Old Globe
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep $1200 weekly minimum (LORT B+)
SEEKING
Equity actors for principal roles in COME FALL IN LOVE (see breakdown).
We welcome performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and body types. Actors of diverse cultural and racial backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
INSTRUCTIONS
SEE PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS IN BREAKDOWN. Please email your submission via WeTransfer, Dropbox Folder, or a downloadable Vimeo link. Subject line should read: “CFIL EPA”.
Deadline: Mon, Feb 14, 2022
SUBMIT TO
ddljmusicalauditions@gmail.com
PERSONNEL
Old Globe Producers: Barry Edelstein, Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director, Timothy J. Shields, Audrey S. Geisel Managing Director
Producer: YashRaj Films
Executive Producer: Adam Zotovich
General Manager: RCI Theatricals
Book and Lyrics: Nell Benjamin
Director: Aditya Chopra
Choreographer: Rob Ashford
Associate Choreographer: Shruti Merchant
Set Designer: Derek McLane
Viewing Auditions:
Casting: Stewart/Whitley; Casting Director, Duncan Stewart; Casting Assistant, Afsheen Misaghi
OTHER DATES
NY Workshop
First rehearsal: on/about 03.14.22
Last day of workshop: on/about 04.15.22
Note: Workshop is 5 weeks total. First week would just be with Principals; Ensemble would join on March 21.
Old Globe Theatre
Rehearsal Date(s): 07.15.22 – 08.16.22
Tech Date(s): 08.17.22- 08.31.22
Previews: 09.01.22 – 09.13.22
Opening Date(s): 09.14.22
Closing Date(s): TBD
OTHER
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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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS:
Please prepare a song of your own choice (ideally in the pop-musical theatre genre) OR the track that best suits your voice at one of the links below. Note: please sing on top of the track and/or use the sheet music.
Male-identifying vocal material: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/upbzbputpnc24lr/AACPq2Px8JpWxKOH49T9iH0Wa?dl=0
Female-identifying vocal material: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0quld5bvchn81id/AAAbDf6otheAasg60aeH0SWua?dl=0
Please also prepare EITHER the Party and Spend or Holi Hai dance combination found at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/m8ua8de8yiehv3v/AACvHdUR24tKqtnb7CZkbNjya?dl=0
SEEKING:
Certain roles will also require strong instrumental abilities. In general, we are not looking for conventional “music-theatre style”/vibrato singers. We are seeking singers with unique, vibrant singing skills who are capable of pure tones and/or vibrato that feels informed by jazz/rock/gospel.
Some roles will be understudied.
BALDEV: Male identifying, mid 50s-60s, Indian. Indian accent. Born in India, he came to the U.S as a young man to build a better life for his family. He’s proud of his success but deeply suspicious of American culture and protective of his family and traditional Indian values. He’s equally proud and protective of his daughter. Though he can be stern and frightening and is the primary “antagonist” he’s not a villain and he has only ever wanted what’s best for his wife and daughter. His dream is to go back to India and give them the happy life he remembers from his childhood. Because of this, he has arranged a marriage for his daughter Simran to his best friend’s son. This is an arranged marriage that would further strengthen a long-lasting friendship and business relationship. Singer.
LAJJO: Female identifying, mid 40s-mid-50s Indian. Indian accent. Traditional. Born, raised and married in India, she followed her husband Baldev to America. She preserves a traditional Indian home in Boston but does so with humor and a wry intelligence. She is not narrowminded or over-sheltered. She’s very aware of how the world works. Warm and loving to her husband and daughter, she was raised to put her husband’s desires first, but she, like her daughter, is conflicted by their duty to their family. Singer.
SIMRAN: Female identifying, early 20s, Indian. Simran is the daughter of Baldev & Lajjo and fiercely champions their traditional values of family and duty, while still considering herself a whip-smart feminist. This is her central conflict: she loves her family and wants to make them proud but she’s been raised to champion a culture different from the one in which she lives. She has had to be twice as smart, twice as good, and twice as “Indian” as all her friends and she can never rest on her laurels. She studies philosophy at Harvard University, relishes debate and always wrecks the curve because she’s incredibly studious and Type A. On the surface, she is dismissive of romance and American popular culture but she has a romantic streak inside her. She makes a point of being proud of her arranged marriage, but requests a summer trip to Europe, ostensibly to broaden her cultural horizons —but really to squeeze into one summer all the freedom and happiness she can. Singer/Dancer.
ROGER “ROG” MANDEL: Male identifying, early 20s, Any/All ethnicities. American accent. The son of an awkward tech billionaire and Caucasian/American Boston brahmin mother who divorced and fight constantly. Like most children of messy divorces, he hates conflict and wants to be liked and for everyone around him to be happy. While he acts like a big spender party-boy, he has surprising vulnerability. Rog was raised with everything money can buy, and this makes him cocky and spoiled but oddly not disgustingly arrogant. He is extremely charming and under the facade, has a big and generous heart. He’s also a lot smarter than he comes across. He grew up in Boston’s Back Bay with an awkward father who never fit in to Boston culture but has too much money to care. His mother’s family thought his father was weird and awkward (true) and his father’s family thought his mother was stuck up (true) so the marriage ended almost comically acrimoniously. When Rog meets Simran, he meets someone who doesn’t fall for his easy rich boy act, and, for her, he dares to feel love, which his parents always taught him was a dangerous and destructive emotion. Rog plots to thwart Simran’s arranged marriage by secretly arriving in India with the intention of wooing one and all. Singer/Dancer.
KULJIT: Male identifying, mid 20s, Indian. Indian accent. A fan of Bollywood and American movies, Kuljit wants India to become America, but he would never disobey his family. For all his American flash (his car, his clothes) he was raised deeply traditionally, working in his father’s business and being told he would marry Simran. He’s actually a little afraid of Simran, because all he’s ever heard is how smart she is (and he is not a big reader or deep thinker). In the end, he really would like to marry someone who wants to marry him. He’s caught, like Simran is, between too cultures, but in a more comic way than the fierce Simran. Singer/Dancer.
ROGER MANDEL, SR: Male identifying, mid 50s, Any/All ethnicities American accent. Roger is an extremely awkward self-made tech billionaire. A genius who doesn’t like people and has used his brains and his money to insulate himself. He only opened himself to one person, his charming (ex)wife. When Roger was studying at Harvard, making no friends, he fell in love with Minky (A gorgeous Boston brahmin WASP) and she believed in him and championed (and bankrolled) his first company. Unfortunately, their families didn’t approve and they began to believe their differences were irreconcilable, leading to an extremely loud and angry divorce, made more acrimonious by the fact that they still love each other. Now Roger is EVEN MORE suspicious of love and emotion and people than before. Roger dotes on his charming son (Rog) by showering him with wealth and giving him the comfortable, aimless life, he was never able to have. Roger wants his son to experience everything he missed out on. Roger wants to avoid things that hurt him, but he can’t help riding to the rescue when his son and ex-wife run into trouble in India. Singer.
EMILY “MINKY” SOULARD: Female identifying, mid 40s, Caucasian. American accent. Blonde, incredibly attractive and well-maintained with great presence. Effortlessly sexy and funny in a dry, WASPY way. Think young Jessica Walter. The wife of a billionaire, Minky spends her days spending her ex-husband’s money, both because she feels entitled to it, but also to get his attention. Adventurous, outspoken, and a crack shot with a gun, she wants only the best for her son, Rog. Singer/Dancer.
COOKIE: Female identifying, early 20s, any/all ethnicities. Cookie is Simran’s best friend. A spoiled but not mean girly girl who enjoys American culture, fashion and parties more than her best friend. She’s not stupid, but she’ll work her looks more than her intelligence to fit in. Attracted to Ben. Singer.
BEN: Male identifying, mid 20s, Black. Rog’s best friend, a hard-partying rich Harvard kid with some of the arrogance Rog lacks. Attracted to Cookie. Singer.
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.
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