: Binder Casting
OTHER
ECC Procedures are in effect for 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.
BREAKDOWN
Show #1
MACK AND MABEL
Encores 2020 Season
New York City Center Artistic Director: Jack Viertel
Music/Lyrics by: Jerry Herman
Book by: Michael Stewart
Revisions by: Fracine Pascal
Director/Choreographer: Josh Rhodes
Musical Director: Rob Berman
Casting: Binder Casting
Rehearsal: 2/4/20
Open: 2/19/20
Close: 2/23/20
NOTE: MACK AND MABEL originally opened on Broadway in 1974 at the Majestic Theatre, starring Bernadette Peters and Robert Preston. Set in 1938, the great Hollywood comic director, Mack Sennett, reminisces about his career and love affair with Mabel Normand in a series of flashbacks beginning in 1911.
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Show #2:
LOVE LIFE
Encores 2020 Season
New York City Center Artistic Director: Jack Viertel
Book/Lyrics by: Alan Jay Lerner
Music by: Kurt Weill
Concert Adaptation: Jack Viertel
Director: Victoria Clark
Choreographer: JoAnn Hunter
Musical Director: Rob Berman
Casting: Binder Casting
Rehearsal: 3/3/20
Open: 3/18/20
Close: 3/22/20
Note: LOVE LIFE originally opened on Broadway in 1948 at the 46th Street Theatre (now the Richard Rodgers), starring Nanette Fabray and Ray Middleton. The show told the story of a married couple, Sam and Susan Cooper, who never age as they progress from 1791 to 1948. One of the first examples of the concept musical, the action of Love Life was interspersed with vaudeville-style numbers that commented on the story through successive periods of American history.
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Show #3
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
Encores 2020 Season
New York City Center Artistic Director: Jack Viertel
Book by: Richard Morris & Dick Scanlan
Music by: Jeanine Tesori
Director: Lear deBessonet
Creative Consultant: Lauren Yee
Choreographer: Camille Brown
Musical Director: Rob Berman
Casting: Binder Casting
Rehearsal: 4/21/20
Open: 5/6/20
Close: 5/10/20
Note: THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE originally opened on Broadway in 2002. Like the film on which it is based, it interpolates new tunes with some previously written songs. This production will be a thoroughly reimagined interpretation focusing strongly on the determination of a young woman coming to the big city, fighting to make a new life for herself and surviving in the “modern world”. Millie is a fighter and determined to achieve self-revelation of what it means to step into a new version of one’s self. In essence, we are filtering the struggles and triumphs of a modern-day woman through the lens of the 1920s.
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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 audition.
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