Delaware Theatre Company 2019-20 Season - Wilmington, DE EPA
Delaware Theatre Company
AUDITION DATE
Mon, Mar 11, 2019
9:30 am - 5:00 pm (EST)
Lunch 1 to 1:30
APPOINTMENTS
Sign-up sheet will be available at theatre beginning at 9:15am on date of audition.
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep $696/week
SEEKING
Equity actors and singers for various roles in the upcoming season. Some roles have been cast.
See breakdown.
PREPARATION
Prepare either:
2 brief contrasting monologues or 2 brief songs (bring sheet music; accompanist provided) or 1 song and 1 monologue. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Delaware Theatre Company
200 Water St
Wilmington, DE 19801-5030
PERSONNEL
David Stradley, Aritistic Associate, will be in attendance at EPA.
OTHER
Delaware Theatre Company's standard 8-show week schedule includes two 10:30 AM student matinees
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 attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Playwright: Adapted by Steven Canny and John Nicholson from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Director: Matt Pfeiffer
First Rehearsal: 8/20/19
First Preview: 9/11/19
Opening: 9/14/19
Closing: 9/29/19
ACTOR ONE (M): Role is already cast - plays Holmes, Stapleton, Cecille Stapleton, Mr Barrymore, Mrs Barrymore, Yokel 3
ACTOR TWO (M): Role is already cast - plays Watson, Yokel 1
ACTOR THREE (M): Role is tentatively cast - plays Sir Charles Baskerville, Sir Henry Baskerville, Mortimer, Cabbie, Yokel 2, Wise Yokel
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One November Yankee
Playwright: Joshua Ravetch
Director: Joshua Ravetch
First Rehearsal: 10/8/19
Preview: 10/23/19
Opening: 10/26/19
Closing: 11/10/19
RALPH NEWMAN/HARRY PRESTON/RONNIE (M): Role is already cast
MAGGIN NEWMAN/MARGO PRESTON/MIA (F): Roles is already cast
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A Christmas Carol
Playwright: Adapted by Patrick Barlow from Charles Dickens
Diretor: TBD
First Rehearsal: 11/12/19
Preview: 12/4/19
Opens: 12/7/19
Closes: 12/29/19
ACTOR ONE (M)
Ebenezer Scrooge - Upper Class English - 50-60
ACTOR TWO (M)
Bob Cratchit - London Cockney - 40, Marley - Upper class English - 50-60, Young Scrooge - Upper class English - 19, Carol singer (puppet) 8, Little Scrooge (puppet) 8, Tiny Tim (puppet) 8 [VOICE BY ACTOR 5], Boy in street 12, Various narrators, debtors, furniture etc.
ACTOR THREE (F)
Mrs Lack - Cockney - 40, Lavinia Bentham - Upper class English - 35, Fanny - Upper class English - 25, Isabella - Sweet spoken Irish - 18-23, Spirit of Christmas Present - Cockney/Music Hall 60, Frederick's Housemaid - Cockney - 17, Various narrators, debtors, furniture, inconsolable spirits etc. 4
ACTOR FOUR (F)
Hermione Bentham - Upper class English - 35, Spirit of Christmas Past - Upper Class English - 40, Constance - Upper class English - 30, Mrs Cratchit - Cockney - 40, Voice of Scrooge's mother - Upper class English - 40, Various narrators, debtors, furniture, inconsolable spirits etc.
ACTOR FIVE (M)
Frederick - Upper class English - 35, Mr Grimes - Northern English, Mr Fezziwig - Irish - 50, George - Upper class English - 30, Cratchit children (Peter, Ursula, Katy, Abigail, Martha) Cockney - 15-7, Spirit of Christmas Yet To Come 50 - Jeeves-type, Passer-by - 20, Various narrators, debtors, furniture, inconsolable spirits etc.
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Outside Mullingar
Playwright: John Patrick Shanley
Director: Bud Martin
First Rehearsal: 1/21/19
First Preview: 2/12/19
Opening: 2/15/19
Closing: 3/1/19
TONY REILLY (M): 75 or so; a wily old Irishman
ANTHONY REILLY (M): His son, 42; has the eyes of an intense dreamer
AOIFE MULDOON (F): 70; in bad health, a bit ravaged by grief
ROSEMARY MULDOON (F): Role is already cast
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Million Dollar Quartet
Playwrights: Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux
Music: Songs of the 1950s popularized by Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Elvis Presley
Director: Bud Martin
First Rehearsal: 3/30/19
First Preview: 4/15/19
Opening: 4/18/19
Closing: 5/10/19 (Possible extension 5/17/19)
BROTHER JAY (M) mid-twenties--bass player, brother of Carl Perkins
FLUKE (M): mid-twenties--drummer
JERRY LEE LEWIS (M): 20, Rock ‘n’ Roll’s legendary piano prodigy and celebrated Last Man Standing
SAM PHILLIPS (M): 33, the Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll and founder of Sun Records; discovered Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and many others, including Roy Orbison and B.B. King; a towering and charismatic figure in American music
CARL PERKINS (M): 24, lead guitar player, the first poet of Rock ‘n’ Roll
JOHNNY CASH (M): 24, guitar player, a giant of American music at the dawn of his epic career
DYANNE (F): mid-twenties--an aspiring singer, Elvis’s girlfriend
ELVIS PRESLEY (M): 21, guitar, the first and still undisputed King of Rock ‘n’ Roll
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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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