DORIS DAY: MY SECRET LOVE Equity Principal Actors - EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE COMPANY Auditions

DORIS DAY: MY SECRET LOVE - NYC EPA

EMERGING ARTISTS THEATRE COMPANY

SIGNUP INFO

Signups begin May 14, 11:45 am (EDT)

LOCATION

TADA Youth Theater

15 W 28th St

New York, NY 10001-6410

AUDITION DATE

Sun, May 21, 2023

10:00 AM to 2:00 PM (EDT)

No break scheduled.

CONTRACT

Mini

$733 weekly minimum + pension/health

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in DORIS DAY: MY SECRET LOVE (see breakdown).

All stage managerial positions have been filled.

PREPARATION

If you are auditioning for Doris Day: prepare first verse and chorus of a Doris Day song + sides at https://www.dropbox.com/s/k9b6ql847leuzkw/Sides%20-%20Doris%20Day.pdf?dl=0 .

If you are auditioning for Les Brown: prepare and play a song + sides at https://www.dropbox.com/s/q4zbt1adej5qmtp/Les%20and%20Marty%20Sides.pdf?dl=0

PERSONNEL

Elizabeth Ramsay, Stage Manager

Expected to attend:
Paul Adams, Playwright
Melissa Attebery, Director

OTHER DATES

Rehearsal: August 1, 2023 through September 3, 2023
Opening: September 4, 2023
Closing: October 29, 2023

OTHER

www.emergingartiststheatre.org

An Equity monitor will be provided.

EPA Procedures are in effect for 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.

Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.

Equity encourages members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and dressing rooms.

Seeking:

Les Brown: 40 to 60 years old, male. Excellent piano player. Les Brown is the former band leader of the Duke Blue Devils. Piano player should be familiar with the lyrical stylings of music from the 1940s and 1950s and have the ability to improvise and interpret on the piano. Knowledge and love of Doris Day's songs is a plus. Strong character work required, playing multiple men from Doris Day's life: Les Brown (band leader), Barney Rapp (band leader), Al Jorden (trombonist), Marty Melcher (agent/husband), Michael Curtiz (film director), among others.

Doris Day: 35-50 years old, female. Singer with a girl-next-door quality. Light dancing required. Doris Day was an American actor, singer, and animal rights activist, who began as a big band singer in 1939 and went on to record more than 650 songs in a span of 20 years and to become one of the biggest Hollywood film stars of the 1950s–1960s. Must be able to reflect Doris Day's vocal quality. The Doris in this play is not simply the product we know from her films, but the woman underneath.